On Thursday, a violent standoff situation killed two police officers and injured six others, including five additional police officers.
In light of the tragedy, the City of Prestonsburg along with neighboring counties have canceled Independence Day celebrations scheduled.
The City of Prestonsburg postponed the Star City Day, fireworks, and music in Archer Park.
Director Samantha Johnson said they plan on coming together in the near future.
The carnival will go on as scheduled.
A post on the Prestonsburg Tourism Facebook page.(WSAZ)
In Pike County, the City of Pikeville announced the ‘Independence Day at Pikeville Festival’ has been canceled out of respect.
Pikeville Mayor Jimmy Carter offered his condolences in a statement:
“Independence Day is a celebration of our highest American values– the very ideals these courageous law enforcement officers gave their lives to protect. Instead of gathering for the festival, we encourage every Pikeville family to join us in prayer for the fallen officers and humble gratitude for their sacrifice.”
While this weekend’s festival is canceled, the City of Pikeville’s fireworks show for Monday at 9:45 p.m. will still occur as planned.
Keep checking the WSAZ app for the latest information.
Disclosures:
Paterson reports no relevant financial disclosures. Please see the study for all other authors’ relevant disclosures. Ohtsu and colleagues report no relevant financial disclosures.
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New cancer diagnosis appeared associated with increased risk for cardiovascular death, as well as incident heart failure, stroke or pulmonary embolism, according to a retrospective cohort study published in JACC: CardioOncology.
“This risk persisted to at least 7 years from cancer diagnosis and appeared most pronounced in patients with hematologic, gastrointestinal, genitourinary and thoracic malignancies,”D. Ian Paterson, MD, FRCPC, professor of medicine in the division of cardiology, director of the Edmonton Cardio-Oncology Program and director of academic and research cardiac MRI at University of Alberta, told Healio.
Data derived from Paterson DI, et al. JACC CardioOncol. 2022;doi:10.1016/j.jaccao.2022.01.100.
Background and methodology
Paterson and colleagues pursued the research because, despite the knowledge that patients with cancer and cancer survivors are at increased risk for heart failure, previous data conflicted regarding long-term risk for other cardiovascular events, as well as risk according to cancer site.
“Population studies to date have largely evaluated the risk [for] cardiovascular disease — and usually only heart failure — in patients with breast cancer,” Paterson said. “We performed a comprehensive analysis of the risk [for] incident cardiovascular disease in patients with a new cancer diagnosis of any type.”
D. Ian Paterson
The analysis included 4,519,243 adults who resided in Alberta, Canada, from April 2007 to December 2018. Among them, 224,016 (median age, 56 years; range, 43-67; 56.8% women) had a new cancer diagnosis and 4,295,227 (median age, 34 years; range, 23-49; 48.5% women) comprised the control population.
Paterson and colleagues used time-to-event survival models, after adjusting for comorbidities and sociodemographic factors, to compare the two cohorts with respect to risk for subsequent cardiovascular events, which included cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure and pulmonary embolism.
Determining the impact of new cancer diagnosis on risk for fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events served as the primary outcome.
Key findings
At median follow-up of 11.8 years, results showed 73,360 cardiovascular deaths and 470,481 nonfatal cardiovascular events. After adjustment, researchers reported participants with cancer demonstrated the following HRs compared with participants without cancer:
1.33 (95% CI, 1.29-1.37) for cardiovascular mortality;
1.01 (95% CI, 0.97-1.05) for myocardial infarction;
1.44 (95% CI, 1.41-1.47) for stroke;
1.62 (95% CI, 1.59-1.65) for heart failure; and
3.43 (95% CI, 3.37-3.5) for pulmonary embolism.
Additionally, patients with genitourinary, gastrointestinal, thoracic, neurologic and hematologic malignancies demonstrated the highest cardiovascular risk.
“We were surprised that the risk [for] incident cardiovascular disease remained elevated in patients with cancer, even after fully adjusted risk modeling,” Paterson told Healio. “This suggests that the cancer itself, cancer therapies and/or other less traditional risk factors, such as physical activity and body composition, may have also contributed to cardiovascular risk.”
Implications
Paterson and colleagues wrote that future studies should investigate other potential contributors to cardiovascular risk, including cancer therapies and emerging risk factors for cardiotoxicity.
“We would like to identify effective intervention strategies to mitigate cardiovascular risk in patients with cancer, especially in the higher-risk cancer types (eg, hematologic),” Paterson said.
Paterson noted that as life expectancy of patients with cancer increases, so does their likelihood of developing other illnesses after diagnosis, necessitating a more collaborative approach to their health care. The authors of a corresponding editorial concurred.
“Perhaps the lesson we need to learn from [this study] is that it is time for cardiology and oncology to collaborate in order to travel upstream and build a powerhouse to generate information from the new flow of data efficiently,” HiroshiOhtsu, MS, manager of clinical epidemiology and director of JCRAC data center at National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Center for Clinical Sciences in Japan, and colleagues wrote.
“Cardiology and oncology need to collaborate to launch and successfully execute projects to establish new techniques to use real-world data for real-world evidence,” they added.
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For more information:
D. Ian Paterson, MD, FRCPC, can be reached at Division of Cardiology, University of Alberta, 8440 112 St., 2C2.43 WCM, Edmonton, Alberta T6G2B7, Canada; email: ip3@ualberta.ca.
Christophe Herblin is shown in a Calgary Police Service handout photo. Photo by The Canadian Press/CPS handout
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Video footage of events leading up to the fatal stabbing of a Calgary chef, including the break and enter of his under-construction restaurant, was shown Thursday to jurors in the trial of his alleged murderers.
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Const. Evan Nelson testified he collected the surveillance video from a variety of security cameras at businesses in the vicinity of Christophe Herblin’s Croque Saveurs bistro.
Much of the evidence presented in the trial of second-degree murder suspects Anthony Dodgson and Tommie Holloway focused on what Nelson believes was a Dodge Caliber SUV seen driving in the area beginning at 1:41 a.m. on March 14, 2020.
The vehicle was captured repeatedly on the streets and alleys around the Bow Trail S.W. strip mall in which Croque Saveurs was to open.
In her opening address on Monday, Crown prosecutor Carla MacPhail said it’s believed the Dodge was stolen shortly before the crime and used by Dodgson and Holloway in the break-in of Croque Saveurs.
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She said the restaurant under construction had little of value inside, but the target was an adjacent Spiritleaf cannabis store, which had earlier been broken into using the same method — breaking into the bistro and then through the wall the two businesses shared.
In the video suspects identified as male number one, believed to be Dodgson, and male number two, allegedly Holloway, are shown on the footage.
At one point male number one picks up a brick and at 2:49 a.m. throws it through the front window of the bistro.
Various camera angles then show the suspect vehicle driving in the area, before parking in a perpendicular alley north of the alley which runs behind the strip mall.
Two men, dressed in dark clothing, are then seen walking towards the back of the mall before different footage shows them at the front of Croque Saveurs, entering through the broken window at 3:08 a.m.
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Nelson told co-prosecutor Aleksander Simic that two minutes later, Herblin was captured arriving at the front of his shop.
Separate video from a camera aimed at the back alley showed the same two men then fleeing, one hopping into the SUV as it pulls up behind the mall and the other running away on foot.
Nelson said the security tapes show Herblin remained at the scene, parking his car to face into his bistro.
It’s the Crown’s theory that shortly after 6 a.m. the pair returned and Holloway lured Herblin to the parking lot by smashing a window of his car and Dodgson fatally stabbed him.
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NEWPORT — The timing of a fatal double-shooting on Feb. 14 that occurred the night after the Friendly Sons of Newport hosted its second LGBTQ event has caused the organizers to move away from holding events at the social club in the future.
During the early morning hours on Monday, Feb. 14, the Friendly Sons of Newport social club at 3 Farewell St. became the center of an ongoing homicide investigation after a double-shooting resulted in the death of Yordi Arevalo, 25, of Newport and the hospitalization of Aroldo M. Noel Paniaqua, 30, also of Newport.
Two arrests in connection to the crime were made, and a warrant has been issued for a third suspect. The two arrested suspects — Shamik Steele, 30, of Tiverton and Xavier Perry, 28, of Providence — have been charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, among other charges.
The incident came as a shock to the community, including Newport Bliss co-founder Michael Johnson, whose organization held an LGBTQ nightclub event at Friendly Sons the Saturday night before the shooting called “Return to Raffles.”
The event, which was intended to be held every Saturday up to and throughout the summer, was to pay homage to Raffles, one of Newport’s last gay bars located at the space that now houses Friendly Sons.
“It took me by surprise that something like that would happen and immediately my thoughts traveled back to Pulse nightclub and the old Puzzles nightclub and the things that happened there,” Johnson said. “My first thought immediately was, ‘Was this a targeted attack against our community?’ Or because the Sons had agreed to host a gay event, were they being targeted for some reason?”
Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Pulse in Orlando, Florida, are both former gay bars that became the scenes of violent attacks against patrons, the latter of which is the second deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
While little information has surfaced over the motives or reasons behind the double-shooting at Friendly Sons, Johnson has since concluded it was likely an isolated incident unrelated to the LGBTQ event held the day before.
Still, Newport Bliss announced on Facebook the day after the shooting it would be postponing future events “out of an abundance of caution and concern” for the safety of those who attend. Johnson confirmed he is looking to take the event to a different venue.
“Whenever you put on an event that’s LGBTQIA+ based, your thoughts always go to how this is going to mix with the regular crowd that goes into an establishment,” Johnson said. “You’re always ready for some pushback, especially from a social club like Friendly Sons. But at the end of the day, good business is good business.
“When good business turns into dangerous business, it’s time to reevaluate.”
Newport Bliss has been running LGBTQ party nights in various Newport venues for the past nine years, but Friendly Sons was the first location that allowed the organization to take over multiple Saturday nights. Johnson made a deal with the club’s board members and the owner of the building to host a gathering and received reassurance the event patrons would be welcome at the social club.
That weekend also was significant for Newport’s LGBTQ nightlife scene as NewportOUT co-founders Sean O’Connor and Daniel Cano-Restrepo launched their new collaborative event NPT HAUS at Bar and Board Bistro that day.
O’Connor said there have not been multiple LGBTQ-centered nightlife events in Newport for at least two decades.
“There really hasn’t been two options that could be found under that ‘queer umbrella’ since Raffles and David’s were both operating at the same time, which I think was maybe the (1980s) or the ’90s,” O’Connor said. “It’s been a long time, so I think that was really interesting that literally the first time there was two options for the community, unfortunately the night after, this horrible event happened.”
After speaking with the police, O’Connor also does not think the double-shooting is related to the LGBTQ event from the night prior, but said he would still like to know the motives behind the crime.
“I think it’s very important as a community that we know,” O’Connor said. “What are the motives behind this horrible crime? Was there any homophobia? Was there xenophobia? Was there any elements to this crime that maybe we want to think about as a community? I don’t know.”
