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Dental assistant expands role to be tooth fairy

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UPDATE (MONDAY, 3:00 p.m.)-  According to Klass Kids, a prayer service is being held Monday night for missing Naomi Jones at 6 o’clock. The prayer service will be held at Olive Baptist Church (the main site) located at 1836 E Olive Rd, Pensacola, FL 32514. UPDATE (MONDAY, 12:45 p.m.) – Law enforcement established a checkpoint Monday afternoon outside the apartment complex of Naomi Jone’s mother. The checkpoint is on East Johnson Blvd outside the Aspen Village Apartments . 12-year-old Naomi Jones has been missing from her Pensacola home since last week. Officers tell News 5 that the checkpoint is being used to check vehicles and hand out flyers of the missing girl. If you have any information about Jones, please call 9-1-1. BREAKING:  (MONDAY, June 5th 2017, 6:54 a.m.) Law Enforcement is assessing whether the search for 12-year-old Naomi Jones is still a rescue operation or whether it has become a recovery effort, Sheriff David Morgan said during a press conference early Monda...

Contractors at Little Ceasars Arena construction site fined $2.9 million for not hiring enough Detroiters

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Buy Photo Crews are working three shifts weekdays and Saturdays to finish Little Caesars Arena, the firm overseeing construction says. (Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr . / The Detroit News) Buy Photo Dozens of the contractors building Little Caesars Arena have been fined a total of $2.9 million as of March for frequently not hiring at least 51 percent of Detroiters at the ongoing construction site , according to the latest data collected by the city. And that total is expected to be even higher during the push to complete construction of the $862. 9 million sports and entertainment complex by early September, based on the monthly data compiled by the city agency monitoring the workforce agreements on construction sites, said Portia Roberson, director of the city’s Office of Human Rights. An average of 27 percent of total hours worked at the arena site were performed by Detroit residents from April 2015 to March 2017, the latest monthly data available. It’s been two years, August 2015, ...

Illegal Apartments Can Go Unnoticed, DC Officials Say After 2 Deaths

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What to Know Nina Brekelmans, 25, and Michael McLoughlin, 24, died one year ago after a fire broke out near Dupont Circle, on Riggs Place NW. D.C. officials found that the house where they rented rooms had not been inspected and was not licensed for rental. Cities across the country grapple with how to detect illegal apartments, experts say. The fire that sent flames shooting through the roof of a three-story rowhouse near Dupont Circle started on the first floor, investigators found . An electrical short sparked in the landlord’s living room, and the blaze raced upward in the historic house. Four people were inside. Nina Brekelmans awoke in the burning building and called 911, according to a lawsuit filed by her family. Firefighters arrived minutes later, but by the time they were able to reach her and her housemate Michael McLoughlin , it was too late. Brekelmans, 25, and McLoughlin, 24, were killed by the blaze June 3, 2015 at 1610 Riggs Place NW , where they each rented rooms....

Saxony Apartment Building

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Quizzes Lists Topics Save The Saxony Apartment Building is a historic apartment building in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Ninth Street in the city's downtown, [1] this five- story brick building includes a distinctive range of architectural details. Among these elements are brick pilasters and projections, a three- story bay window on each side of the symmetrical main facade , semicircular balconies , and many stone pieces, such as pediments, keystones, and stringcourses. Due to its location at the intersection of Ninth and Race Streets, the Saxony appears to have two fronts: one onto each street. Although the Ninth Street facade is larger and more complex, the Race Street facade is nevertheless ornate as well: it features small yet elaborate semicircular balconies with wrought iron railings similar to those of the Ninth Street facade . [2] Constructed in 1891 according to a design by leading Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford , [1] the Saxony Apart...