SENTENCED: Clockwise l-r: Jack Hartley, Cameron Beedles, Brendan Purcell and Amy Johnson A GROUP that plied Barrow with class A drugs has been jailed for more than 20 years in total. Four people were sentenced at Preston Crown Court after they previously admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine. Police said their first suspicions over the group came when officers witnessed a suspected drug deal outside a house in Barrow. They later arrested the defendant in a series of coordinated raids in Barrrow and Liverpool. The offences were said to have been carried out between December 6 2019 and April 18 2020. Jack Hartley, 27, of Maddocks Street, Liverpool, was sentenced to a total of 11 years and three months in prison.
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The Leading Voices in Public Health series came to a close this semester with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, an author, activist and champion for pediatric care.
Hanna-Attisha was instrumental in uncovering the Flint water crisis and has continued helping her region. Hanna-Attisha wrote “What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City,” which is a book that centers on the Flint water crisis and the efforts to remedy the situation.
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Hanna-Attisha founded and now directs the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Health Initiative, which is a leading innovative health program in Flint, Michigan. Hanna-Attisha has been awarded the Freedom of Expression Courage Award by PEN America, was named as Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, recognized as one of USA Today’s Wome
Brenda Spillane receives a hug from her oldest child, Ashli Thompson, as five of the 12 Spillane children gather in Peyton Wednesday, April 21, 2021. From left to right is Creed Spillane, eighth child; Ashli; Charity Betts, second child; Summer Jordan, third child; and Ryan Spillane, fifth child and oldest boy.
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It was an accidental beginning that spawned fate, faith and a sprawling legacy that, today, can be hard to keep straight, even for a matriarch with a cheat sheet.
The Spillanes are a military family like so many families in Colorado Springs. They’re also a family that’s not like very many families at all.
“They were like the American von Trapps,” said Amy Johnson, who was unofficially adopted by the family when she was a young Army officer serving in Germany during the Reagan years. “At that time, they only had 11 kids, I think.”
The Spillane’s Aspen grove of a modern family tree began, as abiding love stories do, with a moment of serendipity.