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THERE is growing concern as Reading has sadly seen a huge rise in knife crime lately.

Staff shortage leads to overtime budget concerns for Warren Fire Department 6 fire personnel made more than $190,000 in 2020; Shortage due to COVID Updated:  Tags:  City officials are working to address the issue before it creates a fiscal disaster. As Michigan’s third largest city, Warren has six fire stations to help protect more than 40,000 residential housing units. According to latest statistics, the Warren Fire Department respond to about 15,000 calls and between 3,000 to 4,000 fires ...

New London — Lawrence + Memorial Hospital delivered a message to its employees Wednesday: Welcome HOME. That’s H-O-M-E as in Home Ownership Made Easy, an L+M program that will provide forgivable loans of up to $10,000 to eligible employees seeking to buy their first home — in New London. The city and Chelsea Groton Bank are in on it, too. “I’m excited to announce this new program that can lead to the financial and health benefits of home ownership for L+M employees,” Patrick Green, ...

New London — Tom and Susan Fournier drove from Westport to New London early Monday morning intent on being among the first to get vaccinated at Yale New Haven Health’s COVID-19 vaccination site at Mitchell College. They arrived outside the low-slung section of the Student Center that houses the De Biasi Drive site at 6:30 a.m. — two hours before their scheduled appointments, which their daughter had helped them arrange. “We didn’t know what to expect,” Tom said. “We heard there mi...

When the calendar turned to 2020, chances are unless you were an epidemiologist you probably had no knowledge of COVID-19. By mid March, this coronavirus disease would completely upend life as we know it in Macomb County and around the world. Recently, Macomb Daily writers and editors held a meeting (virtually, of course) to sort out the top 10 news stories of 2020. Not surprisingly, the onset of COVID-19 and all that came with it was voted no. 1. - Advertisement - It was a pretty obvious choic...

MORE than a quarter of adult criminals caught carrying a blade in Hampshire have previously committed a knife crime, new figures show. Anti-knife crime charity the Ben Kinsella Trust says too many offenders “simply reappear on our streets still carrying weapons”. The figures from the Ministry of Justice reveal there were 292 convictions and cautions for knife possession in the 12 months up to September. In 85 cases, or 29%, the offender had committed at least one previous offence of...

More than a third of adult criminals caught carrying a blade in Hertfordshire have previously committed a knife crime, new figures show. Anti-knife crime charity the Ben Kinsella Trust says too many offenders “simply reappear on our streets still carrying weapons”. The figures from the Ministry of Justice reveal there were 165 convictions and cautions for knife possession in the 12 months up to September. In 61 cases, or 37 per cent, the offender had committed at least one previous...

File photo More than a quarter of adult criminals caught carrying a blade in the Thames Valley have previously committed a knife crime, new figures show. Anti-knife crime charity the Ben Kinsella Trust says too many offenders “simply reappear on our streets still carrying weapons”. The figures from the Ministry of Justice reveal there were 347 convictions and cautions for knife possession in the 12 months up to September. In 97 cases, or 28 per cent, the offender had committed at le...

Generic image of a man with a knife. More than a quarter of adult criminals caught carrying a blade in Lancashire have previously committed a knife crime, new figures show. Anti-knife crime charity the Ben Kinsella Trust says too many offenders “simply reappear on our streets still carrying weapons”. The figures from the Ministry of Justice reveal there were 316 convictions and cautions for knife possession in the 12 months up to September. In 91 cases, or 29%, the offender had com...

A QUARTER of adult criminals caught carrying a blade in Dorset have previously committed a knife crime, new figures show. Anti-knife crime charity the Ben Kinsella Trust says too many offenders “simply reappear on our streets still carrying weapons”. The figures from the Ministry of Justice reveal there were 118 convictions and cautions for knife possession in the 12 months up to September. In 31 cases, or 26 per cent, the offender had committed at least one previous offence of carr...