GREENSBURG - Investigators believe that bullying played a role in the violence that led to the death of a St. Helena Parish teenager and that sent two other students to the hospital.
GREENSBURG - The St. Helena Parish community is in mourning Tuesday evening after a student was killed and two others were injured during a school shooting earlier in the day.
Forefront Books has partnered with the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI) to launch a new joint publishing imprint in an effort to establish a pathway for Black and Brown authors to write and publish a professional book with distribution into traditional retailers.
Lakesha Burton is a 22-year veteran of the Jacksonville Sheriff s Office.
Credit: Florida Times-Union Published: 10:31 PM EDT April 5, 2021 Updated: 10:31 PM EDT April 5, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Resilience that is what Sheriff s Office Assistant Chief Lakesha Burton says she has had since she was a child.
Now the 22-year department veteran says that resilience will help her as the first Black woman to run for sheriff in Jacksonville. She officially filed after an interview about her life, beliefs and plans if elected next year to succeed Sheriff Mike Williams.
Seated in a coffee shop within walking distance of the Zone 2 substation that the 46-year-old administrator has run for a year, Burton is animated as she speaks of how the sexual abuse of her teen years, then her turnaround in high school that ultimately led her to become a police officer under then-Sheriff Nat Glover.