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Winter storm cancels CPS after-school activities, knocks out power at more than 30 schools

Attendance varied Friday — some schools were half empty, and others had around 80% of their students.

Chicago Sun-Times

Top lawyer urges MPs to review private prosecutions after Post Office scandal

Bar Council chair Sam Townend KC says parliament should consider formal regulation of growing practice

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer denies he knew CPS was prosecuting post office operators

Labour leader was director of public prosecutions when three cases brought by CPS resulted in convictions

The Guardian - UK

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Postmasters prosecuted by CPS while Keir Starmer was in charge

Spotlight on Labour leader after days of outrage at Paula Vennells and Ed Davey

The Independent UK

Chicago effort to get at-risk kids back in school off to slow start

Back to Our Future targets school-age teenagers who have been out of class for at least a year and who are at high risk of being involved in gun violence.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gypsy: "I still have a lot of triggers"

Blanchard spoke to reporters about her bombshell docuseries, not holding grudges and why she may give up cosplaying

Salon

CPS assistant principal stole $273K from after-school program, prosecutors say

Details of the alleged embezzlement and criminal charges were laid out in an annual report CPS Inspector General Will Fletcher released this week.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Protesters shouted ‘get them out’ at Merseyside asylum seeker hotel, court told

Police vehicles torched and officers injured in far-right protest outside hotel housing asylum seekers

The Guardian - UK

Fraudster who pretended to be Queen’s footman sentenced for eBay walking stick scam

Dru Marshall attempted to sell a walking stick he falsely claimed was used by the late monarch

Evening Standard

Tuesday briefing: How a TV drama is helping bring justice in the Post Office scandal

In today’s newsletter: Since Mr Bates v The Post Office aired on ITV, dozens of people affected have come forward to seek recompense for their ruined lives

The Guardian - UK

North suburban family lied to get into selective CPS schools, inspector general finds

Once it was time for high school, the family moved into the city but said they lived in a poorer area to boost their kids chances of getting into selective enrollment school

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS reports thousands of computers missing — but rarely uses $3 million tracking system to find them

Some devices ultimately turned up but CPS’ inspector general blames the mess on a flawed system for recouping devices and tracking them.

Chicago Sun-Times

Christopher Kapessa death: mother tells inquest family faced racism after move to Wales

Inquest opens into death of 13-year-old black boy allegedly pushed into river in Ferndale in summer 2019

The Guardian - UK

Sutton care home workers jailed after inflicing 'horrific' abuse on vulnerable adults

Carers violently struck adults in care home for learning disabilities and mental illness

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

Man jailed for shouting antisemitic slurs about Israel-Hamas conflict in east London

Diljan Akhtar, 51, was also sentenced for publicly shouting other racist slurs and making violent threats towards a police officer

The Independent UK

Police hand over file on parliament researcher accused of ‘spying for China’

Scotland Yard probe into man who worked with MPs – and insists on innocence – handed to prosecutors

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Board of Ed wants cops out of public schools this fall, principals told

Removal of the “school resource officers” would align with Mayor Brandon’s Johnson’s vision, but detractors say local school councils should have final say on whether cops stay.

The Guardian - UK

Labour should make UK leader in wellbeing-informed policy, says peer

Call by economics of happiness expert Richard Layard comes as research agency set up under David Cameron is to be axed in Whitehall cuts

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Court Upholds $2.1M Libel Verdict Against Ex-Wife Who Accused Husband (a Minister) of Being a Pedophile

From today's decision by the Texas Court of Appeals (First District) in Zoanni v. Hogan, written by Justice Veronica Rivas-Molloy and joined by Chief Justice Terry Adams and Justice Julie Countiss; the opinion is 81 pages long, so I excerpt just the quick summary of the facts and the verdict:…

Chicago Sun-Times

To report on the impact of Chicago’s mass school closings, we turned to neighborhood residents

While City Hall and Chicago Public Schools put roadblocks in the way of reporting for the Sun-Times and WBEZ series, people who lived near the closed schools opened up with their stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago could move away from school choice. Here’s what that means for parents and students.

Many selective enrollment and magnet schools were created to integrate schools, but Mayor Brandon Johnson says the system creates a ‘Hunger Games’ scenario.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor Johnson promised to stand up for Chicago Public Schools families. Instead, he’s shutting them out

The administration’s refusal to engage families in any public process has created distrust and is a far cry from the inclusive governance he talked about during his campaign, two nonprofit leaders write.

The Guardian - UK

How leading the CPS changed Keir Starmer – while he changed it

The lawyer who joined as a socialist firebrand is proud of his record as head of the Crown Prosecution Service – though decisions under his tenure are fodder for opponents

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer was not told about dropping of Jimmy Savile case, say sources

Labour leader was unaware a prosecutor had closed case in 2009 despite being head of CPS, it has emerged

The Guardian - UK

Criminalising women is no way for the BBC to make up for funding freezes

Female viewers are being disproportionately targeted for not paying the licence fee. It’s got to stop

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