Gang violence helped push Minneapolis’ homicide rate to its highest peak ever in 1995. Violent crimes have decreased since then, though and police say the creation of the Minnesota Gang Strike Force and increased sentences for crimes associated with gang activity are a big reason. But department officials and officers alike say gangs are still active, but are a much lesser threat than they were ten years ago, partly because so many gang bangers are in jail..

At Auckland University, I was extremely fortunate to be mentored by two more wonderful people, professors Michael Miller and the late John Morton, and exposed to a generation of brilliant natural historians, taxonomists and conservationists that are with us today only in memory: the late Bill Ballantine, and Professor’s Brian Foster and Dame Patricia Bergquist. Good teachers and mentors can make you and bad ones can break you. I had the best; they believed in me.

And if Dwayne Schofield had it his way, every woman in the region between the ages of 18 and 40 would have the casual dresses his company designs and sells hanging in their closets. Typically ranging between $89 and $99 each, Schofield wants to keep his spring and summer dresses in that price category. When he started Lakefield Co.

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“You must have seen the father who was holding his deceased twins after the chemical attack [in Syria]. How long will those villains continue their cruelties without paying the price? What are we called just because we speak against them? They call us dictator. Let them say that.

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Bonaventure has already proved itself in the Northern Division, while Oaks Christian, a growing program in its 10 th year, is making its first jump. Oaks Christian has impressive skill position players, particularly at receiver, as junior Jordan Payton (USC) and Blair Holliday (Duke) have already committed to major colleges. St.