Travis County

A Christian couple from Oregon who relied on faith healing has been charged with murder and criminal mistreatment over the death of their newborn daughter in March. Sarah Elaine and Travis Lee Mitchell, 24 and 21 years old respectively, surrendered to authorities on June 5 and were booked into the Clackamas County Jail. The couple was charged with murder by neglect and first-degree criminal mistreatment over the death of Ginnifer Mitchell on Mar. 5, Oregon Live details. Around 60 church members…

of America. Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800 on Benjamin Turner’s plantation in Southampton County, Virginia. From his birth, Nat Turner’s mother had inculcated him that he was intended for a great purpose. Adding to the fact that he became literate in his early years, Nat Turner also embraced Christianity, becoming a well-known preacher in African American congregations in Southampton County between 1825 and 1830. After a harsh overseer…

WOOSTER — Family members, longtime friends, fellow pastors and law enforcement officials gathered in the basement of the Wayne County Justice Center recently to wish a tireless worker farewell as he headed into retirement. “His heart was always in the right place,” Capt. James Richards said of the Rev. Lee Anderson, the chaplain of the Wayne County Jail for the past 41 years who was retiring. Richards read a passage from the New Testament about how Jesus thanked his followers for feeding him,…

Austin Independent School District Police are reopening two reported sex crime cases at two separate campuses to ensure they weren't mishandled, KVUE and Austin American-Statesman reporter Tony Plohetski learned from Chief Eric Mendez Thursday. The decision comes after concerns from parents on the handling of an alleged sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl at Boone Elementary School. Police closed the investigation without reviewing medical reports that showed the girl suffered severe trauma…

Department works with several agencies but to be more effective in this area more policies and resources need to be be further developed. (Muraskin, 2009, p.291) noted that the listed cities have found success with Community-Wide Intervention: Baltimore County, Maryland, Duluth, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Memphis, Tennessee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Denver, Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Seattle, Washington, Lincoln, Nebraska and Quincy, Massachusetts. Studies have shown that agencies with…

Removing the Box Removing the box is a voice for people with records to have a chance at gaining employment. Removing this box does not mean they do not have to disclose their criminal history before applying for a job, but that they will be given a chance to be deemed qualified for the job before having to disclose this information. This means that those with records will have the same chance as any other applicant. A state ban the box law is on its way. Nearly 200 worker advocacy groups and…

2014-2015 in Hardee County were considered the “dark years”, that being because one right after the other so many young lives were being ripped right from under this small county. It was a time that no matter how hard I try, I will never forget, a dark time of some many unexplained events that to this very day I still question why our small county? Those dark events have changed my perspective on life completely. Losing 6 young lives…

men to join Nats rebellion to abolish slavery. On August 21, 1831 around forty African Americans gathered at the Travis plantation and began to execute their plan killing John Travis and his whole family. They then knew they were in for good now and began going on a killing spree murdering all the white slave owners they came into contact with as they marched across Southampton County, Virginia. They brutally killed every slave owner and their family in each house as they went door to door.…

Solano County is considered one of the first counties in California (CA), formed in 1850 (Salano County CA, n.d.). (See Figure 1). It is the easternmost county of the North Bay, located approximately 72 kilometers northeast of San Francisco, covering a total of 235,430 hectare (ha), which includes approximately 174, 927 ha of rural land area and approximately 21,807 ha of water area (Salano County CA, n.d.). In 1999, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued a Biological Opinion…

adopted; it was strange! For some reason, that sparked my quest to look for Katherine, my biological grandmother, again. I went home and immediately started looking. My mom had a picture of her birth mom’s senior picture. On the back, it said, “Travis County Airforce Base”. A light bulb went off and I started to look for all the high schools near that air force base; I found four. I did an online search of all the yearbooks until I finally found her senior picture. She had an uncommon last name…