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Racial Profiling By New Bedford Police Alleged in New Report A new report from a youth advocacy group, Citizens for Juvenile Justice, alleges that New Bedford Police stopped, frisked, or questioned Black people at significantly higher rates than white people. The data was gleaned from almost 5,000 field incident reports compiled from 2015 to June 2020. The reports were obtained through a public records request. The report, entitled "We Are the Prey: Racial Profiling and Policing of Youth in New...

Leon Smith Contributor A couple of weeks after I said “goodbye” to the most dependable car I ever owned, I drove to Charlotte to look at some SUV’s. They would be easier to get in and out of than my 2007 compact, and getting stuff into a hatch would be easier than onto a back seat. Four-wheel drive was an option I might consider. At a dealership for such vehicles, Sue met me in the parking lot, where I told her what I thought I wanted. She led me inside the showroom where two SUV’s sat...

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Nikolay Kalinichenko The literary festival combined the Aelita Convention, Second International Literary Festival named after Alexander Pushkin, and the “New Tale” All-Russian Literary Award  given in memory of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov. Swanwick is the first American recipient of the award, and is president of the IUW. For more information, see the IUW website. While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time or recurring donation. We rely on reader donations to kee...

WORCESTER — The city manager’s announcement earlier this month that the district’s current school resource officer program would be phased out by the end of the year fulfills a desire by many advocates to see a reduced role for police in schools. But the resource officer model still has supporters in the education world and has even been expanding in some parts of the region in recent years. Even Worcester’s superintendent, while supportive of City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr.s cal...

Staff file photo This report reflects public Pittsburg County District Court records filed at the Pittsburg County Courthouse. The reader should keep in mind that these are charges, and not evidence of guilt. Cases with active arrest warrants issued by the court are included in this report. Dispositions of the charges are published in subsequent reports. Many names are similar and, in some cases, identical to a person not being charged. When names are identical, the News-Capital will publish a ...

A MAN has pleaded guilty to being armed with a home-made machete in a Gwent park.

How to Defuse a Nuclear Weapon: Shoot It Agnew’s recollections are just some of dozens about the often fragile nature of nuclear weapons safety and security in a documentary produced by the Sandia National Laboratories for internal use and recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act. The year is 1960 and a congressional delegation is touring military bases in Western Europe to evaluate custody and safety issues associated with U.S. nuclear weapons. With the delegation is a scien...

Trial date set for Derbyshire man accused of killing Cat Man The body of Andrew Jackson was found at an allotment The police cordon in Prospect Drive, Shirebrook (Image: Derby Telegraph) Never miss another Chesterfield story with our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we...

Derbyshire allotment murder accused appears in court Leon Smith is alleged to have killed a 55-year-old Andrew Jackson Updated Andrew Jackson was found dead at a Shirebrook allotment Never miss another Chesterfield story with our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribin...