Thursday, April 7, 2022
6A The Mining Journal
State / Nation /World
Alex Jones appears
for questioning
in Sandy Hook
lawsuit
By DAVE COLLINS
Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. —
Alex Jones was being ques-
tioned Wednesday by
lawyers for families of
Sandy Hook victims in
Connecticut, where a judge
had ordered the Infowars
host to face mounting fines
until he appeared for a de-
position.
Relatives of some of the
20 children and six educa-
tors killed in the 2012
Newtown, Connecticut,
massacre sued Jones for
defamation after he said the
shooting never happened. A
A Ukrainian soldier stands against the background of an
apartment house ruined in the Russian shelling in Borodyan-
ka, Ukraine,Wednesday. (AP photo)
Ukrainians pore over grisly
aftermath of atrocities
By ADAM SCHRECK
and ANDREA ROSA
Associated Press
A few of the black body
bags were not fully closed.
A health worker wearing a protective suit walks by masked residents who wait in line to get
their throat swab at a coronavirus testing site following a COVID-19 case being detected in a
residential building on Wednesday in Beijing. (AP photo)
judge found Jones liable for
damages and a trial on how
much he should pay the
families is set for August.
Jones, who lives in Texas,
had defied a judge’s order
to appear for a deposition in
the case, saying he was too
ill. But Connecticut Judge
Barbara Bellis said there
wasn’t enough evidence
that Jones was too sick to
attend and ordered him to
come to Connecticut for
questioning and pay esca-
lating daily fines until he
did so. Jones paid $25,000
in fines for Friday and
$50,000 in fines for Mon-
day, according to court
records.
A spokesperson for the
families and their lawyers at
Bridgeport-based Koskoff,
Koskoff & Bieder declined
to comment on the deposi-
tion Wednesday.
Jones said in a video on
the Infowars website that
the deposition began Tues-
day and was to continue
Wednesday. He said in the
video that the families’
lawyers began the deposi-
tion by “demonizing” him
for his questioning official
versions of events.
A
glimpse showed the
ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine
— Ukrainian authorities
gathered their dead and col-
lected evidence of Russian
atrocities on the ruined out-
skirts of Kyiv, as the two
sides geared up Wednesday
for what could be a climac-
tic push by Moscow’s
forces to seize the country’s
industrial east.
With Western govern-
ments set to toughen sanc-
tions against the Kremlin
and send more weapons to
Ukraine following allega-
tions of gruesome war
crimes by invading troops,
bloodied face of a young
adult. Another revealed a
pair of white sneakers.
WHO: COVID cases and deaths
continue to fall globally
More bodies were yet to
be collected in Bucha, days
after the Russian withdraw-
al. The Associated Press
saw two in a house in a
silent neighborhood. From
time to time there was the
muffled boom of workers
clearing the town of unex-
ploded ordnance, including
mines.
In Andriivka, a village
about 40 mile) west of
Kyiv, two police officers
from the nearby town of
Makariv came Tuesday to
identify a man whose body
was in a field beside tank
tracks. Officers found 20
bodies in the Makariv area,
Capt. Alla Pustova said.
Andriivka residents said
the Russians arrived in ear-
ly March and took locals’
phones. Some people were
detained, then released; oth-
ers met unknown fates.
Some described sheltering
for weeks in musty,
cramped cellars normally
used for storing vegetables
for winter.
With the sixth week of the
war drawing to a close, the
soldiers were gone, and
Russian armored personnel
carriers, a tank and other ve-
hicles sat destroyed on both
ends of the road running
through the village. Several
buildings were reduced to
mounds of bricks and corru-
gated metal. Residents
struggled without heat, elec-
tricity or cooking gas.
GENEVA (AP) — The number of coron- too quickly and predicted that future vari-
avirus cases reported globally has dropped ants could spread easily if surveillance and
for a second consecutive week and con- testing systems are shelved.
firmed COVID-19 deaths also fell last
week, according to a World Health Organi- hit record levels across the country, with
zation report issued Wednesday. government statistics estimating that about
Last week, the U.K. said COVID-19 had
In its latest pandemic report, WHO said 9 1 in 13 people were infected. Those figures
million cases were reported, a 16% weekly came on the same day the British govern-
decline, and more than 26,000 new deaths ment abandoned its free testing program.
from COVID-19. The U.N. health agency
said confirmed coronavirus infections were ed more mass testing this week across
down in all regions of the world. Shanghai, which remains in lockdown fol-
Meanwhile, Chinese authorities conduct-
Ukrainian
President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said
Russian forces were trying
to push deep into Ukraine in
the east, but the Ukrainian
army was holding them
back.
“The fate of our land and
of our people is being decid-
ed. We know what we are
fighting for. And we will do
everything to win,” Zelen-
skyy said.
Ukrainian officials have
stepped up calls for civilians
to evacuate westward from
towns near the front line
ahead of the anticipated
Russian offensive, and
some essential services
were being moved away.
Local authorities in Slovian-
sk said postal and pension
operations were clearing out
and bank branches in town
were shutting down.
In the scarred and silent
streets of Bucha and other
towns around Ukraine’s
capital that Russian recently
troops left, investigators
sought to document what
appeared to be widespread
killings of civilians, some
apparently shot at close
range, others with their
hands bound or their flesh
burned. Specialists also
cleared mines from the ar-
eas.
However, it warned that the reported num- lowing another jump in infections; the city
bers carry considerable uncertainty because has recorded more than 90,000 cases but no
many countries have stopped widespread deaths during the pandemic.
testing for the coronavirus, meaning that
many cases are likely going undetected.
Despite growing public frustration and
concerns about economic effects, China
WHO said it was also tracking an omicron says it is sticking to its hard-line “zero-tol-
variant that is a recombination of two ver- erance” approach mandating lockdowns,
sions: BA.1 and BA.2, which was first de- mass testing and the compulsory isolation
tected in Britain in January. WHO said ear- of all suspected cases and close contacts.
ly estimates suggest the recombined omi- Following a public uproar, Shanghai author-
cron could be about 10% more transmissi- ities said Wednesday they would allow at
ble than previous mutations, but further evi- least some parents to stay with children in-
dence is needed.
fected with COVID-19, making an excep-
The agency has continued to warn coun- tion to a policy of isolating anyone who tests
tries not to drop their COVID-19 protocols positive.
Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Bureau of Professional Licensing
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
April 25, 2022
9:00 a.m.
Location: G. Mennen Williams Building Auditorium 525 W. Ottawa Street, Lansing, Michigan
“First we were scared,
now we are hysterical,” said
Valentyna Klymenko, 64.
She said she, her husband
and two neighbors weath-
ered the siege by sleeping
on stacks of potatoes cov-
ered with a mattress and
blankets. “We didn’t cry at
first. Now we are crying.”
To the north of the village,
in the town of Borodyanka,
rescue workers combed
through the rubble of apart-
ment blocks, looking for
bodies. Mine-disposal units
worked nearby.
The hearing is held to receive public comments on the following administrative rules:
Acupuncture—General Rules (MOAHR #2021-38 LR)
Authority: MCL 333.16141, 333.16145, 333.16148, 333.16174, 333.16201, 333.16204, 333.16205, 333.16287,
333.16515, 333.16517, and 333.16525 and Executive Reorganization Order Nos. 1991-9, 1996-2, 2003-1, and
2011-4, MCL 338.3501, 445.2001, 445.2011, and 445.2030).
At a cemetery in Bucha,
workers began to load more
than 60 bodies apparently
collected over the past day
into a grocery shipping
truck for transport to a facil-
ity for further investigation.
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Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, add references to requirements for licensure or renewal contained in other rule
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against the individual before being licensed by endorsement or relicensed, renumber and reorganize rules for clarity,
and clarify the requirements for registered acupuncturists who choose to continue to practice as provided by
MCL 333.16511.
Massage Therapy—General Rules (MOAHR #2021-71 LR)
Family hurt in crash
after husband grabs
SUV steering wheel
Authority: MCL 333.16145, 333.16148, 333.16287, 333.17959, 333.17961, 333.17963, and 333.17965, and
Executive Reorganization Order Nos. 1991-9, 1996-2, 2003-1, and 2011-4, MCL 338.3501, 445.2001, 445.2011, and
445.2030.
Overview: The proposed rules will update the rule pertaining to the training standards for identifying victims of human
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licensure by endorsement rule into an easy-to-use chart format, and amend the rules pertaining to licensure by
endorsement and relicensure to require the applicant to disclose every health care credential the applicant has ever held
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relicensed or licensed by endorsement.
PERE MARQUETTE
Police said the 29-year-
TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) old husband and a 3-
— A Holland woman, her month-old girl in a child’s
two young children and her car seat were ejected from
husband have been injured the SUV. The vehicle land-
after their SUV rolled over ed on top of the husband.
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Comments on the proposed rules may be presented in person at the public hearing. Written comments will also be
accepted from date of publication until 5:00 p.m. on April 25, 2022, at the following address or e-mail address:
in western Michigan.
The driver, her daughter
The 28-year-old driver and her 4-year-old child
lost control of the vehicle were taken to a hospital
about 3:40 p.m. Tuesday with injuries that were not
on U.S. 31 in Pere Mar- considered to be life-threat-
quette Township when her ening. Her husband was in
husband in the front passen- serious condition at anoth-
ger seat grabbed the steer- er hospital.
Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
Bureau of Professional Licensing– Boards and Committees Section
P.O. Box 30670
Lansing, MI 48909-8170
Attention: Departmental Specialist Email: BPL-BoardSupport@michigan.gov
ing wheel, state police said
Wednesday in a release.
The SUV crossed over
A dog in the SUV was
not hurt.
Alcohol was being inves-
A copy of the proposed rules may be obtained by contacting Board Support at (517) 241-7500 or the email address
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two lanes and traveled off tigated as possibly con-
the roadway before veering tributing to the crash which
back into traffic. It then occurred northwest of
Acupuncture– General Rules
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rolled over in the median.
Grand Rapids, police said.
Massage Therapy – General Rules
ARS Public - RFR Transaction (state.mi.us)
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