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Arrest made in connection with Mexico man’s death

Arrest made in connection with Mexico man's death

Maine State Police announced Sunday an arrest in connection with a fatal shooting in Mexico. The agency said around 1 pm Saturday, police were called to a home on Intervale Avenue for a reported shooting. State police say responding officers from Mexico and Rumford found Nicholas Trynor, 27, dead. “Maine State Police Major Crime Unit Detectives were called in to assist in the investigation and worked throughout the night and throughout the day Sunday gathering statements and evidence,” the agency stated in a press release. Thomas Tellier, 52, was arrested Sunday in connection with the death of his stepson. State police say Tellier was taken to the Oxford County Jail on a murder charge. He is expected to be arraigned later this week in Oxford County Superior Court. According to Trynor’s father Paul, Nicholas leaves behind a young son. The family set up a fundraiser to offset the cost of funeral expenses.

MEXICO, Maine—

Maine State Police announced Sunday an arrest in connection with a fatal shooting in Mexico.

The agency said around 1 pm Saturday, police were called to a home on Intervale Avenue for a reported shooting.

State police say responding officers from Mexico and Rumford found Nicholas Trynor, 27, dead.

“Maine State Police Major Crime Unit Detectives were called in to assist in the investigation and worked throughout the night and throughout the day Sunday gathering statements and evidence,” the agency stated in a press release.

Thomas Tellier, 52, was arrested Sunday in connection with the death of his stepson.

State police say Tellier was taken to the Oxford County Jail on a murder charge.

He is expected to be arraigned later this week in Oxford County Superior Court.

According to Trynor’s father Paul, Nicholas leaves behind a young son.

The family set up a fundraiser to offset the cost of funeral expenses.

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Suspected drunk driver, Miguel Espinoza, charged after crashing into golf cart, killing two children and two adults in Galveston

Suspected drunk driver, Miguel Espinoza, charged after crashing into golf cart, killing two children and two adults in Galveston

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) — A suspected drunk driver is being charged after crashing into a golf cart and truck, killing two children and two adults Saturday night, according to police.

Miguel Espinoza, 45, of Rosenberg, is charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter and is being held on a $400,000 bond.

At about 11:35 pm, officers responded to a crash near the intersection of 33rd Street and Avenue R.

Investigators said Espinoza was headed eastbound in a black Hyundai SUV on Avenue R and failed to stop, hitting the golf cart that was traveling northbound and a Dodge pickup truck that was heading southbound.

Family members dropped off balloons and stuffed animals at the scene on Sunday and told ABC13 news that a grandfather was driving the golf cart with his wife, their niece, and three grandkids.

The grandfather, niece, and two grandkids died. The grandmother and one of the grandkids survived and are in the hospital fighting for their lives.

According to the family, all the family members are from the Rosenberg area, and the grandparents often took their grandkids and family members to Galveston to vacation and enjoy the beach.

“Awesome, they are awesome grandparents,” Minnie Villaboz, the great-grandparent of one of the victims, said.

“They both would bring them here all the time,” Sylvia Martinez, a family friend, added. “They were just here not too long ago. It’s summer, and they are about to start school. I’m sure they wanted to come out and enjoy themselves before school started.”

Neighbors who heard the crash sprang into action, forming a triage and helping those still alive before first responders got there.

“I was trying to comfort the grandma. The grandma was laying right there,” Kimberly Ruiz, a witness, said. “She was trying to get up. I kept telling her, ‘Don’t get up.’ As other people were coming and comforting her, I ran over here to the little boy comforting him because he was still breathing. It was pretty bad.”

Ruiz said she couldn’t stop crying when thinking about the horrendous scene. The tragedy now has a shattered community holding their kids and grandkids tighter.

“I just went back inside and started loving on my kids because that was very thick,” Ruiz said.

During a press conference, Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said golf carts have become a prolific way of transportation for those who live or are visiting the island. While he said ordinances were passed about six months ago, the mayor said the city council would discuss additional safety measures to ensure the community stays safe.

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4 Dead After Golf Cart, SUV Crash in Southeast Texas – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

4 Dead After Golf Cart, SUV Crash in Southeast Texas – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Four people riding in a golf cart were killed — including two juveniles — when an allegedly intoxicated man driving an SUV ran a stop sign at an intersection in Southeast Texas, police said.

Miguel Espinoza, 45, has been charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter in the crash about 11:30 p.m. Saturday in Galveston, roughly 50 miles southeast of Houston, police said.

Espinoza was being held in Galveston County jail Sunday on a $400,000 bond, police said. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.

Investigators believe that after the SUV failed to stop, it struck the golf cart that had six people aboard and a pickup truck, police said. Police Sgt. Derek Gaspard said the golf cart and pickup were traveling in opposite directions through the intersection on a street that did not have a stop sign.

Police said the adult driver of the golf cart was pronounced dead at the scene while a woman and two juveniles on the golf cart were taken to a hospital, where they died. The two other passengers — an adult and a juvenile — were hospitalized Sunday in critical condition, police said.

Espinoza, who lives in Galveston, and his passenger had minor injuries, police said. They were taken to the hospital and later released.

Gaspard said the occupants of the pickup were not injured. Names and ages of the dead weren’t immediately released.

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4 people riding in a golf cart killed in crash at Texas intersection

4 people riding in a golf cart killed in crash at Texas intersection

GALVESTON, Texas—

Four people riding in a golf cart were killed — including two juveniles — when a purportedly intoxicated man driving an SUV ran a stop sign at an intersection in southeast Texas, police said.

Miguel Espinoza, 45, has been charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter in the crash about 11:30 pm Saturday in Galveston, about 50 miles southeast of Houston, police said.

Espinoza was being held in Galveston County Jail on Sunday on a $400,000 bond, police said. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.

Galveston Police Sgt. Derek Gaspard said that after the SUV failed to stop, it struck a pickup, which then crashed into the golf cart that had six people aboard. He said the golf cart and pickup were traveling in opposite directions through the intersection on a street that did not have a stop sign.

Police said the adult driver of the golf cart was pronounced dead at the scene while a woman and two juveniles on the golf cart were taken to a hospital, where they died. The two other passengers — an adult and a juvenile — were hospitalized Sunday in critical condition, police said.

Espinoza, who lives in the Houston-area city of Rosenberg, and his passenger had minor injuries, police said. They were taken to the hospital and later released.

The occupants of the pickup were not injured, Gaspard said.

Names and ages of the dead weren’t immediately released.

Gaspard said he believes the golf cart, which was rented, was operating legally on the city street. He said members of two families were riding on the golf cart at the time of the crash.

Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said golf carts have become “quite a prolific mode of transportation” for residents and visitors to the island resort area, which is located on the Gulf of Mexico.

Brown said the city has in the past put in place ordinances to make operating golf carts safer, and will consider additional ordinances at an upcoming City Council meeting.

“I was out last night,” Brown said. “The island was busy and there were golf carts — residential as well as rental golf carts — out all over these streets.”

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Minneapolis Police investigate fatal shooting after gun tossed onto WCCO-TV rooftop

Minneapolis Police investigate fatal shooting after gun tossed onto WCCO-TV rooftop

MINNEAPOLIS – A man is dead and another man is in custody after deadly shooting inside a downtown Minneapolis apartment Sunday night, which involved a gun that was tossed onto the rooftop of the WCCO-TV building next door.

Officers arrived at WCCO at about 8 pm, while other officers were seen at the Artistry on 10th apartment building — located on the 1000 block of South Marquette Avenue — standing on a balcony that overlooks WCCO’s rooftop. A resident confirmed with WCCO at about 8:45 pm that the apartment building had been put on lockdown.

MPD Public Information Officer Garret Parten says the relationship between the shooter and victim is not clear at this point, and there was no sign of forced entry in the apartment.

“There has to be a better way to settle disputes than pulling out a gun,” Parten said.

This is the 56th homicide of the year in Minneapolis, and the second that occurred in the city on Sunday.

Check back for more details in this developing story.

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4th set of human remains found in Lake Mead

4th set of human remains found in Lake Mead

Human remains were again found in Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir that continues to shrink amid a decades-long drought, officials announced Sunday.

According to the National Park Service, someone made the discovery at the park’s Swim Beach in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, on the Nevada side, around 11:15 am Saturday. This marks the fourth time since May that human remains were found in Lake Mead, where water levels continue to recede at historic levels.

With the help of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s dive team, park rangers responded and set up a perimeter to retrieve the remains, the NPS said.

Officials have said the reservoir’s water levels are so low they could hit “dead pool” status, which means that the water is too low to flow downstream.

The minimum water surface level needed to generate power at the Hoover Dam is 1,050 feet, according to the US Bureau of Reclamation. Anything below that is considered an “inactive pool,” and a “dead pool” exists when the water level hits 895 feet, according to the federal agency.

Satellite images released last month by NASA show side-by-side comparisons of Lake Mead, one taken on July 6, 2000, and the other more than two decades later on July 6 of this year.

PHOTO: Images released by NASA show the water loss at Lake Mead, Nevada as of July 3, 2022 from July 6, 2000.

Images released by NASA show the water loss at Lake Mead, Nevada as of July 3, 2022 from July 6, 2000.

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A result of the diminishing water level is that bodies and human parts have been emerging.

On May 7, human skeletal remains were found near the lake’s Callville Bay, according to the National Park Service. The discovery came a week after the decayed body of a man was found stuffed in a steel barrel near the reservoir’s Hemenway Fishing Pier, more than 20 miles from Callville Bay, according to the LVMPD.

On July 25, human remains were also found at Swim Beach.

Officials launched an investigation into the most recent discovery on Saturday, and the Clark County Medical Examiner has been contacted to determine the cause of death.

ABC News’ Julia Jacobo contributed to this report.

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Insulin: Democrats fail to place $35 cap for most Americans in reconciliation bill

Insulin: Democrats fail to place $35 cap for most Americans in reconciliation bill

The party had pushed to include a measure in their climate and health care package that passed the chamber Sunday that would place a $35 cap on insulin for those on Medicare and with private coverage.
Senate passes Democrats' sweeping health care and climate bill
However, the Senate parliamentarian decided that extending the cap to the private market was not compliant with the rules of the reconciliation process, which Democrats used to pass the legislation with a simple majority vote.

Democrats kept the provision in the bill anyway, but Republicans on Sunday raised a point of order that led to a vote that limited the $35 cap to Medicare beneficiaries only. The final vote was 57-43, with seven GOP senators joining all members of the Senate Democratic Caucus on the vote — but a 60-vote threshold was needed to keep the private market provision in place.

The seven GOP senators who supported the provision were Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy, both of Louisiana, and Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both of Alaska.

Long-standing mission

Democrats have long sought to reduce the price of insulin, which has skyrocketed over the years though it only costs a few dollars to make. That has forced some Americans to ration the medication, sometimes with fatal consequences.
President Joe Biden called for the $35 cap in his State of the Union address in March, and Democrats included it in their sweeping Build Back Better package, which passed the House last fall before stalling in the Senate.

This year, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia pushed a bill that would limit the cost of insulin to $35, as did Collins and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire in a bipartisan effort. Neither has advanced.

More than 37 million people in the US have diabetes — more than 1 in 10 Americans — though not all are aware of it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 7 million people rely on insulin.

About a fifth of those who take insulin and have health coverage through large employers pay more than $35 a month for the medication, according to an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation. More than a quarter of people with Affordable Care Act policies and nearly one-third of those insured through a small employer pay more than that threshold.

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NY mayor calls for federal help dealing with migrants bussed in from Texas

NY mayor calls for federal help dealing with migrants bussed in from Texas

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday called for federal assistance as the city takes in migrants bussed north by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).

“@GregAbbott_TX used innocent people as political pawns to manufacture a crisis,” Adams tweeted Sunday.

“New Yorkers are stepping up to fix it — that’s our city’s values,” he added. “But we need the federal government’s help — money, technical assistance and more.”

Abbott says he is bussing migrants to New York City and Washington, DC in protest of President Biden’s immigration policies as border encounters reach record levels.

The first bus destined for The Big Apple arrived on Friday. Adams’s office blasted Abbott upon the bus’s arrival.

Adams reportedly traveled to the Port Authority bus terminal on Sunday to greet an arriving bus.

“This is horrific, when you think about what the governor is doing,” Adams said at the terminal, Politico reported.

The outlet reported that Adams said some of the families wanted to go to other locations but were forced on the bus.

“Our goal is to immediately find out each family’s needs and give them the assistance they want,” Adams said, according to Politico.

Abbott said in a statement on Friday that New York City, along with Washington, DC, was “the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city.”

“I hope he follows through on his promise of welcoming all migrants with open arms so that our overrun and overwhelmed border towns can find relief,” Abbott continued.

DC Major Muriel Bowser (D) in mid-July requested the National Guard’s help as her city also received bussed migrants.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin turned down Bowser’s request, with a defense official saying Austin determined deploying the guard would “negatively impact the readiness” of the force.

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment on Adams’ latest request for federal assistance.

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Pro-SALT deduction House Democrats say they’ll back Senate bill

Pro-SALT deduction House Democrats say they'll back Senate bill

House Democrats who are pushing to lift a $10,000 fixed cap on state and local taxes (SALT) said they will support the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed the US Senate on Sunday, even without the SALT deduction.

Both New Jersey Reps. Mikie Sherrill and Josh Gottheimer — who insisted “no SALT, no deal” on previous spending packages — expressed support on Sunday for the Inflation Reduction because it does not affect personal income tax rates or raise taxes on their constituents.

“We all know how high the cost of living is in Northern New Jersey. I ran for Congress to tackle those costs on behalf of the people of the 11th Congressional District. That’s exactly why I’m voting for the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” Sherrill said in a statement. “Because this legislation does not raise taxes on families in my district, but in fact significantly lowers their costs, I will be voting for it.”

The $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act cleared the Senate on Sunday afternoon with the support of all 50 Democrats and a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Harris.

Sherrill said she also supported the climate, healthcare and tax bill because it will lower prescription drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate costs; invest in clean energy and “good-paying jobs”; and impose a minimum tax on corporations.

The House will next take up the legislation before a final version reaches President Biden, who applauded its passage on Sunday and called it the “largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change.”

Amid negotiations for an even larger spending package last year, House Democrats Sherrill, Gottheimer and Tom Suozzi (DN.Y.) demanded it include a provision lifting the $10,000 SALT cap, threatening to withhold their support without it.

Currently, filers who itemize deductions on state and local taxes in federal returns are capped at $10,000, a result of the 2017 tax cuts enacted by Republicans.

Democrats from high-tax states such as New Jersey, New York and California have slammed the cap as harmful to their residents and the state’s ability to provide services.

Gottheimer in a statement acknowledged the Inflation Reduction Act does not include any provisions raising the SALT cap, but said he supported it because it does not raise taxes in his district and was a “huge win” in terms of lowering prescription drug prices and boosting manufacturing .

“The Inflation Reduction Act makes no changes to personal income tax rates or those impacting small businesses. That has always been my red line, and it is the key to delivering affordability for our families,” he said, adding it would cut costs at more than $2,000 for every family.

“The bill is fully paid for, in part, with provisions that go after tax cheats. It will also help pay down the debt — a fiscally-responsible way to get inflation down,” he added.

“This legislation doesn’t raise taxes on families in my District — it reduces the financial burden on them. For that reason, and for its strong support of the climate, lower prescription drug prices, and job creation, I’ll be voting for it.”

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Florida prosecutor says he is planning a ‘vigorous defense’ after Gov. DeSantis suspended him

Florida prosecutor says he is planning a 'vigorous defense' after Gov. DeSantis suspended him

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The Florida prosecutor who was suspended by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for his refusal to charge doctors or abortion patients for illegally terminating pregnancies is vowing to put up a “vigorous defense” legally.

DeSantis suspended Andrew Warren, a Democrat state attorney, on Aug. 4 during a news conference where he said that the prosecutor didn’t enforce duly-passed laws that crack down on child sex change surgeries and certain abortion procedures.

“We had the individual here from Hillsborough County say and [sign] letters that there are certain laws he just won’t enforce and won’t prosecute,” DeSantis told Fox News. “[State’s] attorneys that put their ideology over the rule of law are not satisfying their oath of office.”

Without providing specifics, Warren said on Sunday that he would fight the suspension.

GOV. RON DESANTIS SAYS PROSECUTORS WITH ‘MILITANT AGENDAS’ WON’T ‘GET AWAY WITH IT’ IN FLORIDA

Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren talks to a voter during the NAACP Hillsborough County Branch Souls to the Polls voter drive on November 1, 2020, in Tampa, Florida.

Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren talks to a voter during the NAACP Hillsborough County Branch Souls to the Polls voter drive on November 1, 2020, in Tampa, Florida.
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“I’m not going down without a fight. I’m a former federal prosecutor, the duly elected state attorney, a native Floridian and a proud American. I refuse to let this man trample on your freedoms, to speak your mind, to make your own health care decisions, and to have your vote count. I hope you’ll stand with me,” Warren said.

Warren was elected in 2016 and 2020.

In the video, Warren said that the governor is attempting to overthrow an election.

FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SUSPENDS ‘SOROS-BACKED’ STATE ATTORNEY WHO REFUSED TO ENFORCE ABORTION BAN

The Florida prosecutor who was suspended by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for his refusal to charge doctors or abortion patients for illegally terminating their pregnancy is vowing to put up a "strong defense" legally.

The Florida prosecutor who was suspended by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for his refusal to charge doctors or abortion patients for illegally terminating their pregnancy is vowing to put up a “vigorous defense” legally.
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“Ron DeSantis is trying to overthrow democracy in Florida. His plot to suspend me blatantly violates the most fundamental basis of our democracy. Your vote. He’s trying to overturn the results of a fair and free election in abusing his power to serve his own political ambition,” he said.

A press release from DeSantis’ office states that he “has the authority to suspend a state officer under Article IV, Section 7 of the Constitution of the State of Florida.”

After suspending Warren, DeSantis appointed Hillsborough County Court Judge Susan Lopez as his replacement.

“It is my duty to hold Florida’s elected officials to the highest standards for the people of Florida. I have the utmost trust that Judge Susan Lopez will lead the office through this transition and faithfully uphold the rule of law,” DeSantis said in the press release.

A law in Florida banning abortions after 15 weeks, with exceptions such as if an abortion is needed to save a mother’s life, cases of rape or incest, and more went into effect on July 1.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Adam Sabes is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter @asabes10.