RACINE â When Julia Witherspoon was still working as a Racine Police officer in the 1990s, she remembers searching a kitchen for a firearm that was suspected to have been used in a shooting. She searched through cereal boxes and cupboards for a gun, finding nothing, as the woman whose family lived in the home â a mother â looked on silently, arms crossed.
On top of the fridge, Witherspoon (nee: Burney) noticed a stack of library books. When she started looking through them, the mother spoke up for the first time, yelling âIâm not paying for nothing!â
When police were looking through her home as part of a murder investigation, the woman had been silent. When overdue library books were noticed, she stepped in, fearing a fine she could not afford.
RACINE â Jeremy Laffin, owner and pharmacist at Racine Hometown Pharmacy, walked back and forth.
He spent a few minutes behind the pharmacistâs counter, preparing doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. When he left the counter, he administered the vaccine to incoming patients.
Laffin would do this on Tuesday until all 96 appointments the pharmacy had booked for that day were fulfilled. This week, Laffin said the pharmacy has a total of 300 vaccines to administer, not including the hundred it would distribute to teachers.
âWhen we do a flu clinic, our peak is about 40 shots a day,â Laffin said. Of COVID-19 vaccinations: âWeâre going to do 96 today, 96 tomorrow, 102 on Friday.â
Gibson
Sarena R. Gibson, 54, of the 4300 block of Myrtle Court in Caledonia, has been charged with attempt of a first-degree reckless homicide and use of a dangerous weapon.
According to a prisoner complaint:
On March 4, officers of the Caledonia Police Department responded to an apartment in the 4300 block of Myrtle Court in reference to a stabbing.
Upon arrival, officers observed blood on the floor of the entranceway and on some stairs leading up to a man. He was sitting at the bottom of the stairs, bleeding from the right side of his neck.
While at Ascension All Saints Hospital, the man told an officer he was walking toward the doorway and was struck from behind. The male was treated in the trauma room, then taken to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa by Flight for Life.
Almost 400 appointments were booked for teachers and staff members at Racine County public and private schools to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination Saturday at Ascension All
RACINE â âFifty seconds,â said Christine Emmons, teacher at Horlick High School, as she counted down to zero on her phoneâs timer in the waiting area of the vaccination clinic at Ascension All Saints Hospital.
Teachers sit socially distanced in the clinic after receiving their vaccinations at Ascension All Saints Hospital on Saturday. There is a 15-minute observation period after patients get their vaccine, said Margaret Hennessy, pediatrics physician at All Saints. Hennessy said it is to make sure patients don t have any serious reactions or need help after getting treated. Diana Panuncial
She and her husband, Chad Emmons, who also teaches at Horlick, had been waiting for nearly 15 minutes â the allotted observation time after getting their vaccines for physicians to monitor them for any significant adverse reactions, which remain rare.