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Housing will conduct interviews at UCF between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Aug. 26-27 for potential candidates who submit their resume and meet the requirements of the position.“Wehave developed a comprehensive operation of the recovery programs that serve key sectors that were sig nificantly affected or that became necessary after the on slaught of hurricanes Irma and Maria,” Rodríguez added.
Urrutia and Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez on Monday an nounced a job fair in Orlando, Florida to identify Puerto Rican professionals willing to join the workforce on the island focused on the execution of programs subsi dized by Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery (DR) and Mitigation (MIT) funds.
The PFEI appointed prosecutor Zulma Fuster Troche to carry out the in-depth investigation over the next 90 days. According to what Emanuelli Hernández reported to the PFEI, the Division of Public Integrity and Comptrol
The Housing secretary said “we expect a few months of significant activity in reconstruction projects that re quire key professionals for the execution of the recovery programs that will be financing them.”
The employee, Alba González Rivera, had been prominent in the Senate since February 2021. The official had told the Senate Human Resources Office that Torres Berríos had required her husband to deliver money un der penalty for refusing it that would result in the loss of González Rivera’s employment.
The Justice Department’s preliminary investigation gave weight to the evidence collected and recommended the designation of an SIP, as provided by Law 2-1988. The PFEI found the criteria established by law to act in accor dance, for which it issued the authorization of a special prosecutor to investigate the senator’s actions.
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“Although we recently held a recruitment event in Puerto Rico, we understand that there is a great opportu nity to attract and return to the island the talent and ability of Puerto Ricans who have left in search of new opportuni ties,” Rodríguez said.
Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández had requested that an SIP investigate the senator for possi ble violations of Article 191 of the Penal Code (extortion) as well as Article 3 of Act 115-1991, known as the Law for the Retaliation Against Employees for Offering Testimony, or Whistleblower Law.
In anticipation of a new period of large-scale recov ery projects, the island Housing Department will hold the event on Aug. 26-27 at the University of Central Florida (UCF).“The reconstruction of Puerto Rico and the effec tive use of recovery funds is a priority in my administra tion and to achieve this we will continue to increase the workforce,” the governor said in a written statement. “We have the lowest unemployment in history and we are pro moting initiatives so that not only more Puerto Ricans stay here, but also that others manage to return to Puerto Rico.”
The job fair seeks to identify resources for special ized positions such as program technical assistant and housing program specialist, among others.
After an analysis of the evidence collected during a preliminary investigation conducted by the Depart ment of Justice on possible illegal actions commit ted by Sen. Albert Torres Berríos, the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (PFEI by its Spanish initials) on Monday agreed to appoint a special independent prosecutor (SIP) to conduct a formal investigation of the lawmaker.
ler Affairs (DIPAC) interviewed employees in Torres Ber ríos’ office and examined documentary and testimonial evidence contained in a complaint filed with the Senate Ethics Committee alleging that the Popular Democratic Party senator had requested money from the husband of an employee for his personal expenses. In addition, the lawmaker had tried to stop certain witnesses from testify ing before that committee.
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“We have recruited one of the most complete work teams in Puerto Rico, but we still have key positions to fill and we are looking for Puerto Ricans who can fill them at the highest level of performance.”
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The Department of Housing has designed the “Em ployment Opportunity” section on the cdbg-dr.pr.gov website for those who wish to submit their resume for the agency’s consideration. Likewise, those interested in ob taining more information can write to the electronic ad dress infocdbg@vivienda.pr.gov.
The Housing chief noted that the event, which will be held with the support of the Puerto Rico Federal Af fairs Administration, will include orientation on the Direct Buyer Assistance program, so that potential candidates for vacant positions find out about the opportunities that the Housing Department is also offering to acquire a residen tial property on the island. Recently, the governor and the secretary announced that more than 3,200 families have benefited from assistance for the purchase of a home.
“With the approval of this measure, we seek to recognize and respect the rights of people with functional diversity, mainly when they require medical-hospital procedures,” Santiago Negrón said. “It is essential that health professionals educate themselves so that they have a broad understanding of how best to serve and communicate with this population. There is also the need to extend additional protections and rights for people with functional diversity in their interaction with health service providers, health insur ance organizations and government agencies that regulate or channel those services.”
In addition, the measure suggested that the Aguadilla mayor carry out the pertinent processes and ensure that the president of the municipal bidding board establishes the necessary controls to validate the certifications and licenses issued by a professional association, among others.
The pro-independence legislator pointed out that, in the case of minors with functional diversity, particularly girls and boys with severe conditions, a lack of protocols and knowledge of many specialists to welcome and care for them –- some of which even deny the requested treatment because they do not know how to handle their special needs -- causes mothers and other relatives to end up wasting time and money invested in the“Theprocess.experience is becoming more complex every day because, even when fe male heads of households often drop out of the paid workforce to permanently care for their daughters and sons, they grow old and there is no support network to supplant their efforts,” Santiago Negrón said. “And all this is made even worse by the absurd bureaucracy imposed by the insurance companies, making it difficult for mothers to access specialized services.”Themeasure filed by the PIP senator says that the other areas of need that require immediate attention in the clinical settings include the lack of sign language and infor mation provided in braille; lack of access to prescription drugs as a result of restrictions imposed by health insurers; the sparse training specific to the chronic functional diversity received by the health professionals in their formal medical education; the desirability of developing interdisciplinary teams designed to coordinate treatments in an integrated way; and the need for home health services to be offered under health insurance coverage. Also included are the relevance of the use of tech nological resources to provide telemedicine services; the recognition of priority shifts in appointments for neurodiverse or diagnosed people to face-to-face treatment; the need to establish safeguards to avoid unlawful discriminatory treatment; and the provision of general anesthesia service to patients who, due to their age or functional diversity, are unable to tolerate pain or cooperate with the treatment, procedure or medical study, among other needs and insufficiencies.
By THE STAR STAFF The Comptroller of Puerto Rico on Monday published the result of an investigation into the bidding process, con tracting and payments for removal and installation services involving air conditioning units in Head Start centers in Aguadilla from 2018 to 2019. The referral from the office’s Municipalities Division to the Special Investigations Division pointed out discrepancies in the documents presented by the authorized representative of the contractor in the bid proposal, in the formalization of the contract and in the billing for payment of the indicated services.
The auditors found that the representative does not appear as a refrigeration technician in the Association or in the Examining Board. The license number that he presented actually belongs to “technician A” and the receipt number for the membership fee belongs to “technician B.” In fact, technician A indicated to the Comptroller’s auditors that he does not know the representative and that he never provided services for the aforementioned contract.
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The result of the investigation was referred to the Sec retary of Justice on May 18 of this year, to the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Jan. 19, and to the president of the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technicians Examining Board, to take the measures they deem pertinent.
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Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen. María de Lourdes Santiago of air conditioning service contracting at Aguadilla Head Start leads to referrals medical services for citizens with special needs
In addition, the contractor’s authorized representative signed a sworn statement in which he swore before a notary public that he had not been convicted of crimes that disqualified him from contracting with the municipality. However, the individual had pleaded guilty to aggravated illegal appropriation on May 19, 2003.
“Unfortunately, the infrastructure of the Department of Health, as well as with many other aspects of the health system in Puerto Rico, does not take into account sufficient specific considerations toward people with special needs,” Santiago Negrón said at a press conference. “In Puerto Rico, the conditions that are required to stay in the waiting rooms, or to receive treatment in clinical settings, are often incompatible with the characteristics, and behaviors inherent to certain diagnoses or disorders. This reality generates a gap, sometimes insurmountable, between the families of people with functional diversity and the health services to which every human being is entitled. This, as we have highlight ed, affects the quality of life and reduces the life expectancy for a particularly vulnerable population.”
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The comptroller’s investigation revealed that the authorized representative of the contractor provided copies of two forged identifications from the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technicians Association that contained false information.
The investigation revealed that, at the bidding award, signing of the contract and related payments, the authorized representative of the contractor provided copies of two forged identifications from the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technicians Association that contained false information. The contract was awarded on Nov. 30, 2018 and was formalized for $177,652 with validity from Dec. 4, 2018 to March 23, 2019.
Based on those actions, the representative could have com mitted the crimes of fraud, forgery of documents, ideological falsehood, or perjury, among others, typified in Law 146-2012, Penal Code of Puerto Rico, as amended.
By JOHN Ijpmcphaul@gmail.comMcPHAULnordertourgentlyguarantee that people with functional diversity have access to dignified, opportune and continuous med ical services, the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) minority leader in the Senate, María de Lourdes Santiago, announced the filing of Senate Bill 982 on Monday.
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Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz and PDP lawmakers said in a separate news conference that Pierluisi should end the con tract and, if not, the public should demand it.
New Progressive Party (NPP) as well as Popular Democratic Party (PDP) legislators separately on Monday demanded the cancellation of the contract with LUMA Energy, the private operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s transmission and distribution (T&D) system. Their demands came after Resident Com missioner Jenniffer González Colón asked the Justice Department to evaluate the con tract’s cancellation amid the high number of blackouts impacting consumers. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, who has defended the 15year public-private contract signed in 2020, is now telling LUMA Energy on firmer terms that it needs to take action.
“The 3,000 men and women of LUMA share one goal: rebuild the system and reduce the number of service interruptions that affect so many of our customers,” the company said in a statement. “To be clear, we have launched countless efforts to fundamentally transform the way in which the electrical system of Puerto Rico operates and serves the people of PuertoLUMARico.”went on to note that it has taken real steps to improve the power grid in the coming months and years, including: start ing 209 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) projects to transform and modernize the electrical system; receiving FEMA awards for 27 projects that represent over $117 million in federal funds; launching a historic Street Lighting Initiative to improve security, resilience and energy efficiency in communities on the island, and launching a modernization and improvement initiative that will transform over 300 substations throughout Puerto Rico, starting with $24.4 million in FEMA funds to modernize the Cataño
“You talked about lowering rates, do you remember?” he said. “And they have already increased them four times; the outages are worse than ever. Accept it and put a face to the exit of LUMA Energy.”
“There are some areas that have to im prove, but we have to look at the whole situ ation,” Fontanés said. “There are some areas where they have done a very good job; in the area of customer service they have shown that they have made a substantial improvement compared to what we had before. They are answering calls in less than a minute, 77% better than [PREPA].”
“Mr. Todd’s change of company from LUMA to Centurion raises our flag and the fact that when he moved to Centurion he was awarded the contract,” said Román, the representative for House District 17 (Aguadilla andIndependentMoca).
Ruiz Nieves said appointing a deputy secretary at the governor’s office to deal with energy issues is simply a distraction.
Popular Democratic Democratic Party Rep. Sol Higgins Cuadrado, at lectern, appeared with several majority and minority lawmak ers at a press conference where they told Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia that he should end the contract with LUMA Energy and, if not, the public should demand it.
“We recognize the problem of electricity service and we can discuss that, but the real ity is that LUMA violated the laws of Puerto Rico,” said González, who represents House District 14 (Arecibo and Hatillo), in a written communication. “It is obvious that with the contracting of the Centurion Group, several laws were violated, since there was privileged information from the Government of Puerto Rico that helped one of its highest executives obtain juicy profits. That cannot be done and that is why we are requesting the termination of the transmission and distribution network management contract currently held by the LUMA“Transparencyconsortium.”in the performance of the service contract with LUMA Energy should have been complete; that also applies to avoiding any conflict of interest or selective business practices for the benefit of others, which clearly happened in the Centurion Group case,” the NPP lawmaker added. “The government of Puerto Rico and all its instrumentalities respect business practices,” Morales added. “Our government system, a democratic one, has free competition in the private sector as its axis, but it is no less true that the Centurion contract, in addition to violating the law, also inflicts a blow on this postulate of free competition.”
“The fact that they are hiring firms that they also manage goes against the law and the Constitution,” she said.
Without the benefit of having the results of an investigation into LUMA’s performance, he said, LUMA is in compliance with the contract.
Chorus grows for termination of LUMA Energy contract
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“It is not about putting a person on the payroll; it is about complying with the con tract, which is the responsibility of Fermín Fontanés, executive director of the Public-Pri vate Partnerships Authority [P3],” he said. “The service is terrible, and approving changes to the established metrics or standards would be another insult to the country.”
The NPP lawmakers on Monday demand ed the cancellation of the contract with LUMA Energy for having subcontracted the company Centurion Group LLC for $60 million. The company is owned by former LUMA Energy vice president Todd McLaren. Reps. José “Memo” González, Wanda del Valle, Yazzer Morales, Wilson Román and Án gel Morey signed a resolution that orders the Public-Private Partnership Authority to cancel the LUMA Energy contract for violating Act 2 of 2018 when it hired Centurion Group.
Burgos Muñiz noted that the LUMA En ergy contract requires LUMA to have opera
The official said he does not know if the results of the energy regulator’s investigations will be ready before Nov. 30. On that date, the supplementary contract that allowed LUMA Energy to take over PREPA’s T&D expires.
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U.S. Reps. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) are also demanding an end to the contract.
Ruiz Nieves argued that all the metrics of the energy consortium that Pierluisi has defended from day one indicate that the company is not complying with the contract.
“We definitely want more speed and they have to do a lot more,” Fontanés added. “We have to wait for these results of the investi gations to arrive, which are many, because there have been many events, and when we have that information, then we can enter into discussions as to whether or not there is non-compliance.”
tional bank accounts for whatever it needs. The government must then repay it. She noted that the Financial Oversight and Management Board took $750 million from the budget to repay LUMA Energy, leaving several agencies without funding.
LUMA Energy took over the T&D system under a supplementary contract because PREPA is still in LUMAbankruptcy.Energy, meanwhile, released a statement that said it “shares the frustration that all of our clients feel because of the reli ability of the electrical system in Puerto Rico.”
P3 Authority Director Fermín Fontanés said that while he was not satisfied with the performance of LUMA Energy, there is no cause to ask for the cancellation of the contract.TheP3 Authority is the entity in charge of supervising the contract.
Román said LUMA engaged in a conflict of interest because Centurion may have obtained information about the need for the contracted service.
“Regardlesssubstation.ofthe challenges or obstacles we face, our team at LUMA is determined to do better for the people of Puerto Rico,” the company said. “We are not politicians. We are public service workers, and we we will remain focused on building a better energy future for the people of Puerto Rico, which will serve future generations.”
Senate Government Committee Chairman Ramón Ruiz Nieves asked the governor to set a date for LUMA Energy to leave as the operator of the island’s energy transmission and distribution system and conduct an or derly“Thetransition.entirecountry is clear on this, it is no longer the Electrical Industry and Irriga tion Workers Union [UTIER by its Spanish acronym] that is calling for the departure of LUMA,” the PDP senator said. “The legislators, mayors, citizens, the chairman of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, and even his colleague, [Resident] Commissioner Jenniffer González, can no longer stand any more mediocrity.”
Nogales Molinelli said LUMA Energy CEO Wayne Stensby and another executive opened up Atco Infrastructure in Puerto Rico as LUMA Energy is, meanwhile, managing public funds.
Torres Cruz and PDP Reps. Jorge Alfre do Rivera Segarra, Sol Higgins Cuadrado and José “Cheito” Rivera Madera, along with Puerto Rican Independence Party Rep. Denis Márquez Lebrón and fellow minority lawmakers Mariana Nogales Molinelli, Lisie Burgos Muñiz and José Bernardo Márquez Reyes gathered to demand the cancellation of the contract, also raising concerns about conflicts of interest as LUMA is subcontracting companies it has created to perform the work, which is paid for with public funds.
Alan: COVID restrictions enabled remote access, which lets me jump from courtroom to courtroom with the push of a button and listen to multiple hearings over the phone in a Theday.big exception is trials. I’ve covered two in Washing ton in person — the Reffitt trial and the case against Dustin Thompson, an unemployed Ohio exterminator. Two seditious
Ian: How many Jan. 6 hearings have you listened to?
Ian: How did you become the reporter who covers theseAlan:hearings?
Thompson’s defense was that Trump authorized him to go into the Capitol that day and that he was merely following Trump’s orders. That did not fly in front of a jury. I’ve never covered anything that’s taken place in an atmosphere as polarized as this one.
I’ve covered courts and crime for over 20 years: murders, mafia and police-corruption trials and the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo. I’ve also spent a lot of time covering far-right extrem ist groups. As I watched the Jan. 6 attack on TV, I actually recognized people in the crowd. As people started getting arrested, I did what I’ve always done: track documents and set up a database of the now 850-plus cases.
Ian: Hundreds of defendants are being prosecuted, all in federal court in Washington. How do you keep up?
In a larger sense, one researcher has found that 15 [mil lion] to 20 million Americans think violence would be justified to return Trump to office. We’ve seen this in the reaction to the Mar-a-Lago raid, but I’m also concerned about what a potential criminal prosecution of Trump could bring. What will the reaction be if Trump is indicted? What will happen on the day he appears in court? What will happen if he goes to trial and is convicted? There may be moments when the risk of violence in defense of Trump is high.
Ian: The hearings open windows into defendants’ lives, many of which seem quite dysfunctional. You covered the trial of a defendant named Guy Reffitt, a Texas militia mem ber whose own son turned him in to the FBI and testified againstAlan:him.
Alan: Hundreds. It’s not really countable at this point.
As threats of violence become more widespread, it can create an atmosphere in which the threshold for committing actual violence is lowered. When violent rhetoric becomes pervasive, people willing to commit violence feel justified. They feel like there’s community support. It enables them. That’s a reality we all have to start grappling with.
Hundreds of Jan. 6 cases
conspiracy cases — against members of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, two far-right groups — will likely go to trial later this year, and I’ll almost certainly be in the courtroom for those. I prefer the courtroom. You pick up on body language and facial expressions that aren’t available when you’re just listening in.
Ian: How are these cases different from other criminal proceedings?Alan: On one level, the process is the same: Defendants get charged. Some plead guilty, some go to trial. People are acquitted or convicted. But the context is very different. Jan. 6 was a political action that became a federal crime, and politics infuses these cases. Some defendants have argued that they’re being persecuted for their political beliefs.
Alan: The Ohio man who attacked the FBI field office in Cincinnati this month was, in fact, outside the Capitol on Jan. 6. The FBI investigated his role in the riot but never arrested him.
Alan Feuer: It’s a wide range. People from all 50 states have been prosecuted. Most are white men from middleor working-class backgrounds, but there are also women, Hispanic people, Black people. A lot have military back grounds. There are also professional people, which is unusual for an event involving far-right extremism: doctors, a State Department aide, business owners, people who flew there on a private jet. Most have been charged with misdemeanors and have gotten little to no prison time. Others have been charged with assaulting police officers or damaging government property. And a few hundred people have been charged with obstructing Congress’ certification that day of the Electoral College vote. About 350 defendants have pleaded guilty, and more than 200 have been sentenced. About half a dozen have gotten four years or more, and two have gotten more than seven years. The government is still arresting people, and prosecu tors estimate around 2,000 could ultimately face charges.
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Ian: Trump seems to have motivated not only some Jan. 6 defendants to commit violence, but also people who have threatened the FBI after agents searched his home, Mar-aLago, this month. Do you see parallels between the groups?
Ian Prasad Philbrick: Who are the Jan. 6 defendants, and what are they charged with?
Pro-Trump protesters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Nineteen months after the Jan. 6 attack, hundreds of criminal cases that stem from it are playing out in court. They have been getting less attention than the Justice Department’s scrutiny of Donald Trump, but my colleague Alan Feuer has spent hours and hours watching these trials. This morning, he offers you a glimpse of them.
If someone is being criminally prosecuted, there’s often some dysfunction in their past. But I’ve been struck by how trauma rests at the center of so many of the Jan. 6 defendants’ lives, whether it’s poverty, addiction or deep family dysfunction. You also see defendants say things to the judge like, “I’ve lost everything because of what I did on Jan. 6. My job has been taken from me. My neighbors no longer talk to me. My church has essentially excommunicated me. Please don’t send me to prison as well.”
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In 2018, DeSantis defeated An drew Gillum, who would have beco me Florida’s first Black governor, by about 32,000 votes — less than half a percentage point — making the state a rare bright spot for Republicans. Some Democrats concluded that they would have won with a more moderate can didate, a hypothesis that Crist would now test. Others insisted that they only came as close as they did because of the excitement surrounding Gillum. Fried would be Florida’s first female governor.Fornow, Democrats’ most buzzy statewide candidate is Val Demings, an Orlando congresswoman challenging Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican. De mings and Rubio have already attacked each other in ads, and recent Demo cratic polls have shown the race to be close, although Rubio is considered the favorite.DeSantis, whose contrarian co ronavirus policies drew scorn from public health experts but propelled him to national political stardom, seemed unbeatable a year ago, with a job ap proval rating near 60%. He amassed more than $130 million in campaign cash, an astonishing amount more than 10 times as great as either of his potential rivals. But living in Florida has become less and less affordable. And a hardright legislative agenda of stoking cultural issues has restricted abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, banned instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in some elementary school grades and revoked a special tax arrangement for Disney after the company had a political spat with the governor.Such strident policies, coupled with the U.S. Supreme Court decision that eliminated federal abortion rights, have resonated with enough Floridians that Democrats believe there is a na rrow path to beat DeSantis, whose job approval has dropped to about 50%
Money usually flows into the state after the primary. But this year, she worries that Florida is not even on some donors’ radar.
‘We don’t want DeSantis to just walk into the White House’
“It’s a foregone conclusion,” she said. Fried and Crist have each cast themselves as the more viable alterna tive and the truer Democrat, but each is defined as much by their perceived limitations as their strengths: Crist for already losing two statewide races since being elected governor, and Fried for her short time in public life. To win, Democrats are fighting history as well as themselves. After four election cycles of close losses, the national donors whom they need to help finance expensive statewide campaigns appear unengaged this time. So do some voters.
Whether Democrats nominate the more disciplined happy warrior Crist or the more unpredictable, feisty Fried might matter less than the state party’s long-standing problems.
failings have been clear for years — a thin candidate bench, weak party in frastructure, undisciplined messaging, mounting losses with Latinos — but leaders have struggled with how to address them. Last year, the number of active voters registered as Republi cans surpassed Democrats for the first time in history, and the GOP edge has continued to grow.
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“It’s an emotional narrative about Florida,” said Andrea Cristina Mercado, executive director of Florida Rising, a racial justice organization. “‘Florida has broken my heart too many times.’”
Enter Fried, 44, the only Democrat elected to statewide office since 2018, and Crist, 66, who was elected governor in 2006 as a Republican and has since lost a Senate race as an independent (to Rubio in 2010) and a governor’s race as a Democrat (to Rick Scott in 2014). Fried said the 2014 loss makes Crist vulnerable to being defeated again using the same GOP playbook. He has represented the St. Petersburg area in Congress since 2017. Fried said she would get under DeSantis’ skin as his opponent. And she rejected the notion that Crist would succeed against DeSantis much the way President Joe Biden succeeded nationally against former President Donald“It’sTrump.notawinning equation here,” she said of that idea, emphasizing that Biden had lost in Florida. “Ron’s harder to beat. Trump is all talk. Ron has the policies in place.”
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“The right wing says every chance they can that ‘Florida is red, Florida is red,’ and it seems that Democrats are buying into that,” she said, noting that people who live in the state know it feels more closely divided than it looks. “We don’t want DeSantis to just walk into the White House,” she added. “We’re trying to do what needs to be done with Scotch tape and paper clips.”
n the first day of early voting in Broward County, Florida’s Democratic mecca, Jared Brown, a 41-year-old lawyer who until recently had never attended a Demo cratic Party meeting, drove to the polls in suburban Hollywood, slipped on a party T-shirt and grabbed a clipboard to go knock on voters’ doors. He was motivated by anger. Anger at Republicans in general — for appointing conservative judges, redirecting money from public schools and governing in a way that struck him as “authoritarian” — and anger at one Republican in particular: Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose polarizing persona has come to suck up all of the state’s political oxygen.
An early voting center in Hollywood, Fla., Aug. 14, 2022. Abortion is driving the debate in Republican primaries for governor around the country, but Florida is one of the few states where differences over the issue have figured prominently in a Democratic primary for governor.
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“It’s too offensive,” Brown said of the culture wars stoked by the governor and state lawmakers. “If you don’t fight them now,” he added, “it’s just not going to get any Goingbetter.”intotoday’s primary elec tion, Florida Democrats like Brown are angry, especially at the ascendant DeSantis and the way he seems to them to act like someone who already has his eye on the White House. But it is not clear that in the choices they have to challenge him — Rep. Charlie Crist, who served as governor from 2007 to 2011, and Nikki Fried, the state’s agriculture commissioner — they have someone who can beat him. “DeSantis is running for presi dent,” said Ann Ralston, 69, as she prepared for a long, sweaty day volun teering for no fewer than seven downballot Democratic candidates, whose logos she had pinned on her clothes, turning herself into a human billboard.
“We will go as far as we need to go and do whatever needs to be done to make sure that people like me can do their jobs without fear of some county prosecutor coming after you,” he said.
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Afederal appeals court temporarily blocked Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday from testifying in the investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presiden tial election results in Georgia. The appeals court instructed a lower court to determine whether Graham should be exempt from answering certain kinds of questions, given his status as a federal lawmaker.
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In the Georgia investigation, the speech and debate clause was also invoked by Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., a Trump ally, as he sought to quash his own subpoena to appear before the special grand jury. In that matter, May ruled that Hice must testify, while noting that some questions may be off Languagelimits.similar to that of the speech and debate clause exists in the Georgia Constitution, and Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and former state Sen. William Ligon in voked that language earlier this summer as they sought to avoid appearing before the special grand jury. But in early July, Superior Court Judge Robert C.I. McBurney of Fulton County took a position similar to May’s, ruling that the men must testify but should not be made to answer questions prohibited by the state immunity clause.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 10, 2022. A federal appeals court temporarily blocked Graham on Sunday, Aug. 21, from testifying in the investigation into efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential elec tion results in Georgia.
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Lawyers for Graham have said he was informed by Fulton County prosecutors that he was a witness, not a target, in the case. Even so, prosecutors want Graham’s testimony for a number of reasons. Among them are two phone calls that he made just after the 2020 election to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, in which Graham inquired about ways to help Trump by invalidating certain mail-in votes.They also want him to answer other questions about what they have called “the multistate, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”
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The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit gives a temporary reprieve to Graham, who has been fighting prosecutors’ efforts to bring him before a special grand jury. After a protracted bout of legal spar ring, Graham, at the end of last week, appeared to have failed in his efforts to remain above the matter and had been expected to testify behind closed doors Tuesday in a downtown Atlanta courthouse.
These topics, she wrote, include acts that are “po litical in nature rather than legislative,” and that would encompass any coordination with the Trump campaign; efforts to “cajole” or “exhort” Georgia election officials to change election results or processes; and any public statements or speeches Graham made outside of Congress about the 2020 elections.
“So they don’t want the speech and debate-protected questions to be asked, but as to the rest of the subpoena, the rest of the questions, they are signaling that they will allow it,” said Norman Eisen, a lawyer who served as spe cial counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment and trial of Trump. In an email Sunday, he said: “Note that they are remanding to a district court judge who has already made her views clear that many of the questions that the DA wants to ask are permissible and not within the bounds of the speech and debate clause.”
Graham has argued, among other things, that he should be exempt from testifying under the U.S. Constitu tion’s speech and debate clause, which prohibits asking lawmakers about their legitimate legislative functions.
Last Monday, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May ordered Graham to testify, writing that prosecutors had shown that there was “a special need for Mr. Graham’s testimony on issues relating to alleged attempts to influ ence or disrupt the lawful administration of Georgia’s 2022 Grahamelections.”appealed his case to the 11th Circuit and argued to May that he should not have to testify until the appeals process was concluded. The prosecutor leading the investigation, District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County, pushed back. In a court filing, she said the resolution of the appeal might not come for months, hampering her efforts to flesh out a broader investigation in a timely fashion.
Willis has said that the case could result in racketeering or conspiracy charges involving multiple defendants.
May has thus far been skeptical about Graham’s claim that he should not have to testify at all, writing that “there are multiple topics upon which Senator Graham could face questioning that in no way implicate protected legislative activity under the speech or debate clause.”
The appeals court laid out further steps Sunday that must be taken before Graham gives any testimony. First, the court ruled, a U.S. District Court must de termine whether Graham is “entitled to a partial quashal or modification of the subpoena to appear before the spe cial purpose grand jury” based on the speech and debate clause issue. After that, the appeals court said, it will take up the issue “for further consideration.”
Prosecutors have said in court documents that they expect Graham’s testimony “to re veal additional sources of information” related to their investigation.Thismonth, Graham called the effort to make him testify “ridiculous” and a “weaponization of the law.”
She also warned against an overbroad application of the speech and debate clause. Doing so, she said, “would allow any sitting senator to shield all manner of potential criminal conduct occurring during a phone call merely by asserting the purpose of the call was legislative factfinding — no matter whether the call subsequently took a different turn.”
Even though Graham’s testimony in front of the special grand jury has been delayed, the appellate court seemed to signal that it may approve future questioning of Graham not covered by the speech and debate clause.
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“I believe it was a Jeep of some sort that was a little lifted off the ground so he felt he was above the water enough to be able to pass through it,” she said. “Unfortunately, it picked up the vehicle and took him.”
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One person who had been hiking Friday at Zion National Park in Utah remained missing on Sun day and about 200 people at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico were trapped for several hours on Saturday amid heavy rain and flash flooding in parts of the Southwest.
Flash floods at national parks strand 200 and leave a hiker missing
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But later that evening, friends reported Jetal Agnihotri of Tucson, Arizona, missing. She has not returned from hiking in the Narrows, the park service said. Her brother, Pujan Agnihotri, told KSLTV that his sister could not swim. Portions of the park remained closed Sunday, according to its website.
At Zion National Park in Utah, a flash flood Friday afternoon swept multiple hikers off their feet in the Narrows, a popular section of Zion canyon that requires wading in the Virgin River. At least one person was swept downs tream and injured, and several others were able to find high ground and were rescued by emergency responders, the National Park Service said.
Jennifer Armendariz, the emergency manager for Eddy Cou nty, said officials had conducted a few rescues, including for a family whose vehicle had turned on its side and a couple stranded on the roof of their car. No injuries were reported. Armendariz said educating the public about not crossing streams in vehicles during a flood was a constant challenge. Although water may not always look deep, it’s “not worth the risk of trying to cross,” she said, adding that a man in the county had died last year in such a situation.
A photo by Laura Steele, via National Park Service, of flooding at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
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One person who had been hiking Friday at a national park in Utah remained missing Sunday and about 200 people at a national park in New Mexico were trapped for several hours Saturday amid heavy rain and flash flooding in parts of the Southwest.
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An order to shelter in place at Carlsbad Caverns was lifted late Saturday, and about 200 visitors and staff members were evacuated, she said. On Sunday, crews began clearing debris from the roadway. Monsoonal moisture is contributing to more frequent showers and thunderstorms, the National Weather Services in Utah and New Mexico said. A monsoon is a seasonal change in winds that can result in increasing humidity levels over land, triggering more fre quent storms, according to the weather service. From the Southern Plains into the lower Mississippi River Valley, heavy rains were expected to continue into the week, with a continued threat of flash flooding, the weather service said. On Sunday, more than 100,000 people in the United States were under flash flood watches, according to weather service data. National parks in southern Utah remai ned under elevated risk of flash flooding Sun day, the weather service in Salt Lake City said. Flash floods do not only occur in areas near bodies of water. They can surge anywhere that experiences intense rainfall over a brief period of time. As the climate warms, resear chers expect that flash floods will increase and get “flashier,” resulting in shorter but more intense flooding.
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On Saturday, in New Mexico, visitors at Carlsbad Caverns National Park were forced to shelter in place for more than nine hours because flooded roads became impassable, according to the Eddy County Office of Emer gency Management. Authorities said that they responded to calls of visitors who attempted to cross streams and became stuck in their cars. No ting that water just 1 foot high can sweep away vehicles, emergency responders on Facebook repeated the mantra of the weekend to dri vers: “Turn around, don’t drown.”
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Jill Biden had been with her family on Kiawah Island in South Carolina when she first tested positive for the virus. She stayed behind while the president continued on to Delaware, their home state, where he spent several days at the family’s home in Wilmington before arriving in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday evening. The positive test threatened to disrupt much of the first family’s vacation just weeks after Joe Biden was forced to delay a weekend trip to Delaware when he initially tested positive for the virus last month and then developed a so-called rebound case more than a week later. He emerged from isolation two weeks ago. Jill Biden, who was up to date on vaccines and has received two booster shots, only experienced mild symptoms, according to her of fice. She had also been prescribed the antiviral pill Paxlovid, a treatment that reduces the effects of a coronavirus infection.
Biden had been isolating in a private residence there, but joined President Joe Biden in Rehoboth, Delaware, on Sunday, according to a statement from Elizabeth Alexander, her communications director. “After isolating for five days and receiving negative results from two consecutive COVID-19 tests, the first lady will depart South Carolina later today for Delaware,” the statement said.
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As officers ordered her to the ground, “a 5-year-old child ran from the woods holding a loaded shotgun,” the sheriff’s office statement said. The officers instructed the child, later identified as Pinkins’ son, to put down the shotgun but he kept going toward his mother before eventually putting it on the ground, officialsPinkinssaid. was charged with one count of murder, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of robbery as well as endangering the welfare of a child. She remains in the Clay County Jail, according to sheriff’s records. Her son was taken into state care.
In another post Saturday, Paulus said the family had laid Simjee to rest. “I have no doubts I’ll see him in the next lifetime. He was my soulmate and will always be,” Paulus wrote. “Rest in peace baby.”
The sheriff’s of fi ce said Hider faces charges that include one count of murder, two counts of kidnapping and two counts of robbery.
Paulus cited the order on Facebook on Thursday. She said she and Simjee’s family wanted “an unbiased jury pool so that we can get the justice we deserve for losing the best man in our lives.”
A22-year-old man was fatally shot in a national forest in Alabama last week by a woman pretending to be a stranded driver after the man and his girlfriend pulled over to help, authorities said. The man, Adam Simjee, and his girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, both students at the University of Central Florida, were driving in Talladega National Forest, about 80 miles east of Birmingham, on the morning of Aug. 14 when they were flagged down by a woman claiming her car would not start, according to a statement from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office posted by television station WBRC. The woman, Yasmine Hider, pulled out a gun and made the couple walk back into the woods, according to the statement. Simjee then pulled out his own gun, leading to an “exchange of gunfire” in which Hider was shot several times in the torso and Simjee was shot in the back, the statement said.
Paulus, 20, who was not injured, tried to revive her boyfriend by administering CPR, but he died at the scene, authorities said. Hider was transported to a Birmingham hospital where she had surgery for her injuries. Authorities said she may be part of a group of people “living off the grid” in tents in the national forest who were reported to be “armed and potentially violent.”
On Wednesday, David Law, a Clay County district court judge, ordered those involved in the case, including lawyers, witnesses, law enforcement personnel and “anyone else affiliated” with the case, not to discuss it because it could affect Pinkins’ right to a fair trial.
Jill Biden, the first lady, left isolation after testing negative for the coronavirus Sunday, nearly a week after she tested positive while on vacation in South Carolina.
Paulus told authorities that at the time of the shooting, a second woman, later identified as Krystal Diane Pinkins, 36, had been standing in the Hiderwoods.had called out to Pinkins to help her, but she fled, according to officials. It was at this point that Paulus was able to get her phone and call 911, the statement said. A tracking team from the Alabama Department of Corrections found what authorities described as a “base camp” about a half-mile from the scene of the shooting where they said they found Pinkins near a group of tents.
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Student fatally shot by woman he stopped to help
First lady Jill Biden rides a bicycle along the beach on Kiawah Island, S.C., Aug. 14, 2022, the day before she tested positive for the coronavirus. First lady Jill Biden will leave isolation after testing negative for the coronavirus on Sunday, Aug. 21, nearly a week after she tested positive while on vacation in South Carolina.
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Adam Simjee and his girlfriend Mikayla Paul us. Mr. Simjee died in an exchange of gunfire last week after a woman pretending to be a stranded driver forced them into the woods.
But Republicans, who have long accu sed the IRS of unfairly targeting conservati ves, have seized on the law to fan unfoun ded conspiracy theories about the threat that mom-and-pop shops and middle-class Americans will face from an emboldened tax collector.Thescale and speed at which rumors about the agency have spread portend the political and logistical challenges that the Biden administration will confront as it embarks on the biggest overhaul of the IRS since its inception.
“I think they’re going after middleclass and small-business people,” Grassley said. “With 87,000 additional employees, you can imagine what that harassment is going to be to middle-class Americans and our small-business people.”
fears about a scaled-up IRS ahead of mid term elections, which will determine which political party controls Congress.
John Koskinen, who served as IRS commissioner in the Obama and Trump administrations, said that he thought the attacks on the agency by Republican law makers were irresponsible and that he wo rried that they could lead to violence aga inst members of the agency. He suggested that the only taxpayers who would end up having to pay more were those who were not paying their taxes, and said that agents do not wield their weapons without good reason.“The idea that the IRS is going to show up and audit all sorts of people for the fun of it are either ignoring reality or just don’t know how the IRS operates,” Koskinen said.
Right-wing outrage over the search of the property dovetailed with the charged language about war and dictatorship that has been circulating for weeks on platforms like Truth Social and helped amplify the IRS backlash, said John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the Uni versity of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
More money for IRS spurs conspiracy theories of ‘shadow army’
From Twitter and TikTok to newsletters and cable news, Re publicans have embraced the notion that a bigger IRS is poised to be weaponized against them, often distorting facts to make their points.“Thishas become the lightning-rod issue that’s really aggravated and activated conservative activists around the country,” said Stephen Moore, a conservative eco nomist affiliated with FreedomWorks, a right-leaning organization that promotes small government. “I think it’s a total ou trage.” Moore, whose personal fight with the IRS surfaced in 2019, has been leading a group of conservative activists in an attempt to “kill the bill” for nearly a year. Now that it has passed, Republicans have amped up their efforts to demonize the IRS, including misconstruing how big it will grow and what new employees will be doing.
The agency’s staff is the same size to day as it was in 1970, when it processed far fewer individual tax returns. Its enforcement staff has fallen more than 30% since 2010, and audits of millionaires have declined more than 70%. As of late June, millions of taxpayers were still waiting for the agency to process their 2021 tax returns.
“Stop Biden’s shadow army of 87,000 IRS agents,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, blared on Twitter last week with an ominous ad recalling the agency’s targeting of Tea Par ty groups set against the sound of soldiers marching.Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a mem ber of the Senate Finance Committee, war ned Fox News viewers last week that the new IRS agents, a small percentage of whom are allowed to carry firearms, might be co ming with loaded “AK-15s” and “ready to shoot some small-business person in Iowa.”
“It was a piece of disinformation that was floating around and salient at the time that involved government overreach,” he said.
The IRS is beefing up its staff to keep pace with the growth in taxpayers and to replace departing employees. The Biden administration expects that about 50,000 IRS. employees will retire within the next decade and that the agency will hire 87,000 new employees, bringing the overall size of the agency to around 120,000. The number of enforcement agents is expected to double to about 13,000 from 6,500 over the next decade.And despite claims on social media that the IRS hires will be heavily armed, a Treasury official said that just 1% of the new employees would be agents working in jobs that require carrying guns.
A poll conducted by the market re search firm YouGov with The Economist magazine this week found that around half of Americans supported the bill that inclu ded the IRS funding when they were given a brief overview of what it contained. Around one-third of the respondents opposed it.
A separate survey from Morning Con sult and Politico found that most voters are not worried about being audited by a beefed-up IRS because they think that highincome Americans will bear the brunt of the increase in audits.
Still,scrutinized.forallthe ads and rhetoric, it is not clear whether the message is resonating ahead of the midterms.
“Honest taxpayers, who are the vast majori ty, aren’t going to be bothered at all.”
Mentions of the IRS and its hiring plans, already elevated after Biden discus sed the Inflation Reduction Act in late July, surged 254% after the Mar-a-Lago search compared to the week before, according to data from Zignal Labs. Chatter around “ar med IRS” and “IRS firearms” on social me dia, online forums, broadcast channels and traditional media increased 1,044% and 532% after the search. The IRS has acted inappropriately in the past, including unfairly targeting con servative groups that applied for tax-exempt status during the Obama administration. In 2013, the agency acknowledged that it had been singling out terms such as “Tea Party” and “patriot” as a shortcut for deciding if or ganizations were engaging in social welfare, which would qualify them for tax-exempt status, or if they might be political organi zations. Former President Barack Obama called the agency’s actions “inexcusable” and ultimately demanded the resignation of the acting IRS commissioner. A 2017 report from the Treasury inspector general found that progressive groups had also been im properly
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Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, said this week that families ma king less than $75,000 would face 710,000 additional audits, suggesting that the Biden administration had lied about its pledge to not increase audit rates of taxpayers who make less than $400,000. Brady also su ggested that the IRS would have to target middle-income families to generate the kind of tax revenue that it has assumed the new law will“Middle-classgenerate. families ought to be frightened,” he said on Fox News.
Still, the IRS recently altered a job pos ting for criminal investigators amid the bac klash, deleting that one of the role’s major duties was to “be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.” The amended ad now lists “Be legally allowed to carry a firearm” as a key requirement.“Thewording change on one we bpage followed continued misstatements and inaccuracies about IRS employees ca rrying weapons,” said Khaalid Walls, an IRS spokesperson.Republicans have been eager to fan
It has been called President Joe Biden’s “shadow army,” described as a strike for ce to shake down small businesses with assault rifles and likened to a militia of audi tors on search-and-destroy missions. Decades of Republican antipathy toward the Internal Revenue Service have reached new levels of enmity with the pas sage of a Democratic-backed bill that gives the agency $80 billion to beef up its ability to go after tax cheats. The legislation, which Biden signed into law this week, will allow the beleaguered agency to hire more than 80,000 employees, upgrade outdated tech nology systems and improve its ability to respond to taxpayers.
In an email, UPS said that if one of their drivers required immediate assistance, the company would send personnel to their location to help them safely return to the delivery center or arrange for immediate assistance at the driver’s location, which could include calling anGubell’sambulance.mother, Prudence, said she regretted having encouraged her son to apply for the job with UPS and never imagined that a neighborhood job delivering packages could be so perilous.“Iworry about him,” Gubell said. “How much can the human body take?”
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Jorja Rodriguez, mother of Jose Cruz Rodriguez, the UPS driver who died after his shift in Waco last year, said she had sent her son to work that morning with a cooler full of water and energy drinks and told him to “take it easy.”When he did not come home that night, she drove to UPS and watched as the police found her son, dead.
UPS drivers say ‘brutal’ heat is endangering their lives
The company said it also planned to distribute cooling towels and uniforms made of moisture-wicking fabric and to accelerate the installation of fans in vehicles across the country. “We never want our employees to continue working to the point that they risk their health or work in an unsafe manner,” the company added.
UPS has also trained employees to “work safely throughout the year,” it said, and added it has sent reminders during the day to “stay hydrated and to take their rest breaks.”
“I called his name so many times, thinking that if he would hear my voice, he would wake up,” she said, adding that he had texted his supervisor earlier that day to say that he was not feeling well.
Last month, U.S. Rep. Tony Cárdenas, DCalif., introduced a bill that would require the Postal Service to install air conditioning in all of its vehicles. The measure is named after a 63-year-old driver for the service, Peggy Frank, who, on a 117-degree day in 2018, was found unresponsive in her mail truck in the San Fernando Valley, about 25 miles northwest of downtown Los Currently,Angeles.34%of its vehicles have air conditioning and an additional 66% have fans, the Postal Service said, adding that any vehicles purchased after 2003 were equipped with air“Ourconditioning.carriersdeliver the mail throughout the year during varying temperatures and climatic conditions,” the Postal Service said in a statement. “This includes during the summer months when the temperatures rise throughout the country.”ThePostal Service reminds carriers to stay hydrated, wear hats and get in the shade whenever possible, it said, and noted that it started a heat illness prevention program to provide mail carriers with training and “resources needed to do their jobs safely.”
“Our package delivery vehicles make frequent stops, which requires the engine to be turned off and the doors to be opened and closed, about 130 times a day on average,” the company said in a statement.
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Dominique Chavez, stepmother of Esteban David Chavez, who died in Pasadena, said that since his death, she and her family had made a point of flagging down UPS workers to offer them a tip and a drink of cold water.Gubell, the Long Island worker, said he felt fortunate that on the day he felt ill, he had managed to call his parents. He was too incoherent to give them his location, but they called 911. A neighbor also alerted authorities. “I didn’t want to call the ambulance,” Gubell said, adding that he feared that if he had done so, he would face retaliation from UPS.
About 8 p.m. on a hot Thursday in July, Nicholas Gubell, a driver for UPS, was nearing the end of his route on Long Island, New York, when he started to feel woozy. That day, Gubell, 26, had delivered about 200 packages. Temperatures had soared into the high 80s, and it was even hotter inside the metal shell of the back of the truck, where, with each stop, he would spend up to a minute or so to retrieve his cargo, sweat beading on his skin.Now, pulled over on the side of the road, he was panting and barely able to speak, gripping his phone with his hand, which had cramped from dehydration.
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“There’s only so much a body can handle,” said Tony Bell, a UPS driver in Longview, Texas. Bell, 45, was hospitalized for heat exposure and renal failure after working his route on a 103-degree day in July. That day, he drank 12 bottles of water and a Gatorade. He said doctors later told him that he had come extremely close to a heart attack. “I was scared that was it,” he said.
“The health and safety of our employees is our highest priority,” UPS said, adding that in preparation for heat waves, it was providing workers with additional water, ice, electrolyte replacement beverages and fruit.
Nick Gubell, a driver for UPS, at his home in Islip, New York on Aug. 15, 2022, who was hospitalized several weeks ago after suffering severe heat exhaustion while on the job.
In June, a 24-year-old UPS driver, Esteban David Chavez Jr., died while delivering packages in Pasadena, California, about 10 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Last month, another of the company’s workers was captured in footage from a Ring doorbell, stumbling and collapsing outside a home in Scottsdale, Arizona.Although Postal Service and other delivery drivers have also been sickened, attention has mostly been focused on UPS, which is the world’s largest package delivery company and among the biggest employers in the nation. Although its tractor-trailers are cooled, the company’s smaller delivery trucks do not have air conditioning.
“You can drink gallons of water, but it still gets to you,” Matt Leichenger, 26, a Brooklyn UPS driver and shop steward, said of the heat. The training, he added, “basically tells you to drink water and eat cucumbers and watermelons.”Astemperatures have risen in the past few years, so too have the demands for shipping. The coronavirus pandemic kept shoppers at home, causing a surge in e-commerce and, drivers say, more stops on their routes.
“My body was losing it,” Gubell said. Paramedics covered him in ice packs to bring down his body temperature and took him to a hospital. “I was just trying to hold on as best I could.”As blistering heat waves swept across the United States this summer, breaking temperature records and placing millions under heat advisories and warnings, workers such as Gubell have continued to deliver America’s packages for a variety of carriers, often in trucks that have no cooling mechanisms for drivers. Some UPS workers have shared photographs that show thermometer readings of up to 150 degrees in the backs of their trucks. Now a string of heat-related illnesses among the drivers has renewed calls to improve their working conditions. “They’re vomiting. Their bodies are shutting down,” said Dave Reeves, president of Local 767, a Texas local of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents 350,000 UPS workers across the country. “It’s awful.”Government records show that the problem is not isolated: Since 2015, at least 270 UPS and U.S. Postal Service drivers have been sickened and in many cases hospitalized from heat exposure. Dozens of workers for other delivery companies, including FedEx, have also suffered from heat exhaustion, according to the records, and a handful of drivers have also died in the past few years. According to the Teamsters, heat-related injuries, illnesses and deaths among drivers are severely underreported.The issue first drew widespread public attention in 2019, after reporting by the Center for Public Integrity and NBC News highlighted the grave heat dangers faced by mail and delivery have been mobilizing for better protection for UPS workers in anticipation of contract negotiations next year. “With the temperatures and the record heat waves, it’s getting to the point where we are getting an alarming amount of heat-related injuries,” ReevesInsaid.just the past six weeks, he added, 18 of about 9,500 workers in his jurisdiction had become sickened by heat. “It’s absolutely getting worse,” he said. Although tying a particular heat wave to climate change requires analysis, scientists have no doubt that heat waves around the world are becoming hotter, more frequent and longer-lasting.LastAugust, Jose Cruz Rodriguez Jr., a 23-year-old UPS driver in Reeves’ local, was found dead in the company’s parking lot in Waco, Texas, just days after starting the job.
Drivers said such reminders were insulting in the context of their strenuous working conditions. It is difficult to drink enough water in an environment where bathroom breaks are limited to stopping at stores and restaurants, UPS workers said, adding that their requests for fans had often gone unmet.
At the same time, lawmakers have also been pushing for better conditions for mail carriers.
“People are dropping like flies out here,” he added. “It’s very brutal.”
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Federal Reserve policy triggered a big move in the mar kets this year, but option traders expect several fireworks around the annual central bank symposium this week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Option positioning shows that traders are expecting 1.4% of traffic on the S&P 500 (.SPX) in August. 26, the day Fed chair man Powell is due to deliver his speech, according to Matt Am berson, director of the analytical firm ORATS, which deals with the analysis of options. This is just slightly above the 1.0% ex pected daily move options they are suggesting for next month’s stocks.
“They’re all on the same page: we are tightening up, and the process is likely to slow down gradually,” said Randy Fred erick, vice president of Trading and Derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research. “For markets that are expected to price in more volatility, that usually means they are expecting surprises … I just think no one is expecting any shocking revelations at this meeting,” said Frederick. The speeches of Fed chairmen in Jackson Hole have not been big market movements in recent years. Only once in the last 10 years the S&P 500 saw an increase of more than 1% on the day of the Jackson Hole symposium, which he heard from the FedWhilechairman.stocks have been much more volatile than normal this year, the market turmoil has eased in recent months with a rebound that saw the S&P 500 gain 15% from mid-June lows.
U.S. stock options traders see little drama around Fed’s Jackson Hole event
While there is still time for volatility expectations to rise ahead of the event, for now the option valuation reflects “a rela tively low price for the risk of a crash,” DeSimone said. Market participants have cited a number of reasons why volatility expectations might be subdued. The market has had a massive dose of Fed speech in recent weeks and policymakers have defied expectations of peak inflation and a dovish return from the Fed, which has given investors a clearer picture of the central bank’s mindset. read more And while markets generally expect the Fed to raise rates another 50 to 75bps when it meets again in September, Powell’s outlook for future policy is likely to be colored by economic data reports due this month, including key data on inflation and employment.
The minutes of the Fed meeting in July showed on Wednes day that policymakers decided to raise rates as high as neces sary to contain inflation. Several Fed speakers, including the Fed chairman of St. Louis James Bullard and San Francisco Fed Chairman Mary Daly have insisted since then that policymakers must continually raise borrowing costs to control rising prices.
The Cboe Volatility Index (.VIX), an option-based indicator that reflects the need to protect against stock market downturns, is around 20, up from a high of nearly 40 achieved earlier this year. Still, some market watchers believe Powell’s even more hawkish-than-expected view could hit stocks.
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“The volatility market appears to be treating Jackson Hole as an event without an event,” said Garrett DeSimone, the chief quantum at OptionMetrics.
“The Zelenskyy regime must be de stroyed,” Sergei Mironov, a hawkish leader in the Russian parliament, said in a state television interview. “What the Ukrainian intelligence agencies are doing today on the orders of Zelenskyy is ter rorism in its truest form.”
The FSB also alleged that the per petrator of the bombing had left Russia for Estonia, later releasing video foot age of what it said showed her in a gray Mini Cooper crossing the border. The Estonian Foreign Ministry said it had no immediate comment. But the FSB’s claim was likely to further inflame ten sions with the Baltic nation, which has been among Europe’s leading critics of the AKremlin.senior Russian lawmaker, Vladimir Dzhabarov, said Monday that if Esto nia did not hand over the woman there would be “every reason for the Russian Federation to take tough actions against the Estonian state.”
In this handout photo taken from video released by the Investigative Commit tee of Russia on Sunday, investigators work on the site of the explosion of a car driven by Daria Dugina outside Moscow.
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But the FSB statement may be unlike ly to convince critics of Putin that Ukraine was indeed behind the crime. Coming just over 36 hours after the blast, the agency’s declaration that it had “solved” the crime represented an extraordinarily rapid investigation compared to other high-profile assassinations — like those of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in 2015 or of independent journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006, cases that remain unsolved.Andthe agency has been accused of staging attacks for political ends. Two decades ago, the FSB was accused of involvement in bombings of apartment buildings in Moscow that killed more than 300 people and touched off Rus sia’s invasion of the republic of Chech nya. Those accusations were never con firmed. At the time, residents in Ryazan, 115 miles from Moscow, said they had found intelligence agents planting ex plosives underneath an apartment build ing, prompting the FSB to apologize and assert that the material in question was sugar sacks and that the incident was a security exercise.
Russia claims Ukraine killed daughter of prominent war supporter
Ukraine’s presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, tweeted that the FSB statement was “propaganda” from a “fictional world.”
Ukraine has denied having any thing to do with the car bombing Saturday that killed Dugina, 29, on a highway in an affluent district outside of Moscow.Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, the FSB, issued a statement Monday saying the attack “was pre pared and committed by the Ukrainian intelligence agencies.” The agency’s claims could not be independently verified.
Some Russian media reports had said Dugina’s father, Alexander Dugin, an ultranationalist writer who helped build the ideological foundation for President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, was the likely target of the blast.But the FSB’s statement described Dugina — herself a hawkish commen tator who had earned a following with frequent appearances on state media — as the intended target. Soon after the FSB’s announce ment, the Kremlin published a letter of sympathy from Putin to Dugina’s parents, the Russian leader’s first state ment about the attack. “A vile, cruel crime ended the life of Daria Dugina — a bright, talented person with a real Russian heart,” Putin wrote, making no mention of the perpetrators or of Ukraine. “She proved in her actions what it means to be a patriot of Rus sia.”In its statement, the FSB alleged that a Ukrainian woman had been contracted to carry out the bombing, saying that she had entered Russia on July 23 and rented an apartment in the Moscow building where Dugina lived “in order to organize the murder of Dugina and obtain information about her lifestyle.” The woman was at the same nationalist festival attended by Dugina and her father Saturday before the bombing, the agency said.
The car bombing came on the heels of a spate of Ukrainian attacks deep behind the front line in Crimea, and the FSB’s ac cusations heightened the clamor among the war’s most ardent cheerleaders to es calate the fighting and punish President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
By ANTON TROIANOVSKI R ussian authorities on Monday blamed Ukraine for organizing the killing of Daria Dugina, the ultranationalist daughter of a promi nent Russian supporter of the invasion, a claim that raised fears of a further es calation in the six-month war.
Daria Dugina was a Russian nationalist journalist and political analyst
Lev Gudkov, research director at the Levada Center, an independent polling or ganization, noted that at the start of the war, television had long been a trusted, main source of information for 75% of Russians. The trust has since dipped, he said, after it became clear that what the Kremlin calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine would not be a cakewalk.
The remains of destroyed Russian tanks and armored vehicles on a road outside Dmytrivka, Ukraine, April 2, 2022.
Official news media blame the Western arms shipped to Ukraine for prolonging the fighting, while insisting that those weapons are not very effective. Reports rarely mention the pain inflic ted on Russia by Western sanctions, which are universally dismissed as impotent. Rather, they tell how sanctions hurt Wester ners far more. The idea that the West cannot live without Russia crops up repeatedly. Pundits gleefully predict that losing access to Rus sian gas will cause an energy crisis in Euro pe, with consumers unable to pay soaring energy bills foisted upon them by uncaring politicians.“Right now, hundreds of millions of Europeans face a harsh, cold winter, which Europe is unlikely to survive,” Yevgeny Po pov, a host of the political talk show “60 Minutes,” said recently. Domestic issues take a back seat to ex ternal matters, which was true even before the invasion. On Aug. 9, explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea, the most bra zen attack on the occupied peninsula since the war started, killing at least one person and causing significant destruction, inclu ding of no fewer than eight warplanes.
As state television stokes confrontation, the talk show warriors are getting “angrier and more aggressive,” said Ilya Shelepin, who broadcasts a Russian press review on YouTube for the opposition organization founded by imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.Sometimes accusations leveled against foreign adversaries are downright bizarre.
What Russians see in the news: A war over Western plans to subjugate them
In the six months since Russia invaded, the state media’s emphasis in reporting the war has gradually shifted. Gone are pre dictions of a lightning offensive that would obliterate Ukraine. There is less talk of being embraced as liberators who must “denazi fy” and demilitarize Ukraine, although the “fascist” label is still flung about with aban don.Instead, in the Kremlin version — the only one most Russians see, with all others outlawed — the battlefields of Ukraine are one facet of a wider civilizational war being waged against Russia. The reporting is less about Ukraine than “about opposing Western plans to get control of Mother Russia,” said Stanislav Kucher, a veteran Russian television host now consulting on a project to get Russians better access to banned news outlets. The United States is the main antagonist, with Europe and NATO its lackeys. Vladimir Solovyov, a talk-show host and top cheerleader for Russian President Vladi mir Putin’s government, said this month that “Russia was invited to join Western society for dinner — not as a guest, but as a dish.”
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RT, a state-run television network, quo ted Zakhar Prilepin, a conservative novelist and Ukraine war veteran, as saying that the West had “habituated” Ukraine to such actions. Various regular commentators on weekday political talk shows took to social media to demand that the Kremlin be toug her against GlimpsesUkraine.ofthe war’s cost, however, re main the exception, as news and talk shows have branched into myriad economic and social topics to try to hammer home the idea that Russia is locked in a broad conflict with the West, noted Francis Scarr of BBC Monitoring, who spends several hours daily watching Russian television.
“VMacFARQUHAR esti Nedeli,” the flagship weekly roundup of Kremlin-controlled television news, recently por trayed a long history of predatory Western powers coming to grief when they invaded Russia: Sweden in the 18th century, France in the 19th, Germany in the 20th. Enemies now seek to reverse those los ses, said Dmitry Kiselyov, the show’s host, blaming the West for the war that Russia instigated in Ukraine. The goal to finish off Russia is “centuries old and unchanging,” he said. “Here we are on the defensive.”
A recent story about Senior Sgt. Alek sei Malov, 32, a Russian tank commander killed in the fighting, did not mention how he died. Instead, it focused on how his pa rents had spent what Russians call “coffin money,” a death compensation paid by the government.“Webought a new car in memory of our son,” the father said, adding that their first trip in their white Lada Granta was to the village cemetery. The story, broadcast on “Vesti Nedeli,” caused an uproar. Critics of the war lam basted it as heartless, ham-handed propa ganda, while supporters lauded the piece as illustrating how ordinary Russians endorse the conflict despite the toll. State television has played down the mounting Ukrainian attacks on the strate gically and symbolically important Crimean peninsula, but the images on social media of anti-aircraft fire erupting over Crimea be gan to put domestic political pressure on the Kremlin to act. The visceral reality of the war, especially the fact that Russian-clai med territory was not immune, was brought home both by the strikes on Crimea and by what investigators called a premeditated as sassination in Moscow.
“There is an automatic spin on it,” he said. “They always talk about Russian suc cesses and Ukrainian failures.”
The newspaper Kommersant recently quo ted Russian lawmakers as saying that some Ukrainian soldiers were subjected to U.S. biological experiments that turned them into “cruel and deadly monsters.” A Russian scientist quoted in the story dismissed the claim as Reportsfar-fetched.fromeastern Ukraine inevitably depict life under Russian control as cons tantly improving. When news anchors cut to a live report from the front lines, the most common question is “What successes do you have to report today?” Scarr noted.
Over the long haul, analysts note, the Russian propaganda playbook offers little that is new, although the particulars change over time. Throughout the Soviet era, alarms that Western powers were bent on undermi ning Russia — often true — were standard fare, as were claims that those powers were crumbling.Thegovernment explains European and U.S. hostility by saying, according to Gu dkov, that “Russia is getting stronger and that is why the West is trying to get in Russia’s way,” part of a general rhetorical line he described as “blatant lies and demagogy.”
Daria Dugina, 29, the daughter of a fa mous nationalist and herself a hawk, was killed by a car bomb late Saturday, with official news outlets blaming Ukraine and its Western backers.
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Yet, Russian prime-time shows spent far more time discussing the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home.
The extent of Russia’s staggering casual ties in Ukraine remains veiled in Russian news media; only the Ukrainian military suffers extensive losses. Ukrainian civi lian suffering is all but invisible. There are emotional stories about individual deaths, although the reaction is not always what the Kremlin might have hoped for.
The older, mainstay television audien ce, however, is especially susceptible to anti-NATO, anti-American rhetoric, he said, because it was drilled into Russians as schoolchildren, and the idea of rebuilding the might and reach of the Soviet empire appeals to many.
On state media, Russia is a pillar of tra ditional values, bound to prevail over the moral swamp that is the West. There is a daily fixation with LGBTQ matters. To watch Russian television is to get the impression that the gay community runs the decadent Western world. For all their professed shock and horror, Russian news outlets avidly air footage with lurid depictions of gay life.
“Freedom of expression is not freedom to destroy de mocracy, to destroy institutions,” he said. His reaction, he added, “will be swift, firm and relentless.”
The idea is that Bolsonaro would back off his attacks on the voting machines, these people said, if election offi cials agreed to some changes requested by Brazil’s military.
The question menacing Brazil’s elections: Coup or no coup?
But military leaders are still pushing for one specific change: for the voting machines’ integrity tests to happen with real voters, instead of in simulations.
Among the officials interviewed, there was broad disa greement over whether the right-wing president was driven by genuine concern about fraud or just fear of losing. Bol sonaro has consistently trailed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist, in opinion surveys; if no one wins a majority of the vote Oct. 2, a runoff is scheduled for Oct. 30.
An election-security expert said such a hack is concei vable but unlikely. De Moraes, the new elections chief, has signaled that he would be open to changes in the voting systems, though what might be achievable by Oct. 2 is unclear.
The crowd stood and applauded. Jair Bolsonaro sat and scowled.Bolsonaro, whose representatives declined requests for an interview, has said that he is trying to protect Brazil’s democracy by strengthening its voting systems.
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Instead, officials worry about lasting damage to Brazil’s democratic institutions — polls show one-fifth of the cou ntry has lost faith in the election systems — and about vio lence in the streets. Bolsonaro’s claims of fraud and poten tial refusal to accept a loss echo those of his ally Donald Trump, and Brazilian officials repeatedly cited the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as an example of what could“Howhappen.do we have any control over this?” Flávio Bol sonaro, a senator and Bolsonaro’s son, said in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Estadão in reference to poten tial violence. In the United States, he said, “people followed the problems in the electoral system, were outraged and did what they did. There was no command from President Trump, and there will be no command from President Bol sonaro.”Last week, more than 1 million Brazilians, including former presidents, top academics, lawyers and pop stars, signed a letter defending the country’s voting systems. Brazil’s top business groups also released a similar letter.
Bolsonaro has long been at odds with de Moraes, who has led investigations into allegations of disinformation and leaks of classified material that implicate the president and his allies. Bolsonaro has criticized de Moraes as politically motivated, and said at a rally last year that he would no lon ger abide by his rulings, a statement he later walked back.
On Tuesday, at an event with nearly every major Brazi lian political figure present, another Supreme Court justice, Alexandre de Moraes, took office as the nation’s new elec tions chief and warned that he would punish attacks on the electoral process.
“I have full confidence in Brazil’s election system. That also doesn’t mean it’s infallible,” said Ciro Nogueira, Bolsonaro’s chief of staff. “I’m sure, as the president says, the people will have their say.” And on Saturday, Bolsonaro seemed to suggest at a rally that he would accept the results of theYetelection.Bolsonaro has made similar comments in the past and agreed to a similar truce last year — and then conti nued his Insideattacks.hisadministration, Bolsonaro has been increa singly pulled between two factions.
The military is concerned that a hacker could implant malicious software in the voting machines that would re cognize simulations and stay dormant during such tests, allowing it to evade detection.
One side has encouraged the president to stop attac king the voting machines because they believe the issue is unpopular with the more moderate voters he needs to win over and because Brazil’s economy is rebounding, helping his chances of reelection, according to two senior advisers to theTheypresident.saidthe other group, led by former military gene rals, has fed the president misinformation and urged him to keep warning of potential fraud. Election officials last year invited the military to join a committee to improve the election systems. The military suggested a series of changes, but election officials said they could not be implemented in time for October’s vote.
President Jair Bolsonaro greeting supporters last month in Salvador, Brazil. Mr. Bolsonaro has consistently attacked voting machines in the country as susceptible to fraud, leading to questions about his willingness to accept an election loss.
Asimple but alarming question is dominating political discourse in Brazil with just six weeks left until na tional elections: Will President Jair Bolsonaro accept the results?Formonths, Bolsonaro has attacked Brazil’s electronic voting machines as rife with fraud — despite virtually no evidence — and Brazil’s election officials as aligned aga inst him. He has suggested that he would dispute any loss unless changes are made in election procedures. He has enlisted Brazil’s military in his battle. And he has told his tens of millions of supporters to prepare for a fight. “If need be,” he said in a recent speech, “we will go to war.”With its vote Oct. 2, Brazil is now at the forefront of the growing global threats to democracy, fueled by populist leaders, extremism, highly polarized electorates and inter net disinformation. The world’s fourth-largest democracy is bracing for the possibility of its president refusing to step down because of fraud allegations that could be difficult to disprove.Yet,according to interviews with more than 35 Bol sonaro administration officials, military generals, federal judges, election authorities, members of Congress and fore ign diplomats, the people in power in Brazil feel confident that while Bolsonaro could dispute the election’s results, he lacks the institutional support to stage a successful coup. Brazil’s last coup, in 1964, led to a brutal 21-year mili tary dictatorship. “The middle class supported it. Business people supported it. The press supported it. And the U.S. supported it,” said Luís Robert Barroso, a Supreme Court justice and Brazil’s former elections chief. “Well, none of these players support a coup now.”
Yet there are increasing hopes for a smooth transition of power if Bolsonaro loses — because he now appears open to a truce. His allies, including top officials in the armed forces, are about to begin negotiations with de Moraes about changes to Brazil’s election system designed to address the president’s security critiques, according to three federal judges and one senior administration official close to the planned talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are confidential.
Sharif has raised electricity and fuel prices as he tries to get the economy back on track. He has also ended some government subsidies to revive a $6 bi llion bailout plan from the International Monetary Fund that was suspended af ter Khan’s administration failed to meet some conditions of the loan. Buoyed by the victory in Punjab, Khan renewed his call for the govern ment to hold general elections earlier than 2023, the scheduled date. Khan added to his momentum this month when his party also fared well in elections in Karachi, Pakistan’s eco nomic hub.
In July, residents of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous state, showed their displeasure by handing Khan’s party, Tehreek-e-Insaf, a sweeping victory in localBuoyedelections.by that success, Khan has renewed his call to hold general elec tions earlier than planned. But the go vernment, Khan and his allies say, has responded with a crackdown on him and his party in a bid to prevent him from returning to power. Khan on Sun day blamed Pakistan’s powerful mili tary, which once backed him. Authorities have yet to arrest Khan. He was granted a form of bail Monday, which is allowed in Pakistan before an arrest is Here’smade.what you need to know about the situation in Pakistan: Khan is accused of intimidating go vernment officials. In a speech Saturday, the former prime minister threatened to sue poli ce officers and a judge involved in the case of a senior aide, Shahbaz Gill, who Khan said was tortured while in police custody. Officials have denied those claims.After Khan’s speech, a complaint was filed with the police, accusing him of trying to intimidate the country’s judiciary and police force, local news media reported. A case was registered against Khan under Pakistan’s terrorism law, but it is not clear whether there is an arrest warrant or what the exact chargesKhanare.has not yet responded publi cly to the charges. Leaders of his party have vowed to take to the streets if he is arrested.Gillwas detained after he called for military officers to defy orders from the top brass. The popular cable television channel on which Gill made those com ments, ARY News, was forced off the air. Over the weekend, Pakistan’s media regulator ordered television channels to stop carrying Khan’s speeches live, sa ying he was “spreading hate speech.” Khan had an atypical rise to political leader. Born to an affluent family in Laho re and educated at Oxford University, Khan rose to international prominence in the late 1970s on the cricket pitch. By the time he led Pakistan in 1992 to its only World Cup triumph, he had be come a regular in London’s fashionable crowd. In 1995, he married a British heiress, Jemima Goldsmith. A year later, Khan tried to parlay his cricket popularity into a political ca reer, establishing his own party, Pakis tan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or the Movement for Justice. As a politician, he painted a picture of himself as a reformer offering an alternative to the entrenched politi cal dynasties.Forovera decade, Khan struggled to make political inroads and was moc ked for his political ambitions. But by 2011, he began drawing hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis to his rallies. Many were energized by a populist message against corruption and Ameri can Byinfluence.then,he had embraced a pious form of Islam and sought to transform his personal image. After winning the backing of mi litary leaders, Khan was elected Pakistan’s prime minister in 2018. Many of his rivals accused the military of ma nipulating the election in his favor — an accusation Khan and the military have denied. He ushered in a new foreign policy, moving away from the United States and closer to Russia and China. Khan’s tenure as prime minister had a premature end. The global wave of inflation that fo llowed the coronavirus pandemic dealt a severe blow to Pakistan, a country of 220 million people that was already struggling with erratic growth and hea vy government debt. The rising cost of food and imports like fuel led to dissa tisfaction with Khan’s handling of the economy.Adispute with military leaders compounded Khan’s struggles, and by late last year, his tenure began to un wind. He had sought to place a loyal aide and former spy chief in charge of the army over the objections of the mi litaryWithleadership.Khanappearing to lose the military’s backing, his political rivals became emboldened. They pushed for a vote of no confidence to oust him after he rejected calls to resign. Khan remained defiant and dismissed the plan for the vote as part of an Ameri can conspiracy, without providing any evidence. In a bid to sidestep the vote, he dissolved parliament and called for newKhan’selections.scorched-earth politics had left him with few friends and little ne gotiating room. Most of the major op position leaders had been jailed during his tenure.Khan’s opponents said his call to dissolve parliament amounted to a coup and petitioned the Supreme Court, which overturned his move to dissol ve parliament. In April, Khan became the first prime minister of Pakistan to be removed in a no-confidence vote. His ouster extended a dubious distinction for the country: Not one of its prime ministers has completed a full term in office. Khan staged an improbable come back. Even though Khan was removed from office, he continued to have a sig nificant following in Pakistan. He sta ged political rallies in which he accu sed the United States, the military and Shehbaz Sharif, the opposition leader who succeeded him as prime minister, of conspiring to topple his government. U.S. officials, the military and Sharif have denied those accusations. This summer, Khan proved that he remained a powerful force in Pakistani politics. In July, his party won a swee ping victory in elections in Punjab, a bellwether for national politics. The economic issues that helped lead to Khan’s fall have also become a problem for the new government.
What we know about Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister
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Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan at his residence in Islamabad, April 9, 2019. Khan’s party has had a comeback since he was ousted in 2022.
P akistan faces a political flash point after police filed terrorism charges over the weekend against Imran Khan, the former prime minister who has staged an improbable come back after his ouster earlier this year. The conditions that precipitated Khan’s fall — rising prices of food, the country’s heavy debt and the loss of the military’s support — have only wor sened under the current government.
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The lesson to be drawn is emphatically not that Trump needs to be given permanent immunity because of a “don’t arrest ex-presidents” rule or out of fears that his supporters will take to the streets or launch lonewolf attacks on the FBI.
With Trump, Merrick Garland can’t afford to miss
The two weeks since the FBI descended on Mara-Lago have felt remarkably familiar. It’s not just that Donald Trump is dominating headlines once again; it’s that all the hits of 2017 and 2018 are being played again: legal experts cobbling together complex theories out of fragmentary information, exciting Twitter speculation about espionage and treason, a “this time we’ve got him” spirit unseen since the days of Robert Mueller devotional candles.
The lesson, rather, is that if the agents of the state come after Trump, and especially now when they come as representatives of an administration that might face him in the next election, they can’t afford to miss. Not only in the jury box but also in the court of public opinion, it needs to be clear, crystal clear, what separates any crimes he might be charged with from — for example — the perjury and obstruction of justice that didn’t send Bill Clinton to prison or the breach of intelligence protocols that Hillary Rodham Clinton wasn’t charged with. You don’t just need a plausible legal case that tests interesting questions about presidential declassification powers; you need an easy-to-explain slam dunk. So if you have Trump taking design documents for nuclear weapons and shopping them to his pals in Saudi Arabia, congratulations — you got him; lock him up. If you have him taking boxes of notes from foreign leaders because he’s a childish egomaniac who thinks that he’s earned his White House souvenirs, well, then take the documents back, declare victory for the public interest and stop there. And if he took documents about the Russia investigation itself, of the sort that he wanted declassified during his presidency — well, tread carefully, lest you trap us all in an awful time loop where it’s forever 2017. It seems like a reasonable presumption that the documents in question are more serious than just some notes to Kim Jong Un but that the potential incrimination falls short of Trump literally selling secrets. But that’s a presumption, not a prediction. I’ve learned to be unsurprised by Trump’s folly and venality but also by his capacity to induce self-defeating blunders among people and institutions I would have considered relatively sensible before his ascent. So no predictions, just the warning: Don’t miss.
The familiarity is useful; it means that we can look back and consider why they didn’t “get him” then, why Russiagate ended in a relative fizzle and sealed Republicans into a permanent suspicion of any investigation into Trumpian malfeasance.
By ROSS DOUTHAT
The Russia investigation was predicated — in the public eye and, at least in part, in its legal origins — on dire and dramatic scenarios: that Trump had been cultivated as an agent of influence by Moscow, that there was a secret alliance between Trump’s inner circle and Russian intelligence, that the Trump campaign and the Russians had effectively collaborated in the hacking and dissemination of the Democratic National Committee’s emails. (And lordy, that maybe there was a peeNonetape.)of these scenarios were proved by the investigation. As many Trump critics hastened to argue, the Mueller report did not exonerate the president or his campaign from wrongdoing. But the guilt established or suggested involved many things done in the clear light of day in an election that Trump won (encouraging Russian hackers and touting the information released), things attempted but never brought to fruition (some hapless, “Burn After Reading”-level attempts to connect with Russian dirt peddlers) and possible obstructions of justice in the course of the Mueller inquiry.
Meanwhile, it also became clear that the investigation itself was guilty of process abuses, particularly in the way that the FBI went about obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants. And there was an obvious feedback loop between this investigative overreach and the overheated media coverage — the fact that law enforcement was unwisely using the infamous Steele dossier as a predicate encouraged journalists to amplify the dossier’s extreme scenarios, because after all, if the FBI took them seriously, they must be very serious indeed. The endpoint of the investigation, then, reminded everyone that Trump is a self-interested intriguer surrounded by low-minded hacks. But it also made the feds and the press look as if they had overreached in search of a Watergate ending. And for the partisan mind, the second part loomed inevitably larger, confirming Trump’s supporters in their belief that whatever sins their man might commit, the deep state was always out to get him. Now here we are again, and like the decisions of Mueller and James Comey before him, Merrick Garland’s choices turn on facts that the public can see only through a glass darkly. But I sincerely hope that the attorney general had the Russiagate experience in mind when he signed off on the search of Mar-aLago and that he considers how Mueller’s investigation finished as he considers his next move.
“Recibimos y acogemos con beneplácito y optimismo por atender un problema que por años ha afectado las facilidades de salud y que atienden a los beneficiarios del plan de salud del Gobierno de Puerto Rico. En especial, a los hospitales que pertenecen al Gobierno, los cuales muchas veces se ven afectados por obtener las tarifas más bajas pagadas por las aseguradoras en comparación con las facilidades privadas”.
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“En estos momentos, las tarifas con las asegurado ras están entre un 80 a un 85 por ciento de las tarifas que le pagan al negocio regular o comercial”, repli có Paul Berreras Díaz, director de recursos fiscales, quien reiteró que las deudas pendientes de parte del Plan Vital con el Centro Médico son alrededor de $4.5 millones.Encuanto al sistema de facturación en el Centro Médico, el funcionario explicó que se contrató una compañía tercera para que hiciera esa función. “Básicamente se ofrece el ser vicio, se entra la información en el ré cord médico electrónico, y basado con la información, se factura”. Asimismo, aseguró que el récord médico electrónico está funcionando sin ningún problema. “Que yo sepa, no hay ningún problema con el récord médico electrónico. De hecho, actual mente se está trabajando con la actuali zación de este”, dijo Barreras Díaz. Según la directora de asesoramien to legal de ASEM, la razón por la cual se contrató a otra compañía fue por la escasez de personal y problemas de re caudos. “El contrato no tiene una paga, está basado en los recaudos. El porcen taje establecido de los recaudados es de 7.9%”. Por otro lado, la Asociación de Com pañías de Seguros de Puerto Rico (ACODESE) entien de que los asuntos contenidos en el proyecto de ley “ya son tratados contractualmente sin necesidad de enmendar la ley’’.
SAN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departa mento de Salud (DS) reportó el lunes, sobre 424 ca sos positivos confirmados, 1,318 casos probables y sin muertes.Elmonitoreo cubre el periodo del 6 de agosto de 2022 al 20 de agosto de 2022.
“Actualmente, ¿cuáles son las tarifas que le pagan las aseguradoras del Plan Vital a las instituciones hos pitalarias que componen el Centro Médico?”, cuestio nó Higgins Cuadrado.
SAN JUAN – La Comisión de Salud de la Cámara de Re presentantes atendió hoy, lunes, el Proyecto de la Cámara 1253, para enmendar la Ley de la Ad ministración de Seguros de Salud de Puerto Rico (Ley 72-1993), con el fin de promover y asegurar el acceso de los pacientes a los proveedores de servicios de salud y facultar a la ASES a establecer reglamentación para cumplir con los propósitos de esta ley. “Durante el día de hoy estamos aquí para atender un proyecto de ley que amerita urgencia con el fin de mejorar la salud y calidad de vida de los puertorriqueños. Ante los grandes problemas que viven los ciudadanos respecto a la situación con las aseguradoras, tenemos que empezar a meterle mano a las aseguradoras públicas, de Vital o privada. Sabe mos que las aseguradoras en este país, lamentable mente, no trabajan en pérdida, trabajan y tienen una gran ganancia, sostuvo la presidenta de la Comisión, Sol Y. Higgins Cuadrado. La directora de asesoramiento legal de la Admi nistración de Servicios Médicos (ASEM), Michelle Agostini, resaltó que el proyecto en discusión incidirá principalmente en aumentar ingresos, que, por ser fa cilidades de Gobierno, sin ánimo de lucro, cualquier incremento en las tarifas pagadas por las aseguradoras irá directamente a mejorar las condiciones de trabajo de los empleados y a la compra de equipo adecuado para garantizar el servicio a los miles de pacientes que visitan las facilidades. Asimismo, Agostini expresó que ASEM endosa y fa vorece la medida de manera categórica y sin reservas.
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“Tanto los asuntos de las tarifas a proveedores, la adecuacidad de las redes de proveedores, así como la autoridad para evaluar y fiscalizar el desempeño de los aseguradores y organizaciones de servicios de salud son asuntos que pueden y han sido atendidos por la ASES dentro del marco de la regulación federal y estatal correspondiente”, aseveró la asesora legal de la ACODESE, Jessica Forty. Al concluir, la presidenta de la Comisión destacó el gran costo que tienen los planes médicos. “En estos momentos pagar planes médicos es difícil para las fa milias puertorriqueñas. Sabemos todas las situaciones que están pasando en el país y es triste que, además de pagar un alto costo a un plan médico, haya medi camentos que no son cubiertos”, puntualizó la legis ladora Higgins Cuadrado.
La tasa de positividad está en 27.95 por ciento. Hay 311 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 48 están en intensivo. Mientras, 49 menores están hospitalizados y 1 está en intensivo. 24 adultos están en ventilador y 4 menores.Laspersonas con vacunas al día son 1,023,791 per sonas. El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,909. 1,742 casos nuevos por COVID-19 según informe del DS
Boyega inherited his father’s flair for storytelling and was drawn to acting. Hollywood, however, seemed remote. “Growing up in inner-city London, American movies felt worlds away,” he said. “We didn’t even have the same accents.”
6. “Half of a Yellow Sun” I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, which takes place against the backdrop of the Nigerian ci vil war, after I was offered to play a role in the movie. Knowing that I was going to star in the feature film while I was reading it brought me closer to a history that I didn’t know about my own culture.
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“WhenKingdom.wegot into our house, that was Lagos to us, that was Nigeria,” Boyega said recently. “The way we were disciplined and the lessons that we learned were all in direct link to Nigeria.” That meant he was always told he was going to work hard, education was a priority, Bible study was on Tuesday and church was on Sunday. At services, he played the drums, his sister played keyboard, and his father was the minister.
7. Hans Zimmer I’ll listen to any of Hans Zimmer’s movie scores. I don’t always listen to music that tells me what to think. I find that with movie scores, espe cially if you’re an avid listener, the songs can change up on you and mean something completely different. Also, I like to work out to a song of his called “I Don’t Think Now Is the Best Time” off the “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” score. It’s more than 10 minutes long and it gets me through a lot of my workouts.
1. Burna Boy He’s one of the most prolific leaders in bringing Afro beats to the forefront. The lyrics, melody, soul and spirit of his music includes what we know as African and what we know as Nigerian. His song, “Time Flies,” is almost like an emotional letter for me. I just love his music.
8. “Kidulthood”
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By CHRIS KORNELIS John Boyega was born in London to parents who grew up in Nigeria and raised their children in a hou se that felt like a piece of their home country inside the United
5. New Afrika Shrine I first visited Fela Kuti’s ve nue in 2017 to see a concert by his son, Seun Kuti. It was my first time being with my boys in Nigeria. We had a great night. Now I go back every time I go to Nigeria. For me, it’s one of the most prolific cultural hubs, especially if you are into Afro beats and if you want to hear music from the same lineage from the king of Afro beats, which is the great Fela Kuti.
I never considered that I would exist in American movies. But when I watched “Kidulthood,” which had Black Brits in it, I thought: wow, you can be an actor. The accents that are in it, I’m sure that they were local, from places I knew in London. It kind of opened my eyes that there was British film and there were opportu nities in British film for Black actors.
3. “Coming to America” This movie is a lifelong classic in my family. The first time we watched it, my dad walked in during the scene where the woman tells him: “The royal penis is clean, your highness.” That was real awkward. I watch it at least once a year just to get a little giggle on. There’s always something new I find.
“Other ministers would say the story of Noah’s Ark in a way that was kind of simple,” he said. “But my dad would give the animals characters and break the story down so you could relate and he would act out things.”
2. “MJ the Musical” I think Michael Jackson was one of the main fac tors that motivated me to act. It was the music videos for me, the imagination, the dance moves, the energy of the performance. Going to see “MJ the Musical” on Broadway recently was mind-blowing. The lead actor, Myles Frost, was an absolute standout.
This month, Boyega stars in the movie “Breaking,” as a father and former Marine who robs a bank to avoid homelessness. Here, he talks about the films that inspired his ca reer, the music that brings him closer to home and the chicken he takes extra-spicy. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
4. Young Vic Theater Especially for me growing up in the theater scene, the Young Vic in London has always been a place whe re you can see new writers and directors come in and do some really great plays. The last time I went there, I was actually working at the Old Vic, just a few yards away.
American films don’t get any bigger than the Star Wars franchise, which carried Boyega to international stardom when he was cast as Finn — the stormtroo per turned resistance fighter — in the most recent tri logy, culminating with 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker.”
9. Cha Cha Chicken
This is one of my favorite places to go in Santa terally just took my mom and nephews down there. The food is delicious. I get the half Cha Cha chicken tains, rice and beans, and the salad on the 10. “Star Wars: This is the video game that I play the most. I started playing it before Finn was an idea, long before I was cast in the films. Now, sometimes I play as Finn against people I don’t know. So, being a fan of it and now being on it, that’s something that I’ve always kept
By ERIK PIEPENBURG T his month’s picks include three found-footage oddities and thrillers about a contagion and a kidnapping that are not what they seem.
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‘No Exit’ Ignore some of the half-witted dialogue — like “I’m a Marine, you idiot. It’s what we do.” — and instead enjoy Damien Power’s film for what it is: a guess-who, single-location horror-thriller with enough surprises and blood to be just the right amount of en tertaining in 95 minutes.
The story is told from the point of view of Iris, a teenager, and her younger brother, Lucas, who are stuck at their family’s Los Angeles house while their parents are hospitalized with a malady that’s killing people across the country. (Iris and Lucas are played by Estes’ children, also named Iris and Lucas.) Mom and Dad aren’t responding to Iris’ messages, but somebody is sending her videos that were shot at night from inside the house — and Lucas is not the messenger. I won’t say more, because to do so would spoil the film’s grotesque joys.
Stream it on Amazon. ‘Horror in the High Desert’ This documentary explores what happened to Gary Hinge, a young hiker who was reported missing after he set off into the Nevada wilderness. Through interviews with friends and relatives, we learn that Gary was a kindly gay man who was obsessed with survivalism and had a popular hiking blog. Gary didn’t tell anyone where he was headed the night he disappeared, frustrating the authorities and the private detective hired by Gary’s sister, Bev erly. Things take a dark turn when police find Gary’s truck with unidentifiable bare footprints alongside it — strange, since Gary didn’t drive to the places he hiked. But then Gary’s backpack surfaces, and so does a mysterious video. I lied. This isn’t a true-crime documentary, it’s something far creepier: a low-budget found-footage horror movie that’s so realistic it’s uncanny, like an otherworldly episode of “48 Hours.” Writer-director Dutch Marich and his cast work magic by keeping the action to a minimum and the acting on a low flame. Watching the film calls for patience, because Mar ich reveals what happened to Gary almost entirely through dialogue, like a campfire ghost story. That is until a sadistically directed finale that’s so terrifying, I had to look away from the screen because I could not handle it. I can’t wait for the sequel later this year.Stream it on Amazon.
Darby (Havana Rose Liu) is in a drug rehab program when she learns that her mother is in the hospital. Hot-wiring a getaway car, Darby flees the (very minimum security) facility only to be stymied by treacherously snowy weather. She opts to weather the storm with four strangers at a rural visitors center with, of course, no Wi-Fi.
‘Eradication’ As a deadly contagion spreads, David (Harry Aspinwall) remains isolated in a beautiful home in the woods. For some reason he has survived, and he hands over his blood samples to the government in exchange for food — a lifeline coordinated by his wife, Sam (Anita Abdinezhad), a scientist who is un infected and hidden away, charged with keeping Da vid alive in hopes of developing a vaccine. But after a mysterious phone call from a man who says David’s isolation may not be what he thinks it is, David leaves the house, only to fight off a raven ous zombie — an encounter that makes him question if trusting the authorities was in his best interest. This slow-burn plague-survival film directed by Daniel Byers, which he co-wrote with Aspinwall, ex plores deception and isolation with strategically posi tioned twists that will keep you guessing. Ben Heim’s nightmarish score and Alexandra Gilwit and Zachary Ludescher’s lush cinematography help elevate the film above other recent Tubi horror originals. Stream it on Tubi.
‘Every Single Someone’ Male privilege takes a beating in this 16-mm found-footage fever dream from writer-director Sam uel Marko.
‘He’s Watching’ The gods of experimental horror have been gen erous this year. First came the sublimely unsettling “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.” Now comes this singular found-footage art film, made during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown by writer-directorcinematographer Jacob Aaron Estes (“Don’t Let Go”) at his own home.
Estes said in the film’s press notes that he made the movie to ward off boredom while he and his wife and children were cloistered indoors. But instead of a feel-good family album, he went full-on macabre, filling his movie with fun-house menace and formalist madness and calling on his kids to explore predation, despair and resentment, a task they perform with re markable assurance. This is bold horror moviemak ing, and it’s one of my favorite scary movies of the year. Rent or buy it on most major platforms.
Epitomized in a gruesome scene involving a puppy, a hammer and a passage from Mozart’s “Mar riage of Figaro,” Marko’s film is a brazen synthesis of violence and vérité, like a scrappy cross between “A Clockwork Orange” and a Frederick Wiseman docu mentary. As the bleakness builds, so does the experi mentalism — under the artful hand of cinematogra pher Nils Alan Eklund, terror is rendered in shapes, colors and, ultimately, darkness. It’s rhapsodic.
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Stepping outside after meeting the strangers, Darby is startled to see a girl (Mila Harris) bound and gagged inside a van in the parking lot, leaving her to wonder which of the people she’s with is a kidnap per. Is it the kindly older couple (Dennis Haysbert and Dale Dickey)? The pretty-boy jock (Danny Ramirez)? The greasy-haired weirdo (David Rysdahl)? The truth — revealed in a dizzying third-act twist — I did not see coming. Stream it on Hulu.
Iris Serena Estes in “He’s Watching.”
In 2017, a camera crew tagged along with a group of Colorado students for a documentary about college life. Their main subject was Lee (Luke Krog meier), a creative writing student who is having a tough time after being dumped by his girlfriend. The camera follows Lee as he hangs out with his bud dies and goes on a halfhearted date, but things take a chilling turn when Lee hires Amos (Luke Towle), a hit man, to kill his ex. The filmmakers become complicit in the horrors that follow as Lee’s mental state spirals and he and Amos have a falling out.
On July 21, the Humane Society of the United States took 201 beagles, among the first to leave Envigo, to a center in Maryland, and about 230 other dogs went directly to rescue part ners. Workers in personal protective equipment carried the dogs off vans and inspected them before taking them into the rehabilitation center.
The dogs were previously identi fied using tattoos on the inside of their ears, which is how the breeding opera tion had tagged them. One puppy had the letters “ONE CJE” on the inside of its left ear. Their foster and adoptive families are now naming them beyond those codes for the first time. Before the court intervened, some of the dogs had likely been destined to end up at testing facilities and die, said Kitty Block, CEO and president of the Humane“TheySociety.deserve to be on couches, on dog walks with you in the park,” BlockLindsaysaid.
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Two drivers transported the bea gles in large cargo vans — nine moms and their 53 puppies — from Maryland to Wisconsin, where 15 staff members and volunteers in Milwaukee received them and prepared them to go to foster homes that night.
“It’s just been so heartwarming to be able to be her first everything,” BunceWorkingsaid. to rescue, medically treat and relocate the dogs has been an enor mous undertaking that has required the help of veterinarians, volunteers, driv ers and dog Envigo,lovers.aresearch organization that was acquired last year by Inotiv and works with the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, said on its website that it breeds “healthy, well-socialized animals.”
Aside from natural disasters that have displaced some dogs, Keiley, who is also the director of adoption centers and programs for the Massachusetts So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the rescue of the 4,000 beagles was the largest he had partici pated in or heard of. The shelter said 800 people reached out to inquire about adopting a member of this batch of puppies, all eight to 12 weeks old, or any additional ones they house in the future.“You would expect them to be fearful of people, not trusting, and re ally traumatized,” Keiley said of the puppies. But that has not been the case. “I’m really impressed with how resilient animals are coming out of some of the worst situations you could imagine,” he said. The beagles have to undergo medical care and vaccinations that are specific to each state. In Massachusetts, this includes a quarantine period, PPE for caretakers, vaccinations, microchip ping, parasite treatment, and spaying or neutering, said Karina King, director of operations at the Dakin Humane Soci ety. So far, many of the society’s 20 beagles have diarrhea, and one will have an eye surgically removed, King said. The shelter will take care of many medical needs before the dogs are ad opted, and any with persisting issues will go to foster homes until they can recover.
Those that have been rescued will un dergo additional veterinary examina tions and have paperwork prepared so they can be adopted across the country.
Hazel is one of more than 400 beagles who were released from a breeding facility in Virginia last week. About 4,000 total are expected to be released to shelters, rescues, foster owners and adoptive families in the next two months.
“Everything, from the way that grass feels to watching cars drive by, it’s all going to be a brand-new experience for them,” Hamrick said. Of a group of 62 beagles in Wis consin, the nine mothers, who grew into adulthood at the Envigo facility with little human interaction or play, have been shy, said Angela Speed, vice president of communications for the state’s Humane Society.
An outpouring of help for 4,000 floppy-eared survivors
An undated photo provided by Amelia Mesirow shows a group of beagles released from a breeding facility in Virginia. About 4,000 total dogs are expected to be released to shelters, rescues, foster owners and adoptive families in the next two months, after authority’s inspections of the Envigo breeding and research facility in Cumberland, Va., revealed several violations of federal regulations.
“Their lives have been complete ly transformed,” Speed said. “Animal lovers step up to help, and that’s what makes this possible.”
Hamrick, the Humane Society’s shelter outreach and engage ment director, said pregnant dogs, nurs ing litters and dogs in need of medical care were prioritized for new homes.
A separate effort in Massachusetts required two large vehicles, more than 20 hours on the road and three drivers who took 75 beagles to the Northeast Animal Shelter in Massachusetts, said Mike Keiley, the organization’s execu tive director. Of those, 20 went to the Dakin Humane Society in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the remaining 55 are in the care of the shelter.
The mass rescue comes after U.S. authorities filed a complaint in a feder al court in May, after inspections of the Envigo breeding and research facility in Cumberland, Virginia, over the past two years revealed several violations of federal regulations. Officials found the beagles hungry, sick, mistreated and, in some cases, dead. Many of the animals in the breeding operation were expect ed to be used in research and testing. After the inspections and calls from lawmakers, a federal judge approved a plan this month to rescue the beagles. That mobilized several rescue organi zations, dozens of volunteers and hun dreds of would-be owners who wanted to help.Hazel took her first walk Tuesday in the care of Nikki Bunce, who is a first-time foster owner for the dog and her five puppies in West Bend, Wiscon sin. She said Hazel had warmed up to cuddling during movie nights.
The Humane Society said it planned to help rescue about 300 to 500 beagles weekly until they were all settled. After a few weeks of a normal, healthy routine, most dogs adapt well to new homes, Hamrick said. But in some cases, dogs might need years to adjust to “normal life,” she said.
By APRIL RUBIN AND JESUS JIMÉNEZ H azel, a 6-year-old beagle, got scared her first night in a foster home when she played with a toy and it squeaked. She had never seen a stuffed animal or ball before. She was comfortable with water but afraid of the tub during her first bath.
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Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 22 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se des cribe a continuación: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno ubicado en el kilómetro 4 hectómetro cuatro de la Carretera Estatal #501 del Barrio Marueño del térmi no municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 2,748.15 metros cuadrados en lindes por el: NORTE en una distancia de 75.75 metros con Lola Gueit; SUR en una distan cia de 58.42 metros con Lola Gueit; ESTE en una distancia de 39.77 metros con Lola Gueit; OESTE en dos alineaciones de 20.44 metros y 22.36 metros con la Carretera Estatal #501. Sobre dicho predio de terreno ubican dos estructuras de con creto, hierro y zinc, destinadas a bar restaurant y gallera. La parcela antes descrita es el remanente de la este número, luego de habérsele segregado una parcela con cabida de mil quinientos dieciocho metros con dieciocho centímetros cua drados. Según la inscripción número 10, se dice que contie ne actualmente dos edificacio nes: La primera casa de vivien da techada de zinc, con medio balcón céntrico, sin número de gobierno y contiene sala, come dor, cuatro cuartos dormitorios, cocina y galería, servicio sani tario y pozo de agua. La segun da casa en forma de kiosko, de madera techada en zinc y piso de concreto, con dos servicios sanitarios, uno para dama y otro para caballeros, con su cocina de madera techada de zinc y piso de concreto. Finca número 12114 (antes 18184), inscrita al folio 102 del tomo 362 de Ponce, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción II de Ponce. La antes men cionada hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 52 del tomo 1154 de Ponce, finca número 12114 (antes 18184), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción II de Ponce, inscripción 17ma. Propiedad localizada en: PR 501 KM 4.4, BO. MARUE ÑO, PONCE, PR 00731. Se gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anterio res o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: COOPERATIVA DE A/C DE SANTA ISABEL. Suma de la Carga: $30,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 10 de junio de 2019. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los pre ferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas car gas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $115,200.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal Demandados Civil Núm.: FCD2016-0452. (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HÉC TOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, Alguacil Supervisor de la Divi sión de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Man damiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secreta rio del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 26 de febrero de 2020 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $57,754.25 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 20 de junio de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 13 de septiembre de 2019, y publica da mediante edicto en el perió dico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 20 de septiembre de 2019, procederé a vender en públi ca subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certifi cado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, tí tulo e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deu dores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se des de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 29 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se esta blece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $76,800.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $57,600.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 6 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $95,411.74 por concepto de principal, más intereses al 6.500% anual, mas recargos por todo pago en atraso, mas $11,520.00, como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de prés tamo. La venta en pública su basta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afec te la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace sa ber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o perso nas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas la borables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el perió dico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos se manas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones, así como para su pu blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de julio de 2022. JORGE M. HER NÁNDEZ PAGÁN, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JUAN ROLANDO CRUZ RIVERA, ALGUACIL PLACA #965. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.
Demandante Vs MARITZA PAZ GUERRA, LA SUCESION DE JOAQUIN BARTOLOMEIANTONIOGONZALEZCOMPUESTAPORJOHNDOE,PATRICIAROE,LAAUTORIDADPARAELFINANCIAMIENTODELAVIVIENDADEPUERTORICO,DEPARTAMENTODEHACIENDAYCENTRODERECAUDACIONDEINGRESOSMUNICIPALES(“CRIM”) Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2018CV00149. (303). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRI CA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARITZA PAZ GUERRA, LA SUCESION DE JOAQUIN ANTONIO BARTOLOMEI GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE, PATRICIA ROE, LA AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”); AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL HAGO SABER Y AL ACREEDOR DEL SIGUIENTEPOSTERIOR:GRAVAMEN
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Demandados Civil Núm.: JCD2017-0304. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA DEMANDADA,PARTEAL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL GENERAL:PÚBLICO
SUCESIÓN DE ANDREA RODRIGUEZ FLORES T/C/C JULIAMT/C/CÁLVAREZRODRIGUEZANDREADECOMPUESTAPORANIBALALVAREZRENTAST/C/CANIBALALVAREZ,PORSÍYENLACUOTAVIUDALUSUFRUCTUARIA,NYDIAIRISCUMBA,WANDAIVETTEÁLVAREZ,ANÍBALÁLVAREZRODRÍGUEZANÍBALÁLVAREZJUNIORRODRÍGUEZYPORLASUCESIÓNDECUMBA;FULANADETAL,ZUTANODETAL,ZUTANADETAL,A,BYCCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDEAMBASSUCESIONES;HONORABLESECRETARIODEHACIENDADELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEPUERTORICO;HONORABLESECRETARIODEJUSTICIADELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEPUERTORICO
cribe a continuación: 3 Ave. Laguna, Cond. Laguna Gar dens III, Apt. 3K, Carolina, PR 00979. URBANA: Horizontal Property: Residential apartment number three “K” (3K) of rectan gular shape located at Laguna Gardens Condominium three (III), which in turn is located at kilometer eight (8), hectometer two (2) of State Road number twenty six (26) in the Ward of Cangrejos Arriba, Municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico, with a total prívate area of one thou sand one hundred thirty one (1,131.00) square feet gross; being its lineal measurements twenty eight (28) feet and se ven (7) inches, long by forty one (41) feet and eleven (11) inches wide, and its boundaries access and description are as follows, by the NORTH, with parking lot of Building one (I) of the Laguna Gardens Project; buy the EAST, with open space overlooking apartment number three dash “J” (23-J) of the floor; by the SOUTH, with floor corridor and building. Its main door has ac cess to the corridor. This family unit consists of the following rooms: living-dining, terrace fa cing the Parking lot of the Buil ding I of the Laguna Gardens project, three (3) bedrooms, five (5) closets, two (2) bathrooms which includes a bathtub, la vatory with variety and water closet, kitchen with double bowl sink and cabinets, electric ran ge, oven, washing machine, drying machine and laundry tray, space for refrigerator and service counter in addition, this family unit has at thirty gallon water heater and exhaust grill in each bathroom and kitchen. La propiedad antes descrita cons ta inscrita al folio quince (15) del tomo trescientos noventa y ocho (398) de Carolina, Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, finca número quince mil doscientos catorce (15,214). Con el importe de dicha ven ta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantida des adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $57,754.25 principal, 6.875% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulán dose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $95.92 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acu mulándos e hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $210.21 de reser va “escrow” más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pacta da, la cual es $73,000.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una se gunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes men cionado $48,666.67. Si tam poco hubiere remate ni adjudi
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Demandado(a) Civil: FL2021CV00072. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: MIRIAM MEDINA MARRERO Y RAPHIEL dad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $38,557.40. Si se de clara desierta la tercera subas ta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adju dicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán sub sistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a to das las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que po drán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta acep tada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, debe rá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El ex ceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caroli na, Puerto Rico, a 15 de agosto de 2022. Héctor L. Peña Ro dríguez, Alguacil Placa #278, Alguacil Del Tribunal, Sala Su perior De Carolina.
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GONZALEZPEDROMARTINEZ Demandante V. BOBADILLAJUSTINALUNA Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022RF00814. SALA 4001. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUP TURA IRREPARABLE). NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: BOBADILLAJUSTINALUNA Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de agosto de 2022. En BAYAMOM, Puerto Rico, el 15 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SAN CHEZ, SECRETARIA. FDO. DERILIZ GONZALEZ AQUINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. CARLOS ALBERTO CRUZ RAMOS SANDRA IVELISSE ORTIZ FELIX Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS Demandado(a) Civil: CG2021CV02110. (704). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: SANDRA NELISSE ORTIZ FELIX, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE CARLOSCOMPUESTAGANANCIALESCONALBERTOCRUZRAMOS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de agosto de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 16 de agosto de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. YA RITZA ROSARIO PLÁCERES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Ca guas. Sucesión de Virgen Myriam Ortiz Díaz Representada por: José Alberto Negrón Ortiz Demandante vs. Popular MORTGAGE, Inc., y/o cualquier tenedor (Desconocido) del pagare Demandados CASO NUM. CG2022CV00989. SOBRE: Cancelación de Paga ré Extraviado. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. A: Fulano de Tal, Fulana De Tal (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de julio de 2022 este Tri bunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publica ción de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de agosto de 2022. Caguas, Puerto Rico, 15 de agosto de 2022. LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, Secreta ria Regional. FDO/ JESSENIA PEDRAZA, Secretaria Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE CA2022CV0039122-01-540137M&T ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA SALA SUPERIOR PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO Demandante V. CARLOS JUAN LUGO FIOL T/C/C CARLOS LUGO FIOL, DAISY MARTÍNEZ MEDINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENESCOMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS
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Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00391. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUN CIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que le ha sido dirigido al Al guacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de ge rente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Apt. D-410, Cond. Camino Terraver de, SR 175, Las Cuevas Ward, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976 y que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: PROPIEDAD HORI ZONTAL: Apartamento residen cial número Penthouse D-410 localizado en el cuarto piso del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, cono cido como Condominio Camino Terraverde, situado en la carre tera estatal número 175, kiló metro 119 en el Barrio Las Cue vas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. Es de forma irregular y está construi do de hormigón reforzado y blo ques de hormigón. Tiene su puerta de entrada orientada hacia el Norte y da acceso di rectamente al pasillo de dicha planta. Tiene una cabida super ficial de 1,165.00 pies cuadra dos en el área de apartamento y 100.00 pies cuadrados, en el área de la terraza para un total de 1,265.00 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 117.42 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el Nor te, con calle del condominio; por el Sur, con pasillo, escale ras y calle del condominio; por el Este, con el apartamento Penthouse E-509 del condomi nio; y por el Oeste, con el apar tamento Penthouse D-409. Consta de sala-comedor, coci na, un ‘master bedroom’ con su ‘walk-in-closet’, dos cuartos dormitorios con sus respectivos closets, dos cuartos de baño con bañera y ducha de los cua les, uno pertenece al ‘master bedroom’, cuarto de almacena miento ‘general storage’ y un área de balcón y escaleras por la cual se accesa a la terraza. Le corresponde a este aparta mento una terraza techada con un área de 100.00 pies cuadra dos, localizado en la azotea del mismo apartamento. Colinda por el Norte, Sur y Este con es pacio exterior, y por el Oeste, con la terraza del apartamento Penthouse D-409. Le corres ponde a este apartamento el 1.82% de participación en los gastos, ganancias y derechos en los elementos comunes del condominio. Este apartamento tendrá el uso y disfrute exclusi vo de los espacios de estacio namiento números 21 y 22 que se consideran como parte inte gral de esta unidad. A este apartamento se le ha asignado en el centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) el número de catastro 115-078094-46-040. La propiedad an tes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 123 del Tomo 900 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 34530, en el Registro de la Pro piedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dis puesto en la Escritura de Hipo teca, es decir la suma de $158,000.00. Si no hubiere re mate ni adjudicación en la pri mera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscri be el día 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MA ÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $105,333.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se cele brará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 2 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pacta do para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $79,000.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constitui da mediante la escritura núme ro 458, otorgada el día 24 de junio de 2013, ante el Notario Humberto Soto Mainardi y consta inscrita en el Folio 123 del Tomo 900 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 34530, en el Re gistro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, inscrip ción segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su pro ducto satisfacer al Demandante cido como Carlos Juan Lugo Fiol y su esposa Daisy Martínez Medina, ante el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en el caso civil número CA2022CV00391, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipote ca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un ba lance de $141,398.86 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 15 de febrero de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Tru jillo Alto. Anotación A. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos sema nas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colectu ría. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La pro piedad a ser ejecutada se ad quirirá libre de cargas y gravá menes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según apli que. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Ca rolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de AGOSTO de 2022. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Alguacil. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO Demandante INES MARIA CRUZ VAZQUEZ Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04399. Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: INES MARIA CRUZ VAZQUEZ. EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o repre sentando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sen tencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publica total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Senten cia que ha obtenido ascenden te a la suma de $141,398.86 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 2.990% anual desde el día 1 de octubre de 2020. Dichos intere ses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obliga ción. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalen tes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $15,800.00 para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $15,800.00 para cubrir los inte reses en adición a los garanti zados por ley y la suma de $15,800.00 para cubrir cual quier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipo teca, más intereses según pro visto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedi miento incoado estarán de ma nifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SU PERIOR durante las horas la borables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gra vámenes anteriores ni prefe rentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita an teriormente, pesan los gravá menes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacio nan más adelante. A los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endo so, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterio ridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se ce lebrarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Firstbank Puerto Rico vs. Carlos Lugo Fiol también cono
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ción por edicto de esta notifica ción, dirijo a usted esta notifica ción que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de agosto de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de agosto de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Martha Almodóvar Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar. NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO DE DE DE DE PUERTO SUCESION DE VIRGINIO MEDIINA Y SUCESION DE MIRIAM MARRERO Y URBANODEDELGADO;DECOMOMIGUELSUCESIONMARRERO;DEMEDINA,HEREDEROLASUCESIONDEVIRGINIOMEDINASUCESIONLUISMEDINA,COMOHEREDERODELASUCESIONDEVIRGINIOMEDINADELGADO;VIRGINIAMEDINAYBELENMEDINA,COMOHEREDERASDELASUCESIONDELUISMEDINA;“JOHNDOEYRICHARDROE”COMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDELASUCESIONESDEVIRGINIOMEDINADELGADOYMIRIAMMARREROLAUREANO;“JOHNDOEYRICHARDROE”COMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDEMIGUELMEDINA;“JOHNDOEYRICHARDROE”COMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDELUISMEDINA;SECRETARIODELDEPARTAMENTOYVIVIENDADELOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMERICA;ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMERICA
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HIPOTECA: Consti tuida por Miguel Anton Conway Day y su esposa, Sol Ednita González Correa, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de CITI BANK, N.A. o a su orden, por la suma de $25,000.00, con intereses al 2.5% anual sobre prime rate y vencedero en 25 años, según escritura número 129, otorgada en Guaynabo, el 24 de julio de 2003, ante la notario Mireya Ocasio García. Inscrita al folio 224 del tomo 533 de Río Grande. Inscripción cuarta. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Anotado contra Conway Con sulting Group LLC & Conway Miguel Single MBR, seguro social patronal 66-0656412, por la suma de $296.83, según no tificación número 742513311, presentada el 10 de febrero de 2011, al asiento 4 de la página #121 del Libro de Embargos Federales número 3. Fecha de Renovación 26 de enero de 2011. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en gene ral se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de cir culación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Fajardo, Puer to Rico, hoy día 13 de mayo de 2022. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIO NAL PLACA #622. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUA CIL AUXILIAR #737. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN CASITAS BLANCAS, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. ANGEL ANTONIO APONTE GONZALEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2021CV04268. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: ANGEL ANTONIO APONTE GONZALEZ: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de agosto de 2022. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 19 de julio de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SE CRETARIA. SARAY SALGA DO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADON3CI2008-0038232842M&TLIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FA JARDO SALA SUPERIOR LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD. Demandante V. MIGUEL ANTON CONWAY DAY, SOL EDNITA GONZÁLEZ CORREA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENESCOMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: N3CI2008-00382. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al guacil que suscribe por la pre sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cum plimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe procede rá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por che que de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia el DÍA 12 DE OC TUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Sala Superior, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Cond. Riomar Village, Apt. 2203 Bo. Mameyes Carr. 968, Río Gran de, PR 00745 y que se des cribe a continuación: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Apartment number 2203: Re sidential apartment of irregu lar shape located on the third (3rd) floor of Module 22 of the Riomar Village Condominium located on road PR-968, in the Mameyes Ward of the muni cipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico, with an approximate area of 1330.85 square feet, equal to 124.11 square meters of another. lts boundaries are as follows: North, in a distance of 17’ 4’ with a common exterior area; South, in a distance of 32’-3’ with a common exterior area and apartment 2303; East, in a distance of 55’-3’ with a common exterior area; West, in a distance of 55’-3’ with a common exterior area. This apartment consists of a foyer, one air conditioning unit room, linen/closet, living room, dining room, covered terrace, kit chen, pantry, laundry area, one bathroom, master bedroom, walk in closet and a master bathroom. The entrance door of this apartment is located on its West side and opens to the outside of the building. It is en titled to two parking spaces as limited common elements iden tified with the numbers 2203 in the plans of the condominium. This apartment has a participa tion of 0.4396% in the general common elements and in the limited common elements of the condominium. La propie dad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el folio 223 del tomo 533 de Río Grande, finca nú mero 28,591, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del in mueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $279,200.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscri be el DÍA 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MA ÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $186,133.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se cele brará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el DÍA 26 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pacta do para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $139,600.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constitui da mediante la escritura núme ro 131, otorgada el día 31 de julio de 2003, ante el Notario Mireya Ocasio García y consta inscrita en el folio 223 del tomo 533 de Río Grande, finca nú mero 28591, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sec ción Tercera, inscripción terce ra. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto sa tisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $258,133.22 por con cepto de principal, más intere ses al tipo pactado de 4.500% anual desde el día 1 de diciem bre de 2007. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los car gos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $27,920.00 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $27,920.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $27,920.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses se gún provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulari dad del inmueble y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante conti nuarán subsistentes. Se enten derá que el rematante los acep ta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes pos teriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedi miento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los due ños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipote cariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, ho ras y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus inte reses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado ase gurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.
LOPEZ Y DON JONAS MIRANDA CRESPO. De: SIGFREDO MIRANDA LÓPEZ MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE DOÑA MERCEDES LOPEZ FELICIANO, DE DOÑA YOLANDA MIRANDA LOPEZ Y DE DON JONAS MIRANDA CRESPO. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a usted que se ha radi cado una Demanda solicitando la Partición del caudal heredi tario dejado por los causantes MERCEDES LOPEZ FELICIA NO, Yolanda lopez miranda y JONAS MIRANDA CRESPO también conocido por JONAS MIRANDA. Entre los activos que forman parte del caudal de los causantes se encuentra el siguiente inmueble que se describe de la siguiente mane ra: RÚSTICA: Solar sito en el Barrio Malpaso del municipio de Aguada, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de DOS MIL QUINIENTOS CUARENTA Y UNO PUNRO NOVECIENTOS CUATRO (2,541.904) ME TROS CUADRADOS. Colinda por el NORTE, con la Autoridad de Tierras; por el SUR, con so lar segregado y por el ESTE y OESTE, con una quebrada. Finca número tres mil sete cientos sesenta y seis (3,766) inscrita al folio dieciséis (16) del tomo setenta y cuatro (74) de Aguada inscripción séptima (7ma). Catastro Número: 097025-072-16-000. Con Valor de $150,000.00. Se le concede un plazo improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del presente edicto para contestar la demanda. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la si guiente dirección últimademandacióncontadostieneprocedente.susilacederentribunaldentrosentartribunal.responsivadeberáderechosalvohttps://unired.ramajudicial.pr,electrónica:queserepresenteporpropio,encuyocasopresentarsualegaciónenlasecretaríadelSiusteddejadepresualegaciónresponsivadelreferidotérmino,elpodrádictarsentenciarebeldíaensucontrayconelremediosolicitadoendemanda,ocualquierotro,eltribunal,enelejerciciodesanadiscreción,loentiendeLaDemandanteuntérminode(10)díasapartirdelapublicaparaenviarlecopiadelayemplazamientoaladirecciónconocida. POSIBLESMARRERODELGADOHEREDEROSPOSIBLESDELASUCESIONESDEVIRGINIOMEDINAYMIRIAMLAUREANO;“JOHNDOEYRICHARDROE”COMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDEMIGUELMEDINA;“JOHNDOEYRICHARDROE”COMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDELUISMEDINA;VIRGINIAMEDINAYBELENMEDINA,COMOHEREDERASDELASUCESIÓNDELUISMEDINA.
El Alguacil que suscribe, cer tifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separa do, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Par cela de terreno marcado con el #5 en el plano de parcelación de Barrio Quebrada Arenas, ra dicado en el Barrio del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 900.00 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el Norte, con área a dedicarse a uso público; por el Sur, con José Fraguada an tes, ahora José A. Miranda; por el Este, con el solar #3 y por el Oeste, con el solar #3 segrega do. Finca 27,619 inscrita al folio 184 del tomo 552 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La pro piedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente direc ción: RD 806 KM 1, Bo. Que brada Arenas, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico 00953. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vamen posterior, una vez sea ta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la corres pondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las dispo siciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o to lerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de agosto de 2022. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR PLACA #193. LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR SALA DE AGUADA SIGFREDO MIRANDA LÓPEZ, MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE DOÑA MERCEDES LOPEZ FELICIANO, DE DOÑA YOLANDA MIRANDA LOPEZ Y DON JONAS MIRANDA CRESPO TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO POR JONAS MIRANDA Demandantes Vs. CARMEN LYDIA MIRANDA LÓPEZ, MARÍA LAMIRANDAMAGDALENALÓPEZ,ABELMIRANDALÓPEZYWALBERTOMIRANDALÓPEZ,MIEMBROSDESUCESIÓNDEDOÑAMERCEDESLOPEZFELICIANO,DEDOÑAYOLANDAMIRANDALOPEZYDONJONASMIRANDACRESPO Demandados Caso Núm.: AU2022CV00453. Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HE RENCIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUESTO RICO. A: ABEL MIRANDA LÓPEZ Y FELICIANO,SUCESIONMIEMBROSMIRANDAWALBERTOLÓPEZ:DELADEDOÑAMERCEDESLOPEZDEDOÑAYOLANDAMIRANDA otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se es tablece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $193,639.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #340, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de noviembre de 2012, ante el notario Arturo I. Corretjer Maldonado, inscrita al tomo Ka ribe, finca #27,619, inscripción 9na. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Bayamón, el tipo míni mo para la primera subasta es la suma de $193,639.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni ad judicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la pri mera subasta, o sea, la suma de $129,092.66. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑA NA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la terce ra subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $96,819.50. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $189,647.27, más la suma de $6,277.33 de interés que continuarán acumulándose a $20.7422 diariamente desde el 1 de diciembre de 2014 has ta el saldo total, más $33.90 de cargos por demora, más $20,062.34 de otros cargos, más las cantidades debidas de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $19,363.90 estipulados para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cuales quiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las perso nas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspon dientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la juris dicción de Puerto Rico. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep
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LCDA. MARGGIE RODRIGUEZ PEREZ RUA NUM. 20,363 #182 CALLE RAMON EMETERIO BETANCES SUR MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO 00680 TEL. (787)265-1111 e-mail: mrplawoffices@gmail.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de agosto de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, MEDINA MARRERO; COMO HEREDERO DE LAS SUCESIONES DE VIRGINIO MEDINA DELGADO Y MIRIAM MARRERO LAUREANO; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO
tura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do equivalentes a $8,181.00. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,181.00 para cubrir cualquier otro ade lanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,181.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escri tura de hipoteca número 302, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de abril de 2019, ante el notario Alejandro J. Mues Arias, de la finca núme ro 4,405, inscrita al Folio 5 del Tomo 71 de Ceiba, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Por razón de dicho incumplimien to, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado ta les sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudien do usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le empla za por este edicto que se publi cará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica:
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Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Se cretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma $62,566.78 por concepto de principal, des de el 1ro de febrero de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.125% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los car gos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos ac cesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipote ca; y las costas, gastos y hono rarios de abogado equivalentes a $6,342.68. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $5,901.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipo teca y una suma equivalente a $5,901.50 para cubrir intereses en adición a los la escritura de hipoteca número 150, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 2 de diciembre de 2017, ante la notario Denisse M. Llorens Alicea, modificada mediante la escritura número 457, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de abril de 2021 , ante el notario Jaime E. Dávila Santini, de la finca número 7,121, inscri ta al Folio 283 del Tomo 134 de Sabana Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. Por razón de dicho incumplimien to, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado ta les sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudien do usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le empla za por este edicto que se publi cará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica:
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(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de agosto de 2022. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 17 de agosto de 2022. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Lureimy Alicea González, Secretaria Auxiliar. NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AIBONITO REVERSE MORTGAGE - IN REM. ORDEN. Examinada la demanda radica da por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación conte nida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico edición de 2020. Se Or dena a los herederos del cau sante a saber, Miguel Santiago Rivera, Gloria Dávila, Víctor Santiago Torres, Jr., Carmen Milagros Santiago, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, herederos de nombres desconocidos a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o re pudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Ferdinando Santiago Torres, t/c/c Ferdinando Santia go. Se le Apercibe a los here deros antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante, y por ende, la parte demandante podrá con tinuar la causa acción, dado por entendido que las partes interpeladas han aceptado la herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil, edición 2020. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión del causante Ferdinando Santiago Torres, t/c/c Ferdinando Santia go, incluyen como herederos a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos des conocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. NOTIFÍQUESE. DADA en Aibonito, Puerto Rico a 3 de agosto de 2022. ALEXIS J. CARLO RÍOS, JUEZ SUPE RIOR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA GÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs. OLGASANTANAALMODOVAR Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00959. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO. A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA: OLGA ALMODÓVAR SANTANA, A SUS CONOCIDAS:DIRECCIONES(A)BARRIOSANTANA#29(LOT1)CALLESANMIGUELSABANAGRANDE,PR00637;(B)BARRIOSANTANA#29CALLESANMIGUELSABANAGRANDE,PR00637;(C)URBANIZACIÓN.CASAMIA#5109CALLEZORZAL,PONCE,PR00728.
Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Se cretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $78,305.98 por concepto de principal, des de el1ro de febrero de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los car gos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los cré ditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escri un centímetros cuadrados: en lindes por el NORTE, en trece metros con la Calle Pio Baraja; por el SUR, en trece metros con terrenos propiedad de Atanacio Valcarcel; por el ESTE, en cua renta metros cuarenta y siete centímetros con el solar núme ro treinta y uno; y por el OES TE, en cuarenta metros veinti siete centímetros, con el solar número treinta y tres. En este solar enclava una casa resi dencial para una familia. Finca número 4, 134, inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 114 de Rio Piedras Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. Se le advierte a la Eric Rafael Mendoza, John Doe y Jane Doe en representación de Maricarmen Mendoza; Fula no de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombre desconocido de la Sucesión de Roberto Mendoza Horta que de no contestar la demanda dentro de los próximos sesenta (60) días a partir de la publi cación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anota rá la rebeldía y se dictará sen tencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. SE NO TIFICA, que este Tribunal ha emitido Orden de Interpelación Judicial dirigida a los herede ros de la Sucesión de Roberto Mendoza Horta según dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 1930, cuyo equivalente es el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020. De conformidad, se ORDENA a los herederos a que: Dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la noti ficación de la presente Inter pelación, que será publicada una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia. Se APERCIBE a los herederos que: De no expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia se presumirá que han aceptado la misma y por consiguiente, res ponden por la cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 1930, cuyo equivalente es el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020; y el Artículo 957 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 1930, cuyo equivalente es el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020. Se apercibe y advierte, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso
FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. SUCESIÓN SANTIAGOPORSANTIAGOSANTIAGOFERDINANDODETORRES,T/C/CFERDINANDOCOMPUESTAMIGUELSANTIAGORIVERA,GLORIADÁVILA,VÍCTORTORRES,JR.,CARMENMILAGROSSANTIAGO,FULANODETALYSUTANODETALCOMOMIEMBROSDENOMBRESDESCONOCIDOS;CENTRODERECAUDACIÓNDEINGRESOSMUNICIPALES;YLOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00165. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA
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POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solici tando la ejecución de hipoteca relacionada al pagaré suscrito a favor de Urban Financial Group, o a su orden, por la suma prin cipal de $376,500.00, con in tereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 5.810% anual, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y des embolsos del litigio, más hono rarios de abogados equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este pagaré fue sus crito bajo el affidávit número 832 ante el notario Fernando E. Doval. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 96 otorga da el26 de mayo de 2010, ante el mismo notario público, inscri ta al folio 109 vuelto del tomo 817 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca número 4,134, inscripción 7ma. La Hipoteca Revertida grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número treinta y dos del Bloque R del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbaniza ción El Señorial, situada en el Barrio Cupey de Rio Piedras, Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos veinticuatro me tros cuadrados con ochenta y deberá presentar su alegación responsiva. en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yara A. Santia go Durieux, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, PR 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 19 de agosto de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍ GUEZ COLLADO, SECRE TARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FA JARDO SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs. ABEL MARTIN MORALES MEDINA Y KAREN JOANN CACERES CENTENO Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00667. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO. A La Parte CoDemandada: KAREN JO-ANN SANÚLTIMASCENTENO,CÁCERESASUSDIRECCIONESCONOCIDAS:(A)URB.PEDROC-20CALLECECILIOMONTESALEJANDROFAJARDO,PR00738;(B)URB.SANTAMARIAF-37CALLE8CEIBA,PR00735.
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principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.5% anual des de el 1 de septiembre de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $665.71 de recargos acumula dos, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $4,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cual quier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. La propiedad que garantiza hipo tecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar #8 del bloque A. Parcela de terre no localizada en el Urbaniza ción La Inmaculada del término municipal de Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, e identificada en el plano de inscripción final de la Urba nización La Inmaculada con el #68 del bloque A, con cabida de 372.35 m.c. En lindes por el NORTE, 15.00 metros con terrenos de la Administración de Terrenos de Puerto Rico; por el SUR, en 15.00 metros con la calle #1 (Monseñor Eduar do Berrios); por el ESTE, en 21.50 metros con la calle #3 (Padre José A. Aponte; por el OESTE, en 25.00 metros con el lote #67. Todos los lotes men cionados ubican en el bloque A. Inscrita al folio 116 del tomo 190 de Vega Alta, Finca 10076. Registro de la Propiedad de Ba yamón, Sección III. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 119 del tomo 190 de Vega Alta, Finca 10076. Registro de la Propie dad de Bayamón, Sección III. Inscripción 9na. La demandan te es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. La parte de mandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Admi nistración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acce der utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tri bunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922; Teléfono y Fax (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: TribunalRosario,tariaLauraVegahoy,micitarleelciarebeldíalaedicto,díastromaalonso@gmail.com,oficinabeldendeltérminodetreinta(30)delapublicacióndeesteexcluyéndoseeldíadepublicación,seleanotarálayseledictaráSentenensucontra,concediendoremediosolicitadosinmásnioírle.EXPEDIDObajofirmayelsellodelTribunal,11deagostode2022,enBaja,PuertoRico.Lcda.I.SantaSánchez,SecreRegional.MaritzaRosarioSecretariaAuxiliarDelI.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE MIGUEL ANTONIO RIVERA POSIBLESFULANOCOMPUESTACRESPOPORYFULANADETALCOMOHEREDEROS
EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de AGOSTO de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o re presentando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolu ción, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publica ción de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de AGOSTO de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de agosto de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ CO LLADO, Secretaria Regional. f/ E. DIOMARYS ALCÁNTARA FÉLIX, Secretario DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FA JARDO ISLAND FAIRWAYCOMOSERVICES,PORTFOLIOLLCAGENTEDEACQUISITIONSFUND,LLC Demandante Vs. TORRESLILIANARAMIREZ Demandada Civil Núm.: LU2022CV00033. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. A: LILIANA TORRES RAMÍREZ - URB VILLAS DE RÍO GRANDE AL27 CALLE 30 RÍO GRANDE, PUERTO RICO 007452727 / PO BOX 1510 LUQULLLO, PUERTO RICO 00773-1510. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la tiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero y la Leda. Andrea Del Mar Ruiz-Hassan cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, andrea.ruiz@orflaw.com y a la dirección noti ficaciones@orf-law.com. EX TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de julio de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 15 de julio de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Damaris Torres Ruiz, Secretaria Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ RAFAEL CAMACHO NÚÑEZ, IRIS INÉS SÁNCHEZ VÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE AMBOS;COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMARMOURADMOURAD Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: VB2022CV00182. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A La Parte Demandada: JOSÉ RAFAEL CAMACHO NÚÑEZ, IRIS INÉS SÁNCHEZ VÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE AMARJALILA@HOTMAIL.AMBOS;COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMARMOURADMOURAD,ASUSÚLTIMASDIRECCIONESCONOCIDAS:URB.LAINMACULADA,301CALLEMONSEÑORBERRÍOS,VEGAALTA,PR00692-5800;POBOX1428,TOABAJA,PR00951-1428;CORREOSELECTRÓNICOS:IRISPATRICIA@YAHOO.COM,AMARLMOURAD@GMAIL.COM,COM.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. LUZ MATOSESTHERCRUZ HU2022CV00301. COBRO DE DINERO Y EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: LUZ ESTHER MATOS CRUZ A SUS ÚLTIMAS HACIENDASCONOCIDASDIRECCIONES227TIERRACIRWINTERPARKFL32792-2211YA-131DEPALMASDELMAR,BARRIOCANDELEROABAJO,HUMACAO,PR0091.P/CLCDO.DUNCANR.MALDONADOEJARQUE.
Demandante Vs SUCESIÓN DE ZENOBIA MARINI POSIBLESSUTANOJOSECOMPUESTACASTROPORBOFILLMARINIT/C/CJOSEBOFILL,FULANODETALYDETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOS;YOTROS.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede es tablecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se consi derará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Co pia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de agos to de 2022. En Camuy, Puerto Rico, el 19 de agosto de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁ LEZ, SECRETARIA. ISAMAR RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ JARO MAYDA T/C/C JARO MAYDA CHAMBERLAIN & MARÍA RAQUEL MAYDA T/C/C MARÍA RAQUEL MAYDA CHAMBERLAIN Demandantes Vs. PAVEL MAYDA T/C/C PAVEL MAYDA CHAMBERLAIN Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00411. (306). Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: SUCESIÓN DE ANITA RAQUEL M,OLDCOMPUESTACHAMBERLAINPORSUHIJOPAVELMAYDAT/C/CPAVELMAYDACHAMBERLAIN.530FARMLNS,APT.PRATVILLE,ELMORECOUNTY,AL36066.
Demandado(a) Civil:
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal una Demanda sobre División de Bienes Hereditarios. Se le advierte a usted, la parte de mandada, que deberá contes tar esta demanda radicando el original de la contestación den tro del término de treinta (30) días en la Secretaría del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Cen tro Judicial de Mayagüez, en viando copia a la Lcda. Yolanda I. Martínez Delgado, PO Box 361641, San Juan, PR 009361641 y al Lcdo. Arturo Luciano Delgado, PO Box 362736, San Juan, PR 00936-2736. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la Demanda dentro del térmi no que aquí se concede, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secreta ria Regional Ii. Wanda Rentas Burgos, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I. LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala de BAYA MON-SUPERIOR. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO VS. NATALE CORPORATION CASO: DCD2015-1488. SO BRE: EJECUCION DE HIPO TECA. NATALEPORREPRESENTADOCORPORATIONRENZOCASILLONIELSEN NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de ABRIL de 2016, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Senten cia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o repre sentando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los tér minos de la Sentencia, Senten cia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recur so de revisión o apelación den tro del término de 30 días con tados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de agosto de 2022. LIC. RIVERA VARGAS, MRIVERAVARGAS@YAHOO.COMMARINILDA En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 11 de agosto de 2022. LAURA SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETA RIA. F/ALBA BRITO BORGEN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan. SUN WEST DERECHOSERVICIOSCOMPANY,MORTGAGEINC.POSÍYCOMOAGENTEDEDEBANCOPOPULARDEPUERTORICO,QUIENASUVEZESSUCESORENDEPOPULARMORTGAGE,INC.
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Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJS2021CV07913. Sala: 0505. Sobre: CANCE LACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: SUCESIÓN DE ZENOBIA MARINI CASTRO COMPUESTA POR JOSE BOFILL MARINI T/C/C JOSE BOFILL, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES T/C/CBOFILLSUCESIONDESCONOCIDOS;HEREDEROSDEJOSEFIRIZARRYT/C/CJOSEFAONBOFILLIRIZARRYCOMPPORJOSEBOFILLMARINIJOSEBOFILLJOHNDOEYJANEDOECOMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOS;RICHARDDOEYMARIEDOECOMOPOSIBLES
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de agosto de 2022. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 18 de agosto de 2022. DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS(CRIM)MUNICIPALES Demandado(a) Civil: CM2022CV00007. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR A: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO HCSIGUIENTERIVERAMIGUELDEDESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSLASUCESIONANTONIOCRESPO,ALADIRECCIÓN:FÍSICA:3-5CALLE2URBESTANCIASDEMEMBRILLOIICAMUYPR00627;YPOSTAL:6BOX65200,CAMUYPR00627;AVE.MUÑOZRIVERAAPT6,CAMUY,PR00627.
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Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega usted le adeuda a la demandante las siguientes cantidadesde $30,251.86 de secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo en tiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abo gado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose. aguilar@orf-law.com y a la di rección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1ero de julio de 2022. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 1ero de julio de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. MERLLY OLMO TORRES, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRJBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERJOR DE CARO LINA ISLAND FAIRWAYCOMOSERVICES,PORTFOLIOLLC,AGENTEDEACQUISITIONSFUND,LLC Demandante Vs. NESTOR A. VILLANUEVA CORREA Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00513. Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: NESTOR A. VILLANUEVA CORREAVILLA CAROLINA 157-23 CALLE 427, CAROLINA PR 00985-4048. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo en
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The Yankees (74-48) presented O’Neill, their intensely competitive for mer right fielder, with various gifts, in cluding a customized water cooler with a bandage on it and a baseball bat ripped through it, a nod to the dugout equip ment he frequently destroyed in his 17 major league seasons with the Cincinnati Reds and the Yankees. O’Neill playfully gave it a Scandal’skick.
Other than those occasional absenc es and keeping an app with all relevant information on one’s phone for bordercrossing trips, Biggio said the baseball world was largely unimpeded by the pandemic these days.
“The Warrior” played over the loudspeakers during the ceremony and chants of O’Neill’s name rained down from the crowd. (When George Steinbrenner owned the Yankees, he re ferred to O’Neill as a “warrior.”)
Paul O’Neill made his first trip to Yankee Stadium this season to have his jersey number retired on Sunday.
Per Major League Baseball proto cols, unvaccinated personnel cannot have contact with active players, nor can they enter dugouts and clubhouses. While no current Yankees participated in the ceremony, those restrictions were not an issue with O’Neill’s ceremony, which took place in Monument Park and on the infield grass as active players watched from the dugout. Before the game, a few Yankees and Blue Jays players were not aware of any limitations in place for the ceremony and said that COVID-19 has become less of an everyday concern in MLB circles, even as the pandemic continues.
O’Neill, who did not appear at OldTimers’ Day on July 30, thanked YES’s president of production and program ming, John Filippelli, and his co-workers for his time at the network. “It’s a big part of what my life is now,” O’Neill, who is in his 21st year with YES, said during his speech.
“Our team, us being in Canada in general, we’re the most affected by it,” said Biggio, who tested positive for the coronavirus in April after showing symp toms. “Early in the year, we were getting tested every time we were coming back into the States and whatnot. We don’t get tested anymore, but we have to fly to Buffalo or do customs in the U.S.”
“Some things never get old,” O’Neill said, responding to the fans’ serenade. “I’ll never forget how much it meant for you guys cheering. People didn’t want to come here and play because they were scared of you,” he told the crowd.An Ohio native, O’Neill began his career with the Reds in 1985. A 1992 trade for Roberto Kelly sent him packing to New York, where O’Neill won four of his championships and a batting title while cementing himself as a fan favorite from 1993 to 2001.
“I don’t pay attention to it,” Yankees reliever Lou Trivino said when asked if COVID-19 rules still impacted daily rou tines. “If it is, I don’t know because I just don’t really care.” Ron Marinaccio, his bullpen mate, added: “Our travel is pretty much back to normal, aside from the Toronto trip, obviously, when we’re crossing our country borders. But I don’t think it af fects too much other than extracurricular stuff like Marinaccio,that.” a rookie right-hander, was referring to when teams visit the Blue Jays in Canada, where vaccination is required upon entry. The constraint has occasionally led to opposing unvac cinated players missing such games — the Kansas City Royals, for instance, had to place 10 players on the restricted list before a series in July — but Toronto in fielder Cavan Biggio pointed out that the Blue Jays have to meet those same stan dards every time they head to the United States.
“To join these greats and to know that the No. 21 will never be worn by a New York Yankee again is by far the biggest personal honor that I have ever achieved,” he said in remarks meant to close his speech. He then quickly returned to the mi crophone to acknowledge Yankee Sta dium’s Bleacher Creatures before throw ing a ceremonial first pitch to Posada. That concluded O’Neill’s day; he did not speak to reporters after the ceremony. Because of his vaccination status, O’Neill has been calling YES Network games from his home in the Cincinnati area this season. YES has a vaccine man date in the workplace, and the network’s other personalities have been broadcast ing on-site. That includes play-by-play announcer, Michael Kay, who helped emcee Sunday’s ceremony while stand ing next to O’Neill.
As Paul O’Neill’s No. 21 is retired, one last kick of a water cooler
O’Neill, who batted .300 or better in each of his first six seasons with the Yankees, collected 1,426 hits, 185 home runs and 858 RBIs with New York. Over all, he finished his career with a .288 av erage, 2,105 hits, 281 homers and 1,269 RBIs. O’Neill added a .284 average, 11 home runs and 39 RBIs over 85 postsea son games, including 27 World Series contests.TheYankees have honored O’Neill before: They dedicated a plaque to him in Monument Park, beyond center field at Yankee Stadium, in August 2014. While he never won a Most Valuable Player Award, and dropped off the ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame after just one year, Sunday offered a fitting ac complishment for a player who meant a great deal to a team and its fans.
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The Yankee Stadium that honored Paul O’Neill on Sunday differed from the one he played at through out his nine seasons in New York, but he felt right at home in his first trip to the ballpark this year. A five-time World Series champion and a current YES Network broadcaster, O’Neill had his No. 21 officially retired before the New York Yankees’ 4-2 win against the Toronto Blue Jays. The festivities featured appearances by some of his former Yankee teammates — Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada and Tino Mar tínez — and video messages from the likes of Joe Torre, David Cone, Derek Jeter and Roberto Clemente Jr., whose father, a Pittsburgh Pirates icon and cel ebrated humanitarian, also wore No. 21. The day came with some question marks because O’Neill, who is unvac cinated against COVID-19, is still broad casting Yankees games remotely. But for the most part, the ceremony Sunday played out much as they all do, with the fans in the crowd and at home probably unaware of any heightened precautions.
“I knew I had to get away from the game for at least a year, so I thought I’d see if I liked architecture,” he told Golf Digest in 2009. “I could still go back on tour if I wanted, but I never did.”
Weiskopf helped take Benedictine High School to the Cleveland city golf championship as a junior and senior, and then was recruited to Ohio State by golf coach Bob Kepler. Nicklaus was a senior on the Buckeyes’ golf team when Weiskopf arrived in Columbus. But they were never teammates, since NCAA rules prohibited freshmen from competing.Weiskopf embarked on his second golf career, as a course designer, and teamed with golf architect Jay Morrish to create Troon North in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1984.
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His achievements as a golf course designer included Loch Lomond in Scotland and TPC Scottsdale’s Stadi um Course, the site of the PGA Tour’s Phoenix Open since 1987. Weiskopf was part of the CBS team that covered Nicklaus’ victory in the 1986WhenMasters.asked to provide viewers in sight into Nicklaus’ thought processes in the final holes, he replied, “If I knew the way he thought, I would have won this Hetournament.”alsoworked as a golf analyst for CBS Sports, covering the Masters, and contributed to ABC Sports and ESPN’s coverage of the British Open. Weiskopf’s survivors include his wife, Laurie, and his children Heidi and Eric from his marriage to his first wife,WhenJeanne.Weiskopf won the British Open, he paid tribute to his father. “Even now, I wish my father was alive to see this,” he said. “I didn’t put my best in front of him, and doggone it, as long as I’m playing this game I’m going to do my best. I really wanted to win this tournament more than any other major tournament I ever played in.” When he redesigned the munici pal North Course at Torrey Pines at San Diego in 2016, Weiskopf reflected on his career as a golf architect. “You create aesthetic value by having big mature trees, beautiful vista water features and bunker styles,” he said. “That creates the beauty of the golf course, I think. How could you find a better piece of property than this piece of property for 36 holes of golf?”
Thomas Daniel Weiskopf was born on Nov. 9, 1942, in Massillon, Ohio, the oldest of three children of Thomas Weiskopf, a railroad worker, and his wife, Eva Shorb, both of whom had enjoyed success playing in Ohio tour naments.Hispassion for golf was kindled when his father brought him to the U.S. Open at Inverness in Toledo, Ohio, in 1957.
Tom Weiskopf in 1973 after winning the British Open at the Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland. It was his only victory in a major tournament.
Tom Weiskopf, British Open winner and golf course designer, dies at 79
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN T om Weiskopf, who won 16 PGA Tour events, most notably the British Open, and became a prominent golf course architect and broadcaster, died Saturday at his home in Big Sky, Montana. Weiskopf, who was found to have pancreatic cancer in 2020, was 79. His death was announced by the PGAHailedTour. for what was considered a perfect and powerful swing, Weis kopf won five times on the PGA Tour in 1973, his shining moment coming at the British Open, played at the Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland. He led wire-to-wire, defeating Johnny Miller and Neil Coles by three shots with Jack Nicklaus four strokes back. Weiskopf was the runner-up four times at the Masters and tied for sec ond at the 1976 U.S. Open. He also won the Canadian Open in 1973 and again in 1975, when he captured a one-hole playoff over Nicklaus, his fel low Ohio State University alumnus. Weiskopf was a member of the U.S. Ryder Cup teams in 1973 and 1975. Weiskopf turned pro in 1964 and played on the PGA Tour from 1968 to 1982.He later joined the Senior PGA Tour, now known as the Champions Tour, and defeated Nicklaus by four strokes in the 1995 U.S. Senior Open.
“He took me straight to the prac tice range and pointed out Sam Snead,” Weiskopf recalled in the book “Chas ing Greatness,” the story of the 1973 Open, by Adam Lazarus and Steve Schlossman. “The sound of Sam’s iron shots, the flight of the ball, thrilled me. I was hooked even before I started playing.”
B efore Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine outclassed Anthony Joshua to win their heavyweight championship rematch, Usyk’s manager, Egis Klimas, boasted about credulity-stretching feats of physical output he had seen the Ukrai nian boxer perform in training. He mentioned a six-hour bike ride in the 110-degree heat in Saudi Arabia, where Saturday night’s bout took place. And there was a six-mile swim. Another day, Klimas said, Usyk held his breath un der water for five minutes.
(Fury’s younger half brother, Tommy Fury, lost a fight with Jake Paul because he was stopped in London from boarding a flight to the United States.)
Klimas clearly wanted to impress re porters with Usyk’s prowess and warn ev eryone present — Joshua included — that the 35-year-old Usyk, previously a world champion at cruiserweight, possessed deep physical and mental reserves. So, after Joshua dominated a tiredlooking Usyk in the ninth round Saturday, maybe he should not have been surprised when the older, smaller boxer greeted him in the 10th round with a volley of punches before outpacing him in the fight’s final stages. With the split-decision victory, Usyk has retained heavyweight titles from three major sanctioning bodies and proved that his win over Joshua in September was not a fluke, even if it was an upset.
“Many generations are going to watch this fight.”
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Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine beat Anthony Joshua with a split decision.
The bout landed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, when the country put up a purse of roughly $77 million for the fighters to split through its sovereign wealth fund, which has also been used to poach top professional men’s golfers for the LIV Golf series, a direct challenge to the PGA Tour. A prefight sizzle reel that played in side the arena promoted Saudi Arabia as much as it did the fighters. And a sepa rate video, played just before Usyk’s ring entrance, positioned everyone present as allies in the fight against Russia.
Usyk, who entered the ring wearing a T-shirt in the colors of the Ukrainian flag bearing the words “Colors of Freedom,” also hoped his win would raise spirits in his home country, six months into its war with Russia. He dedicated the win to Ukraine, then placed his victory in a broader“Thiscontext.isalready history,” said Usyk, who is now 20-0 with 13 knockouts.
“If I’m not fighting Tyson Fury, I’m not fighting at all,” Usyk said. If Fury stays retired, his title will be come vacant. And if Usyk refuses to take on other challengers, the same can hap pen with his three belts. Instead of one heavyweight champion, there might be several, with no clear path back to a uni fied title. Potential chaos, for sure. But it is also boxing as usual.
Despite a level of uncertainty that seemingly goes beyond normal posturing for combat sports, Usyk maintains that Fury is the only boxer he wants to face.
Usyk’s heavyweight win sets up Fury showdown or more boxing messiness
The dramatic bout Saturday unfolded against several beyond-the-ring back drops. The fight was originally slated for early spring in Kyiv, Ukraine, but was de layed after Russia invaded the country. Usyk abandoned training to join a Ukrai nian army battalion, and told reporters last week that his fellow soldiers still called to update him from the front lines.
Major sporting events are a crucial part of Saudi Arabia’s continuing cam paign to promote its public image for people living in Western countries, and to shift attention away from criticisms of its record on human rights. Organiz ers trumpeted the undercard’s inclusion of the first women’s professional bout in Saudi Arabia, in which Somali fighter Ramla Ali knocked out Crystal García Nova of the Dominican Republic. The promotion for that came amid sharp criti cism over the 34-year prison sentence this month for a Saudi woman who used Twitter to support dissidents. In the spring of 2021, Saudi promot ers offered $150 million for a megafight between Joshua, who held three heavy weight titles, and Tyson Fury, the unde feated World Boxing Council champion. That bout did not materialize last year, but a Fury bout would have been a natu ral next step for Joshua had he defeated Usyk on Saturday. After nine rounds, Joshua, now 24-3 with 22 knockouts, appeared set to suc ceed.Joshua, who stands at 6-foot-6 and weighed 244 1/2 chiseled pounds Fri day, patiently employed the game plan laid out by his new trainer, Robert Gar cia. Joshua used upper-body movement to disrupt Usyk’s timing, as well as heavy body shots to slow the smaller fighter down.By round nine, Joshua had the closequarters rumble he wanted, tagging Usyk with a roundhouse right and a left hook, moving forward as Usyk retreated. “In the ninth round, I ran over,” said Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter. “I thought we had it.” But then Usyk opened round 10 ad vancing behind a snappy right jab. A sal vo of punches froze Joshua momentari ly. Later, a left uppercut and right hook drove Joshua to the ropes. Usyk’s resurgence lasted the final three rounds. He looked rejuvenated after that tenuous ninth round. Joshua looked spent and confused. The statistics reveal Joshua’s tactical shift. In their first bout, Joshua landed 15 body punches. In the rematch Saturday, he landed 37. But Usyk outperformed him overall, landing 170 of 712 punches, compared with 124 of 492 for Joshua. After the bout, Joshua snatched a microphone and interrupted the normal pageantry for the winner with an unusual speech in which he rationalized his per formance, praised Usyk and made vague references to the “not nice” situation in Ukraine.Now, Usyk and Fury could bring clar ity — and a long-awaited, undisputed championship — to the heavyweight di vision. Fury tweeted a video of his reac tion to the bout in which he profanely told promoters to get their checkbooks and dismissed the fight, as well as both fighters, as boring.
“I would annihilate both of them on the same night,” Fury said. But Fury has also claimed that he is retired from boxing, a position he has gone back and forth on several times since his trouncing of Dillian Whyte in April.Less than two weeks before that bout, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a crackdown against Daniel Kinahan, the reputed head of an Irish drug cartel and a boxing power broker who has advised Fury. Since then, Fury has been denied entry into the United States, according to The Sunday World, an Irish newspaper.
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“U is for Usyk,” the video’s narrator said. “You are for Ukraine.”
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Possibilities that have been in the pipeline over recent weeks, may now become more of a likelihood. And if your plans have been tentative, then they might begin to firm up, as you feel more convinced about your chances. You’ll feel pumped and primed to go after your dreams, and if opportunities aren’t showing up, this is the time you’ll go all out to make them happen.
Words can heal or wound! Mercury’s link with relentless Pluto, suggests that someone might be extremely honest. But so could you. And whether this is about something positive or negative, it may make the coming day a tad tense. If you can get out of your head and ground yourself with a walk or some exercise, you’ll feel better, and might be able to turn this issue around fairly fast.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
While you might still need to call someone out over their actions, a heartfelt talk that addresses crucial issues, could be the first step on the path to a complete reconciliation, Libra.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
You’ll enjoy the days ahead more, if you can put certain matters to one side and focus on fun activities. Does it seem as though a key project is unravelling? If so, this may be more to do with the emotions associated with it, as the facts could show a different story. Stepping back for a day or two, might allow you to appreciate how well things are moving along, Archer.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
If trying to reach an agreement has proved difficult, don’t give up, as a developing Venus/Chiron tie could help bring things to a successful conclusion. You’ll need to address any sticking points, even if doing so is uncomfortable. Putting yourself in another’s shoes may assist you with understanding them better, which might be crucial to offering them a deal they can work with.
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Feelings can bubble up to the surface, and shouldn’t be underestimated as they could be powerful, causing you to seek a respite from them. If a situation in your life seems poised to cause drama, then it may be wise not to rock the boat, Cancer. A more detached or spiritual approach might serve you better, until things settle down and you feel more at peace and able to talk about it.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Trying to control the uncontrollable may be a futile exercise, Gemini. No matter how much you want things to stay as they are, the current blend of energies suggests change might be unavoidable. And yet accepting it and working with it, could help unleash blockages that have stifled creativity or held you back in other ways. You’ll soon feel a sense of relief and release.
Encounters can be intense, whether you like it or not. If you’ve experienced an issue with a certain person, you may be quite emotional about it, but this is likely due to feeling sensitive and in need of some alone time. Another encounter though, could have a more positive slant and pave the way for collaboration, Capricorn. Plus, working together might bring excellent results.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
You have an opportunity to apply a healing balm on a fraught relationship. With Venus in Leo aligning with celestial body Chiron in your sector of other people, you may sense that it’s time to make amends.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23) Been through difficulties regarding a romance or project? With a shift in perspective, you can salvage it. A potent Mercury/Pluto line-up hints that you might need to let go of an idea, attitude or way of working, that may be holding you back. You’ll likely know that it isn’t doing you much good, so why hang on? The minute you drop it, you’ll know that you’ve done the right thing.
There may be plenty of passion in your words, as a fervent blend of energies encourages you to voice your views. And you’ll likely connect with others who feel exactly like you, and who will support your ideas. Plus, with powerful emotions in the air, a conversation could sizzle with promise, as you and another might realize you are mutually attracted to each other in a big way.
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While a sociable influence can encourage you to liaise with friends and enjoy good company, other factors in your chart suggest that you could be absorbed in a project that you’re eager to get done. Mercury’s positive and pushy link to Pluto, means you won’t allow yourself to think of anything else until it’s out the way. Today, you’ll be so determined that nothing will stop you.
Ready to sort out an edgy issue for good? There is the potential for healing conversations, but you’ll need to dive in deep, as skirting around the edge won’t help. You’ll also realise that intense effort may be needed to reach a goal or get moving on a bold ambition. Once the momentum builds and things start moving in the right direction, you feel confident and reassured, Aries.
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