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18A Saturday, June 17, 2023 Tampa Bay Times RememberingNation World ASSENMACHER, Cecilia 85, of Spring Hill, died June 10, 2023. Survived by son, Michael and daughter, Lesley. Downing Funeral Home CORNETTA, Woodrow 89, of Weeki Wachee, died June 10, 2023. He will be dearly missed by all. Downing Funeral Home HEIER, Wilbur W.

USAF 92, of Spring Hill, died June 9, 2023. He was born February 5, 1931. Grace Memorial Hudson THRUN, Evelyn 80, of Brooksville, died June 12, 2023. She is survived by her loving family and friends. Brewer Sons BROCK, Donald F.

84, of Plant City, en- tered into eternal rest June 5, 2023. Condolen- ces HopewellFuneral.com PALM, Lisa Ann 59, passed away June 10, 2023. Services will be held privately. Haught Funeral Home CURRIE, Frances A. 77, of Sarasota, died June 8, 2023.

Survived by loving family and friends. Coastal Cremations NPR YECK, Brennen Nikolas Michael 20, of Sarasota, died June 1, 2023. Sur- vived by loving family and friends. Coastal Cremations NPR BELLANT, Christina 46, of Holiday, died June 12, 2023. Christina is survived by her family and friends.

Michels Lundquist BONACOR, Paige 62, of New Port Richey, died June 10, 2023. Sur- vivors husband John; sons Sean, Adam; sister Beth Dobies COOKE, James J. USN 94, of New Port Richey, died June 8, 2023. He was born January 6, 1929. Grace Memorial Hudson JANI, LuAnn R.

67, of Dade City, died June 11, 2023. Survived by sisters, Lynn, Leslie, Lorilie. Downing Funeral Home KING, Wilma 94, of New Port Richey, died June 11, 2023. Sur- vived by family and friends. Michels and Lundquist NEUROCK, Wendy 70, of Wesley Chapel, died June 15, 2023.

Wendy will be remem- bered by her loving fam- ily and friends. Michels Lundquist SWISHER, Annabelle 99, of Trinity, died June 15, 2023. Annabelle is survived by her loving family. Michels Lundquist WALL, Joanne 85, of Hudson, died June 11, 2023. Survivors chil- dren Jolene, Kurt; 3 grandchildren; 3 great- grandchildren CROXTON, Muriel Ann 83, of Largo, died June 8, 2023.

Survived by loving family and friends. Coastal Cremations NPR LAMPRECHT, John Wayne passed away June 12, 2023. Survived by daughter, Adina Hermann (Rodney); 2 grands. BROWN, Charles F. 69, of St.

Pe- tersburg, FL was called home on Thu rsday June 8, 2023. He was born on August 13, 1953, to Alfred Brown and Louise Belcher (Collins). A graduate of Gibbs High School, class of 1971, he became a Master Me- chanic and proudly worked for then Florida Power, now Duke Energy for 20 years, retiring to pursue his entrepreneu- rial endeavors diligently in St. Petersburg. He is survived by his former wife, Dolphine A.

Brown; son, Donovan D. Brown; daughter, Lenary L. Brown (Corynn); grand- daughter, D. Brown and grandson, Vincent D. Brown-Parkton; cous- in, Jennie Pitts and a host of extended family and friends who share in our grief.

A private me- morial service will be held at a later date. Smith Funeral Home MORENO, Hilario "Lalo" 80, of Kenneth City, died June 10, 2023. He is survived by his loving family. Memorial Park Funeral Home. When words fail, let us help.

BY ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO A bus car- rying seniors to a casino collided with a semitruck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba, kill- ing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police said. Rob Hill, commanding officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said that the bus was carry- ing 25 people when the col- lision happened Thursday, and that authorities in Man- itoba were deploying all of their resources to the scene. Ten people were taken to hospitals. TV broadcasters aired images of what looked like a large van or bus smoldering in a ditch near a transport truck with a smashed engine on a road. The pavement was littered with debris broken glass, a large bumper and what looked like a walking aid.

Seven blue and yellow tarps were stretched out. RCMP Superintendent Rob Lasson said of right now the drivers of both the bus and truck are alive and in He did not say if they were among the 10 list- ed as injured. The dead were mainly seniors. Lasson said the bus was heading south and there would have been a stop and yield sign. He said the bus was crossing the eastbound lanes when it was struck by the truck that was going east, adding that who had the right of way is critical to the investigation.

public is reeling and asking a lot of questions and people are trying to deter- mine if their loved ones were Lasson said. on this scale is never normalized for The crash scene was in Carberry, a city 105 miles west of capital of Winnipeg. news from Carberry, Manitoba, is incredibly trag- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted. sending my deepest con- dolences to those who lost loved ones today, and keeping the injured in my A family support center has been set up at a Luther- an Church in Dauphin, Man- itoba, for relatives. Police said the people on the bus were from Dauphin and the areas around it.

Flags have been lowered to half-staff at the Manitoba legislature. A spokesperson for the Sand Hills Casino in Car- berry said the van had been scheduled to arrive there later in the day. Kim Armstrong, the administrator of the Dau- phin senior center, said the bus left from the senior cen- ter Thursday morning. The senior community is extremely tightknit in the city of around 8,600 people, and the center is sometimes like a second home, she said. huge to lose so many individuals of our communi- ty, and of course it is shock- ing.

We just pray for those that are she said. Armstrong said seniors and community members often go on trips on buses to nearby events or casinos. Bus with seniors going to casino in Canada hits truck, killing 15 DARRYL DYCK The Canadian Press via Associated Press A patch of ground sits scorched where a bus carrying seniors to a casino ended up after colliding with a semitruck Friday near Carberry, Manitoba. Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. A for- mer manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted in the theft and sale of human body parts, federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced Wednesday.

Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goff- stown, New Hampshire, stole dissected portions of cadav- ers that were donated to the school in the scheme that stretched from 2018 to early 2023, according to court doc- uments. The body parts were taken without the knowledge or permission, authorities said, adding that the school has cooperated with the investigation. Lodge sometimes took the body parts which included heads, brains, skin and bones back to his home where he lived with his wife, Denise, 63, and some were sent to buyers through the mail, authorities said. Lodge also allegedly allowed buyers to come to the morgue to pick what they wanted to buy. Bodies donated to Har- vard Medical School are used for education, teaching or research purposes.

Once they are no longer need- ed, the cadavers are usually cremated and the ashes are returned to the fami- ly or buried in a cemetery. In a message posted on the website titled abhorrent deans George Daley and Edward Hundert called the matter They said Lodge was fired May 6. are appalled to learn that something so disturbing could happen on our campus a community dedicated to healing and serving the deans wrote. report- ed incidents are a betrayal of HMS and, most importantly, each of the individuals who altruistically chose to will their bodies to HMS through the Anatomical Gift Program to advance medical educa- tion and The indictment charges the Lodges and three others Katrina Maclean, 44, of Salem, Massachusetts; Josh- ua Taylor, 46, of West Lawn, Pennsylvania; and Mathew Lampi, 52, of East Bethel, Minnesota with conspira- cy and interstate transport of stolen goods. lawyer, Christo- pher Opiel, declined to com- ment Thursday.

It was not known if any of the other defendants had a lawyer who could comment on their behalf. Prosecutors: Ex-morgue manager stole body parts Associated Press WASHINGTON Nus- rat Chowdhury, a civil rights lawyer, has been con- firmed by the Senate as the first Muslim female federal judge in U.S. history. She will assume her life- time appointment in Brook- lyn federal court in New York after a 50-49 vote on Thursday along party lines. The confirmation drew praise from the American Civil Liberties Union, where she is the legal director of the ACLU of Illinois.

Prior to that post, she served from 2008 to 2020 at the national ACLU office, including seven years as deputy direc- tor of the ACLU Racial Jus- tice Program. In a tweet, the ACLU called her a civil rights Sen- ate Major- ity Leader Chuck Schumer, who recom- mended her, said she makes his- tory as the first Bangladeshi American as well as the first Muslim American woman to be a federal judge. Chowdhury a shining example of the American Schumer said in a statement. is the daugh- ter of immigrant parents, a graduate of Columbia, Princ- eton, and Yale Law School, and has dedicated her career to making sure all people can have their voices heard in Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.

voted against the appointment, citing her support for criminal justice reform. He said in a state- ment that some of her past statements call into ques- tion her ability to be unbi- ased toward members of law enforcement. After finishing law school, Chowdhury clerked in New York City for U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote and 2nd U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Barrington Parker Jr. She has served on the Presidential Task Force on Building Public Trust in the American Justice System. Her appointment was consistent with Presi- dent Joe pledge to emphasize diversity in back- ground, race and gender in his judicial nominations. First Muslim female federal judge in US history confirmed Nusrat Chowdhury BY MIKE STOBBE Associated Press NEW YORK The next round of COVID-19 vaccines will target one of the latest versions of the coronavirus, the Food and Drug Adminis- tration said Friday. The decision came one day after an agency panel of outside advis- ers supported the recipe change.

The agency told vaccine makers to provide protection against just one omicron strain, known as XBB.1.5. shots include the original coronavirus and an earlier version of omicron. They do still help prevent severe disease and death even as XBB variants have taken over. But protection gradually wanes over time and was short-lived against milder infection even before the virus evolved again. The three U.S.

compa- nies that make COVID-19 shots said this week they had geared up to make the formula change, in antic- ipation of making many millions of doses available for the fall. One company, Pfizer, said it could have at least some doses ready as early as next month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will eventually decide whether to recommend the shot for nearly all Americans or just for certain high-risk groups. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

Next round of COVID shots will target latest omicron strain BY MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK Make that one less legal headache for Donald Trump. A suburban New York prosecutor said Thursday that she has closed a mul- tiyear investigation that focused in part on whether the twice-indicted former president or his company misled authorities to reduce taxes on properties they own. Westchester County Dis- trict Attorney Mimi Rocah said in a statement that she reached the decision after an investigation that was conducted and independent of politics, party affiliation and per- sonal or political No charges were filed against Trump or his compa- ny, the Trump Organization. Rocah, a Democrat, start- ed investigating Trump in 2021, seeking to determine if he or the Trump Organiza- tion provided officials with misleading valuations in an effort to shrink the tax bill on his Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, about 29 miles north of mid- town Manhattan.

As part of the investi- gation, office sub- poenaed records from the golf course and the town of Ossining, which handles the taxes. In an all-capitals post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that ending the investigation was honorable thing to do in that I did nothing wrong, but where and when do I get my reputation back? When will the other fake cases against me be A message seeking com- ment was left with the Trump Organization. Trump, the early lead- ing candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, had decried investigations into him and his business practices as a partisan The company has described probe in the past as politically motivated and misguided. announcement came days after Trump was arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Miami on charges he mishandled classified documents and impeded investigators. Trump scores as DA drops golf course tax probe.