May 18 2012 - Prisons unlock new tourist attractions
More than 40 members of the Portage, Mo., Senior Center get off a tour bus May 2 outside the historic Jackson State Prison. / By Mike Brookbank, Detroit Free Press |
May 13 2012 - Violent criminal on federal payroll as informant
Despite a history of abusing women and violent behavior in prison, Joshua Allan Jackson managed to become a federal informant, trigger a citywide Seattle police alert and hold a 18-year-old woman as his sexual prisoner. |
May 10 2012 - Sharks to Offer Fan Bus to Orlando
JACKSONVILLE - The ArenaBowl XXIV Champion Jacksonville Sharks announced Wednesday that the team will offer a fan bus to Orlando on Friday, May 25, providing two-way transportation for fans wishing to see the Sharks battle the division rival Orlando Predators at Amway Center. |
May 04 2012 - 16-Year-Old Student Jumps From Moving School Bus
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. - Jacksonville Beach Police have confirmed that a 16-year-old student jumped out of the back door of his moving school bus Friday morning and landed on Beach Boulevard. |
April 28 2012 - Man shot to death near Carondelet and Jackson
Michael DeMocker / The Times-PicayuneA New Orleans police officer looks at the victim inside a silver car that collided with an RTA bus after a gunman shot the car's driver to death on Jackson Avenue between Carondolet and St. Charles... |
April 28 2012 - Planners: Commuter rail plan would bring money to area
A final decision is weeks away, but planners are making a strong case for commuter rail service to anchor plans for the beginning of an upgraded metrowide transit system, the first two lines of which would run in Eastern Jackson County. |
April 28 2012 - 'Move Over' Law Now Applies to Utilities
JACKSON -- Mississippi's existing "Move Over Law" now protects utility crews working alongside busy highways and local roads. Since 2007, the law has safeguarded law enforcement, fire and highway construction workers. The expanded legislation, with protection for utility crews, takes effect July 1. |
April 27 2012 - Long Beach Transit takes innovative path
When Larry Jackson, president/CEO of California-based Long Beach Transit (LBT) became GM, as the position was previously called, in 1980, the “sleepy” transit system, carried about eight million people a year, with about 300 employees, he says. |
April 25 2012 - Analysis: State 'move over' expanded to utilities
JACKSON — Mississippi's existing "Move Over Law" now protects utility crews working alongside busy highways and local roads. Since 2007, the law has safeguarded law enforcement, fire and highway construction workers. The expanded legislation, with protection for utility crews, takes effect July 1. |
April 25 2012 - State 'Move Over Law' expanded to include utility crews
JACKSON -- Mississippi's existing "Move Over Law" now protects utility crews working alongside busy highways and local roads. Since 2007, the law has safeguarded law enforcement, fire and highway construction workers. The expanded legislation, with protection for utility crews, takes effect July 1. |
April 19 2012 - Instituting Programs That Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Should Be Top Priority of New Duval County Pub
Educating children and adults about how to prevent child sexual abuse by those entrusted with their care must be a top priority for all those adults in a position to pass policy and make binding resolutions, according to Don Dymer, president of SingleSource.Jacksonville Beach, Florida (PRWEB) April 18, 2012 “One of the top priorities for Duval County’s Public School Superintendent must be to ... |
April 14 2012 - City Watch: Bills, Busses and Closed Doors
Bueller ... Bueller ... ? Attendance at City Hall meetings seems not to be a top priority for all members of the Jackson City Council. In the three weeks since LaRita Cooper-Stokes of Ward 3 rounded out the seven-seat council, four members--Cooper-Stokes, Chokwe Lumumba of Ward 2, Charles Tillman of Ward 5 and Margaret Barrett-Simon of Ward 7--have been absent from at least three work sessions ... |
April 10 2012 - The Way We Were: Bus line was a bustling business
Mabel Olsen stood in a Jacksonville railroad station waiting for a train to take her home to Peoria. When the train didn’t arrive, she became convinced that Jacksonville needed another form of transportation.Shortly after Olsen’s bad experience... |
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