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A Sumner woman has entered a guilty plea in a case involving a collision that left a man paralyzed, according to KIMT. 32 year old Melissa Nickerson entered the plea in Bremer County District Court on Wednesday to a charge of serious injury by vehicle. According to law enforcement, Nickerson was traveling along 140
th Street in September of 2019 when she rear ended a vehicle driven by Jeffery Bloom. Investigators found that Nickerson was having a Facebook Messenger conversation on her phone at the time. Bloom was left paralyzed from the chest down. Nickerson faces up to five years in prison when she is sentenced on June 15
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 7:33 am
After
capturing the hearts of audiences and critics around the
nation and the world, Aotearoa created series
Rūrangi has secured a major victory
with the news that Season 1 is hitting streaming services
both here and abroad – available for streaming exclusively
with NEON in New Zealand in May 2021 and on Hulu in the USA
in June 2021. Rūrangi has also been sold to Peccadillo
Pictures in the UK who are aiming to release Rūrangi later
in 2021, and Rialto Channel will be screening Rūrangi in
New Zealand from June.
After skipping town a decade
ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote,
Rūrangi was screened as part of the Berlinale Series Market
Disney-owned streamer Hulu has acquired a groundbreaking drama series about a New Zealand transgender activist’s efforts to reconnect with his father.
Rūrangi follows trans activist Caz Davis, who returns to the rural dairy community he fled 10 years earlier, hoping to reconnect with his father who hasn’t heard from him since before Caz transitioned.
As father and son slowly reconcile, Caz finds himself swept up in the environmental fight that is dividing the town. A second season of the series is currently in development.
The five-part series, which has also been packaged as a feature film and is currently on theatrical release in New Zealand, is directed by Max Currie and was created and written by trans activist Cole Meyers and Oliver Page.