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By Jeremy Coumbes on February 25, 2021 at 9:06am The South Jacksonville Police Department is adding to it’s ranks. South Jacksonville PD is one of many departments across both the state and country facing issues with being understaffed and having difficulty finding new hire candidates. Police Chief Eric Hansell updated the Village Board of Trustees during their committee of the whole meeting last night, that he has two new hires ready for Board approval. Hansell says the two ...

By Jeremy Coumbes on February 24, 2021 at 3:48pm The Village of South Jacksonville Board of Trustees will meet in Committee of the Whole this evening. The Board of Trustees will continue discussing possible renovations to Dewy Park. The Finance Committee will discuss the Electric Aggregation renewal. Under Public Protection, the Board will consider an Assistant to Firefighters grant, new hires for the police department, the appointment of Jay Cook as Chaplain, and the proposed ...

By Jeremy Coumbes on February 5, 2021 at 6:55pm The South Jacksonville Police Department is seeing some changes as a new program is set to begin. South Jacksonville Chief of Police Eric Hansell updated the Village Board of Trustees during their regular meeting last night on changes coming to his department. Hansell announced a candidate has been selected to fill the new chaplain’s position, something Hansell proposed and has been working on since he took over as Chief in earl...

In this Nov. 12, 2003 file photo, members of the Green River task force comb a hillside in an unincorporated area near Kent, Wash. Serial killer Gary Ridgway says he might be able to locate the bodies of some of his Green River victims who were never found. Credit: (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) Youngest Green River Killer victim identified 37 years later using DNA technology By at 3:07 pm Decades after the murder, science has caught up to identify a girl who is be...

Aimee Picchi Special to USA TODAY Emergency room nurse Louise McLellan recalls her life prior to contracting COVID-19 in March: She liked to kayak with her husband and make her signature cookie – the peanut butter explosion – to bring to work the next day. Ten months later, McLellan, 53, still hasn’t fully recovered. She struggles to bake, and kayaking is out of the question because of lingering lung problems that leave her out of breath. That made it difficult to perform her job when...

Email Grace Hauck and Harrison Hill, USA TODAY Published 7:11 pm UTC Jan. 21, 2021 EVERETT, Wash. – Its been a full year since the first known U.S. case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Snohomish County in a 35-year-old man returning from Wuhan, China. He was admitted on Jan. 20, 2020, to Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett. "The world shifted for us, and the world shifted maybe a little bit earlier here, but it shifted for all of us," Mayor Cassie Franklin told USA TODAY last week. "Ou...

“Your DNA is probably the most sensitive personal information that one can imagine,” said information and privacy commissioner Michael McEvoy. Yet B.C.’s privacy laws don’t cover technological advances such as genetic genealogy, leaving few guidelines for police on how to use such technology, said McEvoy, who wants to see more significant protections. Genetic genealogy can find suspects not because they surrendered their DNA, but because their relatives provided DNA on open-source con...

Print In an empty nook of the Norwegian Seamen’s Church in San Pedro, long-ago memories bubble up like sea foam. Here, sailors would huddle thousands of miles from home and regale one another with yarns about their lives. In another corner of the church long since repurposed, the seafarers gathered to smoke before settling down to read newspapers from tiny towns in Norway and drink coffee. When they weren’t listening to a Lutheran pastor’s sermons, the mariners found bunks to sleep in, ...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA A Norwegian church in San Pedro honors a saint who brings light to darkness. Fitting in a pandemic [Los Angeles Times] In an empty nook of the Norwegian Seamen’s Church in San Pedro, long-ago memories bubble up like seafoam. Here, sailors used to huddle thousands of miles from home and regale each other with yarns about their lives. In a corner long since repurposed, the seafarers gathered to smoke, read newspapers from tiny towns in Norway and drink coffee. There...

A Norwegian church in San Pedro honors a saint who brings light to darkness. Fitting in a pandemic Lila Seidman © Provided by The LA Times Sunday marked St. Lucias Day, one of the biggest holidays on the Scandinavian calendar. Pastor Morgan Berg, 37, led an outdoor service at the Norwegian Seamens Church. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) In an empty nook of the Norwegian Seamen’s Church in San Pedro, long-ago memories bubble up like sea foam. Here, sailors would hu...