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College In CT Shows Support For Palestinian Student Shot In VT In Apparent Hate Crime College In CT Shows Support For Palestinian Student Shot In VT In Apparent Hate Crime
College In CT Shows Support For Palestinian Student Shot In VT In Apparent Hate Crime A college community in Connecticut, alongside many nationwide, has been left reeling after a student of Palestinian descent was one of three shot in what appears to be a hate crime. Tahseen Ali Ahmad, age 20, who attends Trinity College in Hartford, was one of three men of the same age shot outside of a house in Burlington, Vermont on Sunday, Nov. 26, the school announced. Ali Ahmad and the two other men — Kinnan Abdalhamid and Hisham Awartani, also of Palestinian descent — were lifelong friends visiting a relative’s house near the University of Vermont's campus for the Thanksgiving holid…
Missing Dutchess County Man Dies After Being Caught In Current Of Brook In Vermont, Police Say Missing Dutchess County Man Dies After Being Caught In Current Of Brook In Vermont, Police Say
Missing Dutchess County Man Dies After Being Caught In Current Of Brook In Vermont, Police Say A missing Hudson Valley man hiking the Appalachian Trail died after being caught in the current of a brook in Vermont, according to authorities. Dutchess County resident Robert Kerker, age 67, of Rhinebeck, who had been missing since Sunday, July 9, was located about 2:30 p.m. Friday, July 28, by search crews along the Stony Brook in Stockbridge, Vermont, about 1.5 miles downstream from where the trail crossed the brook. According to Vermont State Police, search crews had focused their efforts Friday on the brook after a witness reported seeing Kerker, an experienced hiker, at the Stony Bro…
Gunman Guilty Of 'Execution-Style' Murder Of 18-Year-Old Woman In Region, Jury Finds Gunman Guilty Of 'Execution-Style' Murder Of 18-Year-Old Woman In Region, Jury Finds
Gunman Guilty Of 'Execution-Style' Murder Of 18-Year-Old Woman In Region, Jury Finds Nearly four years after an 18-year-old woman was found shot to death in the middle of a street in the region, a jury has convicted her killer. Isaiah Williams, age 25, of Brooklyn, was found guilty of second-degree murder in Rensselaer County Court on Friday, July 21, in the death of Beyonce Wint. The New York City teen was found shot to death in the early hours of Sunday, Sept. 17, 2019 in Troy’s Lansingburgh neighborhood, in the middle of 111th Street near Fourth Avenue. She had been shot once in the head in an “execution-style” killing, according to Troy Police. Two accomplices to the …
Connecticut Man, 31, Killed In Vermont Plane Crash Connecticut Man, 31, Killed In Vermont Plane Crash
Connecticut Man, 31, Killed In Vermont Plane Crash A Connecticut man has been identified as the pilot and single occupant of a small plane that crashed in Vermont, according to state police. A state police investigation in Vermont determined that a 1975 Piper PA-34-200T plane traveling from Burlington, Vermont, to Oxford in Connecticut that crashed near Bald Mountain in Vermont earlier this week was being operated by 31-year-old Ramsey Samson Ah-Nee, 31, of Manchester. Vermont State Police investigators were contacted by the Federal Aviation Association shortly before 6 p.m. on May 20 regarding a lost aircraft in the area of Woodford, Vermo…
Noel McClinton Of Poughkeepsie Dies At 35 Noel McClinton Of Poughkeepsie Dies At 35
Noel McClinton Of Poughkeepsie Dies At 35 Noel Lemar McClinton of Poughkeepsie died on Jan. 27 at MidHudson Regional Hospital. He was 35. He was born July 4, 1982 in Poughkeepsie to Noel James and Sinetra McClinton. Noel earned an Associates Degree in Business and worked at McClinton Enterprise Unlimited in Burlington, VT for two years. Besides his parents, he is survived by a stepmother, Marleen James; children, Gisea Choice McClinton and A-Mya Renee McClinton; siblings, KenTae Earl McClinton, Natasha Sinetra McClinton and Gary, Glen, Shannon, Samantha and Marvin Brown; grandparents, Annie Lois Birks McClinton and Lewis Watson. H…
Macy's To Close Seven Stores, Cut 5,000 Jobs Macy's To Close Seven Stores, Cut 5,000 Jobs
Macy's To Close Seven Stores, Cut 5,000 Jobs Department store chain Macy's announced the locations of seven store closures as well as plans to eliminate 5,000 jobs.The latest move comes after a slight uptick in holiday sales in which Macy's reported a 1 percent boost in sales in November and December compared to the same period last year. Macy's had previously announced it would be closing 11 stores, identifying four. The seven that were not initially identified are: Miami (Downtown), Miami, FL The Oaks, Gainesville, FL Novato (Furniture), Novato, CA Honey Creek Mall, Terre Haute, IN Birchwood Mall, Fort Gratiot Township, MI Fountain…