Scott Douthit was arrested in connection to a deadly January shooting (Photo: River Valley Now)
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) —A man wanted in a deadly shooting that happened in January turned himself in on Monday, according to KATV content partnerRiver Valley Now.
Scott Douthit, 25, of Russellville, was charged with manslaughter.
The shooting, which was originally reported as ahunting accident, happened near the Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge in Carden Bottoms. At the scene, Jared Sykes, 20, of Dardanelle was found with a gunshot wound, according to the Yell County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies said following an autopsy, Sykes’ cause of death was determined to be homicide.
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OTTAWA – June 14, 2021 – NCC Conservation officers and Ottawa Police were at 18 Royal Field Cres in Ottawa Monday trying to remove a bear from a back yard. The bear climbed a tree and was stuck. At the time of the photo the bear had been tranquilized 4 times. PHOTO BY TONY CALDWELL /Postmedia
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A wayward bear that spent most of Monday sleeping in a Barrhaven tree will wake up in the bush near White Lake.
The bear appeared to be healthy, said Dominique Huras of the National Capital Commission, the lead agency on the “Bearhaven bear” incident.
The bear was first sighted around 8:30 a.m. and later in the morning made its way into a private backyard in the Fallowfield area near the Transitway.
OTTAWA – June 14, 2021 – NCC Conservation officers and Ottawa Police were at 18 Royal Field Cres in Ottawa Monday trying to remove a bear from a backyard. The bear climbed a tree and was stuck. PHOTO BY TONY CALDWELL /PostmediaOTTAWA – June 14, 2021 – NCC Conservation officers and Ottawa Police were at 18 Royal Field Cres in Ottawa Monday trying to remove a bear from a backyard. PHOTO BY TONY CALDWELL /PostmediaOTTAWA – June 14, 2021 – NCC Conservation officers and Ottawa Police were at 18 Royal Field Cres in Ottawa Monday trying to remove a bear from a backyard. PHOTO BY TONY CALDWELL /PostmediaOTTAWA- June 14, 2021. The bear in a backyard in Barrhaven earlier in the day. SOURCE: Ottawa Police Services jpg
Police say the “sizeable” bear, believed to be an adult, spent most of the morning sleeping, but would wake up to have a look around before falling asleep again. Later in the morning, the bear went up a tree, where it remained most of the day, watched by police and the conservation officers.
OTTAWA- June 14, 2021. A bear has settled into a resident’s backyard in Barrhaven, causing police to block off nearby roads. PHOTO BY HANDOUT /Ottawa Police Services
Last summer, NCC conservation officers trapped a bear that had made its home at the Britannia Conservation Area and released it near White Lake. In September 2018, the officers tranquilized a bear that had been wandering in the ByWard Market. That bear was then lowered out of a tree on a rope with the help of firefighters, and was later tagged and released.
OTTAWA- June 14, 2021. Ottawa police blocked off Earl Mulligan and Woodpark Way in Barrhaven Monday morning due to a bear sighting. Tony Caldwell, Postmedia jpg
OC Transpo rerouted Route 171 on Monday morning in the area of Woodroffe Avenue and Earl Mulligan Drive after the bear was sighted and police kept Earl Mulligan closed off until the bear was captured.
According to the Ontario Ministry Of Natural Resources and Forestry, when bears are caught off guard, they are stressed, and usually just want to flee.
“Generally, the noisier the bear is, the less dangerous it is, provided you do not approach. The noise is meant to ‘scare’ you off and acts as a warning signal, says the province’s “bear wise” website.
The ministry advises those who encounter a bear to slowly back away while keeping the bear in sight and wait for it to leave.
If you are near a building or vehicle, get inside as a precaution. Drop any food you may be carrying and slowly move away.
If a bear is in a tree, leave it alone. Leave the area. The bear will come down when it feels safe.
Do not run, climb a tree or swim. Do not kneel down, make eye contact with the bear or approach it to get a better look. And never attempt to feed a bear.
“A threatened black bear will give off warning signs to let you know you are too close. A black bear standing on its hind legs is not a sign of aggressive behaviour. The bear is trying to get a better look at you or catch your scent.”
These horrifying images show a a dead dolphin that washed up on a beach with a diaper stuck in its mouth and a broken jaw.
Tourists and fishermen, who spotted the washed-up striped dolphin with the man-made waste still attached to its teeth, believe it died from suffocation.
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Gory photos showed extensive damage to the dolphin’s body and a broken jaw with pieces of…
GRETA THUNBERG has issued a stark warning to humanity: stop eating meat and switch to a vegan diet otherwise “we are f***ed”.
The grim prediction came as part of a video statement posted to Twitter by the 18-year-old environmental activist.
In the clip, Thunberg outlined why a reduction in meat consumption would help avoid more ecological and health issues in the future.
“The climate crisis, the ecological crisis and the health crisis – they are all interlinked,” she said.
“The way we make food, raising animals to eat, clearing land to grow food to feed those animals… It just doesn’t make sense.”ADVERTISEMENThttps://5707369632581ac2ed7e0637c2e09413.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
The impact of agriculture on the ongoing climate crisis is well documented.
It is estimated that raising animals like cattle and poultry for food accounts for roughly a quarter of all carbon emissions, globally.
GRETA THUNBERG has issued a stark warning to humanity: stop eating meat and switch to a vegan diet otherwise “we are f***ed”.
The grim prediction came as part of a video statement posted to Twitter by the 18-year-old environmental activist.
In the clip, Thunberg outlined why a reduction in meat consumption would help avoid more ecological and health issues in the future.
“The climate crisis, the ecological crisis and the health crisis – they are all interlinked,” she said.
“The way we make food, raising animals to eat, clearing land to grow food to feed those animals… It just doesn’t make sense.”ADVERTISEMENThttps://5707369632581ac2ed7e0637c2e09413.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
The impact of agriculture on the ongoing climate crisis is well documented.
It is estimated that raising animals like cattle and poultry for food accounts for roughly a quarter of all carbon emissions, globally.
By switching to a vegan diet, humanity would effectively eliminate anywhere up to eight billion tonnes of CO2 which is currently being released into the Earth’s atmosphere each and every year.
“If we keep making food the way we do, we will also destroy the habitats of most wild plants and animals, driving countless species to extinction,” Thunberg added.ADVERTISEMENThttps://5707369632581ac2ed7e0637c2e09413.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
In addition to the environmental impact, Thunberg urged the public to pay more consideration to the feelings of animals born and bred for food.ADVERTISEMENT
Thunberg, who is a vegan herself, noted that many animals born into such circumstances live “short and terrible” lives inside the heavily industrialised factory farms where meat is produced.
The Swedish activist’s warning is part of a video funded by the charity Mercy For Animals, an organisation that campaigns to prevent animal cruelty in the livestock industry and encourage more people to take up veganism.
Daniel ‘Duke’ Trujillo, 33, died on Wednesday. He had shared anti-vaccination posts on social media in the weeks prior to his death.Denver Sheriff Department
Daniel ‘Duke’ Trujillo, 33, died on Wednesday from COVID-19 complications.
The Denver Sheriff’s deputy had shared a string of anti-vax posts just weeks before his death,MailOnlinereported.
“I have an immune system,” read one of his Facebook posts.
A Colorado sheriff’s deputy died from COVID-19 complications shortly after sharing a string of anti-vaccination posts on his social media, according toMailOnline.
Daniel ‘Duke’ Trujillo, 33, died on Wednesday with his family by his side, Denver’s Sheriff Departmentsaid on Twitter.
Three weeks before his death, Trujillo had updated his Facebook profile picture to include a border that read, “I have an immune system,” the MailOnline said.
A Pekingese named Wasabi nabbed U.S. dogdom’s most prestigious prize after winning the big American Kennel Club National Championship in 2019.TAP TO UNMUTE
June 14, 2021, 5:13 AM PDTBy The Associated Press
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — The flavor of the year at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show: Wasabi.
A Pekingese named Wasabi won best in show Sunday night, notching a fifth-ever win for the unmistakable toy breed. A whippet named Bourbon repeated as runner-up.
Waddling through a small-but-mighty turn in the ring, Wasabi nabbed U.S. dogdom’s most prestigious prize after winning the big American Kennel Club National Championship in 2019.
“He has showmanship. He fits the breed standard. He has that little extra something, that sparkle, that sets a dog apart,” said Wasabi’s handler, breeder and co-owner, David Fitzpatrick. Show judge Patricia Trotter said simply: “What’s not to like about this dog? … He stood there as though he was a lion.”
Fitzpatrick, of East Berlin, Pennsylvania, guided the Peke’s grandfather Malachy to the Westminster title in 2012. Still, he said, “I just don’t always think lightning is going to strike twice.”
How will Wasabi celebrate?
“He can have a filet mignon. And I’ll have Champagne,” Fitzpatrick said with a laugh.
The Pekingese dog “Wasabi” wins Best in Show at the 145th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show June 13, 2021, at the Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, N.Y.Timothy A. Clary / AFP – Getty Images
The 3-year-old Pekingese, meanwhile, was “pretty nonchalant about the whole thing,” his handler said. Indeed, Wasabi laid down on the dais, occasionally looking up as if to see what the fuss was all about, as Fitzpatrick spoke before a cluster of reporters and cameras.
It was a poignant win that came after one of his co-owners, archaeologist Iris Love, died last year of COVID-19. Besides Fitzpatrick, the dog is also co-owned by Sandra Middlebrooks and Peggy Steinman.
Wasabi — the name derives from his mother, Sushi — came out on top of a finalist pack that also included Mathew the French bulldog, Connor the old English sheepdog, Jade the German shorthaired pointer, Striker the Samoyed, and a West Highland white terrier named Boy. Altogether, 2,500 champion dogs entered the show.
It underwent big changes this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, moving out of New York City for the first time since the show’s 1877 founding. This year’s show was held outdoors at an estate in suburban Tarrytown, about 25 miles north of where the top ribbon is usually presented at Madison Square Garden, and it happened in June instead of February.
In a sign of the pandemic times, some handlers wore masks — though vaccinated people were allowed to go without — and the show was closed to the public.
“It’s a miracle that they even had this show,” Fitzpatrick said.
Striker went into the show as the top-ranked U.S. dog, with more than 40 best in show wins since January 2020. And Bourbon had also won the AKC National Championship.
The show was bittersweet for Jade’s handler and co-owner, Valerie Nunes-Atkinson. She guided Jade’s father, CJ, to a 2016 Westminster best in show win — and lost him last September, when the 7-year-old died unexpectedly of a fungal infection.
“The good part about it is: He’s left an incredible legacy,” said Nunes-Atkinson, of Temecula, California. She said Jade “had my heart” from birth.
Boy had come a long way to Westminster — all the way from Thailand, where one of his owners was watching from Bangkok, according to handler Rebecca Cross.
“He always makes us laugh,” said Cross, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
David Fitzpatrick holds his Pekingese “Wasabi” after winning the Best in Show at the 145th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, N.Y., on June 13, 2021.Mike Segar / Reuters
For many dog owners, just making it to Westminster is a thrill — even for baseball’s all-time home run leader, Barry Bonds, who was cheering on a miniature schnauzer he owns with sister Cheryl Dugan.
The dog, Rocky, didn’t win his breed, but the slugger said he was proud of Rocky simply for qualifying for the champions-only show.
“We won because we got here. That’s all that matters,” Bonds told Fox Sports. “I’ve been to a lot of playoffs, and I’ve been to the World Series, and I’ve never won. But for 22 years, I kept trying.”
The 56-year-old Bonds holds baseball’s career home run record with 762, though his feat was clouded by allegations of steroid use — he denied knowingly taking them.
While semifinal and final rounds were held in a climate-controlled tent, earlier parts of the competition unfolded on the grass at an estate called Lyndhurst.
Douglas Tighe, who handled a Brittany named Pennie second place in the sporting group, says he just goes with it if his dogs get distracted by birds and other attractions in the great outdoors.
“Let them have fun,” said Tighe, of Hope, New Jersey. “That’s what it’s all about.”
That’s what it’s about to Kole Brown, too. At age 9, he showed a bull terrier named Riley on Sunday alongside his parents, Kurtis Brown and U.S. Air Force Capt. Samantha Brown, and some of the family’s other bull terriers.
“I have a lot of fun with this sport,” said Kole, of San Antonio, Texas. “Every single time I go into the ring, I have a smile on my face.”
There’s no need to discover life on Mars — not when we could possibly make our own.
Scientists have discovered that sperm can potentially survive on Mars for hundreds of years, meaning that humans could possibly reproduce on the Red Planet in the future.
“These discoveries are essential for mankind to progress into the space age,” lead research author Professor Sayaka Wakayama, a scientist at Japan’s University of Yamanashi, told the Daily Mail of the study.
However, no humans pleasured themselves in the name of science, per the research published Friday in the journal Science Advances. Instead, scientists studied the effects of radiation on a batch of mouse sperm that had been freeze-dried and stored aboard the International Space Station for six years.
Experts previously believed that space radiation would destroy sperm, rendering breeding impossible — or even causing cancer.
However, new analysis revealed that the rodent reproductive fluid was perfectly healthy after its interstellar sojourn. Even subjecting the spunky stuff to X-rays on Earth didn’t affect fertility.
“Many genetically normal offspring were obtained,” said Wakayama, whose team estimates that freeze-dried semen could last aboard the ISS for up to 200 years.
These space-sex findings could prove a major step in our goal of becoming an interplanetary life form, something that scientists deem increasingly essential in light of dwindling resources, the Science Times reported.
“When the time comes to migrate to other planets, we will need to maintain the diversity of genetic resources, not only for humans but also for pets and domestic animals,” said Wakayama of our intergalactic propagation plans.
Sperm isn’t the only thing that can possibly survive the vacuum of space for extended periods of time. Tardigrades — also known as “water bears” — can reportedly live for 30 years without food or water and endure temperatures of 302 degrees Fahrenheit, leading researchers to deduce that these microscopic superheroes could survive on other planets as well.
Record heat is searing the West for the second time this month. A massive heat dome is building over the region and is set to intensify for the latter half of this week. The heat wave could cause some all-time records to fall while worsening the region’s already catastrophic drought.
The region is already in the grips of sweltering temperatures. Over the weekend, temperatures topped 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46.1 degrees Celsius) in Phoenix and reached 110 degrees (43.3 degrees Celsius) in both Las Vegas and Palm Springs. The National Weather Service is warning of “dangerously hot conditions” on Monday across parts of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. More than 48 million people in 10 states are under a heat advisory watch or warning.
The extreme heat is only a taste of what’s the come, though, as high pressure spreads and locks in sunny skies and even more intense heat over a wide area. Later this week, temperatures from the Southwest to the Northern Rockies are forecast to be 15 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit (8.3 to 13.8 degrees Celsius) above average. Thursday and Friday are expected to be particularly brutal.
Many daily and monthly heat records are expected to be broken, and someplaces may even see their highest temperatures in recorded history. Parts of California are expected to get as hot as 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius). Last Vegas is currently forecast to hit 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.7 degrees Celsius) on Wednesday and again on Friday, just a degree off its all-time heat record. Record hot overnight lows in the 90s also mean cooling off will be nigh impossible without access to air conditioning.
But that will be tame compared to the heat at Furnace Creek in Death Valley. Regularly one of the hottest places on Earth, Furnace Creek is forecast to reach 125 degrees Fahrenheit (51.7 degrees Celsius) on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. That’s a shade off the record it set last year for the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth, but that’s hardly comforting. Even places as far north as Montana could reach triple-digit heat.Skip Adhttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.464.0_en.html#goog_220230001https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.464.0_en.html#goog_345398263https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.464.0_en.html#goog_1540528760
Extreme heat is becoming all the more common due to the climate crisis. It isn’t just uncomfortable, it can also be deadly. Research shows that high temperatures are the deadliest form of extreme weather on the planet due to increased threat of conditions like heat stress, heatstroke, and cardiovascular and respiratory disease. Older people are especially at risk, and the National Weather Service underscored that in its warnings this week referring to the heat as “DEADLY” in all caps.
The week’s severe heat will also further parch the West, which is experiencing a megadrought. The entirety of California, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon are in some form of drought, according to the Drought Monitor. The conditions are already spurring almond farmers to tear out their orchards, and California officials to create schemes to truck millions of salmon to the sea since waterways are too shallow and hot for the fish to navigate safely. Meanwhile, Lake Mead has dropped to its lowest levels since the Hoover Dam was built. This week’s heat will almost certainly make things much worse.
Perhaps the scariest thing about the coming heat it will make the West even more of a tinderbox, exacerbating wildfire conditions. Parts of the Southwest are already under “critical” or “extreme” fire warnings, and dire conditions could spread to the Northwest later this week. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, there are 22 large blazes are already alight, including ones that prompted evacuations in California, Utah, and Arizona this past weekend. With more heat on the way, things are looking pretty terrifying. If you’re out there, please check the forecasts regularly and do all you can to stay safe.
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