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Looking back at Elan School’s notorious past after fire at former campus [Video]
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Looking back at Elan School’s notorious past after fire at former campus [Video]

One of the seven buildings on the Poland campus of the defunct Elan School was destroyed by a fire that started early Sunday morning.The private, for-profit boarding school was opened in 1970 by psychiatrist Gerald Davidson and Joe Ricci, the former owner of the Scarborough Downs race track.The Elan School, which closed in 2011, was known as a place for troubled teenagers. The annual fee for parents was $55,000 per child.Former students have come forward over the years to say they were victims of physical and emotional abuse. One former student produced a documentary about the Elan School called “Last Stop.”In 1982, 15-year-old Phil Williams Jr. died when witnesses said he was forced to take part in a boxing match with another student. Maine’s Total Coverage spoke with Williams’ sister, Pam Newell, in 2016 when the Maine State Police opened an investigation into his death.”I thought it was a wonderful place. I thought they were helping my brother. I thought he was coming home,” Newell said. “He came home all right, in a box.”Williams’ death certificate states he died of a brain aneurysm. No charges were ever filed in connection with his death.The Elan School was also mentioned in the murder trial of Michael Skakel, the nephew of Ethel Kennedy. Testimony during Skakels trial in 2002 indicated he confessed to classmates while at Elan, telling them he killed his neighbor Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1975. Skakel was convicted, but the conviction was later overturned.All that remains of the Elan School are empty, boarded-up buildings sitting on 33 acres of land near Upper Range Pond.Poland fire Chief Thomas Printup said he is suspicious of the fire’s origin.”There’s no power in the buildings. At this point, it seems like a questionable occurrence,” Printup said.Printup said the Poland Fire Department would defer to the state fire marshal’s office, which is investigating the cause of the fire.Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.Previous coverage:

Biden admin sanctions Israeli West Bank settlement organization [Video]
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Biden admin sanctions Israeli West Bank settlement organization [Video]

The Biden administration on Monday imposed sanctions on Israels largest settlement development organization as part of the latest U.S. actions targeting those fomenting instability in the occupied West Bank.The administration has issued a number of rounds of sanctions after President Joe Biden issued an executive order in February allowing sanctions on those undermining peace, security, and stability in the West Bank. The latest action comes amid a push from Democrats for Biden to act in his final months in office to impose sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir for their roles in inciting settler violence in the West Bank and as frustration grows from within Bidens own party about his administrations seeming unwillingness to penalize the Israeli government.President-elect Donald Trump is unlikely to take any punitive actions against Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank instead, his policies are likely to embrace them. His pick for U.S. Ambassador to Israel, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, is staunchly pro-Israel and has voiced support for Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territory.The sanctions from the U.S. Treasury Department Monday hit Amana, the largest organization involved in settlement and illegal outpost development in the West Bank that has established dozens of illegal settler outposts and directly engaged in dispossession of private land owned by Palestinians in its support of settlers, according to the State Department.The organization maintains ties to various persons previously sanctioned by the U.S. government and its partners for perpetrating violence in the West Bank, the Treasury Department said in a press release. The Treasury Department also sanctioned Amanas subsidiary Binyanei Bar Amana Ltd., a construction and development company that builds and sells homes in settlements and outposts in the West Bank.In a concurrent action, the U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on three companies and three people for their roles in violence targeting civilians or in the destruction or dispossession of property.A group of nearly 90 congressional Democrats urged Biden in a late October letter to impose sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir. They publicly released the letter last week in order to increase pressure on the administration. The letter had also pushed for sanctions on Amana, which was sanctioned Monday.

Missing New Berlin father found dead in Illinois [Video]
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Missing New Berlin father found dead in Illinois [Video]

WEATHERWATCH 12. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU GENO. NEW TONIGHT A TRAGIC END TO THE SEARCH FOR A MISSING FATHER FROM NEW BERLIN. POLICE SAY 45 YEAR OLD BEN OBERTO NEVER RETURNED HOME WEDNESDAY NIGHT FROM A BUSINESS TRIP IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS. YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, POLICE FOUND HIS VEHICLE OVERTURNED IN A CREEK. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. 12 NEWS SPOKE WITH BENS WIFE YESTERDAY. I PRETTY MUCH CALLED THE POLICE IMMEDIATELY IN NEW BERLIN BECAUSE I JUST KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. ITS NOT LIKE HIM. HES NEVER. HES NEVER DONE THAT. HE WASNT HOME ON TIME, AND HE WASNT ANSWERING THE PHONE. AND I GOT SCARED. POLICE A

Elkhorn volunteers help clean tornado damage [Video]
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Elkhorn volunteers help clean tornado damage [Video]

Dozens of volunteers help Elkhorn families clean up tornado damage almost seven months later. Elkhorn was one of the areas hit by the EF-4 twister on April 26.WATCH: Drone video shows damage, devastation in Elkhorn after tornadoIt damaged or destroyed dozens of homes, including those in the Calarosa East Neighborhood near 204th and Fort. Organizations say that while some families are further along in the recovery process, others still need help getting started.Volunteers picked up doors, couches, and roof tiles still scattered outside an Elkhorn home. Kaylin Behrens was one of 50 volunteers. “It’s livelihoods that are just scattered across fields,” she said.They used wheelbarrows, bins and shovels to fill dumpsters to the brim.”Seeing the widespread need for disaster clean up still seven months later, we need all hands on deck,” Behrens said.’There’s hope’: Elkhorn residents are moving back to their homes week by week after April tornadoBehrens jumped right in. “I just keep letting people know that there’s hope out there, there’s always people that are willing to lend a hand and help our neighbors in need,” she said.Omaha Community Foundation said families recovering need help every step of the way. Senior project manager Laura Contreras said they’ve funded clean-up projects like Friday’s and provided case workers. “It helps them have not only a level of guidance as to what the resources are out there that they can leverage,” Contreras said.Executive director of Project Houseworks Jim Clements, who organized the clean-up, said it could be years before the Calarosa Neighborhood is back to normal. “It’s still not over,” Clements said. “You still have households, as you can see, aren’t even being built yet.”He doesn’t want the families impacted to be forgotten.”If you’re not walking with them the whole journey, then it’s hard for them to get to the end,” he said.One way you can help families who still need support is by donating to the Nebraska Tornado Recovery Fund.Click here for the latest headlines from KETV NewsWatch 7

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Nebraska fans head to LA hoping for win against USC [Video]

Thousands of Husker fans are expected to show up in force in Los Angeles to see Saturday afternoon’s showdown with the USC Trojans.”There will be a ton of Husker fans at this one. It’ll be like a home game, I think,” said Ami Graham. She and her husband, Jim, were on a charter flight out of the Lincoln Municipal Airport with 200 other Husker Athletic Fund members.”It’s a historic place to see a game, and I’m ready for the Huskers to take it to the USC Trojans,” said Jim Bauerly. “Hopefully, there’s a lot of red there.” The LA Memorial Coliseum, where the game will be played, holds around 77,000 fans. Up to a third could be Husker fans.”There’s projections of maybe 20,000 that’ll be out there,” said Husker Deputy Athletic Director of Revenue Generation Tyler Kai. Television, tickets and more: What you need to know for Nebraska football against USCAnd maybe more when you consider all the alumni living in California, Las Vegas and Arizona. “There’s been stories already of folks that have gone already out to the West Coast. They’ve said most of their flight was filled with Husker red. So, it’s going to be a red swarm,” Kai said.KETV caught up with about 70 fans who were on the Good Life Tours and Travel package.They have been in LA since Wednesday. They were riding on a tour bus heading to Carlsbad and Del Rey.”We were at Catalina Island yesterday. Obviously, we were noticeable by the natives of Catalina. A lot of them asked us what we were doing there. We said, for the football game. And they said, what football game?” Good Life Tours owner Bob Kment said.Husker fans have a good track record of traveling to the West Coast, like for the 2002 Rose Bowl. Big Red invaded Hollywood Universal Studios and the Santa Monica Pier.”Anytime we’ve come out here, there’s always been a good contingent of fans from Nebraska,” Kment said. Unfortunately, Nebraska didn’t do so well on the field against Miami in 2002.Nor has it in any of the other times it’s played the Trojans going with a record of 0-4 with one tie.On Saturday, the Huskers are over a touchdown underdog.”I think it’s going to happen. We’re going to win this game, and we’ll be in a bowl game,” Corrin Bauerly said.”We’re going to win. We’re bringing the luck,” said Rahul Razdan. “We’ll, when we’ve been favorites, that hasn’t worked on our in our favor. So maybe this will motivate the team,” Ami Graham said.”I would say, take the points and go, Huskers!” said her husband, Jim.Click here for the latest headlines from KETV NewsWatch 7