Ohio community teaches kids with Down syndrome, other disabilities to ride bikes, honoring beloved cyclist

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Marlena Lang

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    HARRISON, Ohio (WCPO) — This week in Harrison, dozens of kids with Down syndrome and other disabilities are learning how to ride a bike.

The riding starts inside the Harrison High School gym.

“They’re slowed down, they’re given individualized attention, they’re going through this program, they’re learning to do this,” said Julie Sheffer, community engagement coordinator with the Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati.

Then, once they’re on a roll, the kids graduate to riding outside nearly all on their own.

“At the end they have that sense of freedom that people have when you’re able to, you know, get on the road, get on the bikes, be with your friends and keep up with everybody,” Sheffer said.

Every summer, the Down Syndrome Association teaches kids how to ride a bike during a five-day iCan Bike camp.

Their stop in Harrison, however, has been extra special. It’s a community that recently lost beloved resident and cyclist Jeffrey Muse, who died after he was hit by a truck while riding his bike.

“Jeffrey was known throughout this community to ride his very special pink bike around town, and just spread joy and goodness,” Sheffer said.

To honor Muse and his passion for bike riding, some of his friends and community members are volunteering at the camp.

“The community has stepped up,” Sheffer said. “The Harrison Kroger has donated mone, and then some of the Kroger employees I know are coming tomorrow and the next day. If anyone else in the community would like to come out, we would love to have your help.”

Sheffer said it means a lot that volunteers want to help these kids.

“Individuals with Down syndrome want to do what everyone else is doing,” Sheffer said.

Volunteers are still welcome to join the bike camp this week and help out at Harrison High School. The first sessions on Thursday and Friday begin at 8:30 a.m., and the final session is at 2 p.m.

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Arizona seniors among highest risk for heat-related death, groups trying to change that

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Lillian Donahue

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    MARICOPA COUNTY, Arizona (KNXV) — Senior residents are among the most at-risk during extreme heat in Maricopa County, leading last year’s indoor heat deaths and making up nearly half of outdoor heat deaths.

Maricopa County’s 2025 heat death report found that people 50 and older made up 48% of outdoor heat-related deaths and 90% of indoor heat deaths.

Organizations like the Justa Center are working to address those risks, specializing in getting elderly and vulnerable people back on track by providing meals, showers and other connections to services for housing, mental health and substance use recovery.

Rudy Soliz, the center’s director of operations, knows firsthand what it means to need that help.

“I lived this. I sat in this dining room, I ate the meals they ate, I used the showers they had,” Soliz said. “This place helped me, and that’s all I want to do back is help somebody else.”

He said many elderly people end up at the Justa Center due to the cost-of-living crisis, mental health challenges and other issues.

“All the sudden, you find out my money only gave me $900 a month to live on, that you can’t live on that,” Soliz said.

During extreme heat, seniors face serious health risks that compound existing conditions, like medication.

Dean Scheinert, the Justa Center’s executive director, said the dangers go beyond dehydration.

“Malnutrition, a lot of them suffer from dementia, and the heat just exacerbates all those conditions,” Scheinert said.

Scheinert said the population the center serves requires a level of care many organizations are not equipped to provide.

“Our members are the most vulnerable members of our community, and they require a very high-touch approach, and a lot of other organizations are just not equipped to provide that kind of care,” Scheinert said.

For seniors receiving in-home care, caregivers are often the first line of defense in life-threatening heat.

Steve Alfonsi with the Arizona In-Home Care Association said in-person check-ins are critical when air conditioners fail or when cognitive decline and temperature regulation issues make Arizona summers especially dangerous.

“They might sound okay on the phone, but it’s very important to get eyes on them to make sure that ultimately they’re staying hydrated and they are safe,” Alfonsi said. “I can recall multiple times where our caregivers have arrived, and ultimately only to find out that the individual, being that elderly individual, has not been drinking their water. They were dizzy, they had nausea.”

Arizona does not license non-medical in-home caregivers, which, Alfonsi said, makes it especially important to ensure a reputable person is checking in on loved ones. His association sets standards and best use practices for its member companies.

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WATCH: Phoenix piano teacher celebrates student who beat the odds to make history

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Cameron Polom

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    PHOENIX, Arizona (KNXV) — A north Phoenix piano teacher, Rory Dowse, is celebrating a student who’s proving limitations don’t always have the final say.

After losing the use of her right hand following an injury and surgery, 17-year-old Freya Terris, a pianist from Northern Ireland, spent two years relearning how to perform using only her left hand.

The effort culminated in a historic achievement: becoming the first known pianist to pass the highest level of the world’s leading piano exam board entirely one-handed.

Her success was so groundbreaking that the organization told her she now holds “a little place in history.”

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East Nashville neighbors launch mural project to replace white nationalist graffiti on historic silo

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Kelsey Gibbs

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    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Neighbors in East Nashville are working to transform a symbol of hate into a community mural after graffiti tied to the white nationalist group Patriot Front appeared on a historic silo about a month ago.

The silo, located on Crutcher Street at a local mulch company, was vandalized with the words “Patriot Front” painted on its side. The property owner, who asked not to be named, says the city has not offered assistance in removing the graffiti. Instead, Metro Property Standards has issued demands, imposed a deadline, and threatened fines of up to $50 per day if the graffiti is not removed.

The owner said the city’s response has put the burden entirely on the victim.

“Rather than working with us to remove a hateful message from our community, Metro’s approach has been to threaten penalties against the victim of the vandalism while expecting the property owner to shoulder the entire financial burden,” the owner said.

Council member Clay Capp says the deadline for the property owner to clean up the graffiti is Monday. If it is not cleaned up by then, Capp said he will urge Metro Codes to seek enforcement. Capp says Metro Property Standards are in place for all property owners.

Property standards apply to property owners generally. The Codes Department (which is to say, the city taxpayer) doesn’t have a responsibility to pay to keep private property up to standard. That’s the property owner’s responsibility. I am hopeful this property will be back up to standard by Monday, in the period for compliance required by state law and provided by the Codes Department. Otherwise the property owner will be explaining to the city why he chose not to do that. Clay Capp

Area resident Ande Marie said she noticed the graffiti during her daily commute through the neighborhood.

“I saw it myself. I drive by this neighborhood every day. I live in the area. You can see it from I-24,” Marie said.

Marie said the graffiti was immediately recognizable and unacceptable.

“I saw it, and I’m familiar with what that group stands for. And obviously, a lot of us don’t stand for what they stand for. So it really was just a community initiative where a lot of us saw it and wanted to do something about it ourselves,” Marie said.

Rather than simply removing the graffiti, Marie and other neighbors saw an opportunity to make a stronger statement.

No police report has been filed in connection with the vandalism. Patriot Front is a white nationalist organization.

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The Quincy News Morning Brief | Friday, July 10, 2026

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Juliegrace Brufke | Quincy News Correspondent

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    Washington (Quincy News) — Market Recap: Stocks bounced back Thursday, with the S&P 500 rising 0.81% and the Nasdaq gaining 1.3%, led by a rebound in chip stocks. The Dow added 139 points. Yields eased slightly despite the ongoing disruption to Strait of Hormuz shipping, with crude roughly flat on the day but still up 5-6% on the week following renewed U.S.-Iran fighting. Treasury yields also have room to ease further after Thursday’s 30-year auction priced at 5.058%, the highest since 2007, though demand held up better than feared.

Today’s Focus: Delta Air Lines kicked off earnings season on a strong note, beating second-quarter expectations and reaffirming its full-year guidance of $6.50–$7.50 in adjusted EPS and $3–$4 billion in free cash flow. The company also announced a 15% increase to its dividend beginning in the third quarter. SK Hynix begins trading on Nasdaq today under ticker SKHYV after raising $26.5 billion at $149 per share, the largest-ever U.S. listing by a foreign company, topping Alibaba’s 2014 record.

With a light economic calendar, attention turns to next week’s CPI report for clues on Fed policy.

ON THE SCHEDULE

No major U.S. economic data today

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Huerfano County Sheriff’s Office settles lawsuit for $10 million after Colorado inmate fatally injured in custody

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Christa Swanson

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    HUEFANO COUNTY, Colorado (KCNC) — The family of a Colorado man will receive a $10 million settlement after they say he was injured by a corrections officer and left to die while incarcerated in Huerfano County.

Sixty-nine-year-old Michael John Burch was an inmate at the Huerfano County Detention Center when he suffered multiple broken ribs during an interaction with a corrections officer, resulting in internal bleeding, according to the coroner’s report.

His family filed a federal lawsuit against the sheriff’s office, medical personnel, and the county’s board of commissioners, claiming that he was injured by the corrections officer and that staff then refused to treat him, resulting in his death more than a week later.

Burch was a former corrections officer in California who later moved to Walsenburg, Colo. He was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing and harassment on March 25, 2023.

His estate said that he entered the jail in the midst of a mental health crisis, but was in good physical health at the time. They claim that a detention officer broke several of Burch’s ribs after he refused to let go of a pencil, resulting in several punctured organs and internal bleeding.

However, his estate says he was not taken to a hospital for treatment. Instead, they allege that he was placed in a cell with the window covered up and was not given an examination, even as he physically declined and continued to plead for medical care.

Burch was discovered dead inside his cell on April 4, 2023.

Photos of Burch provided by his family appear to show extensive, deep bruising across his torso.

An autopsy report found Burch died “as a result of blunt force trauma to the chest and abdomen. These injuries were incurred when the decedent was tased and wrestled to the ground by law enforcement, striking his right chest and flank at the Huerfano County Jail.”

Court documents show that, on May 28, 2026, the Huerfano County Board of Commissioners and the sheriff’s office agreed to pay Burch’s estate $10 million to settle the lawsuit.

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Stray firework destroys Garden Grove man’s home, damages his prosthetic leg

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Brittney Ermon

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    GARDEN GROVE, California (KCAL, KCBS) — Anthony Scotti is now living in a motel after a stray firework destroyed his Garden Grove home, reduced nearly everything he owns to ashes and damaged his prosthetic leg.

“I saw some smoke in my peripheral vision. I saw flames flared up,” Scotti said.

Scotti said the firework shot through his window screen, landed inside his closet and ignited the blaze on July 5. Inside were family photos, momentos and a collection of vintage arcade games that he had spent years restoring.

He didn’t have his prosthetic leg on when he started thinking about what to save.

“My mind started to spiral. What do you grab? Do you go for photos? I totally spaced on my father’s military flag that was at his burial,” Scotti said. “I was a little confused, looking around, what to grab. I even skipped the prosthetic.”

Scotti left his prosthetic behind as he escaped. Back in a wheelchair, he hopes the leg can be repaired after the flames caused intense heat damage.

Since he couldn’t afford renter’s insurance, Scotti said the costs of the fire have skyrocketed. His niece created a GoFundMe to help him start over and rebuild his life.

“It’s tough too,” Scotti said. “Those little tidbits that you grew up with. I grew up in that neighborhood.”

Firefighters managed to save a few of Scotti’s belongings, including the American flag presented to his family at his father’s funeral.

Despite the struggles, Scotti promised to stay resilient.

“I chose to forge forward on and take the high road,” Scotti said.

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Video captures Santa Cruz cliff erosion at popular Steamer Lane surf spot

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Kenny Choi

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    SANTA CRUZ, California (KPIX) — Surfers from around the world have traveled to Santa Cruz to ride the waves at Steamer Lane, considered one of the best surf breaks in the world.

But the same ocean that makes Steamer Lane one of California’s most iconic surf spots is also slowly reshaping the cliffs above it.

Santa Cruz surfer Anthony Ruffo visits the iconic spot any day he can. He says he and other locals have watched chunks of the cliff give way over the years.

Last month, a Surfline camera captured the latest collapse.

“This one just fell straight down,” Ruffo said. “It didn’t fall over.”

Surfers say during big swells, the collapsing cliff has not noticeably changed the waves. But at lower tides, some say the new shape of the cliff has altered how surfers take off.

“The shape of the cliff’s different now,” Ruffo said. “It used to have a better angle for those smaller days. You take off and get like a slingshot, we call it.”

University of California, Santa Cruz professor Gary Griggs has spent decades studying California’s changing coastline, including the cliffs at Steamer Lane. He says the rock may look solid, but it is filled with natural weaknesses.

“As the water gets in there, the waves are acting like wedges, so it looks like rock,” Griggs said. “It’s actually almost like a series of dominoes that are stacked up there.”

The impacts extend far beyond the surf. Just a stone’s throw from Steamer Lane, a large section of West Cliff Drive collapsed during the winter storms of 2023, forcing a two-year rebuild.

Griggs says a warming climate is playing a role.

“It’s related to climate change because a couple studies that have been done show waves seem to be getting larger,” Griggs said. “If we look at 30 or 40 years of record, they may be a foot larger on average than they were. That’s consistent with a warmer climate.”

Surfers like Ruffo acknowledge breaks will change over time, but say that will never stop them from paddling out.

“As long as I can do a push-up, I can get on a board,” Ruffo said.

Like so much of California’s coast, Steamer Lane continues to be reshaped by the same ocean that made it famous, one wave at a time. Geologists say cliff erosion is a natural process, but rising sea levels and larger waves associated with a warming climate could accelerate that change in the years ahead.

They say Steamer Lane will continue to evolve, just as much of California’s coast has for thousands of years.

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University of Chicago Law School AI strategy bans phones, laptops in class for first year students

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Sara Tenenbaum

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    CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — The University of Chicago Law School is banning first-year students from using phones and laptops in the classroom as part of a broader strategy to curb AI usage.

In a long statement released Thursday, the law school wrote that they already see artificial intelligence impacting higher education and the legal profession. They said they spent the past year to reflect on how to adopt their curriculum and policies in response to AI, seeking input from their community, alumni, law firm leaders, business leaders, legal technology executives and law firm associates, as well as their faculty, staff and students.

“The feedback we have received throughout this process has been consistent,” they wrote. “We need to ensure that our students actually learn to think critically, strategically, and independently without relying on AI; but we also must face the reality that AI tools are already widely available to our students, and our graduates will be expected to be prepared to use them in legal practice.”

In response, the school said it’s launching a three-prong strategy in which they will “develop AI-resilient pedagogy and assessment,” elevate “‘essential human’ skills that distinguish excellent lawyers” and teach “responsible, effective, and ethical use of AI.”

As part of that strategy, first year law students will be prohibited from using electronic devices like laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom, university officials said. They said professors will be allowed to designate “classroom scribes” who can use electronic devices to take notes for the class, or authorize electronic device use in specific tech-reliant situations like interactive in-class polling.

But overall electronic usage will be banned to “ensure students actually learn to think critically, strategically and independently without relying on AI.”

Other requirements will include legal research and writing classes that require students to write without using AI while using AI for research, revision and preparations for oral arguments, after which their writing and their use of AI will be reviewed. There will also be upper-level elective courses explicitly focusing on the use of AI and the creation of AI tools for legal work.

“We recognize that no statement of an AI strategy or vision can be final,” the school wrote. “Technology is changing too fast. Thus, all the changes we are currently making will be subject to review, reconsideration, and revision as we learn more and as both technology and the practice of law evolve.”

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$50,000 reward offered to find fugitive in 2021 murder of Illinois National Guardsman Chrys Carvajal

CNN Newsource on July 10, 2026

By Charlie De Mar, Sara Tenenbaum

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    CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — The FBI is now offering a $50,000 reward to find a fugitive who is wanted for the 2021 murder of Illinois Army National Guardsman Chrys Carvajal.

Milwaukee Kings members Joseph “Troubles” Matos was indicted in 2024 alongside Gary “Gotti” Roberson with federal racketeering charges for Carvjal’s murder. Roberson was taken into custody at the time, but Matos was not and remains at large to this day.

“I keep praying for justice,” said Carvajal’s mother Lourdes Lara. “I believe in God and I know justice will be served.”

“Chrys was not just a soldier, he was not just a son, he was my brother, he was a friend,” said his sister Jennifer Ramirez.

Carvajal was 19 when he was killed. He had just returned home from Army National Guard training and was leaving a party on July 3, 2021, when he was shot and killed at the corner of Lockwood Ave. and Palmer St. in Belmont-Cragin as he was walking to his car.

Federal prosecutors say Matos and Roberson killed Carvajal “for the purpose of maintaining and increasing position in the Milwaukee Kings” street gang.

Now, more than five years since his death, the FBI has raised the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Matos to $50,000. The Carvajal family and 36th Ward Ald. Gilbert Villegas held a service to honor the soldier’s life Thursday evening.

“I can’t believe he’s still out there,” Lara said. “I don’t know how he can live with that, because I know he’s watching me now.”

“Fifty-thousand dollars is not what a life is worth, but it’s about how to bring justice to the family,” said Villegas. “They have been very patient.”

Matos’ chest is tattooed with the words “Most Wanted,” and last year he was featured on the show “America’s Most Wanted” in connection to Carvajal’s death. Investigators believe someone within his circle may be helping him hide.

“The family deserves closure, the community deserves closure,” Villegas said.

“I know somebody knows something,” said Lara.

Four months after his death, Carvajal’s family and friends called on then-Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to bring charges for the soldier’s murder, insisting there was video evidence and eyewitness testimony.

Matos was taken in to custody shortly after the shooting, but later released after Foxx’s office said at the time that there was not enough evidence to file charges.

The federal indictment did not provide details about the shooting.

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