Train and Pickup Collide in Jerome County
JEROME, Idaho (KLIX)-A train and pickup collided at a railroad crossing in Jerome County Sunday morning.
Images sent to News Radio 1310 show what appear to be a Chevrolet pickup that was struck on the drivers side by the train. Passersby say the crash happened sometime before 9 a.m. at the railroad crossing on U.S. Highway 93 north of the Interchange with Interstate 84. The crossing there does not have crossing gates, but it does have warning lights.
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It appears the Jerome County Sheriff s Office and Jerome Rural Fire Department responded to the crash. More information to come.
Gowns Down at Edinburgh Sheriff Court
Source: Edinburgh Bar Association
The newly-formed Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) announced last week that practitioners in Dumbarton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlands & Moray and West Lothian would be taking part in today’s boycott.
The Scottish Government assigned £9m to a resilience fund but the SSBA said only £2.3m had been distributed. Of the 287 firms that applied for funding, less than a third were granted an award.
A statement calling for the government to urgently distribute the resilience fund was signed by over a dozen bar associations including Edinburgh and Glasgow. They also said that £1m was promised in December to support legal aid firms to take on trainees but not a single penny had been distributed from the traineeship fund.
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Allen Superior Court Judge Charles Pratt talks with two of more than 30 children united with “forever families” at an Adoption Day event in 2019.
Pratt
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Sunday, May 16, 2021 1:00 am
Putting families first
MATTHEW LEBLANC | The Journal Gazette
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