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a day ago
- Yahoo
East Cleveland mayor fires police chief: I-Team
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) — The FOX 8 I-Team has learned the East Cleveland police chief has been fired. His replacement could be named in the next few days. Mayor Lateek R. Shabazz wrote a letter to Acting Chief Kenneth Lundy informing him he has been terminated effective immediately. Lundy received the letter on Monday. Police: Woman exchanges gunfire with 2 suspects after spotting them on doorbell cam The letter states Lundy was not properly hired. 'The decision follows a comprehensive review that uncovered multiple violations of Ohio civil service laws and East Cleveland ordinances regarding his appointment and promotions,' a news release from the East Cleveland mayor's office states. 'According to the review, Mr. Lundy was originally appointed in June 2016 and promoted through the ranks of sergeant, lieutenant, captain, and, most recently, Acting Chief of Police on January 2, 2024 — none of which adhered to the required competitive civil service examinations. Additionally, East Cleveland's ordinances limit temporary classified appointments to no more than 180 days in a calendar year; Mr. Lundy's continuous service far exceeded that limit. The only unclassified police employee is a six-month beat patrol commissioned officer who is not authorized to be a member of a collective bargaining union.' Shabazz, on Monday afternoon, told reporters Lundy's lack of civil service testing opens the city up to liability. : 'In addition to your unlawful appointment and promotions, news that you became romantically involved with the girlfriend of a homicide suspect you were investigating, without disclosing your live-in relationship with her to Cuyahoga County prosecutors prosecuting the suspect, is not the mindset of someone I want managing police going forward,' the letter from the mayor to the chief states. 'The duties of police are to obey and enforce all the ordinances of the city, and the criminal laws of the state and United States pursuant to R.C. 737.11. Police do not disobey laws. I am demanding strict constitutional compliance and obedience to laws from all law enforcement personnel.' Offensive demonstrations cause outrage in Summit County Shabazz said the city expects to name a permanent police chief by the end of the week and suggested Lundy's successor could be someone promoted from within the department. 'When I came in, I promised to reform the police department and that's what I'm doing right now. That's the first step in getting this city back on track,' he said. 'Your police department and your school systems — that's what brings people to your city,' he continued. 'The school system is the next thing we're going to address. But the police is most important. I don't want people to think they don't have protection.' We reached out to Lundy to discuss the matter. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
10-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Former Penn State basketball guard Seth Lundy waived by Los Angeles Clippers
A former Penn State hooper is hitting the open market. After less than a year with the Los Angeles Clippers, former Nittany Lion guard Seth Lundy has been waived, according to multiple reports including one from The Athletic's Law Murray. Lundy wasn't on the team's summer league roster while dealing with an ankle injury. Lundy joined the squad after being waived by the Atlanta Hawks in December, where he began his career. He averaged 1.6 points and 5.8 minutes per game during his rookie season in 2023-24 before seeing no action last season. Prior to his time in the pros, Lundy spent four seasons as a Nittany Lion and helped guide the team to its most recent NCAA Tournament appearance in 2023. Lundy started at least 15 games every season, averaging 26 minutes per game across his career. Across 122 games, Lundy averaged 10.5 points and 4.6 rebounds per game on a 41.2% field-goal perfcentage. His numbers steadily improved each year, peaking at 14.2 points and 6.3 boards per game in 2022-23.
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Texas company considering Watertown site for $250 million dairy processing plant
Jul. 8—WATERTOWN — A Texas-based company is looking at 40 acres of land on outer Massey Street to build a $250 million, 300,000-square-foot dairy processing plant. Southern Dairy, which has developed six similar facilities in New Zealand, is looking at the project on land owned by Ron Robbins, who owns the Robbins Family Farm outside Sackets Harbor. The company is also considering about five other sites, in Vermont, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and other states, for the project. But Southern Dairy CEO Owen Mansill prefers the town of Watertown site, said developer Michael E. Lundy, who's a consultant working on the project. The proposed plant would use raw milk, skim milk and whey sourced from north country dairy farms to produce milk powders, whey protein concentrate and other dry dairy products such as infant formula. The plant would employ 80 high-paying workers and hundreds of construction workers to get it built. The approval process is expected to take several months. The town's Planning Board heard a presentation about the project on Monday afternoon. That begins the formal approval process. "If we wait too long, we're going to lose it," Lundy warned. If all goes well, construction could begin as soon as early spring and take two years to complete, Lundy said. The project would be completely private funded, Lundy said. The plant would be a major boost for the north country's dairy industry and have an economic development impact for decades to come, said Jay Matteson, Jefferson County agricultural coordinator. "Growing both our dairy processing and milk production benefits the entire north country," Matteson said. The Lawman Group of Companies, of Sackets Harbor, is the design builder and general contractor for the project. Corry Lawler, CEO of the Lawman Group, spent 11 days in New Zealand learning about Southern Dairy's facilities there, he said. The plant's proximity to a CSX rail line is critical for the project in order to ship product out quickly, and is more cost effective when compared to trucking, he said. The site also has 115kV transmission lines that would give the plant the power it needs, Lawler said. The company is working with National Grid. "The site has everything that a developer would want," Lundy said. Town planners agreed for the developers to come back on Aug. 4 for a work session to work on ironing out some of the details of the project, with a return in September for more discussion. In a news release, Mansill said: "The majority of the positions will be high-paying technical jobs in a state-of-the-art modern facility." Lundy and Lawler have been working on the project since October 2023. Town officials have known about the proposal for a few months.
Chicago Tribune
27-06-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Former Portage firefighter accused of $93,000 in pay fraud
A former Portage firefighter faces felony charges that accuse him of using a cellphone payroll app to falsely claim $93,001.11 in pay he didn't earn over four years. William Thomas Lundy III, 25, of Michigan City, was charged Thursday with two Level 5 felonies of fraud and theft. He was booked into Porter County Jail late Thursday night and has since bonded out, according to jail records. Lundy left the Portage Fire Department in April, city records show. He is the son of Bill Lundy, a retired Portage Fire Department employee who served as chief from 2006 to 2009. A probable cause statement filed in Porter Superior Court outlines how Lundy's former supervisors at the Portage Fire Department and the Portage Police Department discovered the fraudulent scheme. One of Lundy's former colleagues in January happened to be perusing the Indiana Gateway website to see the pay of various city employees. The website is an online portal for municipal finances, including salaries. When he happened to see that Lundy's pay was comparable to other firefighters, suspicions were raised because he knew as a fellow paramedic, that Lundy hadn't worked a significant amount of overtime. A check of the master work schedule confirmed that Lundy had worked 72 overtime hours in 2024. The man expressed his concern to Lundy, who allowed him to look at the Automatic Data Payroll (ADP) app on his phone, according to court records. The colleague then compared the department's timecard to three or four ADP pay documents and noticed the overtime hours claimed didn't match the Portage Fire Department schedule. It was estimated that Lundy had earned between $25,000 and $30,000 more than what he was entitled. When confronted about the overpayment, Lundy replied that the pay seemed normal to him. Lundy then approached Deputy Fire Chief Jeremy Himan and asked if he was in trouble. Himan stated that the matter was being investigated, and there would be no issue unless he did something intentionally wrong regarding his overpayment. The investigation found that Lundy had used the unique personal employee number from his ADP payroll app, and some of his work hours submitted didn't match those authorized by Portage Fire Department personnel, charging documents state. Portage Police Detective Robert Shrader and Chief City Clerk Carrie Belt then compared records of the hours Lundy submitted on his ADP app with hours on the master schedule. As a result, it was found that starting in 2022, Lundy allegedly claimed 554 hours he didn't work for additional pay of $16,599.40. That amount grew to 1,182 hours fraudulently claimed in 2023, when he collected $36.404.45. Last year, Lundy was accused of claiming 1,072 additional hours that resulted in $39,018.87 collected. This year, Lundy had collected $978.39 in unauthorized pay. As an extra step, the work schedules were examined to see if Lundy had happened to trade shifts with a fellow firefighter. A check of the department logs found that he wasn't listed on calls of service for the days that he falsely claimed to be working on his payroll app.
Irish Examiner
27-06-2025
- Health
- Irish Examiner
Cooling effect of free HRT offers relief to women
Irish women take their hormonal health seriously. The Irish Examiner National Women's Health Survey found 45% of premenopausal women said they would seek their GP's advice when they start having menopausal symptoms. Some 10% planned to get help from other healthcare professionals. Previous generations weren't as proactive. Half of the women who have experienced menopause didn't ask for any medical help, and 56% of women aged 65 and over went through menopause without healthcare. Loretta Dignam, who was 56 when she founded Ireland's first dedicated menopause clinic, the Menopause Hub, in 2018, says younger women are more likely to take action because they are more informed than their mothers and grandmothers. 'Even when I set up the Menopause Hub, very few people were talking about menopause,' Dignam says. 'But, since then, brave women have started a national conversation. Now, we all talk openly about menopause, and young women know what's coming down the track.' Menstrual trackers and other health apps are another reason why younger women are more aware of their hormonal health. 'They are more educated than we ever were,' she says. 'They will enter menopause forewarned and forearmed.' Deirdre Lundy, clinical lead of the Complex Menopause Clinic in the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, says there will always be a cohort of women for whom menopause is a gentle transition that requires no medication. 'That could explain why some of the women in the study didn't consult doctors,' she says. 'The impact of menopause is so individualised; some are mildly affected while others are devastated.' About 80% of women experience menopausal symptoms, while 20% don't. Of those who do, about a third have severe symptoms, which range from sleep disturbance to joint pain, mood swings, and recurrent urinary tract infections. 'In the past, they might have felt they had to put up and shut up,' says Dignam. 'But they are no longer suffering in silence.' Lundy also wonders if the disparity between older and younger women's attitudes might stem from the misrepresentation of HRT studies in the early 2000s. HRT had been prescribed as a treatment for menopausal symptoms from the 1940s, but the later findings of the Women's Health Initiative in the US and the Million Women Study in Britain suggested it increased women's risk of breast cancer, clots, and strokes. This risk was subsequently disproven, but doctors remained reluctant to prescribe HRT. 'As a result, women know that even if they did seek help, the response would probably be: 'HRT will give you cancer',' says Lundy. 'So why bother seeking help at all?' She describes the situation today as 'light years ahead'. 'Women and their doctors are better informed and know HRT can help,' she says. 'And we have six free clinics that provide women with any specialist help they might need.' Ireland leading the way Clare Cromwell, a menopause specialist at the Mater Private in Cork and a co-chairperson of the Menopause Society of Ireland, identifies the recent introduction of free HRT as another major step forward. 'Having it freely available removes any financial barriers that may have prevented some women from benefiting from HRT,' she says. The scheme may offer an opportunity to further our understanding of menopause. Cromwell says: 'Data from the women who register for the scheme could be tracked and used for research to influence future policy on women's health.' However, according to Laura Cullen, a Bantry-based GP and director of women's health at the Irish College of General Practitioners, the scheme is not entirely free: 'It doesn't cover the cost of menopause consultations. These are often complex and can involve multiple consultations over several months. The HSE doesn't resource this.' Cromwell also cautions against focusing on HRT to the exclusion of other treatments: 'There are women who can't take HRT, particularly women who have had breast or other hormone-induced cancers. Their treatment can often induce menopause with severe symptoms, which can only be treated using non-hormonal medication. We shouldn't leave them out of the conversation.' The Government's decision to make HRT available free of charge is one of the reasons why Dignam now ranks Ireland as a global leader in menopause care. 'We and the UK are in the top echelons when it comes to education, medical services, menopause training in the workplace and policy development overall,' she says. 'The US and continental Europe are years behind us.' This doesn't mean there isn't more to be done. The Irish Examiner National Women's Health Survey found that when women did seek medical help, 22% rated the professionals' understanding of hormonal issues as poor, and 21% said the information they received was poor. They were more likely to be critical of male GPs, with 24% ranking the care they received from male GPs as poor, compared to 15% who attended a female GP. Allocating more time and funding for GPs to upskill in menopause care could help tackle this problem, says Cromwell, who added: 'Other healthcare professionals, such as physiotherapists and psychotherapists, should also be trained to recognise menopause symptoms, such as pelvic floor problems and mood issues, when they present.' Cullen suggests that a standardised mid-life health check for women would further improve menopause care: 'Menopause is a great time for women to assess their overall health and get informed about the steps they could take to keep themselves healthy in their post-reproductive years. Oestrogen levels become negligible in the 10 years after menopause, and — as it's known to be protective for heart and bone health — women need to especially look at risks in relation to conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, and ischaemic heart disease.' Dignam has already called on the health minister to introduce such a health check: 'It would help in so many ways,' Dignam says. 'It would educate women about menopause and the proactive steps they can take to protect their long-term health. It would also ensure early detection and treatment of medical conditions. We know that women live longer than men, but they do so in poorer health. A midlife health check would enable them to live fuller, healthier lives post-menopause.' Five years of 'pure hell' Tina Brennan: 'My family and friends were great. So were the people at work, always telling me to go home and rest whenever I felt unwell.' Photo: Gerry Faughnan Tina Brennan wonders if she would have had heart problems if she and her doctor had known more about menopause when she first developed symptoms 10 years ago. The 59-year-old civil servant, from Roscommon, started getting palpitations in her late 40s. 'I'd suddenly feel so unwell I'd think I was going to pass out,' she says. It took five years and countless doctors' visits before a menopause specialist told her that hormones caused her symptoms. 'Those were five years of pure hell,' says Brennan, who often felt dismissed by medics. 'At one point, I remember asking if my symptoms could be menopause related, and the consultant wouldn't even entertain the idea, telling me that women blamed everything on menopause.' A decade later, Brennan's symptoms are finally under control. 'I take medication now, but I question if taking HRT early on might have helped me,' she says. 'I did try it for a while, but I'd had palpitations for years by that stage. It was probably too late.' She considers herself lucky to have had support during those tough years: 'My family and friends were great. So were the people at work, always telling me to go home and rest whenever I felt unwell.' Her employers now run lunchtime seminars on menopause. She says: 'I think that will mean the next generation of women will know more about it. The awareness of the impact menopause can have on women's lives simply wasn't there when I went through it.' Sleepless nights Kathleen Ormond was in her early 50s when she suddenly stopped being able to sleep. 'I'd be lucky to get two hours' sleep a night,' says the now 69-year-old, from Wexford. Mood swings accompanied her subsequent exhaustion. Ormond had little patience with her family and experienced bouts of road rage. Eventually, she realised her problems could be due to her hormones. So she asked a doctor about taking HRT. However, she was flatly dismissed. 'A female GP told me that it would be like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly,' says Ormond. 'She gave me sleeping tablets instead.' Another sleepless year was to pass before her daughter recommended she see a menopause specialist. 'What a different experience that was,' says Ormond. 'She asked questions and listened to my answers.' She also gave her a prescription for HRT, which had what Ormond describes as'incredible results'. She was able to sleep again. Her mood lifted: 'It even improved the condition of my hair and skin.' Her advice to other women is to speak up and get help: 'I couldn't continue living the way I was when my symptoms were at their worst, and my family found it hard to live with me too. 'But going for that second opinion led to me finding a solution to my menopause problems.'
