May 12, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
The issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion was at the center of public discussion Monday night during the Hartland Consolidated Schools board meeting.
During his regular report to the board, Superintendent Chuck Hughes wanted to address a rumor that was spreading in the community that the district planned to be teaching CRT, or critical race theory. CRT has become a hot-button topic among conservatives who see it as a system designed to indoctrinate liberal social values in students through the lens of race. Scholars generally define it as an attempt to understand how victims of systemic racism are affected by cultural perceptions of race and how they are able to represent themselves to counter prejudice.
May 10, 2021
Woodland School – File Photo Studstill Media
STREATOR – A Woodland student was awarded the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office scholarship from the Illinois Sheriffs’ Association. Sheriff Tony O. Childress announced that Audrey Jenkins won the $500 scholarship fund for the 2021-22 academic year. Childress noted that Jenkins demonstrated outstanding scholastic accomplishments, extra-curricular activities, and exemplary character traits.
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May 6, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
A Howell man was critically injured early Thursday morning when he lost control of his pickup truck and overturned and caught fire on I-96 in Howell Township.
The Livingston County Sheriffâs Office reports that deputies were dispatched at about 2:35 a.m. to a single-vehicle injury crash on westbound I-96 at Highland Road (M-59).
A preliminary investigation indicates a 42-year-old resident of Howell was driving westbound on I-96 when his Dodge Ram pickup truck left the roadway, struck the guard rail, and overturned. The sheriffâs office says that as the pickup overturned it caught fire and came to rest in the westbound lanes of the freeway.
Rep. Jewell Jones suspended from Inkster auxiliary police following drunken driving arrest
Updated May 06, 2021;
State Rep. Jewell Jones, D-Inskter, is no longer an active volunteer police officer.
The 25-year-old, youngest-ever Michigan House representative was suspended from Inkster’s auxiliary police in response to his April 6 drunken driving arrest, department Police Chief William T. Riley III said. Jones is also accused of illegally having a firearm in a cupholder of his console while drunk.
The police chief said Jones’ suspension is in line with how any other auxiliary officer would be treated.
“If they’re arrested, anything of that nature, we would immediately suspend them from any type of service,” he said, “and we would wait to see what comes out of the investigation.”
A Highland man is facing criminal charges after police say he stole credit cards and checks from two families whose homes he was working on.
Kenneth Hill, 33, was charged early last month with three counts of uttering and publishing and two counts of larceny from a building in two separate cases. He is also charged with forgery, larceny of $20,000 or more and fraudulent use of a financial transaction device.
In one case, Hill drained a woman s checking account, a Livingston County Sheriff Office deputy said in an April hearing that led to charges.
The woman said she realized a total of five checks were taken from her check book, four of which were forged using her husband s signature totaling just under $10,000.