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Sniper (1993)
In 1993's Sniper, we travel to Central America to fight the good fight in the "war on drugs," er, I think. No, actually we're playing CIA games to try and meddle in the affairs of nations. Yeah, that's better.
Anyway, we find veteran expert sniper Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) sent off to eliminate the army general set to take over Panama, oh, and while you're there, Tom, why not take out any other targets of opportunity, like the evil druglord.
Oh, and, Beckett, during this top-secret and dangerous mission, we're going to pair you up with an inexperienced desk jockey. What? Richard Miller (Billy Zane) is that guy.
From the beginning we can see that Miller is going to be a problem, as he hesitates to pull the trigger on an enemy attacking his helicopter, and the guy instead gets taken out by a stray bullet from the side gunner. The pilot thinks Miller has done this, and suddenly he's a big superhero marksman. But we all know better.
Later in the film, Miller chokes again, and sets up things for later on down the road. He gives a 'warning shot' to one of his targets, and causes both Beckett and the locals to just plain not trust him.
Then there's the irrelevant side plot of the former student of Beckett, who tails them through the jungle, until Beckett offs him with the cliched bullet through the scope shot. Oh, yeah, did we mention that his mystery sniper took out Beckett's partner at the beginning of the film? No? Well, it doesn't matter anyway. What was the point of that little exercise, anyway?
Well, there are lots of things in this movie that even a guy like me, clueless about the details of "how to be an expert sniper," looks at and goes, "What the F*** are you doing?" Such as choosing a firing position inside a barn, without a covered approach or exit, splitting up your team (I thought you were supposed to have a spotter?) and lots of other little things where you scratch your head.
And the ending, where Miller kind of loses it and goes rogue is just a little too weird for words. Yeah sure in the end it all works out, but I'm still trying to figure out the point of it all.
Sniper is just another early-nineties formula action movie at its core. The plot really isn't all that well conceived, and the mechanics seem even less so. Berenger is his usual self, lots of growly "get out of my face" kind of lines, and Zane is also his usual self. He plays the confused whiner pretty well I think. Really the rest is minor supporting role types, and of no consequence. Kind of like the entire picture.
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This review is from: Sniper (DVD)Since I did not expect an action-packed on-your-the-edge-of-your seat film, I was not disappointed with this movie.
I saw it as basically a character study, between an older, more experienced man (Tom Berenger), and a younger, inexperienced and proud man (Billy Zane). They are foisted together on a jungle mission, and while Zane's character is *supposed* to be the superior officer, he soon learns that he is out of his element. Berenger's character calls him "son" as he leads him through the jungle, being simultaniously irritated yet supportive over Zane's inexperience.
I found myself caring about these characters, and appreciating the contrast between them. While this film had flaws (the ending, while adequate, lacked a little "punch"), I still enjoyed the movie overall. The performances of both actors was good -- particularly Berenger, who does the "steely emotionless" thing quite well. Zane was also good at looking a little queazy and out of... Read more
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"Okay," as is, but could have been "magnificent.",
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This review is from: Sniper [VHS] (VHS Tape)This not completely unpleasant diversion could have been a landmark film - if - it had been instead overtly made as the story of its OBVIOUS inspiration, Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Norman Hathcock II. Berenger delivers, but the script lets him down. Those knowledgable of Gunny Hathcock will immediately recognize the film's fictional retelling of actual events: the killing of the enemy sniper with a shot through his scope, the 4-day stalk across 2,000 yards of open country, the "Apache Woman" - all are represented in this film. The film that could have been, and I wish would have been, is the story of Gunny Hathcock. "Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills" by Charles Henderson is available right here on Amazon.com. Read the Henderson book, then watch the Berenger film, and you will KNOW Hathcock was the inspiration. Sadly, even unjustly, the film neither mentions nor credits Gunny Hathcock. (Also available at Amazon.com is Henderson's second work about Hathcock,... Read more
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This review is from: Sniper (DVD)I AM A RETIRED ARMY SNIPER SERVING TWO TOURS IN VIETNAM. WHEN THIS MOVIE CAME OUT I WAS CURIOUS AS TO WHAT WOULD BE DEPICTED ON FILM. SOME OF THE MOVIE WAS FAIRLY ACCURATE WHILE OTHER PARTS WERE PURE HOLLYWOOD NONSENSE. I THINK THE SELECTION OF TOM BERENGER WAS RIGHT-0N FOR THE PART OF BECKETT WHILE BILLY ZANE LEFT ALOT TO BE DESIRED. I WISH THE MOVIE HAD GONE MORE INTO THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE SNIPER TRADE SUCH AS ALLOWING FOR WIND, HEAT MIRAGES, AND MOVING TARGETS, ALONG WITH
THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE TARGET KNOBS ON THE SCOPE AS MANY PEOPLE SITTING IN THE THEATER DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT EXACTLY WAS GOING ON AT TIMES. I THOUGHT THE FIRST KILL IN THE MOVIE WHERE BECKETT SHOOTS CABRERO WHILE HIS SPOTTER GIVES HIM DIRECTION AND RANGE WAS PROBABLY THE MOST ACCURATE OF ALL THE SCENES IN THIS MOVIE. WHAT THEY ONLY TOUCH UPON IN THE MOVIE IS THE TERRIBLE FEEL YOU GET FROM THE FIRST TIME YOU TAKE A HUMAN BEINGS LIFE. SNIPER WORK IS SHOOTING PEOPLE WHEN THEY LEAST... Read more
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Summary: Sniper is just another early-nineties formula action movie at its core. The plot really isn't all that well conceived, and the mechanics seem even less so. Berenger is his usual self, lots of growly "get out of my face" kind of lines, and Zane is also his usual self. He plays the confused whiner pretty well I think. Really the rest is minor supporting role types, and of no consequence. Kind of like the entire picture.


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Now that we have made some modifications to an illustration and saved our changes to disk, I want to introduce you to an entirely separate application that is a companion to Illustrator; it's called the Adobe Bridge. It ships along with all versions of Illustrator CS4. So whether you buy Illustrator by itself or you buy it with one of the Creative Suite 4 skews, you are going to get the Bridge. The Bridge is one of those programs that's really been coming along over time. It started out sort of rinky-dink frankly, but it's getting better and better, and it's actually now quite good, I think, and it allows you to manage your digital assets. So it's a Digital Asset Manager, a DAM application.
I am going to go up to the File menu and choose Browse in Bridge or I could press Ctrl+Alt+O or Command+Option+O on the Mac. That's one way to work. Or another way to launch Bridge, very quickly actually, is to go up to this Applications Bar. That's what this thing is called right here; on the Mac it's located under the menu bar, and there is this little guy called Go to Bridge, click on him and you will go to the Bridge. Now, if the Bridge hadn't already been running, you will see it launch, so you will have to wait a few moments for it to start up. But I already had it running. I have already got it trained on that Sample Art folder, inside the Cool Extras folder that contains all of these illustrations that ship along with Illustrator CS4. So let me tell you a little bit about what we are looking at here.
The Bridge is divided into a bunch of panels, which are like these, relatively locked down in aligned pallets. We have got this area right here that's called Favorites that allows you to go to this place called Bridge Home, for example. If you got to Bridge Home, you can check out some training movies that were actually created here at lynda.com and the Illustrator videos were created by myself and a fellow trainer here, Mordy Golding. Lots of other stuff too, all kinds of trainers from lynda.com got involved in these. So they are free. They are very educational, if you just want to pick up a single feature at a time, all kinds of information about the new features in the program. Lots of other stuff going on at Bridge Home as well, so you might want to check that out. You have to have an Internet connection in order to make it work.
Then Folders allows you to peruse your local hard drive or a network drive, something along those lines, a network volume. In my case, I just want to show you where I'm in a larger hierarchy, because you can see I'm inside the Program Files folder inside the Adobe folder going down here. But the easier way to look at it is to click this down pointing arrowhead, so that you can navigate to this location as well, if you so desire. So here on the PC, under Windows Vista or XP, you go to your Computer and then one of the Local Disks, presumably the C drive. That's the default location.
Then you go into Program Files/Adobe/ Adobe Illustrator CS4/Cool Extras. You may see a Language folder at this point. English US and then Sample Files. That's where I am. So we are digging downward on the way up here. On the Macintosh side of things, you really want to go to the Applications folder. So this guy is the big difference. You can do that from the Finder just by pressing Command+Shift+A, and that will take you to the Applications folder. Then go into the Adobe folder, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Cool Extras, the Language folder, and Sample Files, and you will find these illustrations here. With the possible exception of T-shirt artboards, which is the one that I created.
All right. So this is the Contents panel. It shows you the contents of the Active folder. So it's a content browser essentially. If you are working on another folder, you may see types of files that the Bridge really doesn't support or understand, like Word files, Excel files. It would just go ahead and show the icons for those specific files. But if it understands a file, like an ai file for example, it will do its best to show you a preview. Now these are really dinky previews at this point, these tiny thumbnails. So you go down to this little slider icon down here at the bottom of the window and you crank it up like so, and they get bigger or smaller if you prefer. You can also click on these icons to zoom in, like so. So I would have already zoomed in once, and I could keep zooming in. Or you can zoom out with this little guy here, and you can also zoom in and out of the keyboard, as long as Bridge understands that that's the Active panel. Then you can press Ctrl+Plus to zoom in and Ctrl+Minus to zoom out. On the Mac that's Command Plus and Minus.
If you click on one of the thumbnails, and you can see your Preview panel, and by the way, if you want to see exactly the same kind of stuff that I'm seeing on screen so that the Bridge is divided in the same rough panels right here, you want to go ahead and click on the word Essentials; that's the default workspace for the Bridge. It basically is showing you as many panels as possible. You should see a Preview panel on right here. The great thing about the Preview panel is it shows you a bigger version of the illustration. If I drag, see this vertical bar right there, if I drag it over to the left, we are going to expand the size of the preview so that we can see a really big preview.
Now at a point it's going to top out, and it's essentially going to top out at whatever the file size is, the size of the artboard at 72 Pixels Per Inch. So the Bridge can't render any farther then 72 Pixels Per Inch. So if it's a small illustration like a little 4x4 graphic or something, it's going to top out very early if it's a big illustration, it's going to top out later. You can also-- check this out-- you can switch pages. So you will see that I'm looking at artboard 1 of 2 inside of this .ai file. If I click the right pointing arrowhead, I may have to wait for it incidentally, because its tempted; if it hasn't visited that artboard before, its just going to show you the first artboard. So you don't want to race through a file. You don't want to just go click, click, click, because it's not necessarily going to keep up with you, and it's going to make it look like all the pages have the exact same illustration on them.
Now, another cool thing is if I click on, let's say, Loyal Order of the Wormwood, which is a really cool file in my opinion, I really like it. Notice I have got this little zoom cursor. If I click on a part of my illustration, like the dude's nose right there, I'm going to loupe the nose. Louping means loupe. That's a magnifying glass essentially. So we are seeing a larger version of this area of the illustration. So it's basically 100% View size at this point.
I can actually move this loupe around like so. If I go to far, it's going to switch. Did you see it switch ground to the other side? It also does this thing where it likes to rotate sometimes too. You can sometimes see it rotate around. Wherever you are pointing, whatever you're pointing to is the center of the louped view. So if I point to this guy, this little guy is sort of commentary there, we are going to see it right there centered. I have no idea what he is saying, because I don't read Congi, but pretty entertaining. Then if I want to see who did this, I could drag down. Check this out. I'm looking at the guy's name, the Credit Information, Von Glitschka of the Glitschka Studios, which is really, really cool. Amazing work, Von Glitschka.
Of course I could go through his pages once again and find out more information about those. Now, sometimes things aren't going to keep up. You may experience this; you may not. If you do, where I'm seeing actual view of the previous artboard, not the one that I'm really looking at, then I could just go ahead and click on this little Close button or click anywhere inside of the loupe in order to close it, and then just click again to reinitiate it, and you should be able to get that guy to participate eventually, if not immediately. Now I want you to see, check this out, this Living on a Heart Grunge, the original .ai file. Let's get rid of that loupe there and you can see that it's got three artboards that we can peruse, and of course you may recall these artboards from before.
The modified version of this document, which is T-shirt artboards.ai, it has 6 different artboards, and I can check them out. So there is the poster, there is the skateboards; I modified the artboard size so it's smaller. So the Bridge is totally capable of reading these different artboards, so you catch on. These artboards don't have to be the same size, the way they are in a page layout application, where every single page is exactly the same orientation. They can be anything you want them to be. The Bridge will keep up with you and just show you these differently sized artboards, including artboards that are overlapping each other. So artboard 3 had both t-shirts; artboard 4 just one t-shirt, the top t-shirt; artboard 5, there is a bottom t-shirt. And then of course artboard 6, my interpretation of this bloody disassociated organ, set against the brown t-shirt background there.
That gives you a sense of how you can preview your assets here inside of the Bridge. In the next exercise, I'll show you how to open an asset from the Bridge in Illustrator.
- Creating continuous arcs and looping spirals
- Building with geometric shapes
- Selecting, placing, and scaling type
- Creating spine curves with round corners
- Using the new Blob brush to quickly draw and merge paths
- Working with flattener and raster effects
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But I'm not complaining about you; I'm thanking you. Many of the customers who were behind you felt sorry for me and tipped me a couple of extra bucks. That night, I walked out with $7 in tips instead of the regular $3! Still, I fear for future food-service employees you encounter. I saw murder in your eyes, and I'm worried what might happen if there isn't another good manager around to calm you down and give you a free meal.
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These attributes serve him nicely in the movie about the new kid who faces down bullies with the help of a martial-arts master. That the master in question is Jackie Chan, the one person on the planet radiating even more positive energy than Will and Jaden, means that the film's charisma quotient is off the charts.


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Two parents were charged after their children were found alone in a parking lot at Citadel Mall on Sunday evening.
Witnesses told Charleston police they saw a child standing outside of a blue Mitsubishi Galant with his pants and underpants down around his ankles.
The child told witnesses he had been in the vehicle for a long,long time, and that he wet his pants, an incident report states.
A second child was found inside the vehicle. Both children, ages 3 and 4, told police they were cold and wanted to sit inside a warm car.
Police saw two open containers containing an alcoholic beverage inside the front seats cup holders, the report said.
The parents, Sierra Ancrum, 25, and Antron Gibbs, 28, both of William Kennerty Drive, told police they were only gone for 15 minutes.
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And...grown men that haven't touched a live person/dated, worked, and aren't encouraged to be within 1000 feet of elementary schools would definitely have their facts straight!
Shields broke the salary cap, Tom...just read the other blog, then you will understand.
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Sarah Palin today gave a speech in California and managed to get a few good slams of the liberal elites in DC and California!
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The midterm election: "Nov. 2 is right around the corner. I can see it from my house!"
Shovel-ready projects: "Now we know what they were shoveling, and it wasn't asphalt."
The Delta smelt, a small fish on the endangered list which has caused cutoff of water to millions of state residents: "Where I come from we call that bait."
Those are all excellent jokes.
My son bauerpauer and I just returned from Sarah's talk - it was terrific!
She also liked an audience member's answer of "pixie dust" when she asked how some unfunded mandate would be paid for.
nice tip of her cap to the Giants, too! "Giants baseball: Torture!"
they were shoveling BS, not asphalt
Ah, I see the "pixie dust" reference was captured on tape on the website! :)
I've listened to several of Palin's speech for the past few weeks and the jokes changes. Is OBama still using the same old joke, about the Slirpy
Ah, I see the pixie dust reference was captured on tape on the website! :)
We were in the VERY last row! It was cool that when my son and I outside were chatting with Young Aaron and another friend who I didn't know had attended, Brian Sussman and his assistant came out, said hi, swapped hugs and handshakes and then they wandered off to the KSFO van. A very nice day.
And it was nice to see the five lovely young ladies who sang God Bless America and the national anthem out in the lobby - I hadn't seen their mom since a homeschool convention a few months back. There were so many people that I recognized from the Conservative Forum, the Campus Liberty Alliance, and the 912 and Tea Party groups - old home week!
(If I can remember my mythology) If it is true that only virgins can have ownership of unicorns, California will not have a run on that.
The midterm election: "Nov. 2 is right around the corner. I can see it from my house!"
Shovel-ready projects: "Now we know what they were shoveling, and it wasn't asphalt."
The Delta smelt, a small fish on the endangered list which has caused cutoff of water to millions of state residents: "Where I come from we call that bait."
"Now we know what they were shoveling, and it wasn't asphalt."
Sarah Palin: The most qualified presidential candiate of 2008 hands down. The rest of them were just mere senators.
Oh wow! You were both there! I am thrilled to hear this and thrilled for both of you!! I enjoyed watching the video.
She'll be at Perspective in Sacramento tomorrow. Should come up with some doozies for that one, too.
Being as I live in CA, I have to say she is right on!
The Delta smelt, a small fish on the endangered list which has caused cutoff of water to millions of state residents:
"Where I come from we call that bait."
She's in Sacramento tomorrow?
OMG that is HILARIOUS! I wish I could have gone to that event..Sarah is a riot..she comes up with some gems I tell ya..and she is right on the money..if Brown and Boxer are elected this state will go down further then it already is
Yes, but Perspectives is sold out. It's been a pretty big deal in Sacramento for about 15 years.
Along with Sarah, Howard Dean will be there, along with a couple of feel-good dudes.
Tom Sullivan of Fox has been the MC since it's inception.
Oh, thank you very much for the information, dear Norge. I was just about to call my son in the area to tell him to attend for me! LOL.
Glad to be of help!!! :>))
Are you going?
Unfortunately, no. My granddaughter is coming in from South Carolina tonight for the weekend, to be with her sister at UC Davis, and Grandpa gets to be included in their joyous get-together.
Family first!
Thanks...I'm not smart enough to have understood that joke without your explanation
"Where I come from we call that bait."
I wonder how many of these come out of her cute little head. I think, like Reagan, they probably do.
I remember the one press conference he gave, and the environmentalists were slamming him to do more. And he says, off the cuff:
"These people won't be happy unless the White House is a big bird's nest."
I think she definitely has the same sense of humor....
What is your take on things? Did this help Fiorina?
I hate to quote Michael again but... Palin is Reagan in a skirt!
"Bait" is an old joke, but her application of it to the insane situation in CA where a little fish is preventing people from getting water is timely and a great tie-in to local issues.
You can tell that she has been studying Reagan's very effective use of humor, learning from the master.
Excellent. These remind me of one of the greatest movie scenes ever with Rodney Dangerfield in the Econ class of "Back to School", and its ending:
"Not withstaning Mr. Melon's comments, the next question for us is where to build our factory."
"... How about Fantasy Land?!?"
LOL, "mere senators"...I like that.
Somebody.......how many turned out for Sarah?
Sorry for the late reply - I spent yesterday at the Pleasanton Tea Party. :)
The performing arts center was sold out - I don't know its capacity, maybe 2-3 thousand? There were no empty seats that I could see. We sat in the very last row. :)
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September 15, 2016 3:24 PMLAFAYETTE – Deputies in Lafayette Parish say an inmate who walked away from a housing unit Wednesday later stole a car from a car dealership Thursday has been arrested. According to a KATC report, Shane Paul Thomas has an extensive criminal history including drug and theft charges. After deputies... more »
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Inmate's leg severed as car hits truck where he's standing
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Inmate on roof of building behind New Orleans courthouse
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High court rejects La. inmate's death penalty challenge
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Officers plead guilty in roles of inmate beating
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Mistakenly released inmate booked into jail overnight
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Mistaken release of inmate prompts investigation by state Play Video
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Ex-Mamou Police Chief sentenced to prison for using stun gun on inmate
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Louisiana sheriff's deputy killed, former inmate arrested
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FOLLOW UP: Deputies working night of possible inmate escape to be questioned
December 18, 2015 12:45 PMPORT ALLEN – West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputies who are assigned the overnight shift at the jail's work release bunk area will be questioned Friday after Baton Rouge Police said a man escaped the center and attacked a man in the parking of a hotel on the east side... more »
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Searchers actively following tips for missing inmate
November 6, 2015 1:23 PMDENHAM SPRINGS - Authorities said they're actively following up on tips in the search for a work release inmate who left his job site earlier this week in Livingston Parish. A spokesperson for the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office said they and members of the Walker Police Department searched an... more »
Deputies searching for missing work-release inmate
November 5, 2015 1:33 PMBATON ROUGE - Sheriff's deputies said they're searching for a work release inmate out of Livingston Parish who left his job earlier this week. The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office said Kevin Whetstone, 30, was working offshore on a tugboat and called a relative to pick him up after... more »
High court won't hear appeal from Miss. death row inmate
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Escaped Louisiana prison inmate caught in Arizona
October 16, 2015 3:32 PMPHOENIX - Authorities say an inmate who escaped from a Louisiana prison this summer has been caught in metropolitan Phoenix. The U.S. Marshals Service says 23-year-old Michael Anthony Elliot Jr. was arrested Thursday in Youngtown, roughly 20 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix. Marshals say they received a tip that he... more »
Mistakenly released killer arrested in Georgia
October 2, 2015 1:52 AMATLANTA- Authorities have captured an inmate that was mistakenly let out of a jail earlier this week in Louisiana. The U.S. Marshals Service arrested Benjuiel Johnson, 32, just after midnight Friday morning at a motel just outside of Atlanta. Authorities in Georgia said a Gwinett County deputy assigned to... more »
Angola Prison Rodeo coming in October Play Video
September 30, 2015 9:36 AMANGOLA- The Angola Prison Rodeo is coming back to town for the month of October. The rodeo has become a staple in Louisiana, where people from all over the state travel to the prison to watch the inmates participate in various events. The nation's longest-running prison rodeo features events like... more »
Plan approved to shrink New Orleans jail population by 200
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Detectives looking for escaped inmate
September 17, 2015 2:18 PMBATON ROUGE - Detectives with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office are looking for an inmate who left his work release job yesterday evening. Deputies said 24-year-old Damarkius Spears, a Department of Corrections inmate, was last seen by an 84 Lumber employee yesterday evening at his work release job... more »
Evangeline Parish Sheriffs looking for escaped inmate
August 9, 2015 1:29 PMVILLE PLATTE, La. - Evangeline Parish Sheriff's deputies are searching for a man who escaped from prison. Authorities say 22-year-old Zachary Deville fled the Southwest Louisiana Correctional Center in Basile shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday. Deville was serving time on a burglary charge when he escaped. Deville is described as... more »
Vermont Legislature investigating inmate's death
August 8, 2015 12:54 PMLOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Vermont Legislature is investigating the death of a Vermont inmate who was beaten at a private prison in Kentucky and died six weeks later. The cause of his death remains unclear. An autopsy completed last month revealed 66-year-old sex offender James Nicholson died of a combination... more »
Sept. 2 hearing in longtime inmate's quest for freedom
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Inmate escapes from work release facility
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Opening of New Orleans Parish Prison postponed again
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Lawsuit claims inmates receive inadequate medical care
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NOPD: Prison inmate on the loose; slipped out of handcuffs
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Corrections officer arrested over inmate's escape
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Orleans sheriff investigates apparent suicide of inmate
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Durst could be most infamous inmate recently at St. Gabriel's Hunt Play Video
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Killer gets dog bite settlement
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Tax fraud scheme involving inmates leads to felony arrest
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Workers free Pennsylvania inmate's arm from toilet
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Court won't reinstate 'Angola 3' inmate conviction
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Prisoner says state conducts illegal body searches
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July 14, 2014 1:49 PMANGOLA - More than 200 children got the chance to play games at Angola Monday with their locked-up loved ones. It's part of Angola's Returning Hearts program to promote positive parenting while aiming to keep kids out of trouble. Angola inmate Earl Davis says he only gets to see... more »
Authorities looking for escaped inmate
July 7, 2014 6:37 AMAMITE - Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from Tangipahoa Parish jail late last night. Verdale Anthony Moore, 20, was jailed in February on charges relating to the shooting death of 37-year-old Sandra Butler of Independence. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards says he's dedicating all available... more »
Troopers arrest Lafayette Parish deputies
June 17, 2014 7:41 PMLAFAYETTE - Louisiana State Police arrested four former Lafayette Parish deputies Tuesday after investigators said the four admitted to beating up an inmate in his cell. Troopers said two of the deputies at Lafayette Parish Correctional Center beat up a disruptive inmate while two other deputies watched. Investigators... more »
Tennis balls used to smuggle drugs into prison Play Video
June 17, 2014 2:24 PMBATON ROUGE - Authorities charged an inmate after tennis balls stuffed with fake pot where found on prison grounds. Guards overheard inmate, Carlos Powell, 31, talking to a woman in a recorded phone call from East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on May 29th. Powell asked the woman to... more »
Inmate accused of choking deputy out, escaping
April 25, 2014 4:17 PMOPELOUSAS - Prosecutors filed additional charges Friday against a St. Landry Parish inmate who's accused of choking a guard unconscious and escaping from a dentist's office earlier this week. Tyrone Byers, who escaped from custody for a few hours Tuesday morning, now faces battery and escape charges in addition... more »
MORE: man released from Angola, relishes in freedom
March 11, 2014 11:02 PMANGOLA- A man tasted freedom for the first time in three decades Tuesday evening, and he said his mind raced the second he stepped foot outside the walls of the State Penitentiary. Glenn Ford was released after a judge overturned his murder conviction and ordered him to leave Angola.... more »
La.'s longest-serving death row inmate released
March 11, 2014 4:46 PMANGOLA - A state District Court judge has vacated a Caddo Parish man's murder conviction and death sentence and ordered the man's release from Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where he spent the past 30 years. Glenn Ford has been on death row since 1984. Gary Clements and... more »
Former inmate says sign language changed his life Play Video
November 21, 2013 3:03 PMST. GABRIEL - A former Department of Corrections inmate says learning sign language while behind bars changed his life. Scott Huffman served nearly four years in Rayburn Correctional Center. He was released three months ago. "Before prison I was wild. I was involved in drugs and drinking, selling... more »
Last Angola 5 defendant sentenced to life
October 15, 2013 7:51 AMST. FRANCISVILLE - Barry S. Edge will serve life in prison for the murder of an Angola prison guard almost 14 years ago after a jury deadlocked on whether to sentence him to death. The 53-year-old was found guilty Saturday of first-degree murder in the death of Capt. David... more »
Jefferson deputy charged with beating jail inmate
October 3, 2013 7:55 AMNEW ORLEANS - A Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputy has been charged in federal court in the beating last year of an inmate. Gary Shine, a sergeant who has worked in the parish jail for nearly a decade, was charged in a bill of information this week with depriving an... more »
MDOC: Work center inmate steals van, escapes
September 14, 2013 10:32 AMHATTIESBURG - Authorities say they are on the lookout for a work center inmate who escaped by stealing a Hattiesburg city-owned van from a local park. WDAM-TV says 26-year-old Micah Lee Bolton of Beaumont is serving four years for delivery of a controlled substance in George County. Police say Bolton... more »
Lawsuit: Deputies ignored dying inmate's pleas
June 28, 2013 10:28 AMBATON ROUGE - Family members of an inmate who died of a ruptured ulcer in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison last year have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Sheriff Sid Gautreaux. The suit claims deputies ignored his declining health and pleas for medical attention. The sheriff's office has... more »
Inmate caught after walking off work release site
June 18, 2013 5:23 PMBATON ROUGE - U. S. Marshals said they caught up to a work release inmate this afternoon after the man walked off his job site Monday. Marshals arrested Tederick Bessie, 30, around 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon in Baton Rouge. Authorities reported Bessie missing Monday after they said he wasn't... more »
La. inmates face life in 2011 kidnapping death
May 30, 2013 9:29 AMJACKSON, Miss. - Two Louisiana inmates were facing life sentences Thursday in the kidnapping death of an Ohio businessman abducted from a hotel in Mississippi during a 2011 crime spree. Darian Pierce and Ricky Wedgeworth were inmate workers with jobs as groundskeepers at the Louisiana State Police compound in... more »
Escaped inmate captured in Marksville
May 20, 2013 11:53 AMMARSKVILLE - A 21-year-old inmate who escaped Friday from a work detail in Marksville has been captured. Avoyelles Parish sheriff's deputies tell The Town Talk that Marksville police arrested Christopher W. Roy Saturday. Deputies say Roy was found hiding in a closet. He was taken to the Avoyelles Parish Dentition... more »
Pa. inmate denies hiding phone in prosthetic leg
April 2, 2013 9:08 AMUNIONTOWN, Pa.- A former Pennsylvania jail inmate says he didn't sneak a cellphone into the lockup in his prosthetic leg, though he acknowledged having it for a year as he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Instead, 28-year-old Christopher Greer, of Uniontown, tells a judge the phone was in his cargo... more »
Autopsy showed Moore died of blunt force trauma
March 6, 2013 8:44 AMPASCAGOULA, Miss.- Authorities have charged an inmate in the death of another prisoner at the Jackson County jail. Testimony at an initial court appearance Tuesday was that Dionte R. Jones struck Anthony Eugene Moore with a closed fist, causing Moore's head to strike a concrete floor at the Jackson County... more »
Ky. inmate charged with threatening Obama family
February 21, 2013 8:35 AMLOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky inmate is facing federal charges, accused of writing letters threatening the life of President Barack Obama, the first lady and their two daughters. A grand jury in Louisville on Wednesday charged Kentucky State Penitentiary Anthony D. Holliman with threatening the president and a second count... more »
Work-release inmated wanted after leaving job Play Video
February 19, 2013 5:32 PMJACKSON - The search continued today for a work-release inmate who walked away from his job Monday. Investigators said Frankie New, 40, left his job at Elam's Auto Service and Body Shop on Highway 10. He was last seen around 8 a.m. Monday. This is the second time... more »
No new leads in search for escaped inmate
February 12, 2013 11:05 AMCLINTON - Deputies continue to search for an inmate who officials say walked away from his work-release job Monday. Chief Deputy Cliff Hurst with the East Feliciana Sheriff's Office says they have no leads on 21-year-old Glen Carroll III. Hurst said deputies believe someone picked up Carroll from... more »
Inmate wanted after walking off release job
February 11, 2013 10:22 PMAMITE- Authorities are searching for a man who walked away from his work release job Monday afternoon. Glenn Carroll was serving time at the East Feliciana Parish Prison but was working at a lumberyard near Amite. Deputies said he walked off the job. Carroll has connections across the... more »
Inmate attends church, then escapes
February 11, 2013 11:02 AMSIMMESPORT- Deputies in Avoyelles Parish are looking for a 25-year-old female inmate who went to a jail church service and then escaped. Authorities say Veronica Ann Dubois, 25, escaped from a correctional facility in Simmesport around Saturday night. Dubois is described as 5 feet 1 inch tall and 120 pounds,... more »
Judge calls off execution scheduled on Ash Wednesday
February 7, 2013 11:41 AMBATON ROUGE - The execution for a Desoto Parish man convicted in the death of his stepson has been put on hold by a federal judge in Baton Rouge. U.S. District Judge James Brady ruled Thursday that state corrections officials have given Christopher Sepulvado too little information about the... more »
Inmate's trial scheduled May 20 in prison killing
January 18, 2013 7:16 AMST. FRANCISVILLE - Trial for the last of the five Angola inmates accused of killing a penitentiary security officer in 1999 has been set for the week of May 20. The new attorneys for inmate Barry Edge last month won a delay of the trial that was scheduled to begin... more »


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Westminster City Manager Don Tripp on June 22nd named Interim Police Chief Tim Carlson as Chief of the Westminster Police Department.
Carlson had been serving as interim police chief since the departure of Chief Lee Birk on June 9.
"We have one of the best police departments in the country, with a well-trained and highly committed staff and a history of strong leadership," said Tripp. "We are pleased to have the opportunity to appoint someone of Chief Carlson's caliber and do so with great confidence and optimism."
Carlson was hired as a patrol officer in 1987 and has served in various assignments within the department and been promoted through the ranks, last serving as a deputy chief in the Patrol Services Division since 2007. Carlson was awarded the department's Medal of Valor and Purple Heart in 2010, as well as the Medal of Distinguished Service (1996) and Medal of Meritorious Service (2002).
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text: Youth & Education Stories about education focused on the Pacific Northwest and the nation. Why Seattle School Board Members Reversed Course On A Search For A Superintendent By Kyle Stokes • Dec 9, 2014 Seattle Public Schools Listen Listening... / 1:21 If it's possible to not seek and yet still find, Seattle school leaders hope they have their man in interim superintendent Larry Nyland. School board members appear poised to strip the "interim" tag from Nyland's title with a vote at a special meeting Wednesday night that would open up talks to keep him at the district's helm for two and a half more years. Garfield High Teacher: Standardized Tests 'Disproportionately Impact Students Of Color' By Kyle Stokes • Dec 9, 2014 Wes Chapman / Flickr Listen Listening... / 5:19 The issues of race and class currently fueling protests around the U.S. manifest in a different way in the classroom, says Garfield High School teacher Jesse Hagopian. "Many of our students feel they're being set up," said the educator-activist and advisor of Garfield's Black Student Union who led the school's testing boycott in 2013. Hagopian says the setup exists in the standardized tests policymakers across the nation have increasingly used to measure the gap in academic performance. The gap, he says, too often separates students of color from their white peers, and hold teachers and school leaders accountable for closing it. Listen: Seattle High Schoolers Vent About Racial Issues At Open-Mic Session By Kyle Stokes • Dec 8, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU Hawi Ali wonders what went on behind closed doors as a grand jury deliberated the case of a Ferguson, Missouri police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager last summer. Then again, Ali suspects she doesn't have to wonder at all. "Since it's such a repetitive pattern, I don't think it's about the discussions they have," said Ali, a junior at Seattle's Rainier Beach High School. "I really think it's blatant racism." Seattle School Board Weighs Options For Interim Superintendent Nyland's Future By Kyle Stokes • Dec 3, 2014 Seattle Public Schools One item on Wednesday night's Seattle School Board agenda drew a lot of attention when it was posted on the night before Thanksgiving: a proposal to open up talks to hire interim superintendent Larry Nyland on a permanent basis. Ahead of Wednesday night's meeting, two board members floated another plan: extend Nyland's temporary contract into 2016, keeping Nyland at the district's helm on an interim basis for another year. Once Labeled 'Dropout Factories,' Tacoma High Schools Post Record-High Graduation Rates By Kyle Stokes • Dec 2, 2014 Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons Nearly four out of five Tacoma high school students graduated on time in 2014 — the highest graduation rate the district has posted in the decade Washington state has officially tracked the figure, district leaders announced Tuesday. On Microsoft Campus, Teachers Protest Tax Breaks Ahead Of State Ed. Funding Debate By Kyle Stokes • Nov 28, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU Listen Listening... / On a day when frenzied holiday shoppers will pay a significant sum in state sales taxes, a group of teachers is organizing a protest near the Redmond campus of a corporation that they wish paid more taxes: Microsoft. The teachers' planned the Black Friday protest to urge state lawmakers to put corporate tax breaks, not social services, on the chopping block in their effort to find at least $2.5 billion in new funding for schools. "Many of the families of our students can't afford the Christmas gifts they want to buy unless they go to those sales on Black Friday. They are going to be paying a lot of sales tax on Black Friday," said protest organizer and Renton teacher Julianna Dauble. "We chose it to highlight [the fact] Microsoft will not be paying taxes on Black Friday." WSU President Hopes To Present 'Unified Front' On Medical School By Austin Jenkins • Nov 20, 2014 This January, Washington State University plans to ask lawmakers for permission to open a medical school in Spokane. The question is whether the University of Washington will oppose that effort. It currently runs the state's only school for doctor of medicine degrees. Wash. State Foster Care Officials Outline Final Push To Compliance By Kyle Stokes • Nov 19, 2014 Seth Weinig State child welfare workers have outlined plans to implement new training and data management practices, hoping to finally push Washington's foster care system into full compliance with a decade-old legal agreement. But state officials also say they'll realistically need nearly $7.8 million more from lawmakers' next two-year budget to hire back the staff they need to meet all 21 benchmarks for improving foster care laid out in the 2004 settlement of the Braam v. Washington case. 'This Isn't About Turf': Seattle Mayor Touts Partnership With School District By Kyle Stokes • Nov 17, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU Listen Listening... / 1:21 City officials and Seattle Public Schools educators "share the responsibility" for Seattle children's academic performance, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said in a speech to assembled municipal and school district leaders Monday night. And, Murray added after his remarks at the State of the District event, city officials ought to "become more integrated" and "collaborative" in efforts with Seattle Public Schools leaders to close a stubborn achievement gap between white kids and students of color. "We can collaborate together," Murray said in his speech. "We can produce game-changing, transformational results. We can do it without fears about control or governance, or turf. This is about our children. This is about closing an opportunity gap. This isn't about turf." Report: Wash. Schools Must Overhaul How They Serve Students With Disabilities By Kyle Stokes • Nov 17, 2014 Colin Archer / AP Photo Students receiving special education services in Washington public schools are less likely than their peers to graduate from high school and more likely to end up suspended or expelled, and in many cases, their disabilities are not to blame, according to a new state report. In the report, the independent state office that handles disputes between parents and public schools calls on state lawmakers to empower a blue ribbon commission to determine how best to remove "unnecessary divisions between 'special education' and 'general education.'" Later School Start Time Advocates Hope For Change As District Task Force Starts Work By Kyle Stokes • Nov 13, 2014 Hope for Gorilla/Flickr Should Seattle schools adjust their start times to let middle- and high school students get more sleep? It's a riddle that's vexed Seattle Public Schools for the last six years, and a 30-member district task force kicked off a months-long process Thursday night of solving it. Some parents and sleep experts have lobbied district leaders to let the district's schools, most of which currently start classes at 7:50 a.m., begin their school days at a later hour. One way to accommodate that change, they say, is for elementary schools, which currently begin their days at either 8:40 or 9:30 a.m., to start classes earlier. How Did Wash. Class-Size Measure Go From Sure Winner To Possible Recount? By Kyle Stokes • Nov 6, 2014 Ted S. Warren / AP Photo How often does a ballot initiative in Washington state garner 60 percent support or better in public opinion polls before Election Day, only to wind up losing? Pollster Stuart Elway can count the times on one hand. But now, there's a real possibility he could add a statewide class-size initiative to the list. Two October polls showed voters supported Initiative 1351, which calls for hiring thousands of teachers in an effort to reduce public school class sizes, by wide margins. Yet the vote count as of Thursday afternoon showed the initiative trailing by 12,171 votes, or 0.86 percentage point. An automatic recount occurs if the margin is 2,000 votes and less than one-half of a percentage point. Seattle Parents Say Students Don't Get Enough Time For Lunch, Recess By Kyle Stokes • Nov 6, 2014 Susan Walsh / AP Photo Seattle Public Schools students don't get enough time to eat lunch, according to a group of parents. Dozens in a group calling itself "Lunch and Recess Matter" rallied at the Seattle School Board meeting Wednesday. Seattle School Board Rejects Downtown School, But Supporters Cling To Hope By Kyle Stokes • Nov 5, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU Seattle Public Schools leaders have dropped a bid for a property that could've been the site of the district's first downtown elementary school in more than six decades. School board members balked at the estimated $53 million cost of renovating the vacant Federal Reserve Bank building, noting the district would have to take on debt it might have trouble paying back. In voting 5 to 0 to drop its application, the board passed up a golden opportunity for effectively free land in a pricey real estate market, the school's supporters say; the U.S. Department of Education could have deeded the property to the district for practically nothing. Statewide Class-Size Initiative Too Close To Call, Early Returns Show By Kyle Stokes • Nov 4, 2014 Elaine Thompson / AP Photo A statewide ballot initiative aimed at limiting class size in Washington appeared too close to call, according to early election results Tuesday. Initiative 1351, which calls for hiring more than 7,000 teachers over the next four years in hopes of reducing class sizes in Washington's public schools, was failing by less than 1 percent. Young Voters Explain How To Get Their Peers To Cast Ballots In Midterm Elections By Kyle Stokes • Nov 4, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU As voters, teens and young adults don't have the best track records, especially in off-year or midterm elections. In 2010, less than one-third of 18- to 29-year-olds in Washington state voted, and that's the age group's best turnout rate in more than two decades. By contrast, nearly two-thirds of older voters cast ballots. But consider how election season can sound from a teen's point of view. "There's things that I want to be engaged in. I try to listen, I try to be engaged, but it's like all these old men droning on and on, and on," said Halley Norman, 18. "It's not very engaging. It's not something that makes me feel passionate about the issue." With McCleary Mandate Looming, Will Wash. Class Size Initiative Help Or Hurt? By Kyle Stokes • Oct 30, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU If a recent poll is any indication, Washington voters appear poised to again pass a ballot initiative that calls for steeply reducing public school class sizes, this time by hiring more than 7,000 teachers over the next four years. Voters passed a similar measure in 2000 that had little effect. Lawmakers repealed it two years ago and the state's student-to-teacher ratio remains one of the nation's largest. But the group behind that 2000 class-size initiative has urged voters to reject this year's version, Initiative 1351. The group joins skeptical lawmakers and newspaper editorial boards who fear a class size-reduction measure would complicate their task of meeting a state Supreme Court order to pump another $2 billion into the state's K-12 budget. How School Security Has Changed Since Columbine, And How It's Stayed The Same By Kyle Stokes • Oct 29, 2014 Mark Humphrey / AP Photo Seventeen years ago, Bill Bond was the principal at a small high school in western Kentucky that was rocked by a school shooting. It happened before the term "school shooting" had even entered the national conscience. The Columbine massacre was still a year and a half away when a 14-year-old freshman at Heath High School entered the lobby in Dec. 1997 and opened fire, killing three fellow students and wounding five more. The shooter eventually surrendered to Bond, who says it all happened "right in front of him." "People are going to want a solution" to prevent shootings like at Heath or Marysville-Pilchuck High School last week, Bond said. "But there's not a perfect, simple solution there. The solutions are hard." Highline Schools The Latest Wash. District To Consider Transgender Student Policy By Kyle Stokes • Oct 22, 2014 Mark Stahl / AP Photo Where should a transgender student in a public school use the restroom? In which locker room should the student shower or change clothes? And how should a teacher refer to a student: as a he, a she, or neither? The Highline Public Schools Board will vote Wednesday night on a new, formal set of guidelines to help staff answer these questions. Seattle Leaders Hope 'Magic Sauce' Will Guarantee 'Quality' In Proposed Pre-K Plan By Kyle Stokes • Oct 22, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU Seattle's elected leaders can hardly describe the proposed preschool pilot program at the heart of Proposition 1B without using the phrase "high-quality." City education officials frequently invoke these words when speaking about their desire to pass a four-year, $58 million property tax hike to not only cover preschool tuition for as many as 2,000 low-income kids, but to ensure these children receive the greatest possible benefit from the program. But amid a broader debate over whether voters ought to choose the city's plan over a competing childcare initiative, Proposition 1A, a smaller debate has roiled among early educators: What exactly constitutes "high-quality" preschool? Four Red Flags Found In One Seattle School's Now-Invalidated Test Results By Kyle Stokes • Oct 15, 2014 Wes Chapman / Flickr Someone altered test responses at Seattle's Beacon Hill International School in a way that significantly increased the elementary school's test scores. State education officials have now thrown out the entire school's results after noting "heavy erasure" marks on the test forms. Whatever the reason for the alterations — both Seattle Public Schools and the state aren't using the word "cheating" — the changes produced some pretty startling test results, as a state analysis shows: Suspicious Test Results At Seattle Elementary Thrown Out As State, District Investigate By Kyle Stokes • Oct 14, 2014 Carol VanHook / Flickr Washington state education officials have thrown out all standardized test scores at Seattle's Beacon Hill International School after a review found "heavy erasures" in the test booklets, district officials said in a letter to the school's parents and staff Tuesday. State officials think "the test responses were altered in such a way as to significantly increase total scores," Interim Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Larry Nyland wrote in his letter. High numbers of the erasure marks made from students changing wrong answers to right ones could indicate cheating, according to education experts. That said, there can also be legitimate, innocent explanations for these stray marks. Tacoma District Sues Lincoln High Staffers Who Allege School 'Cherry-Picks' Students By Kyle Stokes • Oct 10, 2014 Ted S. Warren / AP Photo Tacoma Public Schools officials recently filed suit against a teacher and two guidance counselors at Lincoln High School, alleging the staff members violated privacy laws designed to keep student records confidential. An attorney for the educators says her clients have broken no privacy laws. She says the district's lawsuit is retaliation for the staffers going public with concerns the school's scheduling practices are pushing too many students out of Lincoln and into alternative school settings. But district officials say the practice, which attorney Joan Mell and her clients disparagingly call "cherry-picking," is part of a coordinated effort to ensure the district's most vulnerable students can graduate from high school. District Settles With Parents Of Garfield High Student Who Alleged Sexual Assault By Kyle Stokes • Oct 8, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU Seattle Public Schools officials have reached a settlement agreement with the family of a Garfield High School student who alleged she was sexually assaulted during an overnight school trip in 2012, the district announced Wednesday. As part of a $700,000 settlement agreement, the parents have agreed to dismiss complaints they'd filed with state and federal officials, and to not pursue "monetary claims" against the district and to stop filing public records requests with the district, according to a Seattle Public Schools statement. "Our goal was to not have this happen again to another family that would have to live through this trauma," said the Garfield student's father in an interview. (KPLU is withholding the family's name to protect the privacy of the student, who's still a minor.) Childcare Campaign To Air TV Ads During Monday Night Seahawks Game By Kyle Stokes • Oct 6, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU Supporters of a campaign to raise wages and create a training program for Seattle's childcare workers are hitting the airwaves, unveiling a commercial that will air during one of the city's most-watched television events: Monday night's Seahawks game. 10 Seattle Schools Most Likely To Be Affected By District's Boundary Shift By Kyle Stokes • Oct 6, 2014 Courtesy of Seattle Public Schools Seattle Public Schools officials will hold a series of public meetings this week to inform parents of another shift in attendance boundaries set to take place next school year, potentially impacting more than 1,100 students at 25 district elementary schools. The changes are part of a bigger plan. A package approved by Seattle School Board members last year calls for annual, incremental shifts in the attendance boundaries until 2020, all with the aim of finding enough space for a burgeoning student population in new or recently-expanded schools. State Freezes Part Of Seattle's Special Ed Funding As District Takes Step To Improve By Kyle Stokes • Oct 1, 2014 Lynne Sladky / AP Photo State education officials have raised the stakes in Seattle Public Schools' efforts to improve services for the district's most vulnerable students, recently announcing they will hold back $3 million in federal funding until the district can get its troubled special education department back on track. On Wednesday night, the Seattle School Board members took a step toward potentially getting that funding back, hiring an outside firm to help district officials implement a plan to fix its special education offerings. 'Dream Act' Makes Undocumented Students Eligible For Already-Strained Aid Program By Kyle Stokes • Sep 25, 2014 Martha Kang / KPLU Fall classes began at many of Washington's public universities Wednesday, beginning the first term undocumented immigrant students can receive state-backed financial aid under a new state law. But while more than 2,000 students applied to receive state need grants under provisions of the newly-enacted Washington "Dream Act," state higher education officials say it's possible as many as 700 of these undocumented students won't receive an aid award at all — even if they're eligible. It's not just undocumented students who will miss out. Though state expenditures on the program have ballooned as tuition costs get higher, there isn't enough funding for the state need grant program to offer aid to every eligible Washington student. New Generation Of Undocumented Students Starts College Under Wash. 'Dream Act' By Kyle Stokes • Sep 24, 2014 Martha Kang / KPLU Listen Listening... / 5:11 Move-in day at the University of Washington is a jumble of boxes and emotions for incoming freshman Carlos Escutia. "I'm so happy I get to move in first. I get to pick the bed," he says, grinning and carrying a bedspread into his new dorm room. For the past 15 years, Escutia's family has worked hard in hopes of celebrating days like this. His parents left Mexico when Escutia was 3, dreaming of better lives and better education for their children. Going to a four-year college has always been Escutia's goal. A year ago, it wasn't even clear the Lynnwood High School grad would make it to this day. As an undocumented immigrant, Escutia didn't qualify for government loans to cover his college costs. He'd have to apply for competitive private scholarships and hope for the best. Then the state legislature passed the "Dream Act," granting many undocumented high school graduates access to state-funded college grants. Escutia was among the first to apply, and he is now part of the state's first wave of so-called "dreamers" to start classes. In Light Of Ferguson, Students Of Seattle's Least White High School Talk About Race By Kyle Stokes • Sep 18, 2014 Kyle Stokes / KPLU This summer's events in Ferguson, Missouri aren't the only things that make Jaedyn Colly, who is black, wonder what makes him different from the police. "I have family members — they've been arrested," said Colly, a sophomore at Rainier Beach High School. "You just question, 'What is the difference? What makes [a police officer] so better than me? What gives you the power to have control over me?'" It's the kind of frustration Rainier Beach High teachers want to bring out into the open. 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The Bedford Volunteer Fire Department is located in the City of Bedford, VA approximately 25 miles east of Roanoke and 20 miles west of Lynchburg. Organized in 1888, the Bedford Volunteer Fire Department was Bedford City and County's only organized fire protection until 1952. With a first due response area of 182 square miles; the largest first due response area in Bedford County, the Bedford Volunteer Fire Department remains the busiest fire department each year. With a roster of fifty active firefighters, the department operates nine pieces of apparatus and responds to an average of 900 calls each year.
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Monday, June 22, 2015
0903hrs- Bedford Communications alerted Company 1 and Medic 14-8 to the 3000 block of Five Forks Road for a reported head-on collision with entrapment. Wagon 1 (with three) arrived at 0910hrs to find a box truck and sedan with heavy damage and one driver trapped. W1 charged the trash line for protection and began placing the combi-tool into service as Ladder 1 (with four) arrived with the full compliment. The door was quickly removed to allow EMS access to the driver who sustained minor injuries. All units returned to service at 0930hrs. Total Company 1 personnel: 9.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
1005hrs: Bedford Communications alerted Companies 1 (Bedford-1st due) and 5 (Forest-2nd due & RIT) to 2431 Screechum Hollow Road for a reported stove on fire. Medic 14-1 and Engine 1 (with three) arrived at 1016hrs to find heavy smoke showing from a single-story wood frame private dwelling. E1 passed command and stretched the first line into the interior through side Alpha. Neighbors on scene reported a child still inside which prompted Medic 14-1's crew to begin the primary search before L1's arrival. With the primary search negative, command learned that the "child" was actually an 18 year old grandson who had exited safely to call 911. The fire was contained to the area of origin and brought under control approximately 15 minutes after arrival. All searches were negative with no injuries reported. Units operating: E1, L1, R5, T5, W82, M14-1, M14-5, County 10, and County 16. Total Company 1 personnel: 9.
Saturday, April 4, 2015
1430hrs- Bedford Communications alerted Company's 8 (Moneta-1st due), 10 (Saunders-2nd due), and 1 (Bedford-RIT) to 1696 Whitehouse Road for multiple reports of a commercial structure fire. With enough staffing for two pieces at the 1 house, Wagon 1 (with four) and Ladder 1 (with five) responded immediately to assist with an engine company and fulfill the RIT assignment. E8 was first to arrive to find a wood-frame restaurant with heavy fire showing from the charlie side. Medic 14-8 (who had split its crew to provide a driver for E8) arrived and established Whitehouse Rd Command. W1 was the next to arrive; splitting their crew to provide water supply to E8 and manpower on the interior. W82 laid in from a nearby hydrant to establish water supply. E8 made an excellent stop and held the fire to the area of origin. L1 operated as the salvage and overhaul group before returning to service. Fire damage was estimated at $300,000. No injuries were reported. Total Company 1 personnel: 14.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
1818hrs- While Company 1 units were operating on a four acre brush fire off of Equine Drive, Bedford Communications alerted Company's 1 (Bedford-1st due), 9 (Montvale-2nd due), and 5 (Forest-RIT) to 613 Blue Ridge Avenue for multiple reports of a house on fire. W-1 (with five) arrived to find heavy smoke showing from the roof of a two-story wood-frame private dwelling. The nozzleman and backup stretched a line into the interior as Fire Attack Group 1 as Medic 14-1 established two out. Ladder 1 (with three) performed the search which proved negative. Most of the fire and damage was contained to the exterior in the gable-end and under the shingles. Fire damage is estimated at $10,000. Units operating: T1, L1, E9, Medic 14-1, and County 10. Total Company 1 personnel operating between both calls: 19.
Friday, March 13, 2015
0026hrs- Bedford Communications alerted Companies 1 (Bedford-1st due), 8 (Moneta-2nd due), and 5 (Forest-RIT) to 511 South Street for multiple reports of an explosion and a house on fire. Engine 1 (with four) arrived at 0029hrs to find heavy fire showing from a two-story wood frame private dwelling with reports of occupants trapped/missing. Chief 1 established South Street command and assigned Ladder 1 (with six) to search group and ventilation group. Wagon 1 (with four) caught the nearest hydrant to establish water supply while Medic 14-1 established 2-out. All searches proved negative and the two missing occupants from a rear apartment were later located. The fire was marked under control at 0056hrs. A total of six adults and one child were displaced. No injuries were reported. The explosion appears to have been a propane cylinder from a LP gas grill. The fire is being investigated by the Bedford County Fire Marshall. Units operating: E1, L1, W1, T1, C1, W82, R5, Medic 14-1, Medic 8-5, and County 10. Total Company 1 personnel: 19.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
2032hrs- Just as BFD firefighters finally sat down to dinner for the evening after a number of weather related runs, communications alerted Company 1 to 720 Blue Ridge Avenue for a reported vehicle fire. E1, T1, B1A, and Chief 1 arrived at 2036hrs to find fire showing from underneath a small sedan. E1's officer (Lt. Wills) established command while the E1 nozzle and backup stretched the trashline. With a quick knockdown on the fire command returned T1 and B1A to service. Total Company 1 personnel: 18.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
0517hrs- Bedford Communications alerted Companies 1 (Bedford-1st due), 9 (Montvale-2nd due), and 13 (Stewartsville-Chamblissburg-RIT) to 1651 Wheatland Road for a reported house on fire. E1 (with three) arrived at 0523hrs to find moderate smoke showing from a single-story wood frame private dwelling. E1 stretched a line into the interior as Fire Attack Group 1 while Ladder 1 (with six) split its crew to perform the primary search and ventilation. Fire was located in a back bedroom with extension into the walls and attic. Both searches proved negative. The fire was marked under control at 0603hrs. No injuries were reported. Units operating: E1, L1, T1, U1, W8, R5, and Medic 14-1. Total Company 1 personnel: 12.
Monday, January 26, 2015
1356hrs- Bedford Communications alerted Company 1 to the 1000 block of West Lynchburg Salem Turnpike for a reported vehicle fire. Wagon 1 (with four) arrived at 1400hrs to find smoke showing from a small box van along with a county code enforcement officer who had stopped to assist by with a fire extinguisher. W1 quickly extinguished the remaining fire in the engine compartment and under the dash before returning to service at 1420hrs. Units operating: W1 & E1. Total Company 1 personnel: 11.
Friday, January 23, 2015
We have recently learned of another successful outcome for a patient who was involved in a motor vehicle accident on January 5th when his vehicle rolled several times, ejecting him and pinning him underneath the vehicle. Using hydraulic tools, air bags, and cribbing, BFD firefighters extricated the man in approximately thirty minutes but then discovered that the patient had severe burns and was barely breathing. Working along side of paramedics on Medic 14-1, BFD Firefighter/Paramedic's intubated the patient and established I.V. access before Lifeguard 10 arrived to transport by air. The patient was flown to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in critical condition. Days after the incident we received word that the patient was removed from ICU and is expected to make a full recovery.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Over ninety BFD firefighters and guests gathered at the Bedford Columns Conference Center for the department's 107th annual awards banquet. Dinner was catered by the Ole Liberty Station and began at 6:30 p.m. The awards ceremony followed at 7:30 p.m. where the following individuals were recognized for their years of service: Five Years: Ryan King, Chris Gardner, and John Gulatsi. Ten Years: Billy Creasey and Chad Baker. Thirty-five Years: James Parker. Forty Years: Russell Stevens. Congratulations to the following recipients who were awarded FF of the Year as voted on by their peers. Firefighter of the Year 2014: Firefighter/EMT-E M.J. McGinnis, Runner Up: Firefighter Brandon Crouch and Firefighter Ryan King (tie). A big thanks goes out to Company 2 and Company 13 who staffed W-1 and L-1 and to all of the firefighters and guests who attended to make this yet another successful event.
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