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Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Toll Brothers at Elk Ridge Community Opens in Southern Utah County
ELK RIDGE, Utah, July 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE:TOL), the nation's leading builder of luxury homes, has announced the opening of Toll Brothers at Elk Ridge in southern Utah County. Nestled in the foothills of the Wasatch Range, Toll Brothers at Elk Ridge offers luxury single-family homes with breathtaking views and exclusive luxury living in Elk Ridge, Utah. 'Toll Brothers at Elk Ridge is an exceptional community, offering luxurious single-family homes in one of Utah County's most coveted locations,' said Mark Bailey, Regional President of Toll Brothers in Utah. 'With its stunning natural beauty and premier four-season recreation, this community provides an unparalleled lifestyle for our residents.'Toll Brothers at Elk Ridge features luxury single-family home designs ranging from approximately 4,030 to 5,889+ total square feet. Home shoppers can choose from five stunning floor plans with options for personalization priced from the upper $800,000s. The homes offer 2 to 6 bedrooms, 2.5 to 5.5 baths, and 3- to 4-car garages, and luxury outdoor living spaces featuring optional multi-panel sliding glass doors for extended indoor and outdoor entertaining. Toll Brothers customers will experience one-stop shopping at the Toll Brothers Design Studio. The state-of-the-art Design Studio allows customers to choose from a wide array of selections to personalize their dream home with the assistance of Toll Brothers professional Design Consultants. Residents will enjoy proximity to scenic parks, outdoor activities, and recreation, as well as beautiful views of the Wasatch Mountain Range. The community is conveniently located near major commuter routes, providing easy access to shopping, dining, and entertainment. The Toll Brothers Sales Center is located at 598 East Birch Lane in Elk Ridge. For more information on Toll Brothers at Elk Ridge, home shoppers are invited to call (800) 289-8655 or visit Toll Brothers Toll Brothers, Inc., a Fortune 500 Company, is the nation's leading builder of luxury homes. The Company was founded 58 years ago in 1967 and became a public company in 1986. Its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'TOL.' The Company serves first-time, move-up, empty-nester, active-adult, and second-home buyers, as well as urban and suburban renters. Toll Brothers builds in over 60 markets in 24 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as in the District of Columbia. The Company operates its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, land development, smart home technology, and landscape subsidiaries. The Company also develops master-planned and golf course communities as well as operates its own lumber distribution, house component assembly, and manufacturing operations. Toll Brothers has been one of Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Companies™ for 10+ years in a row, and in 2024 the Company's Chairman and CEO Douglas C. Yearley, Jr. was named one of 25 Top CEOs by Barron's magazine. Toll Brothers has also been named Builder of the Year by Builder magazine and is the first two-time recipient of Builder of the Year from Professional Builder magazine. For more information visit From Fortune, ©2025 Fortune Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license. Contact: Andrea Meck | Toll Brothers, Senior Director, Public Relations & Social Media | 215-938-8169 | ameck@ Photos accompanying this announcement are available at: Sent by Toll Brothers via Regional Globe Newswire (TOLL-REG)Inicia sesión para acceder a tu cartera de valores
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Illinois veteran bestowed military honors nearly a decade after death
CHICAGO — Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the Army officer, hugged it to his chest and closed his eyes. Though the person he called his aunt — born Reba Caroline Bailey — had been estranged, missing for decades and died in 2015 as an unidentified ward of the state, he felt connection and a sense of closure. 'I want to let Reba know we're part of the circle and part of the family,' he said. Mark Bailey was among dozens of attendees at an unusual funeral service with military honors this week for an Illinois veteran with memory problems so severe that they died an unnamed person. The ceremony became possible because of an extraordinary cold case investigation that identified the 75-year-old postmortem. Investigators unearthed the mystery of how the Women's Army Corps veteran ended up homeless in Chicago with few recollections of their own life, aside from identifying as a man named Seven. 'I never knew I had this family member,' said Mark Bailey's 19-year-old son Cole, who also drove from central Illinois for the service. 'It's nice to know I have somebody that's been found and isn't lost anymore.' Since the investigation's conclusion, the numbered cement cylinder that marked the unidentified grave has been replaced with a rectangular plague with a cross that reads: 'Reba Caroline Bailey, PFC US Army.' The case of Seven Doe, the name appearing in some official records, came to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's office in 2023. The unidentified body belonged to a person who died of natural causes in an assisted living facility. They were a ward of the state, unable to remember a legal name or family. The cause of death was heart disease with diabetes and dementia as contributing factors and the body was buried in a section for unclaimed people at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery on Chicago's Far South Side. The medical examiner marked it as the 4,985th case of the year and put the number on the headstone. In 2023, investigators ran fingerprints taken postmortem and found a 1961 Army record for the veteran, formerly of Danville, about 140 miles (225.31 kilometers) south of Chicago. The search for close living relatives came up short; five siblings and an ex-husband had all died. The family members they did locate had only heard stories of a relative who had disappeared. After making the identification, detectives ordered a new headstone with the same name on military records. It was quietly installed last year. Commander Jason Moran, who oversees the sheriff's missing persons unit, said it was rewarding to make sure the identified veteran got the benefit of a funeral with military honors. 'It's just a privilege to be able to help families and really close the story,' said Moran, whose work on other high-profile cold cases has gained notoriety. Several generations of the Bailey family have told stories about what happened to their missing relative since leaving the military to get married. They've wondered about the possibility of children or their relative's gender identity. Some believe that there was a family dispute but the stories about its origins vary from the decision to join the military to sexual orientation. Family members tried to find their missing relative over the years, including Amanda Ingram, who would have been a great-niece. She maintains a meticulous family tree with Census records and photos. 'It's amazing how somebody can just disappear like that and not know what happened,' Ingram said this week. 'I'm pretty sure we're never going to know the details.' On a winter day in the late 1970s, a person wearing a military-style jacket and aviator cap was curled up on the porch of St. Francis Catholic Worker House in Chicago. Residents who stayed there at the time told The Associated Press that the person asked to be called Seven, spoke in the third person and identified as a man. Seven quickly became the house cook. The meals drew crowds to the neighborhood where several homeless advocacy groups operated, according to former residents' accounts. Investigators have tried to explain the memory loss and floated theories about brain damage related to a 1950 car accident that killed Bailey's mother or to military service. That included stints at Fort Ord in California, a polluted former Army base, and Fort McClellan in Alabama, formerly used for chemical weapons training, and where the federal government has acknowledged potential exposure to toxins. Neither family, investigators nor residents of the worker house figured out the meaning behind the name Seven. Ingram, who lives in Alabama, couldn't make the ceremony this week. But she asked volunteers from an Illinois chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution to attend on her behalf. 'Everybody who comes to visit that cemetery will pass by it and know who she was,' said Ingram, whose detailed family trees include records using Bailey's birth name. Mark Bailey said he and his son wanted to bring something to the service that would honor both parts of their long-lost relative's life. They had heard their relative had an affinity for the Cubs and looked for a jersey with the number '7' on it, but settled on a blue team cap. They set it on the headstone. The service held Tuesday included prayers, a 21-gun salute and a bugler playing taps — a chilling, 24-note salute that is traditionally played at funerals of U.S. military veterans. Attendees included Cook County sheriff's investigators and Archdiocese of Chicago staff. 'I just wish the rest of them could be identified as well,' Mark Bailey told those attending while pointing to the rows of unidentified graves. Dart, the Cook County sheriff, said the ceremony left him nearly speechless, saying the Illinois veteran deserved military honors and a flag from the U.S. president 'instead of being forgotten and left as an anonymous number somewhere.' Relatives said they planned to eventually display the flag at the American Legion in Potomac, near where the Bailey family has roots. Mark Bailey said the acknowledgement of military service was particularly meaningful with so many veterans in the extended family. He hoped the memory would stay with his son Cole, who plans to enlist. 'For him, it'll be something he'll have forever,' he said.
02-07-2025
- Health
Military honors bestowed on Illinois veteran identified nearly a decade after death
CHICAGO -- Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the Army officer, hugged it to his chest and closed his eyes. Though the person he called his aunt — born Reba Caroline Bailey — had been estranged, missing for decades and died in 2015 as an unidentified ward of the state, he felt connection and a sense of closure. 'I want to let Reba know we're part of the circle and part of the family,' he said. Mark Bailey was among dozens of attendees at an unusual funeral service with military honors this week for an Illinois veteran with memory problems so severe that they died an unnamed person. The ceremony became possible because of an extraordinary cold case investigation that identified the 75-year-old postmortem. Investigators unearthed the mystery of how the Women's Army Corps veteran ended up homeless in Chicago with few recollections of their own life, aside from identifying as a man named Seven. 'I never knew I had this family member,' said Mark Bailey's 19-year-old son Cole, who also drove from central Illinois for the service. 'It's nice to know I have somebody that's been found and isn't lost anymore.' Since the investigation's conclusion, the numbered cement cylinder that marked the unidentified grave has been replaced with a rectangular plague with a cross that reads: 'Reba Caroline Bailey, PFC US Army.' The case of Seven Doe, the name appearing in some official records, came to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's office in 2023. The unidentified body belonged to a person who died of natural causes in an assisted living facility. They were a ward of the state, unable to remember a legal name or family. The cause of death was heart disease with diabetes and dementia as contributing factors and the body was buried in a section for unclaimed people at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery on Chicago's Far South Side. The medical examiner marked it as the 4,985th case of the year and put the number on the headstone. In 2023, investigators ran fingerprints taken postmortem and found a 1961 Army record for the veteran, formerly of Danville, about 140 miles (225.31 kilometers) south of Chicago. The search for close living relatives came up short; five siblings and an ex-husband had all died. The family members they did locate had only heard stories of a relative who had disappeared. After making the identification, detectives ordered a new headstone with the same name on military records. It was quietly installed last year. Commander Jason Moran, who oversees the sheriff's missing persons unit, said it was rewarding to make sure the identified veteran got the benefit of a funeral with military honors. 'It's just a privilege to be able to help families and really close the story,' said Moran, whose work on other high-profile cold cases has gained notoriety. Several generations of the Bailey family have told stories about what happened to their missing relative since leaving the military to get married. They've wondered about the possibility of children or their relative's gender identity. Some believe that there was a family dispute but the stories about its origins vary from the decision to join the military to sexual orientation. Family members tried to find their missing relative over the years, including Amanda Ingram, who would have been a great-niece. She maintains a meticulous family tree with Census records and photos. 'It's amazing how somebody can just disappear like that and not know what happened,' Ingram said this week. 'I'm pretty sure we're never going to know the details.' On a winter day in the late 1970s, a person wearing a military-style jacket and aviator cap was curled up on the porch of St. Francis Catholic Worker House in Chicago. Residents who stayed there at the time told the Associated Press that the person asked to be called Seven, spoke in the third person and identified as a man. Seven quickly became the house cook. The meals drew crowds to the neighborhood where several homeless advocacy groups operated, according to former residents' accounts. Investigators have tried to explain the memory loss and floated theories about brain damage related to a 1950 car accident that killed Bailey's mother or to military service. That included stints at Fort Ord in California, a polluted former Army base, and Fort McClellan in Alabama, formerly used for chemical weapons training, and where the federal government has acknowledged potential exposure to toxins. Neither family, investigators nor residents of the worker house figured out the meaning behind the name Seven. Ingram, who lives in Alabama, couldn't make the ceremony this week. But she asked volunteers from an Illinois chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution to attend on her behalf. 'Everybody who comes to visit that cemetery will pass by it and know who she was,' said Ingram, whose detailed family trees include records using Bailey's birth name. Mark Bailey said he and his son wanted to bring something to the service that would honor both parts of their long-lost relative's life. They had heard their relative had an affinity for the Cubs and looked for a jersey with the number '7' on it, but settled on a blue team cap. They set it on the headstone. The service held Tuesday included prayers, a 21-gun salute and a bugler playing taps — a chilling, 24-note salute that is traditionally played at funerals of U.S. military veterans. Attendees included Cook County sheriff's investigators and Archdiocese of Chicago staff. 'I just wish the rest of them could be identified as well,' Mark Bailey told those attending while pointing to the rows of unidentified graves. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the ceremony left him nearly speechless, saying the Illinois veteran deserved military honors and a flag from the U.S. president 'instead of being forgotten and left as an anonymous number somewhere.' Relatives said they planned to eventually display the flag at the American Legion in Potomac, near where the Bailey family has roots. Mark Bailey said the acknowledgement of military service was particularly meaningful with so many veterans in the extended family. He hoped the memory would stay with his son Cole, who plans to enlist. 'For him, it'll be something he'll have forever,' he said.
Winnipeg Free Press
02-07-2025
- Health
- Winnipeg Free Press
Military honors bestowed on Illinois veteran identified nearly a decade after death
CHICAGO (AP) — Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the Army officer, hugged it to his chest and closed his eyes. Though the person he called his aunt — born Reba Caroline Bailey — had been estranged, missing for decades and died in 2015 as an unidentified ward of the state, he felt connection and a sense of closure. 'I want to let Reba know we're part of the circle and part of the family,' he said. Mark Bailey was among dozens of attendees at an unusual funeral service with military honors this week for an Illinois veteran with memory problems so severe that they died an unnamed person. The ceremony became possible because of an extraordinary cold case investigation that identified the 75-year-old postmortem. Investigators unearthed the mystery of how the Women's Army Corps veteran ended up homeless in Chicago with few recollections of their own life, aside from identifying as a man named Seven. 'I never knew I had this family member,' said Mark Bailey's 19-year-old son Cole, who also drove from central Illinois for the service. 'It's nice to know I have somebody that's been found and isn't lost anymore.' Since the investigation's conclusion, the numbered cement cylinder that marked the unidentified grave has been replaced with a rectangular plague with a cross that reads: 'Reba Caroline Bailey, PFC US Army.' The cold case The case of Seven Doe, the name appearing in some official records, came to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's office in 2023. The unidentified body belonged to a person who died of natural causes in an assisted living facility. They were a ward of the state, unable to remember a legal name or family. The cause of death was heart disease with diabetes and dementia as contributing factors and the body was buried in a section for unclaimed people at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery on Chicago's Far South Side. The medical examiner marked it as the 4,985th case of the year and put the number on the headstone. In 2023, investigators ran fingerprints taken postmortem and found a 1961 Army record for the veteran, formerly of Danville, about 140 miles (225.31 kilometers) south of Chicago. The search for close living relatives came up short; five siblings and an ex-husband had all died. The family members they did locate had only heard stories of a relative who had disappeared. After making the identification, detectives ordered a new headstone with the same name on military records. It was quietly installed last year. Commander Jason Moran, who oversees the sheriff's missing persons unit, said it was rewarding to make sure the identified veteran got the benefit of a funeral with military honors. 'It's just a privilege to be able to help families and really close the story,' said Moran, whose work on other high-profile cold cases has gained notoriety. Seven's mysterious life Several generations of the Bailey family have told stories about what happened to their missing relative since leaving the military to get married. They've wondered about the possibility of children or their relative's gender identity. Some believe that there was a family dispute but the stories about its origins vary from the decision to join the military to sexual orientation. Family members tried to find their missing relative over the years, including Amanda Ingram, who would have been a great-niece. She maintains a meticulous family tree with Census records and photos. 'It's amazing how somebody can just disappear like that and not know what happened,' Ingram said this week. 'I'm pretty sure we're never going to know the details.' On a winter day in the late 1970s, a person wearing a military-style jacket and aviator cap was curled up on the porch of St. Francis Catholic Worker House in Chicago. Residents who stayed there at the time told the Associated Press that the person asked to be called Seven, spoke in the third person and identified as a man. Seven quickly became the house cook. The meals drew crowds to the neighborhood where several homeless advocacy groups operated, according to former residents' accounts. Investigators have tried to explain the memory loss and floated theories about brain damage related to a 1950 car accident that killed Bailey's mother or to military service. That included stints at Fort Ord in California, a polluted former Army base, and Fort McClellan in Alabama, formerly used for chemical weapons training, and where the federal government has acknowledged potential exposure to toxins. Neither family, investigators nor residents of the worker house figured out the meaning behind the name Seven. Ingram, who lives in Alabama, couldn't make the ceremony this week. But she asked volunteers from an Illinois chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution to attend on her behalf. 'Everybody who comes to visit that cemetery will pass by it and know who she was,' said Ingram, whose detailed family trees include records using Bailey's birth name. Honoring a complicated life Mark Bailey said he and his son wanted to bring something to the service that would honor both parts of their long-lost relative's life. They had heard their relative had an affinity for the Cubs and looked for a jersey with the number '7' on it, but settled on a blue team cap. They set it on the headstone. The service held Tuesday included prayers, a 21-gun salute and a bugler playing taps — a chilling, 24-note salute that is traditionally played at funerals of U.S. military veterans. Attendees included Cook County sheriff's investigators and Archdiocese of Chicago staff. 'I just wish the rest of them could be identified as well,' Mark Bailey told those attending while pointing to the rows of unidentified graves. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the ceremony left him nearly speechless, saying the Illinois veteran deserved military honors and a flag from the U.S. president 'instead of being forgotten and left as an anonymous number somewhere.' Relatives said they planned to eventually display the flag at the American Legion in Potomac, near where the Bailey family has roots. Mark Bailey said the acknowledgement of military service was particularly meaningful with so many veterans in the extended family. He hoped the memory would stay with his son Cole, who plans to enlist. 'For him, it'll be something he'll have forever,' he said.
Washington Post
02-07-2025
- Washington Post
Military honors bestowed on Illinois veteran identified nearly a decade after death
CHICAGO — Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the Army officer, hugged it to his chest and closed his eyes. Though the person he called his aunt — born Reba Caroline Bailey — had been estranged, missing for decades and died in 2015 as an unidentified ward of the state, he felt connection and a sense of closure.
