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Montgomery County Clerk’s Office partners with NRVCS for post-trial mental help for jurors
Read full article: Montgomery County Clerk’s Office partners with NRVCS for post-trial mental help for jurorsThe Montgomery County Clerk’s Office recently partnered with New River Valley Community Services to offer post-trial help for jurors.
Jury finds Michigan school shooter’s mother Jennifer Crumbley guilty of manslaughter
Read full article: Jury finds Michigan school shooter’s mother Jennifer Crumbley guilty of manslaughterA Michigan jury convicted a school shooter’s mother of involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind trial to determine whether she had any responsibility in the deaths of four students in 2021.
Venice Fest closes amid cheers for daring to open amid virus
Read full article: Venice Fest closes amid cheers for daring to open amid virus(Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)VENICE – The Venice Film Festival is wrapping up the first COVID-era international cinema showcase Saturday, with critics, filmmakers and actors alike cheering organizers for having dared to hold the festival amid a pandemic and demonstrating how to go to the movies again, safely. Once the virus spread, the Cannes Film Festival was canceled outright, and other big international festivals in Toronto and New York opted to go mostly online. “We were a little bit worried at the beginning, of course,” festival director Alberto Barbera said. Twenty-twenty is not the year for those kind of discussions.”Instead, she said, Venice was a film festival that focused on the integrity of the films. The diversity of countries represented is a development that festival director Barbera has greeted with particular satisfaction.