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Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Safety City event will help children learn to handle dangerous situations:

Safety City, 1160 Red Mile Place, is inviting families to its first Summer Safety Fair on Saturday.
The event, scheduled for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., is all about giving children information that could help ssave their lives in dangerous situations. It will also feature fun activities, giveaways, and free food to the first 100 visitors.
At a press conference Wednesday, Lisa Conley, director of Safety City, said that as part of the reopening of Safety City she wanted to create something sustainable that would bring community partners together.
Safety City works primarily with elementary schoolchildren to teach the importance of using seat belts, and pedestrian and bicycle safety. The program was closed a few years ago because of a lack of funding but reopened last year in partnership with the Eastern Kentucky University College of Justice and Safety and Lexington police.
All of Lexington's public safety agencies will be involved in Saturday's event. Caresource sponsored and will assist children with KidPrint ID — a tool used to help locate missing youngsters. YMCA will provide water-safety instruction, and there will also be a bicycle rodeo.
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Wanted By The FBI - Seeking Information in Murder of Police Officer:



Seeking Information in Murder of Police Officer

08/26/2013
 
Mollie Halpern: The FBI and its law enforcement partners are seeking information about the murder of police officer Jason Ellis. Chief Division Counsel of the Louisville, Kentucky FBI Mary Trotman…
Mary Trotman: The FBI has just recently approved up to $50,000 for information for the identification, arrest, and convictions of those responsible.
Halpern: I’m Mollie Halpern, and this is Wanted by the FBI. Officer Ellis was headed home at the end of his shift in the early morning of May 25 when he was ambushed on an exit ramp of the Blue Grass Parkway in Bardstown, Kentucky. He was shot multiple times. Kentucky State Police Lieutenant Jeremy Thompson…
Jeremy Thompson: When a police officer is specifically targeted, that is a higher danger to the public.
Halpern: Officer Ellis, a canine handler, played for the Cincinnati Reds minor league baseball team and coached little league.
Thompson: Someone has information, and that information could help us catch the killer of a fine police officer, husband, and father.
Halpern: Report tips to the FBI at (502) 263-6000 or the KSP [Kentucky State Police] at (270) 766-5078. Visit www.fbi.gov for more information.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Father, two children are missing; New Albany Police ask for help in finding them:

WDRB.com

Father, two children are missing; New Albany Police ask for help in finding them:

Posted: Oct 22, 2012 12:19 PM PDT Updated: Oct 22, 2012 12:25 PM PDT WDRB 41 Louisville - News, Weather, Sports Community


Michael Mann Michael Mann

Madden Mann Madden Mann

Macy Mann Macy Mann

LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- A father and his two children are missing, and New Albany Police are asking for help in finding them.
34-year-old Michael Mann and his daughter, 5-year-old Macy and son, 3-year-old Madden were reportedly headed to Mann's mother's home in Versailles, Ky. on Sunday.  They never arrived.
Mann is described as a white male, 6'-1'', weighing 175 lbs., with black hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark jacket, camouflage hat, and shorts. Macy was last reported wearing a skirt of unknown color and boots. Madden was last seen with a red jacket, blue jeans, and boots.
They were in a white 2006 Kia van which Kentucky State Police found abandoned on I-75 near London, Ky.  New Albany investigators are on there way to that scene to meet with Kentucky State Police.
New Albany Police ask that anyone with information about Michael Mann or the children call (812) 948-5300.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Preventing Bullying & Embracing Diversity in Kentucky:


The Justice Blog

September 5th, 2012 Posted by
The following post appears courtesy of the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Kerry B. Harvey.

Last week, Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division spoke to all the ninth-graders in Lexington, Ky., public schools and encouraged students to prevent bullying by embracing diversity.
The event was jointly organized by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Kentucky and the Fayette County public school district to help educate students on the topics of bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools.
Approximately 700 students attended the event while around 2,400 participated from their respective schools through a live classroom feed. Students also took part in a question and answer session after the speech, with some submitting questions about bullying through emails and text messages to Assistant Attorney General Perez and others who were part of a panel.
Assistant Attorney General Perez:
“Today’s bullies are often tomorrow’s civil rights defendants. It’s important for schools to foster a learning environment where diversity isn’t just tolerated but embraced.”
 Assistant Attorney General Perez conducted a press conference for local media and student journalists.  The student journalists will compose stories on the topic for dissemination throughout their respective schools as a way to increase awareness about bullying.
 Studies show millions of students nationwide are bullied at school; including being shoved, pushed, tripped and even spit on by other students. The Anti-Defamation League found that bullying victims are more likely to engage in behaviors such as illegal drug use, dropping out of school and suicide.
As part of his visit to Lexington, Assistant Attorney General Perez also spoke about civil rights to at the University Of Kentucky College Of Law. He participated in an event attended by approximately 175 local leaders.  Audience members also heard from the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Kerry B. Harvey, who described the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s ongoing civil rights initiative.
 The office and its law enforcement partners have been very active in investigating and prosecuting civil rights cases.  Earlier this month, the leader of a sex trafficking ring in Kentucky, Marco Antonio Flores-Benitez, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.   When Flores-Benitez pleaded guilty to the charges in May, it marked Kentucky’s first conviction for sex trafficking.   Three other defendants were also convicted and sentenced.
At an afternoon community event, the U.S. Attorney’s Office presented awards to officers from the Lexington Division of Police who helped investigate the sex trafficking case.   In addition, two officials from the University of Kentucky received awards for assisting the USAO in its civil rights efforts.
For more information about the department’s civil rights work, visit justice.gov/crt.

 

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