K2 Radio News: Flash Briefing For August 18th, 2017 – Morning

BARCELONA, SPAIN (AP) - A POLICE OFFICIAL SAYS THAT AUTHORITIES HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED THE DRIVER OF THE VAN THAT KILLED AT LEAST 13 PEOPLE IN BARCELONA. THE CATALAN REGIONAL POLICE OFFICIAL SAYS THAT THE ATTACKS SUSPECTS IN CUSTODY ARE THREE MOROCCANS AND A SPANIARD. HE SAYS THAT NONE OF THEM HAD A RECORD OF TERROR ACTIVITY ALTHOUGH ONE WAS KNOWN TO POLICE FOR PETTY CRIMES. HOURS AFTER THE BARCELONA ATTACK, A CAR STRUCK PEDESTRIANS IN THE SEASIDE TOWN OF CAMBRILS, KILLING A WOMAN AND INJURING OTHERS.

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE (AP) - THE RED CROSS SAYS THEY STILL HOPE TO FIND SURVIVORS OF MONDAY'S DEADLY MUDSLIDES AND FLOODING IN SIERRA LEONE'S CAPITAL "BUT THE CHANCES ARE GETTING SMALLER EVERY DAY." THE UNITED NATIONS SAYS 409 BODIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE RUBBLE. MORE THAN 600 ARE STILL MISSING.

MONTGOMERY, ALA. (AP) - AS CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY TEAR DOWN STATUES OF CONFEDERATE LEADERS, A NEW CONFEDERATE MONUMENT IS SLATED TO BE UNVEILED IN ALABAMA. JIMMY HILL IS COMMANDER OF THE ALABAMA DIVISION OF THE SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS. HE TELLS AL.COM THAT THE MEMORIAL TO "UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS" WILL BE UNVEILED AT 2 P.M. ON AUG. 27 IN A CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL PARK ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY IN AN UNINCORPORATED AREA OF CRENSHAW COUNTY. HE SAYS THE UNVEILING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A SUSPECT IN THE SPRAY-PAINTING OF THE WORDS "BLACK POWER" ON THE STATUE OF A FORMER PHILADELPHIA MAYOR AND POLICE COMMISSIONER THAT CRITICS SAY SHOULD COME DOWN. POLICE SAY THEY AREN'T RELEASING THE NAME OF THE MAN ARRESTED TODAY UNTIL FORMAL CHARGES ARE FILED. WORKERS POWER-WASHED AWAY THE GRAFFITI THAT WAS SPRAYED IN WHITE PAINT ON THE BRONZE STATUE OF THE LATE FRANK RIZZO. RIZZO CRITICS SAY HE REIGNED OVER PHILADELPHIA WHEN POLICE BRUTALITY WAS THE ACCEPTED NORM.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) - NASA HAS LAUNCHED THE LAST OF ITS LONGTIME TRACKING AND COMMUNICATION SATELLITES. THE END OF THE ERA CAME WITH THIS MORNING'S LIFTOFF OF TDRS-M (T-DRISS-M), THE 13TH SATELLITE THAT'S PART OF THE TRACKING AND DATA RELAY SATELLITE NETWORK. AN UNMANNED ATLAS V ROCKET PROVIDED THE LIFT FROM CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA. NASA HAS BEEN LAUNCHING TDRS SATELLITES SINCE 1983. THE 22,300-MILE-HIGH CONSTELLATION LINKS GROUND CONTROLLERS WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE AND OTHER LOW-ORBITING CRAFT.
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THE CASPER POLICE DEPARTMENT ON THURSDAY BEGAN BLOCKING STREETS AND PARKING THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING FOR THE ECLIPSEFEST.

THE DEPARTMENT SAID ON ITS FACEBOOK PAGE THAT NORTH DAVID STREET BETWEEN WEST FIRST STREET AND WEST B STREETS WILL BE CLOSED TO VEHICLE TRAFFIC TO ALLOW PARKING FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL AND THEIR EQUIPMENT.

SOUTH DAVID STREET BETWEEN WEST MIDWEST AVENUE AND WEST SECOND STREET WILL BE CLOSED TO PARKING.

SOUTH ASH STREET BETWEEN WEST MIDWEST AVENUE AND INDUSTRIAL AVENUE WILL BE CLOSED TO PARKING.

AND THE BIG ONE. SECOND STREET FROM SOUTH OAK STREET TO SOUTH KIMBALL STREET WAS CLOSED AT MIDNIGHT.

THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFERS THESE SAFETY TIPS, TOO:

DO NOT LEAVE VALUABLES UNSECURE.

LOCK VEHICLES, INCLUDING CAMPERS, AT ALL TIMES.

PUT VALUABLES IN THE TRUNK OR OUT OF SIGHT.

OPEN CONTAINERS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE ILLEGAL IN THE CITY UNLESS THEY ARE IN A DESIGNATED PERMIT AREA.

IT IS AGAINST THE LAW TO BE PUBLICLY INTOXICATED IN THE CITY.

AND MARIJUANA IS ILLEGAL IN WYOMING.

WYOMING DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANY STATE'S MEDICAL MARIJUANA CARD.

CASPER POLICE OFFICERS ALSO WILL RIDE BICYCLES AND WALK AROUND DURING THE ECLIPSEFEST.
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CASPER BUSINESSMAN TONY CERCY WILL FACE TRIAL ON THREE COUNTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A 20-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IN LATE JUNE, A NATRONA COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE RULED THURSDAY.

JUDGE MICHAEL PATCHEN ORDERED CERCY BOUND OVER FOR TRIAL AFTER A TWO-HOUR PRELIMINARY HEARING TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE WAS PROBABLE CAUSE THAT A CRIME AHD BEEN COMMITTED AND THAT CERCY COMMITTED IT.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY MIKE BLONIGEN SAID AFTER THE HEARING HE CALLED SHERIFF'S DEPUTY KEN JIVIDEN TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND THEN LATER, MORE QUESTIONS IN CROSS EXAMINATION BY CERCY'S DEFENSE ATTORNEY PAM MACKEY.

HE IS CHARGED WITH:

ONE COUNT OF FIRST-DEGREE SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR (RAPE). THAT IS WHEN THE PERPETRATOR "KNEW OR REASONABLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT THE VICTIM WAS PHYSICALLY HELPLESS AND THAT THE VICTIM HAD NOT CONSENTED," WHICH IS PUNISHABLE BY BETWEEN FIVE AND 50 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT.

ONE COUNT OF SECOND-DEGREE SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR (INTRUSION) "BY MEANS THAT PREVENT RESISTANCE BY A VICTIM," WHICH IS PUNISHABLE BY BETWEEN TWO YEARS TO 20 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT.

ONE COUNT OF SEXUAL CONTACT "WITHOUT INFLICTING SEXUAL INTRUSION AND WITHOUT CAUSING SERIOUS BODILY INJURY," WHICH IS PUNISHABLE BY UP TO 15 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT.