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Lane Closure On I-95 North Clear

UPDATE: According to VDOT, all lanes have reopened and the scene is clear.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A lane closure on Interstate 95 North in Richmond is causing backups on both I-95 and I-64.

According to the Virginia Department of Transportation, the right lane of I-95 North is currently closed at mile marker 78.4, just after the Arthur Ashe Boulevard exit.

Traffic on I-95 North is currently backed up to the I-95/I-64 interchange downtown and traffic on I-64 West is currently backed up almost to Mechanicsville Turnpike. Drivers are asked to use alternate routes.

All Lanes Clear After Earlier Crash On I-71 In Montgomery

All lanes clear after earlier crash on I-71 in Montgomery

Updated: 12:44 PM EDT Nov 1, 2023

CINCINNATI POLICE INVESTIGATING AN OVERNIGHT SHOOTING ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT ON U-C CAMPUS... TODAY, CINCINNATI POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN OVERNIGHT SHOOTING ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT NEAR UC'S CAMPUS. WLWT NEWS FIVE'S DANIELLE DINDAK. JOINING US WITH WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT THE VICTIM. WELL, WE'VE MADE IT TO NOVEMBER, BUT IT STILL FEELS A LITTLE MORE LIKE JANUARY WHEN WE FALL BACK TO SOME WARMER TEMPERATURES. AND IF THIS NEXT SYSTEM BRINGS IN RAIN OR SNOW, AN OPERATION SAVE A LIFE MEREDITH STUTZ IS LIVE WITH ONE ORGANIZATION THAT COULD SEE FUNDING FROM OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RED CROSS TO PROVIDE LIFE SAVING CPR TRAINING. THIS IS WLWT NEWS 5. TODAY LEADING THE WAY AT 5 A.M. ON YOUR WEDNESDAY. WE HAVE MULTIPLE BREAKING NEWS STORIES TO GET TO, BUT WE BEGIN WITH THAT CHILL OUTSIDE GREATER CINCINNATI. BRACE FOR THOSE COLD TEMPERATURES BECAUSE THEY ARE HERE. THANKS FOR BEING WITH US. I'M STEVEN ALBRITTON AND I'M KELLY RIPPIN. WE DO HAVE WARMER TEMPERATURES ON THE WAY AND I USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SNEAK IN FAMILY PICTURES AND GET IT DONE. I'M NOT SURE IF MY HUSBAND FULLY REALIZES THAT YET, BUT WE'RE GOING TO GET THEM DONE WHEN THE WEATHER WARMS UP. METEOROLOGIST RANDI RICO TIMING THAT OUT FOR US. PERFECT TIMING. NOT FOR HIM BUT FOR ME FOR THE WEEKEND. WE'RE HEADED BACK TO THE 60S BY THE WEEKEND. SO MUDDLE THROUGH A COUPLE MORE OF THESE VERY COLD DAYS AFTER THE FLURRIES ROLLED THROUGH YESTERDAY EVENING AND THE WIND AND MAY HAVE CUT SHORT THE TRICK OR TREAT. I THINK FOR SOME I FEEL LIKE THE CROWD TAPERED OFF A LITTLE EARLIER THAN USUAL. WELL, TEMPERATURES RIGHT NOW SITTING IN THE LOW 30S, SO NEAR FREEZING ACROSS MUCH OF GREATER CINCINNATI. BASICALLY 30 TO 33 DEGREES, ALL ACROSS OUR AREA, THOUGH, WE DO HAVE A BREEZE. IT'S COMING IN OUT OF THE NORTHWEST. PULLING IN THAT COLDER AIR. SO WITH THE BREEZE, IT FEELS LIKE THE UPPER 20S AS WE GET THE DAY STARTED. BUT WE ARE STARTING OUT WITH DRY CONDITIONS ON THE WLWT LIVE RADAR. THAT'S NOT THE CASE IN NORTHERN OHIO. OR THEY'RE WAKING UP TO A FRESH BLANKET OF SNOW AND EVEN SOME PLOWS OUT THERE THIS MORNING. BUT FOR US, THINGS ARE QUIET, JUST A BIT BREEZY AND COOL TO START THE DAY. SO RIGHT NOW IT'S 32, BUT FEELING LIKE 25 EXPECTED AT 8 A.M. AS WE DROP TO THE 20S FOR THOSE FEELS LIKE TEMPERATURES TO DROP TO THE LOW 20S. SO BUNDLE UP THIS MORNING. WE'LL LOOK AHEAD TO THAT WEEKEND. WARM-UP COMING UP, RANDY THANK YOU. THAT BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING, SHOTS FIRED OVERNIGHT NEAR A BUSY AREA VERY CLOSE TO UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI CAMPUS. OBVIOUSLY A BUSY NIGHT AS WELL. IT WAS IT HAPPENED EARLY THIS MORNING IN THE SHORT VINE AREA OF CORRYVILLE WLWT NEWS FIVE'S DANIELLE DINDAK IS LIVE THIS MORNING LEADING THE WAY WITH WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR. DANIELLE. YES, GOOD MORNING, KELLY AND STEPHEN, YOU KNOW, THIS ALL HAPPENED AT A VERY POPULAR PART OF TOWN FOR YOU SEE STUDENTS, IT DID HAPPEN OFF CAMPUS ABOUT A SHORT TWO MINUTE WALK, TWO MINUTES BLOCKS, THAT IS. AND AROUND 2 A.M. THIS MORNING, YOU SEE POLICE DID SEND AN ALERT OUT TO PEOPLE SAYING THAT THEY WERE A SHELTER IN PLACE, WAS THERE FOR STUDENTS. AND I WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS MAP REAL QUICK IF YOU GUYS CAN KIND OF GIVE YOU A CLOSER LOOK OF HOW CLOSE THIS HAPPENED TO CAMPUS. IT HAPPENED RIGHT OUTSIDE OF A DIVE BAR ON SHORT VINE THAT'S JUST ABOUT TWO BLOCKS AWAY FROM CAMPUS, RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE CORRYVILLE KROGER. THAT MANY STUDENTS GET THEIR GROCERIES AT THE TYPICAL SHORT VINE NIGHTLIFE WASN'T INTERRUPTED EARLY THIS MORNING WHEN SHOTS WERE FIRED AROUND 2 A.M. THAT'S AROUND THE TIME DIVE BAR WAS CLOSING. NOW POLICE TELL US A 22 YEAR OLD MAN WAS GRAZED IN THE HEAD BY A BULLET. HE WAS ALERT AS CREWS ARRIVED AND HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. HE IS EXPECTED TO BE OKAY NOW RIGHT NOW, STUDENTS THAT SHELTER IN PLACE WAS UP AROUND 230 THIS MORNING. NOW, LIKE I SAID, ONE PERSON WAS GRAZED IN THE HEAD. WE'LL CONTINUE TO UPDATE YOU ON ANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS. DANIELLE DARKE WLWT. NEWS 5. ALL RIGHT, DANIELLE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE ARE ALSO LEADING THE WAY WITH MORE BREAKING NEWS AFTER A REPORTED SHOOTING IN CARTHAGE. THIS HAPPENED AT A GAS STATION ON NORTH BEND ROAD SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. OUR CAMERAS WERE THERE AS POLICE INVESTIGATED AT THE SPEEDWAY AT THE CORNER OF NORTH BEND AND PADDOCK ROAD EARLY THIS MORNING. RIGHT NOW, IT'S NOT CLEAR IF ANYBODY WAS HURT OR IF POLICE HAVE ARRESTED ANY SUSPECTS. WE ARE STILL WORKING TO LEARN MORE. AND ONCE WE DO FIND THAT OUT, WE WILL GET IT TO YOU HERE ON AIR AND ONLINE AT WLWT DOT COM. MORE BREAKING NEWS TO GET TO THIS TIME OUT OF RURAL EASTERN KENTUCKY. OFFICIALS SAY TWO MEN ARE TRAPPED AFTER AN IDLED COAL PRODUCTION PLANT COLLAPSED IN MARTIN COUNTY LAST NIGHT. THE SHERIFF SAYS RESCUE CREWS HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH ONE OF THE MEN AND HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME AID, BUT SO FAR, THEY CANNOT GET THEM OUT. RIGHT NOW, THE EXTENT OF EITHER MAN'S CONDITIONS ARE UNKNOWN. WE ARE STILL WORKING TO LEARN MORE AND WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ONCE WE DO. 504 PORTIONS OF I 275 HAVE REOPENED AFTER A DEADLY WRECK LEFT TRAFFIC AT A STANDSTILL FOR SEVERAL HOURS LAST NIGHT. YEAH, IT'S STILL UNCLEAR WHAT LED UP TO THIS CRASH, BUT 911 CALLS PAINTING A CLEARER PICTURE OF THE FIRST REPORTS MADE TO POLICE. THERE'S A LOT OF LAYERS HERE. I MEAN, A SEMI TRUCK ON ITS SIDE, 7 OR 8 MORE CARS INVOLVED AND A REPORT, ONE VEHICLE, POSSIBLY WENT OVER THE BRIDGE INTO THE RIVER. THIS ALL HAPPENED AROUND 6:00. SO OBVIOUSLY A BUSY TIME OF THE EVENING COMMUTE ON 275 EAST NEAR THE LICKING RIVER IN TAYLOR MILL. STILL UNCLEAR WHAT CAUSED THE DEADLY CRASH, BUT OUR CREWS DID SEE A SEMI OVERTURNED AND A GUARDRAIL WITH EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. AS YOU CAN SEE IN SOME OF THAT VIDEO. OUR CREWS SAW FIRE CREWS ALSO SEARCHING THE WOODED AREA BELOW 275 EASTBOUND WHERE THEY RECOVERED WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE A BODY. WE ARE STILL WORKING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, AS WELL AS THE OTHER DRIVERS INVOLVED, HOW EVERYONE'S DOING. WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON AIR AND ONLINE@WLWT.COM. DEVELOPING OUT OF COVINGTON THIS MORNING. A MAN IS NOW FACING MURDER CHARGES IN A DEADLY SHOOTING. POLICE SAY OFFICERS FOUND 51 YEAR OLD PATRICK SAND SHOT OUTSIDE A HOME ON CHURCH STREET TUESDAY AFTERNOON. POLICE TELL US A WOMAN WAS ALSO SERIOUSLY INJURED, BUT SHE WAS NOT SHOT. COVINGTON POLICE ARRESTED 32 YEAR OLD ROBERT HARTMAN. HE'S NOW IN THE KENTON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER FACING A MURDER CHARGE. AN UPDATE TO A STORY OUT OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA. WE HAD THIS AS BREAKING NEWS YESTERDAY MORNING. A SEMI TRUCK DRIVER HAS DIED AFTER CRASHING INTO AN OVERPASS IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA. THIS HAPPENED ON 74 WEST NEAR BATESVILLE, AROUND 430 IN THE MORNING YESTERDAY. AGAIN, WE HAD UPDATES THROUGH THE MORNING. TROOPERS NOW TELLING US THE SEMI WAS THE ONLY VEHICLE INVOLVED AND THAT CRASH SHUT DOWN THE INTERSTATE FOR MORE THAN SIX HOURS AS CREWS WORKE

All lanes clear after earlier crash on I-71 in Montgomery

Updated: 12:44 PM EDT Nov 1, 2023

UPDATE:All lanes clear after earlier crash on I-71 in Montgomery.Crews are on scene of a crash that is blocking a lane of travel in Montgomery Thursday morning. Click the video player above to watch other morning headlines from WLWT News 5First responders have blocked the left lane and shoulder due to a crash just north of the Snider Road area on southbound I-71.Traffic is moving slowly in the area as motorists move over to let crews work. Delays are minimal at this time. Sharing brings us closer together. If this story happened near you, share this article with friends in your area using the WLWT mobile app so they can read along with you. The WLWT app is available for free in Apple's App Store and on Google Play.Injuries have been reported but not confirmed at this time. Caution should be used in the area while crews work to clear the crash from the roadway. For live traffic updates, click here.Do you have photos or video of an incident? If so, upload them to https://www.Wlwt.Com/upload. Be sure to include your name and additional details so we can give you proper credit online and on TV.

MONTGOMERY, Ohio —

UPDATE:

All lanes clear after earlier crash on I-71 in Montgomery.

Crews are on scene of a crash that is blocking a lane of travel in Montgomery Thursday morning.

Click the video player above to watch other morning headlines from WLWT News 5

First responders have blocked the left lane and shoulder due to a crash just north of the Snider Road area on southbound I-71.

Traffic is moving slowly in the area as motorists move over to let crews work. Delays are minimal at this time.

Sharing brings us closer together. If this story happened near you, share this article with friends in your area using the WLWT mobile app so they can read along with you. The WLWT app is available for free in Apple's App Store and on Google Play.

Injuries have been reported but not confirmed at this time. Caution should be used in the area while crews work to clear the crash from the roadway.

For live traffic updates, click here.

Do you have photos or video of an incident? If so, upload them to https://www.Wlwt.Com/upload. Be sure to include your name and additional details so we can give you proper credit online and on TV.

From Reservation Dogs To Reggae Rock: 'We're Celebrating The Amazing Things Natives Are Doing Right Now'

The state of Arizona is not among those that recognises Indigenous Peoples Day as a public holiday but this year, for the first time, the sprawling city of Phoenix is. An open-air market in a downtown park has been set up to celebrate all things Native American – jewellery, food, clothing – bringing their creators from all across the south-west.

At one end of the park is a low stage, and throughout the late summer day, musicians from Indigenous communities far across the US have been performing. Now, after dark, in the Arizona heat, Ed Kabotie is dangling his legs off the tailgate of a battered pickup, soda in hand.

Kabotie has driven down from the Hopi reservation 200 miles north of here to play with his reggae-rock band, the Yoties. And he is keen to tell his story, one that weaves in and out of his identity as Native American, as it does for most musicians here gathered together under the banner of Native Guitars Tour, a collective of Indigenous artists promoting Native music, art and fashion that advocates for greater cultural and economic representation.

'Not all pow-wow' … Ed Kabotie of the Yoties. Photograph: Sidziil Savage

Kabotie, who is Hopi, emphasises that the vision of Indigenous life that is presented online or in films is frequently generalised, crudely drawn or misleading.

"It's important that people recognise that a Hopi is not a Havasupai, and a Havasupai is not an Apache," he says. "We don't all have casinos, and some of our governments hate that shit. We're not all pow-wow people, and the pow-wow culture that you see isn't necessarily an internal tribal culture. For some it is, for others it's not."

Where Kabotie is from, "a lot of people don't have running water and electricity … we don't have stores and it's two hours to get to a hospital. All that being said, I like it. It's not representative of every Native culture, it's just one, whatever that is."

Soon after we speak, Wavelengths, a Navajo-Zuni powerpop band from Shiprock, New Mexico, come on. "We're trying to inspire ordinary Native Americans that you can do more than stay at home," says their singer-guitarist Cody Waybenais. "I feel we are reaching a point where all of us, all Indigenous people, are collectively worldwide, all directions; all tribes are finally reaching a world platform."

Notwithstanding the thinning crowd in Phoenix as the event winds down, the platform for Native voices is definitely expanding. On TV, hit shows such as Reservation Dogs are bringing Native actors and directors to the forefront; in others areas, too, there are signs of representational improvement, whether that's in the form of the Navajo (by geography) model and activist Quannah Chasinghorse; the Santa Clara pueblo ceramicist Rose B Simpson; or Mashpee Wampanoag tribal citizen (and owner of the Sly Fox Den Too restaurant in Rhode Island), Sherry Pocknett, who has been named best chef in the north-east US by the James Beard awards for two years in a row.

"It's time for us to express ourselves as we're supposed to, because the oppression, genocide and everything affected us mentally and spiritually," says Waŋbdí Wašté, drummer with Black Owl Society, a White Stripes-esque brother-and-sister rock act from the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota.

The duo, whose parents were inducted into the Christian missionary school system which aimed to assimilate or "westernise" Native American children, are overtly political, focusing on water rights, minerals rights, and the issues of violence and the disappearance of Native people. "There has been a lot of healing throughout the past few generations and that for us is expressed in music," says Wašté.

Her brother, who records as Buffalo Man, points out that when he started playing, people still seemed to think his family lived in tipis: "Anything that has to do with our reality is what we talk about. It's not politics, religion, it's our reality. We try to keep it real."

'We're trying to inspire' … Dawah Shushlachee of Wavelengths. Photograph: Z Tree Redbird

But how real is real, and who gets to channel that reality, remains contentious. Devery Jacobs, a Canadian First Nations actor who stars in Reservation Dogs, recently critiqued Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, calling it "painful, gruelling, unrelenting and unnecessarily graphic" in its depiction of a series of murders of members of the Osage Nation tribe in 1920s Oklahoma.

The bands in Arizona are not – and may never be – competing with the giants of the music business, but the point is clear: Native American arts and cultural expression that were once limited to their localities are gaining a wider reach. The social and economic filters that once isolated and constrained Indigenous voices are lifting.

The Native Guitars Tours is the brainchild of Jir Anderson, a Cochiti pueblo guitarist who fashioned his first guitar from a piece of a table and became a touring musician after getting a knock on the door from the Jamaican singer Fuzzy Bush. "In the 60s and 70s it was hard for Natives to make a living," he says. "My parents were silversmiths, and I grew up right by the plaza, so I heard the thundery drums and my path became music," Anderson recalls, referring to the large open space used for gatherings at the heart of pueblo villages in New Mexico.

His partner is Alicia Ortega, formerly the director of the All Pueblo Council of Governors and co-founder of Native Women Lead, a group that promotes the role of Native women. She is close with Deb Haaland, the US interior secretary and 35th generation New Mexican from the Laguna pueblo, not far from her own Pojoaque and Santa Clara.

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"Everything was hidden, so at a certain point in time we weren't able to go out and express ourselves without feeling judged," says Ortega, pointing out that it is only four decades since the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, guaranteeing freedom to worship through ceremonials and traditional rites, was passed. "What we're doing, in the present day, is celebrating very talented artists and musicians, and the amazing things Natives are doing right now, telling our own stories and advocating for the issues that we're fighting for.

"We're less than 3% of the US population struggling with invisibility and also with a romanticised, false narrative or struggling with poverty porn – other people's idea of what Native people are, what we're doing or where we come from," Ortega continues. "Some people say it's like walking in two worlds, but it's not: it's one multifaceted world. For us it's just a way of life – our responsibilities to the communities we come from and the capitalistic, colonised world."

Last month, at the international film festival in Santa Fe, the film and TV aspects of Native American cultural production came into view. Curated by Gary Farmer, the Cayuga nation and Haudenosaunee-Iroquois actor best known for his role in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, the festival gave its top award to Sterlin Harjo, a Seminole from Oklahoma who co-created Reservation Dogs, which traces the exploits of four rebellious teens in a small town in Oklahoma's Muscogee Nation.

Gruellingly unrelenting … Lily Gladstone and Leonardo di Caprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon/AP

The success of the show, which offered up-and-coming Native American film-makers episodes to direct, is not singular. There is also Dark Winds, a hit Navajo crime drama directed by Cheyenne-Arapaho Chris Eyre, who also made Smoke Signals; plus the comedy Rutherford Falls, which survived only two seasons, but gave Muskeg Lake Cree Nation actor Michael Greyeyes a leading turn.

"We're seeing a lot of hot young film-makers coming out of the Santa Fe Institute for American Indian Arts and the University of New Mexico arts programme," says festival director Jacques Paisner. The success of Rez Dogs and Dark Winds, he adds, "is creating more and more opportunities for Indigenous people to tell their stories on the screen".

Despite the criticism of Killers of the Flower Moon, the production did at least consult with the Osage nation and feature many Native American actors. "While we're happy that light is being shed on the history of Native people, it was told from a non-Native perspective." says Ortega. "It was nice to see the Osage people involved, but it would have been better to see more focus on Native actors and the community. But it's a step forward, right? I think we can be grateful for that. In the past, in movies, they would have had non-Natives acting as Natives and wouldn't have consulted or had any connection with the tribal communities."

Back in Phoenix, it is past midnight and still refusing to cool down. Ortega and Anderson are packing up for the six-hour drive back to Albuquerque, while Kabotie is gathering petrol money for the trek back home. He judges the night's work to have been worth the trip, and a chance to bring "all that shit up but in a positive happy way. Someone once gave me a great compliment," Kabotie recalls. "He said: so you guys are basically saying 'fuck you'. But it's fuck you creatively."

This article was amended on 19 November 2023. Deb Haaland is from the Laguna pueblo, not the Laguna and and San Felipe pueblos as an earlier version said.

Reservation Dogs is streaming on Disney+ now.

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