Incarcerated ill, space to grow, and wreck road rage
VNN Weekly Digest August 15-21
Here’s a look at the week’s top stories:
How funding mental health services could reduce incarceration in Oklahoma
(OKLAHOMA) The Oklahoma Department of Corrections estimates 38% of its prisoners have the symptoms of a serious mental illness, compared to 6% of American adults.
New coworking space in the works for downtown Okmulgee
(OKLAHOMA) During a recent Talk Local event at the Center for Aviation and Advanced Technologies in Okmulgee, Matt McCloud said knew he loved working with computers when he enrolled in college, but found neither electrical and computer engineering nor computer science ended up igniting his true passion.
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Home shot during road rage incident in Plainfield Township
(MICHIGAN) The Kent County Sheriff's office is investigating a road rage incident that led to a home being struck by gunfire.
WEATHER ACROSS AMERICA
(NATIONAL) A heavy rainfall event unfolds across the southern Plains to the lower Mississippi Valley, rounds of strong thunderstorms expected to continue moving across the Ohio Valley and the Appalachians, and heat in the Northwest will spread east into the northern Plains as unsettled weather moves into the East Coast.
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