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Love to be presented with MLK Human Dignity Award Love to be presented with MLK Human Dignity Award × 2020 was filled with uncertainty and cancelled events near and far, but the YMCA of Greater Monmouth County is busy preparing for its annual community celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The commemoration will be a live virtual event hosted on Zoom on Jan. 15. For the second year in the 32-year history of the event, the Y will present its Martin Luther Kin...

Locked-up: The North East criminals sent to jail in December 2020 These crooks were set to spend the festive season behind bars after being handed prison sentences last month Sign up for our regular free newsletter for court stories sent straight to your inboxInvalid 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 se...

Civil rights leaders to converge on Columbus Tuesday for Andre HIll memorial

2:57 Officer Amy Detwiler and now-fired officer Adam Coy responded to a non-emergency complaint about someone sitting in a parked car that was being turned on and off.  Neither officer had their body camera turned on as they approached the driveway and garage, but a 60-second video only look-back feature shows Hill turn to face the police, raising his cellphone in his left hand, his right hand is not visible in the video.  Coy pulled his service revolver and shot Hill several times.   After ...

Locked up in 2020: The criminals put behind bars in the past 12 months While the UK spent much of the year in lockdown judges at Newcastle Crown Court remained busy delivering justice to North East crooks Sign up for our regular free newsletter for court stories sent straight to your inboxInvalid 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 o...

She died in Los Angeles of COVID-19-related causes Wednesday morning, according to her publicist.   Dawn Wells starred as the “good girl” Mary Ann in the popular 1960s show “Gilligan’s Island”.   The actress starred as the unapologetic "good girl" who was stranded on an island with six other castaways. "Gilligans Island" ran from 1964 to 1967 - for three seasons - and yet it has never gone off the air. It continues to be screened across the world in over 30 languages. Wells, ...

Additional body camera footage from the shooting of Andre Hill shows Columbus Police officers handcuffing an unresponsive Hill and then inspecting the garage, searching for shell casings, interviewing residents or simply standing nearby rather than offer first aid. The new footage released Thursday shows the events of December 22 from the perspectives of more than a dozen officers who arrived after officer Adam Coy fatally shot Hill. Coy was fired from the department earlier this week, and is u...

Readers Write: Student debt, COVID deaths, deployments effects on kids Ameliorate the debt.  Text size Copy shortlink: On Dec. 26, in the commentary titled "Bankruptcy is the solution to the student loan crisis" (Opinion Exchange), Joe Nocera observed that "especially among conservatives ... [allowing loan forgiveness] wouldnt be fair to the millions of Americans who did pay off their student loans, often after years of financial struggle, t...

Good news for gardeners: minimal effort can grow a long way By Megan Backhouse Normal text size Advertisement Landscape architect Michael Wright doesnt believe in doing things the hard way. He describes his gardening philosophy as one of “resisting taking action”. He is not the sort to expressly make compost, let alone to pinch out laterals on his tomatoes. He is not big on tree pruning and has no truck with excessive manicuring. “I ask myself, what little can I do?” Wright says. He des...

Man arrested for failing to stay at the scene of an accident December 29, 2020 at 12 h 15 min Reading time: 6 min 30 s Provided by CPS Cornwall, ON – Ashton Page-Cholette, 20, of Cornwall was arrested on December 25 th, 2020 and charged with failing to stop after an accident. It is alleged during the early morning hours on December 25 th, 2020, the man was involved in a motor vehicle collision in the area of St. Felix Street and Second Street and failed to stop....