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By Jeremy Coumbes on February 25, 2021 at 9:06am The South Jacksonville Police Department is adding to it’s ranks. South Jacksonville PD is one of many departments across both the state and country facing issues with being understaffed and having difficulty finding new hire candidates. Police Chief Eric Hansell updated the Village Board of Trustees during their committee of the whole meeting last night, that he has two new hires ready for Board approval. Hansell says the two officers have previous law enforcement experience and should be ready to be out on the beat soon. �...

By Jeremy Coumbes on February 24, 2021 at 3:48pm The Village of South Jacksonville Board of Trustees will meet in Committee of the Whole this evening. The Board of Trustees will continue discussing possible renovations to Dewy Park. The Finance Committee will discuss the Electric Aggregation renewal. Under Public Protection, the Board will consider an Assistant to Firefighters grant, new hires for the police department, the appointment of Jay Cook as Chaplain, and the proposed emergency alert notification system. Updates to the golf cart ordinance and surplus property will al...

By Jeremy Coumbes on February 5, 2021 at 6:55pm The South Jacksonville Police Department is seeing some changes as a new program is set to begin. South Jacksonville Chief of Police Eric Hansell updated the Village Board of Trustees during their regular meeting last night on changes coming to his department. Hansell announced a candidate has been selected to fill the new chaplain’s position, something Hansell proposed and has been working on since he took over as Chief in early October. Hansell says South Jacksonville resident Jay Cook has heard the call and agreed to step i...

In this Nov. 12, 2003 file photo, members of the Green River task force comb a hillside in an unincorporated area near Kent, Wash. Serial killer Gary Ridgway says he might be able to locate the bodies of some of his Green River victims who were never found. Credit: (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) Youngest Green River Killer victim identified 37 years later using DNA technology By at 3:07 pm Decades after the murder, science has caught up to identify a girl who is believed to be Gary Ridgway's youngest victim. The King County Sheriff's Office announced Monday that ...

Aimee Picchi Special to USA TODAY Emergency room nurse Louise McLellan recalls her life prior to contracting COVID-19 in March: She liked to kayak with her husband and make her signature cookie – the peanut butter explosion – to bring to work the next day. Ten months later, McLellan, 53, still hasn’t fully recovered. She struggles to bake, and kayaking is out of the question because of lingering lung problems that leave her out of breath. That made it difficult to perform her job when she tried returning to work in June. “I lasted two hours,” she recalls. The physical demands ...