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Photo of Jerry Jean-Baptiste by Felicia Krieg Jerry Jean-Baptiste remembers well the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake that hit his home country of Haiti a dozen years ago. One minute the nine-year-old was with his siblings and parents heading home; the next he was buried under rocks as the building they were in collapsed around them.
A quadruple fatal accident in November 2011, when two pedestrians and two teens in a car lost their lives, prompted the Press-Republican to ask State Police to conduct a pedestrian-safety experiment to use in a news story and in a video, both aimed to raise public awareness.
The maximum-security prison immediately went into lockdown, police said.
Joe Forker, 14, said his mother wasn't around often when he lived with her.
In the three years since he started using, instead of diminishing with time, that pain has multiplied and has been thrust upon his five children.
"It can go from zero to 100 in a split second," said Officer Bob Cordick.
Joyce Mitchell suspended from her job without pay for allegedly supplying hardware to convicted killers.
Now, she has seven. Four are her biological children: Britney, 19; Dylon, 17; Cole, 9; and Wyatt, 7. Bridges had Britney when she was 20 years old and later thought her daughter needed a younger sibling to play with. She gave birth to Dylon two years later.
Wright, a real-estate agent, and her business partner, Elise Rock, a nurse, are the seventh owners of the property, which was built 200 years ago.
Manslaughter trial testimony Thursday focused on police response to crash that killed Ashley A. Poissant in Champlain.
Wilbur, 65, died in Apartment 3 at 19 Morris Way, where it appears Ball had been living for the past two months or so.
The sisters were separated during childhood when their parents divorced in Peterborough, England.
