4B USA SACRAMENTO Lucas and Deanna Navest were on their way to the hospital Tuesday, when their son decided it was time to come into the world. Maverick was born in the passenger seat of his car on the side of the road. The Elk Grove, family is thanking a 911 operator, paramedics and their iPhone charger for the safe and healthy delivery of their son. That night, Lucas Navest was racing through Elk Grove while his wife was having contractions. They get far before they had to pull over.
starts screaming at the top of her lungs the loudest I ever heard her scream and she undid her seat belt and stood Navest said. He looked over and saw his wife was holding the head in her hands. He ran to the passenger side. I opened up the door. By hat time my wife was holding the baby, took it all the way out, ook the baby all the way out al- eady, was holding it in her a Navest said.
However, he crying. She was really scared that he baby alive it making any he said. I turned the baby ownward to get all the out of his mouth. And where the military training really kicked in right As a former military police cer, Navest had some medical training. oon the baby boy was crying a nd they called 911.
Navest credits the dispatcher for walk- i ng him through the next steps. he dispatcher me I ad to tie the umbilical cord tightly with a shoelace or a tring of some he exp lained. I was wearing sandals, and the thing my eyes looked at was an iPhone harger cord. So I just used that and tied a knot on the umbilical cord, so thanks to Apple for that Of course, Navest said the real credit goes to his wife, whose impromptu natural hildbirth the rst time proven her toughness. went through hell on arth with me in Iraq for 13 onths, you know raising a kid herself, so a tough he proud father said Mave rick weighed in at 6 pounds and 4 ounces, and both mom and baby are healthy.
Aroadside delivery: 6 pounds, 4 ounces HIGHLIGHT: CALIFORNIA Gabriel Roxas KXTV-TV, Sacramento KXTV Lucas Navest's son, Maverick, was born in the passenger seat of his car Tuesday while he and his wife were en route to the hospital. Assisting in the delivery: an iPhone cord. STATE-BY-STATE ALABAMA Montgomery: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Nov. 12 on lawsuits challenging how the legislative districts are designed.
ALASKA Fairbanks: The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District reported a drop in revenue collected from vending machines in the last decade. ARIZONA Phoenix: Afederal appeals court threw out a 2006 voter-approved law denying bail to people in the country illegally charged with a range of felonies. ARKANSAS Little Rock: The state Supreme Court struck down astate law that requires voters to show photo ID before casting a ballot. CALIFORNIA Sacramento: The state will forge ahead with plans to build the bullet train by buying land and demolishing buildings in the path of the $68 billion rail line. COLORADO Arapahoe Basin The Arapahoe Basin Ski Area kicks the 2014-15 ski and snowboard season today.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Online ticket sales company Ticket- Network dropped a defamation awsuit against The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts after the sides agreed to work ogether. DELAWARE Lewes: Warren A. Price, a major in automobile dealership industry, died at the age of 72 on Tuesday. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The National Park Service has planned a public meeting Oct. 23 to gather ideas and comments for amemorial that has been proposed to honor the Peace Corps.
FLORIDA Fort Myers: The stone crab season, which kicked Wednesday, will continue through May 15. GEORGIA Atlanta: The Lottery Corp. reported it earned record revenue for state education initiatives in the quarter of year 2015. The lottery earned $227 million, surpassing last total by more than HAWAII Pahoa: Residents holding signs and blocking contractors halted a plan to cut down three monkey pod trees near the Pahoa Senior Center that cials said is necessary to make room for in the event lava crosses Highway 130. IDAHO Nampa: The School District Board of Trustees reported the general fund at the end of he 2013-14 school year reached 1.7 million, eliminating a caused by mismanagement.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Starting next year, a free mobile app will allow commuters to use smartphones to pay on Chicago Transit Authority trains and buses, suburban Pace buses and the Metra commuter rail service. INDIANA Terre Haute: A6 1 2 -foot-tall bronze sculpture titled ASong for Indiana was dedicated i honor of Paul Dresser, who in 1897 composed the state song, On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away IOWA Akron: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be speaking, but he be toting a shotgun, at U.S. Rep. Steve annual heasant hunt fundraising event in northwest Iowa later this month.
KANSAS Topeka: Dozens of olar panels have been installed and thousands more are planned at Topeka VA edical Center as part of a green initiative xpected to save more than 300,000 a year on electricity. KENTUCKY Louisville: The Louisville Regional Airport Authority plans the major makeover in a decade of the Jerry E. Abramson Terminal. Work on tap will cost up to $8 million. LOUISIANA New Orleans: An education overhaul bill pushed through the Legislature in 2012 is constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled.
MAINE Portland: The Iceland Ocean Cluster led by Thor Sig- fusson is working with North Atlantic Assets Soli DG to create the New England Ocean Cluster. MARYLAND Worcester County: The Worcester County Sheri ce has started its own motorcycle unit, purchasing three new Harley-Davidsons with seized drug money, The Daily Times reported. MASSACHUSETTS Gloucester: Ablockbuster tuna season has drawn a horde of large and small tuna boats from all over New England to an area of Jeffreys Ledge, Cape Ann. MICHIGAN Detroit: Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said his administration went too far in i ssuing dozens of tickets totaling housands of dollars to city building owners for failing to clean up wall art and murals the owners themselves commissioned or approved. MINNESOTA Rochester: A former top executive at the Mayo Clinic was secretly hired by a competitor but continued to work for the medical practice and esearch group so he could steal trade secrets, the Rochester- based clinic alleged in a lawsuit suit against Dr.
Franklin R. co*ckerill III. MISSISSIPPI Hattiesburg: The Hattiesburg Zoo has received unsolicited donations from peo- le to help replace two Chilean that died last week during a Southern Miss fraternity scavenger hunt. MISSOURI Je erson City: The state Department of Transportation said private and for-hire otor carriers will be able to haul corn, soybeans and other grains a heavier than normal eights through Dec. 14.
Farmers a re struggling to harvest their crops because of recent heavy rains. MONTANA Missoula: Michael Andrews, 65, who threatened to bomb federal courthouses in issoula and Billings over what said was an unpaid debt, was entenced to 34 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. NEBRASKA Lincoln: Alegisla- tive committee investigating state prison problems voted unanimously to subpoena Republican Gov. Heineman to testify at a hearing Oct. 29.
The panel is looking into hundreds of prison sentences that were miscalculated. NEVADA Las Vegas: An Irish pub on the Las Vegas Strip was expected to break a Guinness World Record after hosting more than two weeks of nearly nonstop live music. The concert began Oct. 1 in the Ri Ra pub in The Shoppes at Mandalay Bay. NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The state Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that federal election laws pre-empt the regulation of push polling, he practice of asking voters questions intended to their decisions.
NEW JERSEY Somerset: Gov. Christie announced he will spend $12 million on substance abuse treatment and prevention orts in the state, which is in the grips of a heroin and opiate abuse crisis. The money is earmarked for residential treatment programs for mothers and youth and the drug court program. NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: City councilors announced the application process for residents to serve on the nine-member Police Oversight Board. The U.S.
Justice Department is investigating more than 40 police shootings since 2010. NEW YORK Yonkers: Celebrity chef Peter Kelly has settled a legal dispute with Yonkers, agreeing to pay more than $460,000 in back rent the city claimed he owed for is glitzy waterfront restaurant, the Journal News reported. The deal calls for Kelly to pay the oney over years. NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: ov. McCrory, a Republican, has ritten letters to French and Irish cials decrying proposals in those countries to force manufacturers to package their cigar ettes in plain containers.
This is the top U.S. tobacco-producing state, and McCrory argued farm- rs and manufacturers would be urt by the proposals to remove rand logos and colors from cigarette boxes. NORTH DAKOTA Williston: Williams County is paying its 6-year-old jail 18 years ahead of schedule, while cials talk about possibly doubling the size of the 131-bed facility. The half- percent sales tax enacted to fund the $14.5 million facility raised the entire amount in years. OHIO Dayton: The Catholic Archdiocese in southwest Ohio is proposing a committee who will advise on contracts that include morality clauses.
The idea comes amid controversy over teaching contracts forbidding behavior the church regards as wrong, spokesman Dan Andriacco told the Dayton Daily News The contract prohibits abortion, insemination and public support for any of those causes has divided some of the Catholics. OKLAHOMA Tulsa: Aerospace company Nordam will add 300 jobs by 2020 after receiving a contract to build engine parts for Gulfstream business jets. Nor- dam now employs 1,800 people in the state. OREGON Portland: The city ublic schools comply with tate rules calling for the district to set goals in third-grade reading, fth-grade math and eighth- rade math as part of a switch to he new Smarter Balanced test. School cials argue that state cials said what the passing grades will be for the new tests, so impossible to set goals.
PENNSYLVANIA Erie: GE Transportation has a $94.3 million contract to supply 50 freight locomotives to Indonesian rail- ay PTKAI. The announcement was hailed by the union that represents 3,200 plant workers. RHODE ISLAND Cranston: After 18 months of negotiations and mediation, teachers reached a tentative agreement with the school district on a labor contract hat boosts pay by in the next two years but provides no salary increase for the current school year. Teachers agreed to deductibles on certain health he City Council must ratify the agreements. SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: A Columbia man was sentenced to ife in prison for killing a Univer- ity of South Carolina professor, he Greenville News reported.
Hank Hawes was convicted of stabbing Jennifer Wilson to death in August 2011. Wilson and Hawes had been in a relationship prior to the killing. SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: The State Medical Association estimated that of state residents, many of them in rural western areas, face a shortage of health care options. The group cited a lack of college medical residency programs in the state as a contributor. TENNESSEE Nashville: Gov.
free tuition program needs mentors. They are a key part of the Tennessee Promise initiative to cover full tuition at two-year colleges for any high school graduate. So far, more than 35,000 high school students have applied for the program. However, the state has still not reached its goal of 6,000 mentors. TEXAS San Antonio: State cons ervation groups and the city are earing a $20.5 million deal to urchase 1,500 acres of land next the Bracken Cave Preserve, the largest bat colony, from a developer that had proposed building up to 3,000 houses in the path.
UTAH Salt Lake City: More than 5,000 people from around the USA are gathering through Sunday for the Girl Scouts of the USA national convention. Some attractions will be open to the public, including a 25-foot tree- house, mini-golf and appearances by female Harlem Globetrotters. VERMONT Montpelier: The state auditor says Vermont should do a better job of overseeing the regional agencies that contract with the state to provide mental health services. Auditor Doug Ho er says his ce reviewed the billing practices and oversight of 11 regional agencies that serve clients with mental illness and developmental disabilities VIRGINIA Richmond: Gov. cAuli a Democrat, announced the layo of 565 state orkers, other targeted cuts and a liquor price hike as he aims to close a $2.4 billion shortfall in the two-year budget.
The plan, which includes closing several Department of Corrections facilities, results in $92.4 million in savings in the current year. WASHINGTON Seattle: In a report to the City Council, emergency managers warned that an oil-train accident resulting in re, xplosion or spill be a The report recommends that BNSF Railway install radio communication, a suppression system and a permanent ventilation system in the downtown rail tunnel. WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The state Supreme Court ruled that the attorney general help county prosecutors with their criminal cases. WISCONSIN Oshkosh: The heated battle between Republican Gov. Walker and Demo- ratic challenger Mary Burke is laying out on the airwaves.
In ortheast Wisconsin, part of the Green Bay television market, 10,000 ads have been aired by the candidates and independent groups through September, The Oshkosh Northwestern reported. WYOMING Jackson: Documents obtained by Wyoming ildlife Advocates show federal cials expect six more grizzly ears will be killed over the next nine years as an unintended consequence of elk hunting in northwestern areas as a result of between hunters and grizzlies. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grizzlies as a threatened species in most of the lower 48 states. Compiled from sta and wire reports by Tim Wendel, Linda Tufano, Carolyn Cerbin, Linda Dono, Nicole Gill, Dennis yons and Michelle Washington.
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