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Sr Breid Cunningham lived and worked in Kenya for almost three-quarters of a century 09 January, 2021 01:00 CO Tyrone native Sr Breid Cunningham lived and worked for 73 years in Kenya where her talents as a teacher and school principal changed the lives of tens of thousands of African girls. She is remembered as a meticulous and dedicated educator as well as a very kindly person who was popular everywhere she served. Former pupils have recalled her warm heart and “beautiful and captivating smile” since her death on December 18 in her 100th year. However, Sr Breid,...

Blue Marble Geographics releases version 8.0 of the GeoCalc Software Development Kit Published January 5, 2021 Done Hallowell, ME — January 5, 2020 — Blue Marble Geographics® (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 8.0 of the GeoCalc® Software Development Kit (SDK). This sophisticated and precise coordinate transformation toolkit allows developers to embed Blue Marble’s technology into their geospatial software. The new release incorporates many new features from the latest version of the Geographic Calculator d...

Ohio unsuccessfully tried to execute Romell Broom in 2009, convicted of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl he abducted in 1984.

In 2015, the execution team began working on Broom, in a holding cell 17 steps from the execution chamber, at about 2 p.m., four hours after his execution’s originally scheduled time due to a final federal appeals request. Broom even assisted his executioners by trying to help them find veins. When his help made no difference, he turned onto his back and covered his face with his hands. His torso heaved and his feet shook. He wiped his eyes and was handed a roll of toilet paper, which he used to wipe his brow. When the technicians tried to use a vein in his leg, he grimaced, and a member of...

The Associated Press COLUMBUS — An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said. At the time of the 2009 procedure, condemned prisoner Romell Broom was only the second inmate nationally to survive an execution after they began in modern times. Broom, 64, has been placed on the “COVID probable list” maintained by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, spokesperson Sara French said Tuesday. Inmates on that list are suspected to have died of COVID-19, pendi...