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Nassau County Sheriff helps launch playing cards to solve cold cases

Nassau County Sheriff and Florida Sheriffs Association President Bill Leeper, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, the Florida Association of Crime Stoppers, and others teamed up to release Cold Case Homicide Playing Cards. Because of their collaboration, decks of playing cards featuring unsolved homicide cases will be distributed across county jails and correctional facilities in Florida. […]

Fear of clowns helps retired judge win the New Yorker’s caption contest

The weekly cartoon caption contest in the New Yorker magazine is what retired Judge Glen Reiser calls “a thing.” It attracts more than 5,000 entries every week. Roger Ebert, the late film critic, submitted captions 200 times and won once. Chicago lawyer Lawrence Wood entered more than 900 times. He won on eight occasions and […]

New tech helps Indy plan where to plant trees to reduce effects of rising temps, flooding

A new mapping system will assist Marion County in prioritizing where to plant more trees to help build climate resilience and alleviate flooding, heat illness and air pollution ― especially in overlooked neighborhoods. American Forests, a non-profit conservation organization, partnered with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful to build the free-to-use mapping program Tree Equity Score Analyzer to […]