School vouchers are a quick way to correct racial injustice
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Brian Murray-Dalrymple moved his family to Weston eight years ago for the excellent school system for his five children. He is pictured in front of the high school holding a sign he made for a Black Lives Matter protest in Weston on June 7.
When I was in first grade, I was mistakenly given an eighth-grade portion of food that I could not possibly finish. As I was presenting my uneaten portion to the woman at the garbage disposal, a redoubtable nun towering over me said, “Joseph, the pagan babies in Africa are starving and you’re wasting that good food.”
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One dead in St. Paul crash involving a stolen vehicle Police are looking for two people who ran from the scene. January 7, 2021 10:31pm Text size Copy shortlink:
One person died and a second was taken to a hospital with noncritical injuries following a two-car crash involving a stolen vehicle early Thursday in the Dayton s Bluff neighborhood on St. Paul s East Side.
Investigators on Thursday afternoon continued to look for two men who had been in the stolen car and ran from the scene after the broadside collision, which happened just after 3 a.m. at E. Minnehaha Avenue and Atlantic Street, not far from Harding High School, said St. Paul police spokesman Mike Ernster.
Remembering the 24 people killed in homicides this year in Bridgeport
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Bridgeport police are investigating two shootings that occurred Sunday afternoon./
BRIDGEPORT A full moon hid behind a cloudy sky the night of the city’s first homicide of 2020.
The violence of a near-record 12 months of violent death in the Park City began with the killing of 38-year-old Abdul Hassan Lemon in the 90 block of Remington Street around 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 10. He had been shot multiple times. He was rushed to the hospital where he later died.
By the end of 2020, Bridgeport reached 24 killings. Of those 24 homicides, 21 were by gun, two by knife and one by strangulation.
Dec 30, 2020
Marion Mayor Scott Schertzer and Safety Director Randy Caryer hosted a small group of visitors to Marion City Hall for a formal ceremony on Monday in which three Marion Police Officers were promoted. Major Jay McDonald was promoted to Chief of Police, Lieutenant Chris Adkins was promoted to Major and Officer Richard Wheeler was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Family members of the promoted officers were in attendance, as well media members, law enforcement leaders and government dignitaries. The ceremony was also live streamed via zoom.
Jay McDonald, a native of Toledo and a graduate of Whitmer High School became the 15th Chief of Police for the City of Marion since 1903, succeeding Bill Collins who retired this past October. McDonald began his service with the Marion Police Department in 1994 as a Patrolman and attended the Law Enforcement Academy at North Central Technical College in Mansfield. McDonald was promoted to Lieutenant in 20