Judge sets $500K bond for man accused of 2018 murder of Hamilton 16-year-old
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A Hamilton County assistant prosecutor has been placed on paid administrative leave following a domestic violence charge on Christmas day.
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An inmate in Ohioâs Mansfield Correctional Institution accused of killing a 16-year-old in 2018 pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a Butler County courtroom, according to the Journal-News.
Markeylnd Townsend, 22, of Hamilton, is charged with murder with a gun specification and felonious assault stemming from a July 2018 incident in Fairfield Twp. He is accused of firing a weapon into a car full of people driven by Sydney Garcia-Tovar, 16, of Hamilton, who died as a result of the gunshot.
The bulk of the film, Judas and the Black Messiah, was made in Cleveland and filmed a few days in November 2019 at the Mansfield prison that was the backdrop for the hit movie The Shawshank Redemption.
The motion picture, directed by Shaka King, is based on real events in Chicago surrounding the 1969 murder/assassination of Illinois Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and the story behind FBI informant William O Neill, who infiltrated the party on behalf of the federal law enforcement agency.
Ohio State Reformatory represents Illinois prison in movie
The historic Mansfield reformatory was used to represent the Illinois state prison in which Hampton spent time for allegedly assaulting and robbing an ice cream salesman.
Mother agrees to plea deal in connection to son s death
Previous 33-count indictment that included a murder charge will be dismissed as part of negotiated plea
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A mother previously indicted on 33 felony counts in connection with the death of her 6-year-old son avoided a March 1 trail date Friday by pleading no contest to four counts of endangering children.
The pleas by Tierra N. (Mounts) Rockaway, 30, to the second-degree felony offenses included in a new bill of information filed Friday as part of a negotiated plea approved by all parties involved with the case.
A motion seeking to dismiss the previous 33-count indictment charging Rockaway with murder, an unclassified felony; engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a first-degree felony; permitting child abuse, a first-degree felony; 15 counts of endangering children, second-degree felonies; five counts of felonious assault, second-degree felonies; five counts of endangering children, third-degree felo
Caption: Paul Sebring was the first director of MIT Haystack Observatory, serving from 1970 to 1980. He joined Lincoln Laboratory in 1952, and led its Space Surveillance Group (Millstone and Haystack) from 1958 to 1970, when Haystack became a radio/radar astronomy observatory open to the scientific community, under the Mansfield Amendment. He was the site supervisor of the Haystack Facility from 1964 to 1970. Credits: Photo: Ellen Sebring
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Former and first MIT Haystack Observatory Director Paul Brown Sebring died Jan. 3 at age 102 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Born in 1918 in Washington, Indiana, Sebring graduated from Purdue University in 1940 and joined the engineering department of Zenith Radio Corporation. During World War II, he was invited by Professor F. V. Hunt of Harvard University to join the Underwater Sound Laboratory, which developed anti-submarine devices and guided torpedoes for the U.S