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April 21, 2023 | Vol. 2 Iss. 16
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NEWS BREAK 13-year-old freed from claw machine In Charlotte, North Carolina, a 13-year-old boy had to be freed from a claw machine after he climbed inside hoping to grab a prize, according to the Carowinds Amusement Park. Officials were alerted Sunday afternoon that the boy was inside a park claw machine containing plush prizes, according to a spokesperson for the park south of Charlotte. The medical response team unlocked the machine and the boy was able to get out, she said. He was treated and released from first aid to his guardian. The boy has been banned from the park for one year for attempted theft, Weber said.
Montana bans TikTok
A DUMPSTER SITS IN a ravine after a flood broke open the road in a new subdivision last week. Many of the homes were under construction.
Photo by Roger V. Tuttle
Flooding causes extensive damage to Kaysville neighborhood By Becky Ginos becky.g@davisjournal.com KAYSVILLE—Residents in the new Orchard Ridge subdivision in Kaysville were left reeling last week as a flood came rushing through, creating a ravine in the road swallowing dumpsters and leaving driveways and sidewalks hanging. Most of the homes in the area were under construction. “We’re relying on preliminary information but it looks like it happened sometime
late Tuesday or Wednesday morning,” said Kaysville Public Works Director Josh Belnap. “A storm drain that was part of the subdivision became plugged and as the water continued to come down the mountain instead of going through the pipes pushed open a manhole and the water went on the road itself.” Water started flowing out on the low side of a section of curb for a future driveway and caused it to collapse, he said. “Dumpsters and palettes and other items took up space and forced the water out onto
the road and destroyed an underground pipe.” The street is now lined with sandbags, said Belnap. “We’ve got the water isolated down the street to keep it away from the area that’s already eroded so we can get to the underground storm drain and send it to the Great Salt Lake.” There are two sections of roadway and we won’t know where all the areas are that are damaged until we can assess it, he said. Please see FLOODING: pg. 3
Geotech study being done to determine cause of mudslide
Montana became the first state in the country to ban the social media app TikTok from all personal devices, sending the bill to Governor Greg Gianforte’s desk. If the governor signs the bill, it will take effect in January 2024. The bill would prohibit app stores from selling the app within the state boundaries, and would penalize them, rather than individual users. TikTok is seen by some security analysts as a threat, due to its data-mining potential and Chinese authorship. The bill likely faces a number of first amendment challenges if passed.
U.S. reached its debt limit in January House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has outlined a proposal to raise the nation's credit limit for one year to address the “ticking time bomb” of the debt ceiling in exchange for significant spending cuts and GOP policy changes to federal assistance programs. The U.S. reached its debt limit in January. Negotiations have stalled between McCarthy and President Biden, with Biden calling for a clean increase of the debt ceiling not tied to a debate about spending.
18,000 cows killed in explosion, fire at Texas dairy farm A fire spread quickly through the holding pens of a west Texas dairy farm last week, where thousands of dairy cows crowded together waiting to be milked, trapped in deadly confines. After subduing the fire officials were stunned at the scale of livestock death left behind: 18,000 head of cattle perished in the fire at the South Fork Dairy farm near Dimmitt, Texas – or about 20% of the cattle slaughtered in America on any given day, according to USA Today. A MUDSLIDE IN FRUIT HEIGHTS took out a barn and trapped property owners. The city has asked the developer to do a geotech study of the area. Photo courtesy of KFD By Becky Ginos becky.g@davisjournal.com FRUIT HEIGHTS—The cause of a mudslide in Fruit Heights near Mountain Road two weeks ago appears to be the result of snow on the bench that warmed up too quickly and saturated the hillside. The owners of the property were trapped in the slide as they were trying to divert the water and the hillside came down.
“They had non life threatening injuries,” said Fruit Heights City Manager Brandon Green. “The Davis County Sheriff’s Office responded very quickly and it didn’t take a lot to get them removed.” Their home was not hit, just a barn that was on the back side of the property, he said. “They have a small farm, an acre maybe half acre that backs onto the hillside.” The developer is doing a geo tech study to determine the exact cause, said Green. “When we get that information it will help
us better to determine the cause and how to mitigate it in the future.” There was a subdivision planned, said Green. “The developers were getting ready to install new underground work, sewer and water lines. Several geo tech studies of the area had already been done. This is an additional study the city has asked them to do.” The clean up hasn’t started yet, Green said. “That’s not the city (who will do it) but the developer with the property owners.” l
Study shows COVID in pregnant women could affect boys’ brain development Getting COVID while pregnant could affect your son's brain development, according to a study looking at more than 18,000 children born in Massachusetts. It revealed that boys, not girls, were twice as likely to show developmental disorders like speech, language and motor function delays in the first 18 months of life.