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Who pays for police resources? [Video]
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Who pays for police resources? [Video]

The Milwaukee Public Schools and the city of Milwaukee still are not seeing eye to eye on placing police officers in public schools. A state law passed last year allowing the city of Milwaukee to create a sales tax required 25 Milwaukee Police officers in MPS schools. But nine months later, that still hasn’t happened. A beating involving teens near Bradley Tech High School last week renewed calls for urgent action.On Friday Milwaukee Public Schools revealed its “ready to implement a school resource officer program,” only to have the city attorney hours later refute that.A statement from Evan Goyke read in part, “While we have made meaningful progress, there remain outstanding and unresolved issues…” MPS fired back late Friday, “MPS stands by its previous statement.”12 News is learning the issue could come down to who’s funding the officers. State Rep. Ryan Clancy (D-Milwaukee) says the law is so vague it’s unenforceable.It doesn’t invest in the things that would actually make our students safer, things like smaller class sizes, like mental health professionals in schools in a way that they’re not now, Clancy said Monday.The law states that MPS and the city of Milwaukee “shall agree to an apportionment of the costs of meeting the requirement.”In other words, it says they’re supposed to divide the cost, but doesn’t spell out how to split it up. Ultimately, this comes down to the state legislature, the Republicans at the state, really putting together half-baked legislation, Clancy said. It said that magically cops should appear back in MPS schools but didn’t provide a mechanism for it.Actually, I thought it was pretty clear that this is the school district’s responsibility to have SROs in their buildings, said state Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Racine) Monday. Wanggaard, a former Racine police officer, worked in schools there. He says MPS knows they’re responsible for getting the SROs back in the classroom and paying for them. They knew this way before they started budgeting this last budget. And where are the SRO officers in their budget process? So, they’re telling the people that have their kids going to their schools that their safety is not important, Wanggaard said. MPS didnt wish to comment on Monday but said it stands by earlier statements that there is a framework in place.Neither side, though, had any information or agreement on where those officers were going, when theyd start, or who was paying for them.

SC community is helping Lionel Cervantes family after tragic loss [Video]
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SC community is helping Lionel Cervantes family after tragic loss [Video]

MILITARY TANK. RIGHT NOW I WANT HIS BODY TO REST. THATS WHAT I WANT TO FINALLY SEE MY BOY. I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO SEE HIM SINCE YESTERDAY MORNING, AND I JUST WANT TO LAY HIM TO REST. I WANT TO SEE MY BOY. AND ITS HARD WAITING, WAITING, WAITING TO SEE MY SON. THE MOTHER OF AN EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY. REMEMBERING HER SON. TONIGHT, DEPUTIES SAY LIONEL CERVANTES RAN FROM A CLASSROOM YESTERDAY AT BELLS CROSSING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. HIS BODY LATER FOUND IN A NEARBY POND. TODAY, THE CORONER RULING HIS DEATH AN ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. AND TONIGHT, A VIGIL FOR LIONEL. JUST ONE DAY AFTER THAT FRANTIC SEARCH ENDED IN TRAGEDY. LIONELS MOTHER SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY WITH WYFF NEWS FOUR. AHEAD OF THAT VIGIL. NATE STANLEY JOINS US LIVE IN SIMPSONVILLE TONIGHT WITH MORE NATE. THAT VIGIL ENDED HERE AROUND 8 P.M. TONIGHT. BUT FOR HOURS AFTER THE MAJORITY OF THE CROWD HAD LEFT, LIONELS MOTHER AND A FEW CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS SAT BEHIND ME ALONE. THEY CRIED. THEY PRAYED TOGETHER. WE SPOKE WITH HIS MOTHER TODAY AS SHES REMEMBERING HIS LIFE. PEOPLE. LEO WAS A BEAUTIFUL CHILD. HE WAS. HE WAS FEARLESS. HE WOULD SAY HI TO EVERYONE. THERES TIMES WHEN HE WOULD SAY HI TO AN ADULT. THATS HOW DALIA CERVANTEZ IS REMEMBERING HER EIGHT YEAR OLD SON, LIONEL. HE DROWNED IN A POND AFTER GOING MISSING FROM SCHOOL ON THURSDAY. HE WOULD GIVE RANDOM HUGS OUT OF NOWHERE TO PEOPLE. HE WOULD BE LIKE, HEY, I LOVE YOU AND PEOPLE WOULD BE LIKE, OH MY GOD. ON FRIDAY, DALIA WAS JOINED BY DOZENS OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS OUTSIDE OF BELLS CROSSING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. FAMILY MEMBERS HELD EACH OTHER, PRAYING TOGETHER OR BY THEMSELVES. CHILDREN PLACING SPIDER-MAN TOYS ALONG THE MEMORIAL. OTHERS LEAVING CANDLES AND FLOWERS. YOU CANT BELIEVE IT BECAUSE THEYRE IN SCHOOL, RIGHT? HER SON WAS IN SCHOOL. SHE DROPPED OFF HER SON THINKING, YOU KNOW, SHE WAS GOING TO PICK HIM UP AT FIVE. YOU KNOW, THE TIME THAT HES OUT. A ROCK OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL WAS ALSO PAINTED IN MEMORY OF LEO WITH A SPIDERMAN MASK IN THE WORDS FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS. A DAY LATER AND STILL PROCESSING THURSDAYS TRAGEDY. DALIA IS STILL ASKING QUESTIONS FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND CALLING FOR JUSTICE. I SAW THE VIDEO AND ITS COMPLETE NEGLIGENCE. ITS NOT FAIR THAT LITTLE HAD TO LOSE HIS LIFE. THIS WAY. THE WAY THEY FOUND HIM. YOU KNOW. YOU KNOW, I WANT JUSTICE FOR LEO, AND IM GOING TO GET AND IM GOING TO FIGHT FOR MY SON BECAUSE ITS NOT FAIR THAT NOW, THE GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT SENT US A STATEMENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON THAT READS IN PART, OUR INITIAL REVIEW INDICATES THAT DECISIONS BY SCHOOL PERSONNEL WERE MADE RAPIDLY AND REFLECTED THE URGENCY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND WERE IN LINE WITH THEIR TRAINING AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE STUDENT. REPORTING IN SIMPSONVILLE, NATE STANLEY, WYFF NEWS FOUR. THANK YOU NATE. TURNING TO THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE LITTLE BOYS DEATH. GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS SAYS ITS BEGINNING AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION TONIGHT. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE SAYS IT DOES NOT EXPECT ANY CHARGES TO BE FILED. THIS AFTERNOON. THE CORONER RULED LIONELS DEATH AS AN ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. THEY SAY THEY BELIEVE HE WAS IN THE WATER FOR AN HOUR AND DID NOT FIND ANY SIGNS OF TRAUMA OR FOUL PLAY. WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN RIGHT NOW IS TO HAVE SOME DEBRIEFS WITH EVERYONE WHO MAY HAVE SEEN SOMETHING, AND TALK TO THEM. STUDENTS AND STAFF WERE BACK IN SCHOOL TODAY WITH COUNSELORS ON HAND. A GOFUNDME HAS BEEN CREATED TO HELP PAY FOR LIONELS FUNERAL. PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN SO MUCH SUPPORT THE DONATIONS HAVE EXCEEDED THEIR FUNDING GOAL. MANY LOCAL BUSINESSES LIKE PAPAS AND BEER ON HAYWOOD ROAD, ARE HELPING OUT. LIONELS MOTHER, DALIA, USED TO WORK THERE. THE EMPLOYEES SAYING THEY ARE STILL CLOSE FRIENDS. THEY TELL US THEY WILL DO WHATEVER THEY CAN TO HELP HER. DALIA, BEING A GOOD FRIEND OF OURS, YOU KNOW, ITS JUST THE EASIEST WAY FOR US TO CONTRIBUTE. EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, VERY HARD ON HER PART. BUT, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT MAYBE BUSINESSES CAN HELP OUT FAMILIES IN TIMES. TOUGH TIMES NOWADAYS. THE GOFUNDME GOAL WAS $25,000. SO FAR.

North Carolina former charter school employees plead guilty [Video]
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North Carolina former charter school employees plead guilty [Video]

12.COM. TWO FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE NOW CLOSED BRIDGES ACADEMY IN WILKES COUNTY HAVE PLEADED GUILTY TO EMBEZZLING GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. WXII 12 SARAH SOWERS JOINS US IN STUDIO WITH THIS 12 INVESTIGATES. AND SARAH, YOUVE BEEN SCOURING COURT DOCUMENTS. WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND? THE FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND FORMER FINANCE OFFICER PLED GUILTY TO STEALING MORE THAN $1,000. WE REPORTED ON THIS BACK IN 2021 WHEN THE SCHOOL CLOSED, LEAVING PARENTS SCRAMBLING FOR ALTERNATIVES. A STATE AUDIT MONTHS LATER FOUND THE CHARTER SCHOOL FALSIFIED ENROLLMENT NUMBERS TO OBTAIN MORE THAN $400,000 IN FUNDING. THEY WERENT MEANT TO RECEIVE. AUDITORS ALSO FOUND THAT THE SCHOOL MISUSED ALMOST $79,000 OF TAXPAYER FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE SCHOOL THAT ALSO REQUIRED TUITION, WHICH WAS UNUSUAL FOR A PUBLIC SCHOOL. IN THE PLEAS, SHANNON PRUITT CAUDILL AND KIMBERLY NICOLE WHITE, BOTH AGREED TO PAY BACK THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND THE SURRY BANK AND TRUST. $37,500 EACH. COURT DOCUMENTS ALSO SHOW THE STATE RECOMMENDS SENTENCING CAUDILL AND WHITE TO TWO YEARS OF PROBATION. THE PLEAS WERE FILED IN JULY AND AUGUST, ROUGHLY THREE YEARS AFTER THE SCHOOL CLOSED. THEIR SENTENCING IS SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY, WHERE THE TWO COULD FACE UP TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON AND $250,000 IN FINES.

Better by the Mile: Mom takes on 5K to raise awareness about growing cancer risks [Video]
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Better by the Mile: Mom takes on 5K to raise awareness about growing cancer risks [Video]

After being stopped in her tracks by a colorectal cancer diagnosis at just 35, a Concord mom wants to spread the word that this could happen to anyone. “I have no family history, no genetic markers,” Allison Annese said. “It definitely was shocking. It was shocking to me.”After experiencing some unusual gastrointestinal issues that wouldn’t go away, Annese started asking questions. “I was having some symptoms that weren’t normal for me and went in for a coloscopy and found out when I woke up I had cancer,” she said. At age 35, colorectal screening wouldn’t be on Annese’s radar. But her radiation oncologist at Mass General Hospital said research is changing how we think about this disease. “For a long time, colorectal cancer was really thought of as a disease of elderly patients,” Dr. Ted Hong said. “Over the past several years, we have seen a dramatic rise in colon cancer diagnosed in patients who are younger, in their 30s, 40s, even in their 20s.”Hong said those cases are coming even without the usual risk factors, like family history and lifestyle. He advised that the key is to do exactly what Annese did speak up when symptoms aren’t getting better and advocate for yourself. “Her self-advocacy was the reason why the cancer was found,” he said. Hong said symptoms can include bowel changes, blood in stool, abdominal pain and unexplained weight loss. Annese is taking her advocacy to the next level running this weekend’s Mass General Cancer Center Eversource 5K to raise awareness and funding for cancer research.”This is my first race ever,” Annese said. “Running was never my thing, but I’m up for the challenge.”It’s a challenge she will take on with her kids front and center.”My children have seen me go through some pretty tough days, and they’ve been scared along this journey,” she said. “I wanted to add some sort of positive twist on my diagnosis. Annese said her children will be running the Kids 100 Yard Dash this weekend and waiting for her at the finish line. Support her run: Team Allison.