Jury selection in the Daphne Wright trial should wrap up this week, a week later than first hoped, said the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader. Thirty-nine potential jurors have been accepted, about two-thirds of the number needed. Questioning has been slowed by Wright’s minority attributes – she’s black, deaf and a lesbian – and by [...]
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JURY SELECTION CONTINUES FOR WRIGHT TRIAL
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | 7 Comments »
STUDENTS TO PRESS LAWMAKERS ON INTERPRETING NEEDS
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Eighteen students from Land O’Lakes (Fla.) High School plan to attend a rally today on the Capitol steps in Tallahassee and visit area lawmakers to discuss issues of importance to the deaf. Specifically, they want lawmakers to pass House Bill 991 and Senate Bill 926, which require sign language interpreters to be licensed. “We thought [...]
DEAF COUPLE’S DAUGHTER DIES IN HIGHWAY CRASH
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A group of nearly 300 grieving teenagers who gathered on the Lakewood, Colo. roadway where Samantha Stricklen was killed in a car accident 24 hours earlier heard from the victim’s mother, who told them in sign language, “Please don’t drink and drive!” Samantha, 17, was a passenger in a car hit head-on by a 16-year-old [...]
PLAN TO COMBINE DEAF, BLIND SCHOOL CAMPUSES OPPOSED
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A plan by Ohio state officials to combine the campuses of the schools for the blind and the deaf has come under fire by alumni, reported The Columbus Dispatch. The Ohio State School for the Blind and the Ohio School for the Deaf are located next to one another in Columbus, separated by a ravine, [...]
NAD: TIME FOR ACTION ON CAPTIONING IS NOW
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s time to take action on closed captioning, said the National Association of the Deaf last week. After the Federal Communications Commission ruled in September that nearly 300 TV programs could be shown without captions, the NAD joined other advocacy groups and hundreds of consumers to successfully have the FCC overturn the decision. The FCC [...]
MAN ARRESTED FOR INTERNET LURING OF CHILD
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A deaf Colorado man was arrested Friday in an Internet sex sting, reported the Rocky Mountain News. Carmen Mascitelli III, 25, of Colorado Springs, drove 60 miles to Parker believing he was going to meet an underage girl he met through online chat a week earlier but was arrested by Douglas County deputies when he [...]
VIRGINIA MAN GETS 12 MONTHS FOR CHURCH FIRE
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A homeless deaf man was found guilty Friday of starting a fire that destroyed a Charlottesville, Va. church last May. Jason Santos was sentenced to 12 months in prison for burglary, arson and petty larceny and ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to the church, the amount not covered by the church’s insurance, said WCAV. [...]
COLLEGE STUDENTS PROTEST SCARCITY OF CLASSES
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
About 15 students gathered Monday at Sierra College in Sacramento, Calif. to protest the scarcity of classes for people majoring in deaf studies. According to the Sacramento Bee, the students complained that the classes they need to graduate are not always available. “If they offer a degree,” said Sierra graduate Sarah Hoffman, “we have a [...]
RED CROSS BRANCH SEEKS OUT DEAF VOLUNTEERS
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The American Red Cross branch in Rochester, N.Y. is reaching out to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community to recruit more volunteers, reported 13WHAM. Right now the Red Cross has about 30 such volunteers, but officials want to recruit 20 more. Deaf volunteer Pam Hatch goes out to fires and floods and has helped in Louisiana, [...]
SHERIFF IN MISSOURI COUNTY OFFERS EMAIL ACCESS
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Deaf people in Cole County, Mo. can now contact the Sheriff’s Department by sending an email via their cell phones, reported the Jefferson City News Tribune. The email address – leetext@colecounty.org, standing for Law Enforcement Emergency Text – will be monitored constantly by several computers in the sheriff’s office and cost the taxpayers almost nothing. [...]
