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School board president s death from COVD-19 will forever impact town
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Ann Marie Panzarelli, the Board of Education president for Keyport Schools in New Jersey, died from COVID-19 in March 2021.
COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 580,000 Americans and counting.
Each week ABC News is spotlighting several Americans who have lost their lives to COVID-19. This week, we re highlighting a detention aide in Florida, a pastor in Iowa and a school board president in New Jersey.
Stephan Adams
Stephan Adams, a 43-year-old detention aide with Florida s Broward Sheriff s Office, died on Jan. 30, 2021, the department said.
NW Bend neighbors upset by sudden removal of trees; city apologizes
Water line project underway in area leaves residents frustrated
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) People living near Drake Park in downtown Bend are upset after several trees were suddenly cut down. On Friday, the city apologized.
Community members woke up Thursday morning Earth Day, as it turns out to find the trees in their neighborhood being cut down. The city of Bend is replacing aging water lines along the Newport Avenue corridor and nearby streets to reduce water leaking into the river and improve water quality.
But neighbors say they were not told specific details about the project, or that more than a dozen shade and fruit trees in their neighborhood were going to be removed in recent days.
Updated: 12:15 AM EDT April 22, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS The death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis Police officer is putting new attention on the training of police officers.
Here in Indianapolis, the commander of the Metro Police training academy said nothing has changed. The academy wasn t teaching officers to use chokeholds at the time of Floyd s death and isn t now.
But according to IMPD Commander Catherine Cummings, there are new tools and tactics aimed at de-escalating confrontations before anyone gets hurt. Bola! Bola! Bola! shouted an instructor before he fired a BolaWrap at a volunteer officer.
With the speed of a gunshot, but with none of the danger, the suspect s ankles were bound with a Kevlar cord. He couldn t move.
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