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Ethan Humble is a local journalist based in Des Moines, Iowa. He writes for various news outlets including KCCI-TV, NBC5 News, and WVTM-TV, covering a wide range of topics from local news and community events to health and safety issues. With a passion for storytelling, Ethan strives to keep the community informed and engaged through his reporting.

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Des Moines, United States (Local)

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Government Announcement: 28 %
Event Coverage: 17 %
Evolving Stories: 12 %
Legal Policy Regulation: 9 %
Breaking News: 8 %

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Ethan Humble's coverage predominantly focuses on local news and community events in Iowa, particularly Des Moines. His articles cover a wide range of topics such as health, sports, education, and entertainment news with an emphasis on announcements and event coverage.

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Des Moines man pleads guilty, is sentenced for death of 4-month-old baby Infinite Scroll Enabled Des Moines man pleads guilty, is sentenced for death of 4-month-old baby The baby's mother said without a mandatory minimum sentencing, the punishment was disappointing. Updated: 6:42 PM CDT Sep 11, 2024 Infinite Scroll Enabled Video Player is loading. / This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Opacity Text Background Color Opacity Caption Area Background Color Opacity Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. Advertisement ✕ A DES MOINES MAN WILL SPEND UP TO 60 YEARS BEHIND BARS FOR HIS ROLE IN THE DEATH OF A BABY. DEVIN LUCKETT PLEADED GUILTY TO TWO SEPARATE CHARGES OF CHILD ENDANGERMENT. THIS MORNING. KCCI'S ETHAN HUMBLE WAS IN THE COURTROOM. ETHAN, YOU SPOKE TO THE MOTHER WHOSE CHILD DIED WHILE IN LUCKETT'S CARE. THAT'S RIGHT. BEN. STACIE KIYANA WEBSTER SAYS SHE HASN'T KNOWN HOW TO FEEL SINCE SHE LOST HER SON, KIONTE. BUT SHE SAYS SHE HAS FOUND A LITTLE BIT OF PEACE KNOWING THE LOSS IS GIVING OTHER KIDS A SECOND CHANCE. AT JUST FOUR MONTHS OLD, KEONTE WEBSTER WAS A SPECIAL BOY. KIONTE MEANT EVERYTHING TO ME. THAT WAS MY FIRST BOY, BUT HIS LIFE WAS CUT SHORT. CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS SHOW KIONTE WAS IN 27 YEAR OLD DEVIN LUCKETT'S CARE FOR ABOUT 12 HOURS IN FEBRUARY OF 2023. IN THAT TIME, POLICE SAY KIONTE SUFFERED MULTIPLE BLUNT FORCE INJURIES TO HIS HEAD. ME SEEING MY SON LIKE THAT TRAUMATIZED ME. LUCKETT WAS CHARGED WITH A SEPARATE CHILD ENDANGERMENT CASE FIVE MONTHS LATER. IN THAT CASE, POLICE SAY A CHILD RELATED TO LUCKETT ARRIVED AT A HOSPITAL WITH MULTIPLE RIB FRACTURES AND A BROKEN FEMUR. AND NOW, OVER A YEAR LATER, LUCKETT HAS PLED GUILTY IN BOTH CASES. WEBSTER SAYS IT WAS UNSETTLING TO SEE LUCKETT AT HIS SENTENCING WEDNESDAY. I WAS VERY, VERY UPSET. I FELT LIKE HE FEELS NO REMORSE BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE HAD ACTED. LOCKETT WAS GIVEN 60 YEARS IN PRISON TOTAL FOR THE CHARGES, BUT WITHOUT A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING. WEBSTER SAYS THE PUNISHMENT WAS DISAPPOINTING. I JUST THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF AWFUL AND DISRESPECTFUL BECAUSE IT'S A CHILD'S LIFE, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY THAT CAN'T DEFEND THEMSELVES OR DO ANYTHING TO PROTECT THEM. BUT EVEN ON SUCH A DARK DAY, THERE'S STILL A REASON TO SMILE. WEBSTER DECIDED TO GIVE HIS HEART TO A THREE MONTH OLD GIRL AND HIS LIVER, PANCREAS AND INTESTINES TO A THREE YEAR OLD GIRL. AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA TO GIVE BACK TO THOSE WHO NEED IT MORE THAN I DO TO ALLOW OTHERS TO LOVE KIONTE JUST LIKE HIS MOM DID. THAT WAS MY FIRST, AND I LOVED HIM WITH ALL MY HEART. JUST A HEARTBREAKING STORY TO TELL TODAY. LUCKETT MUST ALSO PAY A $150,000 CIVIL PENALTY TO WEBSTER'S ESTATE. HE HAS 30 DAYS TO ENTER AN APPE Des Moines man pleads guilty, is sentenced for death of 4-month-old baby The baby's mother said without a mandatory minimum sentencing, the punishment was disappointing. Updated: 6:42 PM CDT Sep 11, 2024 Infinite Scroll Enabled A Des Moines man will spend up to 60 years behind bars after admitting his role in the death of a baby.Devin Luckett pleaded guilty Wednesday to two separate charges of child endangerment.He admitted to killing 4-month-old Keyontay Webster in February of 2023. Criminal complaints show Webster was in 27-year-old Devin Luckett's care for about 12 hours in February of 2023.In that time, police say Keyontay suffered multiple blunt force injuries to his head.Luckett was also charged with a separate child endangerment case five months later.Police say a 3-month-old baby related to Luckett arrived at a hospital with multiple rib fractures and a broken femur. Webster's mother, Keonna Webster, was in court for the sentencing.She said it was unsettling to see Luckett at his sentencing Wednesday."I was very, very upset. I feel like he feels no remorse because of the way he had acted," Webster said.She said without a mandatory minimum sentencing, the punishment was disappointing."I think deserves to die in prison because what did is not okay," she said. "I expected him to get a little bit more time. A mandatory minimum, anything. But that's not what he had received, and I just think, that's kind of awful and disrespectful because it's a child's life."But even on such a dark day, there's still a reason to smile.Webster decided to give Keyontay's heart to a 3-month-old girl and his liver, pancreas and intestines to a 3-year-old girl.She said although it was a difficult choice at first, she's glad she helped the others."I thought it would be a great idea to give back to those who need it more than I do," Webster said.Luckett must also pay a $150,000 civil penalty to Webster's estate.He has 30 days to enter an appeal on the sentencing.» Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google PlayGet the latest headlines from KCCI DES MOINES, Iowa — James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice lives on through AI. Voice actors see promise and peril in that Updated: 2:48 PM CDT Sep 11, 2024 Next Story James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice lives on through AI. Voice actors see promise and peril in that Updated: 2:48 PM CDT Sep 11, 2024 Video Player is loading. / This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Opacity Text Background Color Opacity Caption Area Background Color Opacity Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. Advertisement ✕ James Earl Jones was *** physically imposing actor. I take it back, you're not in trouble, you're dead where you stand join me. But it will be jones' voice. That audiences will long remember, Luke Skywalker learned that in the Star Wars series. No, I am the father. It became *** big my who is that? Who is that in inside the mast? *** different actor played Vader. But director George Lucas realized he needed *** villain with *** more sinister voice called me and said, you want to do *** day's work. And I said, yeah, *** day's work, 2.5 hours. That's all all the Darth Vader languages in 2.5 hours, *** few $1000. And then I went home, *** city destroyed the key to Darth Vader is *** narrow band of expression, no inflections. He's not human. Father and son Jones returned to the role of the imperial villain throughout his career. Even at age 91 in the Disney Plus series, Obi Wan Kenobi, you will suffer in another memorable voice only role. Jones said just three words. This is CNN. What happened was that uh uh I did the Goodwill games. They said, well, now can we do uh, *** CNN logo? And I came back with *** separate session. It was so short. I mean, it took five minutes, right? And I forgot it. What is unforgettable? Is that this powerful actor with *** deep authoritative voice? Had *** speaking disability, stuttering was so embarrassing and really painful. I went mute from the age of 8 to 14. Jones said *** great teacher in high school who loved poetry helped him. He discovered I wrote poetry and he got me to read my poetry in front of the class. And, and when I did it didn't stutter as *** teenager, Jones wanted to be *** military officer. He even ended up in an American nuclear bomber in his first movie role. The instructions attacked the Soviet Union in Dr Strangelove bomb do circuits, negative function. *** long list of screen roles would follow including roots, the guests awaiting your majesty. Let them wait. Coming to America. It'll be as if they dip themselves in magic waters. Field of dreams. The hunt for Red October, mother of God. We know he's escaped patriot games. The sun will set on my time here. And the lion king. The stage though was his first love. Jones won *** Tony Award in 1969 for The Great White Hope your wish coming true. Nominated two for an Oscar. In the movie version, Jones was part of an elite acting group. He won an Oscar, *** Grammy, three Emmys and three Tonys including *** lifetime achievement award in 2017. Had he done it all in life? I'm not sure if I wanna do it all because, uh, you know, I, I death is OK. It, it is something that happens to all of us and that's kind of glorious, isn't it? James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice lives on through AI. Voice actors see promise and peril in that Updated: 2:48 PM CDT Sep 11, 2024 Over the course of an acting career that spanned more than six decades, James Earl Jones' voice became an indelible piece of his work as a performer.On screen, Jones, who died Monday at 93, brought to life a reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams" and a haughty king of a fictional land in "Coming To America." On stage, he won two Tony Awards for "The Great White Hope" and "Fences." His work as a voice actor — the regal dignity of his portrayal of Mufasa in "The Lion King" and the menacing and deep timbre he lent to Darth Vader in "Star Wars" — helped cement his place as a legendary actor among generations of fans.But in the wake of his death, an aspect of Jones' career has come to the fore: consenting to the use of artificial intelligence to replicate his performance as Darth Vader after he stepped away from the role. Skywalker Sound and the Ukrainian company Respeecher used AI to recreate Jones' villain for the 2022 show "Obi-Wan Kenobi" on Disney+. Mark Hamill's voice was also "de-aged" using Respeecher for his appearance as Luke Skywalker in "The Mandalorian."Voice actors say they fear AI could reduce or eliminate job opportunities because the technology could be used to replicate one performance into a number of other movements without their consent — a concern that led video game performers with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists to go on strike in late July.To some, Jones' decision to allow AI to replicate his voice raises questions about voice acting as an art, but also potentially helps lay the ground work for transparent AI agreements that fairly compensate an actor for their performance with consent. Zeke Alton, a voice actor and member of SAG-AFTRA's interactive media agreement negotiating committee, said it's "amazing" that Jones was involved in the process of replicating his voice."If the game companies, the movie companies, gave the consent, compensation transparency to every actor that they gave James Earl Jones, we wouldn't be on strike," Alton said. "It proves that they can do it. They just don't want to for people that they feel don't have the leverage to bargain for themselves."Hollywood's video game performers announced a work stoppage — their second in a decade — after more than 18 months of negotiations over a new interactive media agreement with game industry giants broke down over artificial intelligence protections. Members of the union have said they are not anti-AI. The performers are worried, however, the technology could provide studios with a means to displace them.Concerns about how movie studios will use AI helped fuel last year's film and television strikes by the union, which lasted four months.Jones , who overcame a childhood stutter, said in previous interviews that he was "happy to be able to talk at all, because there was time when I couldn't." His goal, he said, was for his voice to be clear. Speaking with The Associated Press in 1994, he said that he tried to make Darth Vader "more human and more interesting." But George Lucas, the filmmaker who created "Star Wars," advised him to "go back to a very narrow band of expression" because the mechanical parts of the villain's body would make it difficult for him to sound more human.Neither Skywalker Sound nor Respeecher responded to a request for comment. But a sound editor with Skywalker Sound told Vanity Fair that Jones signed off on the use of archival recordings to keep Darth Vader alive and that he guided Darth Vader's performance for the Disney+ show as "a benevolent godfather."Voice actor Brock Powell said that the ability to use an actor like Jones' voice in perpetuity could eliminate the need for actors who specialize in matching voices. That type of work provides steady jobs for many performers, they said, who can recreate a famous voice for video games, animated series and other types of media. "To quote 'Jurassic Park,' the scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to ask if we should," Powell said.That type of AI use could also reduce "ingenuity" in acting, they said, because new actors might not have the chance to come in and reinvigorate a role. Crispin Freeman, an actor who has done voice matching work replicating Orlando Bloom's voice in "Pirates of the Caribbean," said that the technology may take away voice matching roles, but doesn't harm "the ability of future artists to blaze their own trails" in new roles."We always need to keep reinventing new stories as we're going forward, and not simply relying on the old stuff," he said. "Rather than worrying, 'Oh, will someone else be able to be Darth Vader,' why don't we make a new 'Star Wars' character that's as compelling as Darth Vader?"Jones' contract could set an example of properly bargaining with an actor over their likeness, said Sarah Elmaleh, chair of SAG-AFTRA's interactive negotiating committee. Elmaleh, a voice actor, said there is a chance for these tools to be used in "meaningful, smart artistic decisions.""I worry about a world where we conflate the superficial qualities of a person's voice with their performance," she said. "I can't help getting away from the metaphor that's baked into this character itself, which is, when you conflate the man with the machine, you become a tool for other forces, other powers that be."Alton, the voice actor, said he wonders about what the use of Jones' voice as Darth Vader would mean if it were used for another 100 years and people didn't remember "all of the different things that built him into the iconic character that he was.""It's just a disembodied voice at that point. It's part of the neutering of art that generative AI has the potential to do, and it's sort of a heady subject, but it's very important for us as a world to consider what we want our entertainment and our art to be in the future," he said. "Do we want it to be human, or do we want it to be bland?" LOS ANGELES —

Des Moines man pleads guilty, is sentenced for death of 4-month-old baby Infinite Scroll Enabled Des Moines man pleads guilty, is sentenced for death of 4-month-old baby The baby's mother said without a mandatory minimum sentencing, the punishment was disappointing. Updated: 6:42 PM CDT Sep 11, 2024 Infinite Scroll Enabled Video Player is loading. / This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Opacity Text Background Color Opacity Caption Area Background Color Opacity Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. Advertisement ✕ A DES MOINES MAN WILL SPEND UP TO 60 YEARS BEHIND BARS FOR HIS ROLE IN THE DEATH OF A BABY. DEVIN LUCKETT PLEADED GUILTY TO TWO SEPARATE CHARGES OF CHILD ENDANGERMENT. THIS MORNING. KCCI'S ETHAN HUMBLE WAS IN THE COURTROOM. ETHAN, YOU SPOKE TO THE MOTHER WHOSE CHILD DIED WHILE IN LUCKETT'S CARE. THAT'S RIGHT. BEN. STACIE KIYANA WEBSTER SAYS SHE HASN'T KNOWN HOW TO FEEL SINCE SHE LOST HER SON, KIONTE. BUT SHE SAYS SHE HAS FOUND A LITTLE BIT OF PEACE KNOWING THE LOSS IS GIVING OTHER KIDS A SECOND CHANCE. AT JUST FOUR MONTHS OLD, KEONTE WEBSTER WAS A SPECIAL BOY. KIONTE MEANT EVERYTHING TO ME. THAT WAS MY FIRST BOY, BUT HIS LIFE WAS CUT SHORT. CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS SHOW KIONTE WAS IN 27 YEAR OLD DEVIN LUCKETT'S CARE FOR ABOUT 12 HOURS IN FEBRUARY OF 2023. IN THAT TIME, POLICE SAY KIONTE SUFFERED MULTIPLE BLUNT FORCE INJURIES TO HIS HEAD. ME SEEING MY SON LIKE THAT TRAUMATIZED ME. LUCKETT WAS CHARGED WITH A SEPARATE CHILD ENDANGERMENT CASE FIVE MONTHS LATER. IN THAT CASE, POLICE SAY A CHILD RELATED TO LUCKETT ARRIVED AT A HOSPITAL WITH MULTIPLE RIB FRACTURES AND A BROKEN FEMUR. AND NOW, OVER A YEAR LATER, LUCKETT HAS PLED GUILTY IN BOTH CASES. WEBSTER SAYS IT WAS UNSETTLING TO SEE LUCKETT AT HIS SENTENCING WEDNESDAY. I WAS VERY, VERY UPSET. I FELT LIKE HE FEELS NO REMORSE BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE HAD ACTED. LOCKETT WAS GIVEN 60 YEARS IN PRISON TOTAL FOR THE CHARGES, BUT WITHOUT A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING. WEBSTER SAYS THE PUNISHMENT WAS DISAPPOINTING. I JUST THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF AWFUL AND DISRESPECTFUL BECAUSE IT'S A CHILD'S LIFE, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY THAT CAN'T DEFEND THEMSELVES OR DO ANYTHING TO PROTECT THEM. BUT EVEN ON SUCH A DARK DAY, THERE'S STILL A REASON TO SMILE. WEBSTER DECIDED TO GIVE HIS HEART TO A THREE MONTH OLD GIRL AND HIS LIVER, PANCREAS AND INTESTINES TO A THREE YEAR OLD GIRL. AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA TO GIVE BACK TO THOSE WHO NEED IT MORE THAN I DO TO ALLOW OTHERS TO LOVE KIONTE JUST LIKE HIS MOM DID. THAT WAS MY FIRST, AND I LOVED HIM WITH ALL MY HEART. JUST A HEARTBREAKING STORY TO TELL TODAY. LUCKETT MUST ALSO PAY A $150,000 CIVIL PENALTY TO WEBSTER'S ESTATE. HE HAS 30 DAYS TO ENTER AN APPE Des Moines man pleads guilty, is sentenced for death of 4-month-old baby The baby's mother said without a mandatory minimum sentencing, the punishment was disappointing. Updated: 6:42 PM CDT Sep 11, 2024 Infinite Scroll Enabled A Des Moines man will spend up to 60 years behind bars after admitting his role in the death of a baby.Devin Luckett pleaded guilty Wednesday to two separate charges of child endangerment.He admitted to killing 4-month-old Keyontay Webster in February of 2023. Criminal complaints show Webster was in 27-year-old Devin Luckett's care for about 12 hours in February of 2023.In that time, police say Keyontay suffered multiple blunt force injuries to his head.Luckett was also charged with a separate child endangerment case five months later.Police say a 3-month-old baby related to Luckett arrived at a hospital with multiple rib fractures and a broken femur. Webster's mother, Keonna Webster, was in court for the sentencing.She said it was unsettling to see Luckett at his sentencing Wednesday.

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The baby's mother said without a mandatory minimum sentencing, the punishment was disappointing.

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