Crime & Safety

No Jail Time for Mom Guilty of Daughter's Death: Patch PM

'Red Light Robin Hood' damages cameras; village picks 1st female fire chief; school safety violations draw state's ire; gas leak traffic

Stories worth talking about tonight featured from across the New York Patch network:

Kathleen Dymes recieved five years probation today after having pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the 2015 death of her 6-year-old daughter. Emergency responders that Easter Sunday found illegal, prescription and over-the-counter drugs scattered about the bedroom.>>>Read more.

State education officials checked four schools that had been given clean inspection reports and found instead broken exit doors, exposed wiring, electrical panels and outlets with no covers, even in one case an extension cord on the floor of a bathroom.>>>Read more.

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