The Christmas Eve storm caused flooding, downed trees, and power outages across the Delaware and Lehigh valleys. Our babysitter said, My dad has one if you want to come pick it up, and they live right in Springfield. So that s how we spent Christmas Day, said Tammy Gallagher.
The family says the lights went out very early Christmas morning, making for an unusual holiday on Dunwoody Drive. It s been fun because it was different but I didn t like it when I couldn t see opening my presents, said Makayla Corcoran, age 11. There s like nine houses on this side of the street, just total darkness, said Makayla s father, Brian Corcoran. I m just fortunate to have heat right now.
Like many Austinites, after New Year s Day, Lamar Boulevard is set to go on a diet.
But unlike many Austinites, the road will follow through on its slimming effort. Its so-called road diet will manifest itself in the first phase of safety improvements that will in some stretches permanently remove lanes from South Lamar Boulevard.
The jargon for what is planned for Lamar Boulevard an effort to place greater emphasis on alternative modes of transportation through more robust sidewalks and bike lanes is often referred as a road diet.
With a $6.9 million contract recently approved by the Austin City Council, the first phase of South Lamar Boulevard s diet is expected to begin in January or February. The renovation will focus on the stretch of road between Riverside Drive and Barton Springs Road, just south of Lady Bird Lake.
YOUNGSTOWN Prosecutors had worked out a plea agreement with Marquise J. Hornbuckle that would have sent him to prison for 10 years for shooting at two undercover Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers last November on the South Side.
But Hornbuckle, 26, of Evergreen Avenue, didn’t show up for his sentencing Dec. 7. Bail bondsmen picked him up and took him to jail last Thursday.
On Wednesday, Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court told Hornbuckle the plea agreement was rescinded, adding: “I didn’t like the deal to begin with.”
He sentenced Hornbuckle to 29 to 34 1/2 years in prison.
Before announcing the sentence, the judge told Hornbuckle any number of innocent people could have been shot that day.
Dec 16, 2020
YOUNGSTOWN Prosecutors worked out a plea agreement with Marquise J. Hornbuckle, 26, of Evergreen Avenue that would have sent him to prison for 10 years for shooting at two undercover Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers last November.
But he did not show up for his sentencing hearing Dec. 8. Bail bondsmen found him and took him to jail last Thursday.
On Wednesday, Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court told Hornbuckle the judge was rescinding the plea agreement, adding, “I didn’t like the deal to begin with” and sentenced Hornbuckle to 29 to 34 1/2 years in prison.
Read MORE in Thursday’s VINDICATOR.