Murder and kidnapping charges have been filed against a man previously named a person of interest in the killing of 10-year-old Breasia Terrell.
Henry Earl Dinkins was charged with first-degree murder in Terrell s death, Scott County Attorney Michael Walton said at a news conference Wednesday morning.
Terrell was last seen July 10 after spending the night with her half-brother at the Davenport apartment of his father, Dinkins. Human remains found March 22 in a wooded area north of DeWitt were confirmed to be Terrell s on March 31.
At a Wednesday news conference, Walton said Dinkins shot Terrell on July 10. Dinkins was also charged with first-degree kidnapping, Walton said.
May 5, 2021
Scott County Attorney Mike Walton speaks during a news conference with Davenport law enforcement officials, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in Davenport, Iowa. Henry Dinkins, a registered sex offender, has been charged with murder and kidnapping in the shooting death of a 10-year-old Iowa girl who went missing last summer, a Walton announced Wednesday. (Tony Watt/The Dispatch – The Rock Island Argus via AP)
IOWA CITY A registered sex offender kidnapped and shot to death a 10-year-old Iowa girl, his son’s half sister, while the two kids were staying overnight with him last summer, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Authorities announced that Henry Dinkins is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the death of Breasia Terrell, a Davenport girl whose disappearance last July prompted an extensive search and investigation.
Corporations considering a headquarters move to Charlotte or the Triangle would be offered an additional incentive â potentially worth millions of dollars â to spread the economic benefits to less vibrant areas of the state under a bill that cleared the N.C. Senate last week.
Republican-sponsored Senate Bill 493 modifies the stateâs Job Development Investment Grant program â the primary economic-recruitment tool for corporations being recruited by other states.
The co-primary sponsors include Sens. David Craven Jr. of Randolph County and Vickie Sawyer of Yadkin County. The Senate voted 49-0 for the bill.
An economic reality for much of this century â oftentimes to the frustration of Triad civic and elected officials â has been that most corporations contemplating a headquarters move into North Carolina look only at the stateâs two primary economic engines in Wake and Mecklenburg counties.
A sizable number of Triad residents leaving the workforce during March sent the regionâs unemployment to a pandemic low of 4.8%, the N.C. Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
It is the first time since the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in mid-March 2020 that the Triadâs jobless rate is below the 5% level considered by many economists to signify full employment.
Since November, however, the Triad jobless rate had declined more because of individuals dropping out of the workforce â thus not being counted as unemployed â than from net gains in hiring.
The Triad was reported with a 1,414 decrease in the workforce from February to March to 799,016, while those considered as unemployed fell by 8,794 to 38,231.
“While the Triangle may benefit from the modeled benefits such as the direct jobs, the spillover ones in linked industries, and the induced ones, places far from the Triangle may not benefit, A project of this scale has the potential to widen regional disparities within the state, leading the rich regions to grow richer, the poor regions, poorer.” – Duke professor Dr. John Quinterno.
RALEIGH – There will be clear winners and losers, as well as a hard-to-predict set of spillover effects of Apple’s announced new Triangle facility, economists say.
Higher rents but more jobs. Traffic congestion grows but more economic activity. Increased housing costs but better paying jobs. Population growth and strain on schools. That’s to cite just a few.