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1:00 The pilot program, known as LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion), is funded by a $500,000 federal Justice Department grant and will be implemented in Cincinnati Police District 1, which includes Mt. Adams, Over-the-Rhine, Pendleton, Queensgate and the West End. If successful, it could be expanded elsewhere in the county. LEAD was created in Seattle. It gives police officers discretion and tools to divert low-level, non-violent offenders into treatment rather than sending them to jail, or - given jail overcrowding issues - booking and releasing them to offend again. Heroin Coalition ...

The 10 Wildest Stories From Halston's Life the Netflix Show Missed Out On 5/17/21 at 11:26 AM EDT Halston on Netflix brings us the rise and fall of the New York social icon and designer, and details the sex, drugs and celebrities that populated his world as he became one of the biggest household names of the time. Though the show does show us rampant cocaine use, back-alley sex sessions and violent arguments, it barely scratches the service of what Halston and friends got up during their glory years. The 10 wildest stories from Halston's life the Netflix show missed out Halston (far right) wi...

(Credti: Courtesy Image) “I’ve been doing this since I was 12,” Suffolk County Democratic Chairman Rich Schaffer was saying the other day about his involvement in Suffolk politics. Now 57, Mr. Schaffer has been the Suffolk Democratic chairman since 2000. As county Democratic leader, “I especially love the generational stuff — getting young people into politics,” he said. It’s kind of full-circle for Rich. He’s a former member of the Suffolk County Legislature, elected at age 22. On the Legislature he charted an independent course; indeed, informed indepe...

Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! For a new Netflix series, the actor dropped his lightsaber and picked up the cigarettes and scissors. Credit...Jake Michaels for The New York Times May 7, 2021Updated 9:38 a.m. ET When Ewan McGregor was but a wee lad in a sleepy town in Scotland in the ’70s, some 3,200 miles away in a Manhattan townhouse on East 63rd Street, Roy Halston Frowick was living on a diet of baked potatoes with beluga caviar, chilled Stolichnaya, rent boys and mounds of cocaine piled in Elsa Peretti silver ashtrays. (With silver straws to match.) “I’d never h...

nj.com New Jersey’s “incredible shrinking township” may be too small to provide ambulance service for its residents, say Shrewsbury Township officials, who have struggled to arrange for service since the last squad it used folded a year ago. “We’re talking human life here, and it’s very frustrating, and it’s ongoing,” said Mayor Glenwood Puhak, who leads the three-member Shrewsbury Township Committee. “The attorney’s been calling around, Tinton Falls and other areas, and we’ve been striking out,” added Puhak, 70, a retired Fort Monmouth technical writer. “I’m not a...