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By Jennifer Osting

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    LONDON, Kentucky (WLKY) — A rapper was arrested in Kentucky on Sunday after he was reportedly caught filming a video and dancing on a concrete barrier in the middle of I-75 in Laurel County.

According to court documents, officers responded to the interstate around 6 p.m. for reports of several people running around on the road.

When officers arrived, they reportedly found 27-year-old Enoch Tolbert, who performs under the stage name Armani White, running across lanes of traffic, forcing cars to slow down.

Police said Tolbert then jumped onto the concrete medium barrier and began dancing.

According to Tolbert’s citation, he told police that he and others had pulled over on I-75 to shoot a video.

He was arrested at the scene and taken to the Laurel County Detention Center, but he has since been released.

He’s charged with disorderly conduct (second degree) and stopping, standing or parking on a limited access highway, both of which are misdemeanors.

Tolbert was initially scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning, but according to court documents, “the jail told him to call and schedule a court date” since he is a professional rapper.

A pretrial conference is now set for later this month.

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By Tim Nazzaro

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    BOSTON (WCVB) — A jet blast pushed a cargo container into a Delta Air Lines flight parked at the gate at Logan Airport on Monday afternoon, according to an airline spokesperson.

Delta Flight 154, a Boeing 767-300 bound for Dublin, Ireland, had 122 passengers and 11 crew members on board.

“While Delta Flight 154 was parked at the gate, a cargo container made contact with the aircraft due to strong airflow from another airline’s aircraft,” the spokesperson told NewsCenter 5.

There were no reports of any injuries.

The flight was canceled, and most customers were rebooked on other flights within 24 hours to reach their destination, according to a Delta Air Lines spokesperson.

Passengers were provided with hotel and meal vouchers.

“We apologize to our customers for the experience and the delay in their travels,” the spokesperson said.

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By Carter Williams

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    KANAB, Utah (KSL) — Utah’s hunting season is in full swing, and those looking to bag wildlife in southwest Utah could also walk away with an $800 gift card for outdoor equipment while also helping some of the region’s most endangered species.

Zion Unit hunters who show the lead-free ammunition they are using for hunting or provide proof that they removed all the remains of the animal they harvested from the field at a Utah Division of Wildlife Resources check station this month can enter to win the prize, which was donated to the agency by The Peregrine Fund.

State wildlife officials plan to set up their station at the intersection of Yellowjacket Road and Hancock Road, approximately 3 miles north of the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park near Kanab, on several occasions this month. It will be open from 9 a.m. to dusk this Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as Oct. 18-20 and Oct. 25-26. The unit includes a large portion of Iron, Kane and Washington counties.

“Lead poisoning is the leading cause of death for free-flying condors in Utah and Arizona. We are very grateful for all the hunters who are taking steps to prevent secondary impacts to scavenging wildlife, including eagles and California condors,” said Danielle Finlayson, a conservation biologist for the division’s southern region, in a statement.

Utah has offered incentives for Zion Unit hunters to switch to lead-free ammunition since 2011, primarily to protect the California condor and other scavengers like hawks and eagles that can become sick or die from eating the remains of wildlife shot with lead ammunition.

It’s considered one of the factors contributing to the California condor’s population decline, which pushed the species to the brink of extinction only a few decades ago. Only 22 condors were living in the wild globally by 1982, before researchers embarked on a captive breeding program that has helped the species rebound to over 500 birds globally today.

The program celebrated its 1,000th condor chick to hatch in 2019, with 1K, a male that hatched at Zion National Park. However, 1K died last year from what was ultimately determined to be lead poisoning. Wildlife officials noted that he became one of over 50 condors from the Utah-Arizona flock to die of lead poisoning since 1996.

An outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, along with a pair of recent poaching cases, also impacted the Utah-Arizona flock, reducing its overall count from 116 in 2022 to 87 at the latest count.

The recent setback put Utah’s lead-free ammunition program back into the spotlight. On top of a potential $800 gift card, Utah wildlife officials offer coupons to all any-legal-weapon big game permit holders within the Zion Unit for free or discounted lead-free ammunition since the unit overlaps with the flock’s habitat.

“The Hunters Helping Condors collaborative effort demonstrates one of the ways that hunters are at the forefront of wildlife conservation,” Finlayson added.

The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by KSL’s editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.

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By Pat Reavy

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    MT. PLEASANT, Sanpete County, Utah (KSL) — A Sanpete County man was recently charged for allegedly using a cattle prod on his two young sons.

The 48-year-old Mt. Pleasant man was charged Sept. 22 in 6th District Court with two counts of aggravated child abuse, a third-degree felony. KSL.com is not naming the man at this time to protect the identities of any victims.

On Sept. 18, investigators interviewed the man’s 7-year-old son, who stated that “on more than 10 occasions over the past year, and as recently as September, his father had used a yellow and green electronic cattle prod upon him as a means of discipline. The juvenile further alleged that his older brother, who is 9 years old, was also subjected to the same treatment,” according to a police booking affidavit.

The 7-year-old boy told investigators “his father applied the cattle prod to his arms, legs, stomach and chest through his clothing, and on one occasion, directly to his right forearm, causing an injury. The juvenile stated that when the cattle prod is applied to his body, it causes extreme pain and ‘feels like being cut in half,'” the affidavit states.

When the boy’s brother was interviewed, he corroborated what his brother had said, according to police.

“Both brothers provided a detailed description of the location where their father keeps the cattle prod inside the residence, and both boys stated that the application of the cattle prod to their bodies was conducted at their father’s and grandfather’s residence,” the affidavit states.

Sanpete County sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant on the property and seized a “Springer Magrath 200PP cattle prod,” according to court documents.

The father’s next court hearing is scheduled for Nov. 5.

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By Sergio Candido

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    LAKE CITY, Florida (WFOR) — A man was arrested early Wednesday after police say he was found naked and behaving erratically outside a Walmart in North Florida.

According to the Lake City Police Department, officers responded to the store at about 2:45 a.m. on Wednesday after receiving reports of a suspicious person in the parking lot. Police dispatch advised that a nude male had been chasing Walmart employees and fled toward a wooded area north of the store, police said in a press release.

Lake City is located about 60 miles southwest of Jacksonville. The store is located at 2767 West U.S. Highway 90, on the west end of the city.

Officers canvassed the area and found the man on his hands and knees in the woods, appearing “agitated and paranoid,” Lake City Chief of Police Gerald Butler said in the release.

Police said he was largely nonverbal and incoherent. Concerned for his safety, officers called Emergency Medical Services and placed the man in hand restraints.

He was taken from the woods to a patrol car and then transported by EMS to HCA Florida Lake City Hospital for evaluation. While at the hospital, authorities said the man could not provide identifying information but later said his name was “Raheem.” After several unsuccessful attempts to confirm his identity, he was medically cleared and taken to the Columbia County Detention Facility.

A fingerprint scan at the jail later identified the man as Rakime Johnson. He was booked into county jail without further incident.

Johnson faces charges of indecent exposure and resisting an officer without violence, according to local television station WCJB.

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    ORANGE, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A skydiver has died three days after colliding with another skydiver mid-air over Orange, Massachusetts.

The accident happened Saturday afternoon after the man jumped from a Jumptown Skydiving plane, Orange Fire Chief James Young said. The Northwestern District Attorney’s office identified the victim as 62-year-old Robert Szabo of Connecticut.

The other skydiver involved in the collision was not injured, Young said.

Szabo was taken by ambulance to a Worcester hospital, where he died Tuesday evening. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death.

“On the afternoon of October 4, there was a midair collision between two experienced skydivers.” Jumptown said in a statement to WBZ-TV. “The injured jumper landed on airport property under a fully functioning parachute.”

The district attorney’s office said the cause of the accident is still being investigated by local authorities and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Szabo is listed as a staff member at Connecticut Parachutists, a skydiving club in Ellington, Connecticut. According to the organization’s website, he has been a passionate skydiver since 2000 and was a coordinator for the “Accelerated Freefall” program.

“Rob’s accumulated skydiving knowledge has made him an asset to jumpers of all experience levels,” the website states.

In 2022, a skydiver with Jumptown was injured after his parachute got tangled and he made a hard landing on the roof of a building.

First responders in Orange train with Jumptown to prepare for possible skydiving accidents.

“We don’t have emergencies at Jumptown very often, in fact they run a very safe operation, but like any extracurricular activity, there are risks,” the fire department said at the time.

The Greenfield Recorder reported that this is the second skydiving death at Jumptown in less than a decade. In 2018, 27-year-old Alexis Zayas of New York, died after veering off course and hitting a barn.

Orange is more than 70 miles west of Boston and about 10 miles from the New Hampshire border.

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