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SANTA ROSA BEACH — One year after the May 6, 2020, wildfire that scorched 343 acres of southern Walton County, destroying 34 homes and damaging 25 others — but causing no deaths — the man charged in connection with the blaze appears headed to trial next month. Allen Boyd Smith, 59, of a Mussett Bayou Road address, was arrested just days after the blaze and charged with reckless burning of lands, burning illegal/prohibited materials and with an open burning violation. He has been free o...

Portsmouth Herald HAMPTON — Aquarion Water Company of New Hampshire recently announced the New Hampshire Water Works Association selected Glenn Eaton as the recipient of the 2020 Meritorious Achievement Award. Eaton of Rye serves as a Senior Pump Operator for Aquarion Water Company, which provides water service to Hampton, North Hampton, and Rye. Each year, the Meritorious Achievement Award recognizes a member of NHWWA who provides outstanding service to a water utility and the drinking water...

Art Museum of Greater Lafayette highlighting Purdue graduate Boyd Smiths artwork this Black History Month The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette is taking part in Black History Month. If you visit in person or on the website, youll be able to view an exhibit thats bringing a new perspective to the Black experience. Posted: Feb 17, 2021 6:51 AM Posted By: Micah Upshaw GREATER LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) -- A local art exhibit is bringing a new perspective to the Black experience. The Art Museum of Gr...

Families of couple killed in botched Houston police raid file lawsuit CNN 1/29/2021 © KTRK The families of a man and woman killed in a botched police raid in Houston have filed lawsuits against the city and police department, according to two separate complaints filed Wednesday. Rhogena Nicholas and her husband Dennis Tuttle were killed along with their dog when a tactical team raided their home on January 28, 2019. An officer alleged a criminal informant bought heroin from a man at Tuttle ...

Just shy of two years after 2019’s fatal Harding Street raid, the families of the married couple killed by Houston Police Department officers during the incident sued the City of Houston and multiple Houston cops for violating their relatives’ constitutional civil rights. Lawyers for the families of Rhogena Nicholas and Dennis Tuttle each filed federal civil rights lawsuits Wednesday night in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Nicholas family attorney Mike Doyle sai...

Harding Street victims families sue city and Houston cops, likening botched raid to Training Day FacebookTwitterEmail 1of24 Crime scene tape is shown in the yard of home at 7815 Harding Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 where five Houston Police Officers were shot in a gun battle while serving a search warrant on Monday. Police identified the two suspects who died as Rhogena Nicholas, 58, and Dennis Tuttle, 59.Melissa Phillip, Staff photographer / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of24 John Nicholas, t...

Black Cultural Center releases spring 2021 virtual events Note to journalists: Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University’s Black Cultural Center is releasing the upcoming schedule of virtual events. All events are free. Registration is required for all events and can be done via the BCC’s website. * Now-Feb. 28 — “The Rudiments of SuPre” by Boyd Smith at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, 102 S. 10th St., Lafayett...

but i think a lot of people were ultimately surprised he received life in prison. the feeling was he would maybe get 10 years or so. his minister of interior also got life in prison but those celebrations when those verdicts were being -- once the other verdicts against mubaraks sons came out, that celebration took a nosedive the clashes with the police and the army. people are extremely upset over the verdict, they say his assistants were also part of the crackdown in protesters durin...

and calls for mass protests calling for a rise in muslim brotherhood who has hilt sights on the presidency. cnn foreign correspondent ben wedeman is live watching all of this. >> reporter: when it came out that he had been given life sentence, the initial reaction was one of joy. [ cheering ] >> reporter: but as soon as people heard that all the others who were accused, including the two sons of hosni mubarak, alaa and gamal and also all the advisers to the interior minister who had be...

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