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Her name was Florence Schumaker Thompson. She was asked if she would fill in and become the sheriff in her husbands absence. She said yes. She was sworn in in davis county the day after her husbands funeral. And as unusual as it was at the time, in the 1930s, to have a woman sheriff in the United States, the reason Florence Schumaker Thompson became nationally famous as a local county sheriff in kentucky at the time is because while she was sheriff of that county, she had to carry out a hanging. Just a few weeks after she was sworn in, an africanamerican man named rainy bathea was sentenced to...

The day after her husbands funeral. And as unusual as it was at the time, in the 1930s, to have a woman sheriff in the United States, the reason Florence Shoemaker Thompson became nationally famous as a local county sheriff in kentucky at the time is because while she was sheriff of that county, she had to carry out a hanging. Just a few weeks after she was sworn in, an africanamerican man named Rainey Bethea was sentenced to die in davis county, kentucky, after he was convicted of raping and murdering a local white woman. He did not protest his innocence. Although he did fight his sentence. H...

Longtime marijuana advocate Carl Romanelli thinks Gov. Tom Wolf is smart to push for legalized recreational marijuana for adults in his 2021 budget proposal. “The writing was on the wall with other states falling like dominos. I think he was thinking ‘Why be late to the game?’” Romanelli said. “All these industries should be above board so they could be properly regulated. It’s better for the state to control an industry like this rather than cartels and other forms of organized crime.” Romanelli, 61, a Green Party member from Wilkes-Barre who helped start t...