The Columbus Dispatch

Boy among 5 hit by car at bus stop dies

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MIAMI — A Florida sheriff’s deputy was sleeping Thursday afternoon when his 11-year-old daughter called and asked him to pick her up at her school bus stop. Seconds later, his daughter screamed into the phone.

Polk County Deputy Jonathan “JJ” Quintana told reporters at a news conference Friday that he assumed the worst as he jumped out of bed and ran barefoot to the bus stop. He found his daughter safe, but immediatel­y saw the carnage left when a suspected drunken driver hit five of her fellow Dundee Ridge Middle Academy students as they walked home from the stop. One student later died of his injuries.

Quintana arrested John Camfield, 48, of nearby Davenport, a former law enforcemen­t officer who worked for more than 10 different agencies in Mississipp­i before moving to Florida in 2012.

Officials said Jahiem Robertson, 13, died of his injuries Friday morning in an Orlando hospital. Another child, John Mena, also 13, remains in intensive care with orbital fractures. Africa, and about 20 countries require proof of vaccinatio­n for entry. For most people, only one dose of vaccine is needed in their lifetime to protect against the potentiall­y deadly disease. chemicals. Though the regulation­s are finalized and already in effect, the new administra­tion told the court it intends to rewrite them.

It is the latest in a string of moves by President Donald Trump’s appointees to help companies that profit from burning fossil fuels. Trump has pledged to reverse decades of decline in a U.S. coal industry under threat from such cleaner sources of energy as natural gas, wind turbines and solar farms. contracts to education firms for a cut of more than $2 million in kickbacks.

A tearful Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who held top education jobs in Detroit and Cleveland before being tapped to lead the nation’s third-largest school district, apologized in a 15-minute statement before she was sentenced, saying: “What I did was terribly wrong. ... I’m ashamed and I’m sorry.”

But U.S. District Court Judge Edmond Chang said her brazenness in bilking an already cash-strapped school district suggested she never believed she’d get caught in a city with a long, ignominiou­s history of corruption. The judge said the scheme diverted money from low-income students relying on education to better their lives.

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