CLEVELAND, Ohio More than a dozen people filed a lawsuit Friday accusing Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and several police officers and sheriff’s deputies of excessive force and unlawfully arresting and detaining them during last year’s George Floyd protests in downtown Cleveland. One woman said police officers and jail staff illegally held her in the Cuyahoga County Jail for six days without .
An oil industry advocate is furious the City of Calgary didn’t have any industry representatives at their annual climate change conference.
Deirdra Garyk has written a letter to Mayor Naheed Nenshi and other city council members demanding an answer as to why there were no oil and gas contributors in the 3,000 participants in the two-day conference March 25-26.
“I attended the City-sponsored annual Climate Symposium last week that discussed how climate change is impacting Calgary and what innovative solutions could be implemented. These issues are top-of-mind for many, and it’s not the overall topic that I’m concerned about; it’s some of the speakers,” wrote Garyk in her EnergyNow blog.
Ohio edges toward coronavirus case threshold needed to remove restrictions: The Wake Up for Friday, March 12, 2021
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
Gov. Mike DeWine speaks during a televised address on March 4 when he announced that he would lift the state s public health orders when Ohio s COVID-19 numbers drop to 50 cases per 100,000 people for two weeks. (Ohio Channel)
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Cooler temperatures settle into the region for the weekend, but it still be pretty nice for March. Highs today will be in the low 50s with plenty of sunshine. Temps will be in the low to mid-40s on Saturday and Sunday, but more sunshine is expected. Read more.
my first thought was the four people i have upstairs, i want to make sure they re not scared to death, that they re safe. reporter: but it was too late, the fire too intense. amanda s 911 call was heartbreaking. i have four children dead in the house! incinerated. reporter: as amanda grieved the loss of four children, she realized none of the smoke alarms in her home had sounded during the fire. i knew they worked. and then when it was time, they never went off. reporter: so why didn t they? the answer according to experts may come down to a simple frightening truth. they say the most common alarms on the market, the type in 9 out of 10 homes today, sometimes fail in certain fires. when i go to the store to buy a smoke detector, i assume that it s going to sound when there s smoke. that s a reasonable assumption, but it s wrong. reporter: don russell is a scientist at texas a&m and has been testing smoke alarms for two decades. he says the most popular smoke