| Dozier: Grants recognize outstanding volunteerism
The Consumers Energy Foundation has awarded $3,100 in grants to eight community service organizations in Ingham County. The grants recognize outstanding volunteerism by six utility employees and seven utility retirees who performed volunteer service over the past year. Volunteer Investment Program grants recognize:
Gary Dawson, director of environmental services, land and water management at the Parnall complex in Jackson, 50 hours of service with the Greater Lansing Amateur Hockey Association. A $300 grant will be used for ice time. Rufus Gladney, executive manager energy services west at the Parnall complex, 120 hours of service with Uplift Our Youth Foundation. A $450 grant will be used to support organizations that serve youth. .
Sens beat Isles for Empire state sweep
If the power play is scoring goals that's one thing, but this is unacceptable." The Islanders have given up a league-leading eight short-handed goals. Notes: The Islanders haven't scored a power-play goal in their past five games, which includes 15 opportunities. .. With 85 goals, the Islanders are the lowest scoring team in the NHL this season. .. Ottawa is 34-6-9-1 against the Islanders since the start of the 1994-95 season. .. Cody Bass collected his first NHL point with his third-period assist. .
Josh Shilling is living a soulful dream
Josh Shilling, in his first show with bluegrass band Mountain Heart, sings on the Grand Ole Opry Stage. Audio Check out this podcast and others from Inside Out by using an IO Jukebox Download it More Listen to more podcasts About Josh Shilling Age: 24 Birthplace: Martinsville Home: Lives near Nashville, with Aleah Dillon, his girlfriend of more than three years. Family: Parents Billy and Kathy of Martinsville, brother Will Resume includes: The Kings, Cimarron , Billy “Crash" Craddock, the Embers, Fuzzy Logic, Balancing Act. Sideman, with the Funky Loophole, for Tower of Power Horns, Mic Gillette, Bill Champlin, Jane Powell. Did fill-in work for Key West On the Net: http://joshshilling.com, www.mountainheart.com .
Gunman kills eight as Christmas shopping is turned into bloodbath
Christmas shoppers at a department store in Omaha, Nebraska, fled in terror yesterday as a young man opened fire from a balcony, killing eight people and wounding five before turning the gun on himself. Two of the injured were in a critical condition last night. The assailant was identified as Robert Hawkins, aged 19. A police officer said that Hawkins’s mother had found his suicide note in their home. KETV, an Omaha television station, reported that in the note he wrote that he wanted to "go out in style". The Omaha World-Herald newspapers reported that Hawkins, who left school last year, had a military-style haircut and a black backpack, and wore a camouflage vest. As he wrought carnage, dozens of traumatised shoppers and shopworkers ran out of the Westroads Mall with their hands up.
Retiring old-school drivers leaving a legacy, and a void
Blair Philips works on the front lines of a generational shift. As the fan club coordinator for veteran driver Dale Jarrett, whose 20-year career on NASCAR's premier series comes to an end this season, Philips is the one who takes all the phone calls and receives all the e-mails from faithful who don't want to see their hero go. They stem partly from a genuine affinity for Jarrett, a champion driver who cultivated a legion of followers with his genteel manner and North Carolina accent. But some also come from a very different place, one that has less to do with the pilot of the No. 44 car, and more to do with the sport he will soon leave behind. "People say, 'I don't know who I'm going to pull for now.' They just feel like this is a generation where there is no one to fill those shoes," said Philips, who added that the official Jarrett fan club numbers several thousand members strong.
Records explain death of student's newborn
But Brian Butler, an attorney for McCoy, said the razor blades didn't have anything to do with the child's death and he expects the medical examiner's report to reveal no finding of inflicted trauma to the baby.
Butler said McCoy has been consistent in her statement to investigators and hospital employees that she believed the baby was stillborn. He said she shouldn't have been charged with murder.
"There is no proof that indicates she killed this child," Butler said. "Nothing to indicate she drowned the child. Nobody said they heard a child cry."
After the birth, McCoy is accused of putting the infant's body in a garbage bag and taking her to a trash room down the hall.
Kelsey O'Leary, McCoy's roommate, told police she called her mother after seeing McCoy carry the garbage bag.
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