ROCHESTER – Ten years ago, the University of Minnesota Rochester graduated its first class. The university was filled lofty goals for its future: a downtown campus focused on health sciences that would grow to house 5,000 students or more in the coming decades. But the campus, which began in a downtown shopping center, remains a disparate collection of owned and leased spaces along 1st Avenue .
On Sept. 12, 2022, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety paid $1.4 million to the estate of Geoffrey Howe, a maintenance mechanic at Pasquotank Correctional Institution who was killed by four inmates during an attempted prison break. Howe’s estate was represented by David Kirby, of Edwards Kirby Law Firm, and Cate Edwards, of .
It is the darkest day in Prisons history. On Oct. 12, 2017, four staff members of Pasquotank Correctional Center died during an escape attempt. Five years later, prison employees memorialized their fallen colleagues.