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| Man Ran Over Woman, Beat With Shovel; ITT Tech Closes All Schools; West Deptford Candidate Resigns |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 09/06/16 7:15 pm | updated: 09/06/16 7:22 pm |
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Philadelphia Police have arrested and charged a man with murder who allegedly ran over a woman multiple times and then beat her with a shovel. 50-year-old Joel Horton is charged in the death of 52-year-old Adrienne Lindsay. It happened around 8:30 p.m. Sunday September 4th in the 700 block of West Louden Street in the Logan section. Horton repeated ran over Lindsay in his Nissan Maxima. He then retrieved a shovel from his trunk and began to strike her. Police arrived to find Linsday underneath the car with Horton standing over her. She was rushed to Einstein Medical Center where she was pronounced dead. He was taken into custody. No word on motive, but they may have known each other.
ITT Educational Services, the for-profit college chain known as ITT Tech, is closing down all of its campuses after the U.S. Department of Education has banned it from enrolling new students who use federal financial aid. In a statement released today, the company announced that it is closing all of its vocational schools which includes over 130 campuses in 38 states. That includes four locations in our area in Philadelphia, Montgomery County, Bucks County and Burlington County. Following the sanctions imposed on August 25, the company determined it had no other choice but to cease operations. The impact will reach hundreds of thousands of students and alumni as well as more than 8,000 employees. Read ITT Tech's full statement below.
A candidate for West Deptford committee in Gloucester County, New Jersey, has withdrawn his name from the race following several malicious tweets he sent to a reporter. Republican Michael Krawitz submitted a handwritten note to the West Deptford GOP withdrawing his candidacy. (see below) Krawitz sent several profane tweets to Olivia Nuzzi, a reporter for The Daily Beast. They read, "[Expletive] You. Olivia, I. Hope. Somebody. Rapes. You. Today. :)." and "Hope. You. Get. Raped. By. A. Syrian. Refugee. :)" and another said, "How's. The. Gun. Crime. In. Democrat. Chicago. Oliva. You. Ugly. Stupid. [Expletive.] :).†Krawitz claimed he had been hacked, but his social media account shows a history of trolling behavior.
The 19-year-old Oregon man, Nelson Armstrong, who was reported missing following Made in America festival this past weekend in Philadelphia has been found safe. Police say the teen was reunited with his family. No other details have been provided.
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The Philadelphia Eagles have traded cornerback Eric Rowe to the New England Patriots for a conditional fourth-round draft in 2018. Patriots' offensive lineman Josh Kline, originally announced, is not included in the deal.
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| by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA | responded: 09/06 7:18 pm |
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ITT Tech statement:
"It is with profound regret that we must report that ITT Educational Services, Inc. will discontinue academic operations at all of its ITT Technical Institutes permanently after approximately 50 years of continuous service. With what we believe is a complete disregard by the U.S. Department of Education for due process to the company, hundreds of thousands of current students and alumni and more than 8,000 employees will be negatively affected.
The actions of and sanctions from the U.S. Department of Education have forced us to cease operations of the ITT Technical Institutes, and we will not be offering our September quarter. We reached this decision only after having exhausted the exploration of alternatives, including transfer of the schools to a non-profit or public institution.
Effective today, the company has eliminated the positions of the overwhelming majority of our more than 8,000 employees. Our focus and priority with our remaining staff is on helping the tens of thousands of unexpectedly displaced students with their records and future educational options.
This action of our federal regulator to increase our surety requirement to 40 percent of our Title IV federal funding and place our schools under "Heightened Cash Monitoring Level 2," forced us to conclude that we can no longer continue to operate our ITT Tech campuses and provide our students with the quality education they expect and deserve.
For more than half a century, ITT Tech has helped hundreds of thousands of non-traditional and underserved students improve their lives through career-focused technical education. Thousands of employers have relied on our institutions for skilled workers in high-demand fields. We have been a mainstay in more than 130 communities that we served nationwide, as well as an engine of economic activity and a positive innovator in the higher-education sector.
This federal action will also disrupt the lives of thousands of hardworking ITT Tech employees and their families. More than 8,000 ITT Tech employees are now without a job - employees who exhibited the utmost dedication in serving our students.
We have always carefully managed expenses to align with our enrollments. We had no intention prior to the receipt of the most recent sanctions of closing down despite the challenging regulatory environment that now threatens all proprietary higher education. We have also always worked tirelessly to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, and to uphold our ethic of continuous improvement. When we have received inquiries from regulators, we have always been responsive and cooperative. Despite our ongoing service to this nation's employers, local communities and underserved students, these federal actions will result in the closure of the ITT Technical Institutes without any opportunity to pursue our right to due process.
These unwarranted actions, taken without proving a single allegation, are a "lawless execution," as noted by a recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal. We were not provided with a hearing or an appeal. Alternatives that we strongly believe would have better served students, employees, and taxpayers were rejected. The damage done to our students and employees, as well as to our shareholders and the American taxpayers, is irrevocable.
We believe the government's action was inappropriate and unconstitutional, however, with the ITT Technical Institutes ceasing operations, it will now likely rest on other parties to understand these reprehensible actions and to take action to attempt to prevent this from happening again." |
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| by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA | responded: 09/06 7:22 pm |
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