There will be 12 new Assembly Members in City Hall for the upcoming term. Credit: PA There will be 12 new members of the London Assembly this term following the conclusion of the GLA elections this weekend. Although none of the 14 constituency seats changed hands between parties, seven of the Assembly members in these seats stood down or retired before the election, with new candidates taking their place. There were also five new Assembly members elected to the London-wide seats who will join the re-elected Sian Berry, Caroline Pidgeon, Caroline Russell, Shaun Bailey, Andrew Boff and Susan Hall. Joining returning constituency members Tony Devenish, Onkar Sahota, Keith Prince, Len Duvall, Leonie Cooper, Joanne McCartney and Unmesh Desai are the following new constituency Assembly members:
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At a vigil Monday night for homicide victim Brandon Coffin, 28, his mother, Kim Coffin, left, and sister Alexis Coffin, to her right, break down while surrounded by family and friends. Brandon was killed Friday night in the 700 block of Geiger Court in Colorado Springs. About 50 people gathered at the site of his slaying to remember him and share stories. Police arrested Tony Lawson, 49, on suspicion of first-degree murder, and son Zachery Lawson, 18, on suspicion of felony menacing.
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Alexis Coffin with her younger brother, Brandon Coffin, 28. Brandon Coffin was killed Dec. 14 on Geiger Boulevard in a shooting in which his younger brother and two friends also were wounded. Tony Lawson is arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder and his son, Zachary Lawson, is arrested on suspicion of felony menacing.
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For years the San Diego Sheriff’s Department resisted making public announcements when someone died in a county jail.
Now department officials are pledging to change their policy and issue press releases within 24 hours, following completion of a preliminary autopsy.
The decision follows complaints from family members and their advocates, who have been kept in the dark often for months as in-custody deaths were investigated internally.
The policy change was announced at the Tuesday evening meeting of the Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board, the volunteer civilian oversight panel that investigates complaints about county Sheriff’s and Probation department misconduct.
Computational Social Scientists at Stony Brook University Find Evidence Americans Identify with Their Politics More than their Religion
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STONY BROOK, N.Y., Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In new research to be published in the March issue of the
Journal of Social Computing, researchers Nick Rogers and Dr. Jason J. Jones present evidence that politics is overtaking religion within the American psyche.
The prevalence of users whose profile bio contains a word from a category. The prevalence is shown over time, annually 2015-2020.
The pair concocted a novel method to quantitatively study self-identity over time for millions of individuals. They used automated computer scripts to observe publicly available tweets from 2015 through 2018 and calculated the prevalence of profiles in which the user chose political, religious or other categories of words to describe themselves. Americans on the site are adding political words to