News stories tagged with "violence"

(10/08/09) Three North Country theater groups will present a staged reading next Monday at 8 pm as an epilogue to The Laramie Project. It focuses on the long-term effects of the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man in Laramie, Wyoming. The readings will be performed simultaneously at more than a hundred other theaters around the world. Pendragon Theatre, in Saranac Lake, with help from St. Lawrence University, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, in partnership with the North Country School, and Indian River Central School will participate in readings of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Todd Moe talks with Kristie Fuller, theater director at Indian River Central School, about her school's participation. Her students produced The Laramie Project in 2007.

(07/02/09) Three months have passed since a gunman opened fire at an immigrant services center in Binghamton. Jiverly Wong, a mentally-ill immigrant from Vietnam, murdered thirteen people before taking his own life. Brian Mann was one of the reporters NPR sent to cover the shooting. NPR asked Brian to go back to Binghamton this summer, to talk with families and to find out what happens to a community blindsided by such devastating violence.

(02/21/08) The Plattsburgh Press-Republican reported Thursday morning that a Lake Placid woman is suing ABC News, the Walt Disney Corporation, and news anchor Diane Sawyer. In her suit, Kyle Nelson claims that the network should have alerted authorities to abuse that they captured on film in her Vermontville home five years ago. The physical abuse was recorded while ABC was working on a documentary for the program "Primetime." The show's producers never contacted the police or social welfare agencies. Brian Mann's story first aired in 2006. The Plattsburgh Press- Republican is reporting that Kyle Nelson, now age 20, has declined to discuss her lawsuit against ABC with the media.

(12/20/05) State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is urging Governor George Pataki and Democrats in the Assembly to come to an agreement on laws to stiffen penalties for cop-killers and to curb the illegal gun trade, during a special session planned for Wednesday. Karen DeWitt reports.

(04/20/04) Hate speech and hate crimes are on the rise on college campuses across the country. St. Lawrence University is coping with several recent cases of violence, threats of violence, and discrimination. The incidents range from racial and homophobic slurs to a phoned death threat and a physical assault on a campus running trail. As David Sommerstein reports, the incidents have sparked a debate over how to confront a very persistent problem.

(04/20/04) David Sommerstein talked with St. Lawrence University students outside the student center to learn how they see discriminatory harassment issues on campus.

(07/10/02) A Potsdam woman jailed last week for not testifying against her ex-husband in a domestic violence case remains in jail, but bail was reduced Monday from $5,000 to $1,000 dollars. Martha Foley reports.

(04/18/02) Brian Mann talks with a leading policymaker in the Episcopal church about the Christian response to September 11 and violence in the Middle East.