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Local News:
Child in-charge
Kimberly Denise Emerson, 47, and Erica Denise McKinney, 36, were sentenced to 10 days in the Chatham County Detention Center after Savannah-Chatham Metro Police and county authorities found a 14-year-old in charge of 11 children at an unlicensed day care center on Tuesday. The children that were being taken care of by the 14-year-old were ages four and younger.
The day care center had not obtained licenses from either the county or state since authorities first became aware of it at 1190 King George Blvd. in October. The women were cited in January for continuing to operate the center known as Georgetown Child Care Center and ordered to stop in Recorders Court in January. Instead, it reopened as Georgetown Fitness Center for children.
County inspectors visited the center two weeks ago and caught the operators sneaking children out of the back door, in the rain without shoes, to hide them in a van. During another visit, day care workers attempted to drive the children away in an automobile without seat belts or child safety seats. The following day, authorities arrived to find the screaming children hidden in a bathroom with no lights. Officers arrived Tuesday to find that a family member of one of the women had left the facility in the hands of the 14-year-old. The center has been closed permanently.
National News:
PlayStation 4 revealed
Sony unveiled the PlayStation 4 and the eight gigabytes of RAM that its “supercharged” graphic’s processor holds. In other words, it is capable of 1080p high-definition 3D graphics. Not only does the PS4 hold the potential to keep up with the next five to 10 years of living room display technology, it will integrate social media. The only specifics of release that Sony gave during its presentation on Wednesday when the console was revealed, was that it would be made available during its fourth quarter – just in time for the holidays.
Governors suggest college cost cuts, by cutting down Liberal Arts
Conservative governors, Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, introduced plans to charge less for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degrees at state college institutions than liberal arts degrees. This plan was proposed at the end of 2012.
“We’re spending a lot of money on education, and when you look at the results, it’s not great,” Scott told a crowd in Tallahassee in 2011. “Do you want to use your tax money to educate more people who can’t get jobs in anthropology? I don’t.” CNN opinion columnist LZ Granderson shares his thoughts on the matter.
