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WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware (CPBD) released a new TV advertisement featuring legendary Civil Rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton demanding diverse courts to deliver justice for Delawares communities of color. Sharpton contrasts President Joe Bidens commitment to appointing people of color to the federal judiciary with the failure of Delawares leaders, including Governor John Carney, to prioritize diversity.

Said Reverend Al Sharpton, Weve been fighting for years to put Black people on Delawares courts, but the Chancery Court is still all white. I commend President Biden for putting court diversity front and center on the national stage, but his home state of Delaware continues to lag behind and its leaders - including its judicial diversity task force - have repeatedly refused to meet with me. Im proud to lend my voice to this crucial fight and activate Delaware residents to demand that their leaders act now to put Black people on the states top courts.

CPBD has placed an initial three-week, $550,000+ TV advertising buy to run the ad on broadcast and cable television throughout Delaware and in Washington, D.C.. Additional ad buys will follow.

The ad will complement $50,000+ print, digital, and social media buys targeting Delawareans to build awareness of the issue, and urge the states residents to make their voices heard by demanding Governor Carney prioritize judicial diversity. CPBD has already executed public awareness and door-knocking campaigns that have recruited thousands of Delaware residents to email their elected officials to appoint people of color to the courts.

Said Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Campaign Manager Chris Coffey, Reverend Al Sharpton is a towering figure in the American civil rights movement. Its an outrage that Delawares leaders have failed to meet with him and local activists like Pastor Blaine Hackett to hear their insights on making Delawares courts work for communities of color, while President Biden has repeatedly met with Sharpton and taken tangible steps to diversify the federal courts.

Were proud to amplify Reverend Sharptons voice as we continue this fight - and it is a fight. We have witnessed thousands of Delaware residents respond to our calls for action and demand real change - but the lack of concrete action from Delawares leaders has been disheartening. We wont stop until Delawares leaders heed the calls of the thousands of Delawareans who are demanding diverse courts now.

CPBD will once again offer a platform for Delaware residents to urge Governor Carney to commit to diversifying Delawares courts.

The full script of the ad, voiced by Reverend Sharpton, is below:

Look closely. Does anything jump out?

Weve been fighting for years - in the streets, in our communities - to put Black people on Delawares courts.

But the Chancery Court is still all white.

When I talked to President Biden, he told me he would put court diversity front and center on the national stage - and he has.

But in Bidens home state of Delaware, leaders talk about diversity, while nothing actually changes.

I've offered to meet with the government, and state leaders, over and over with no success.

Even the states judicial diversity taskforce refuses to meet with me.

Because in Delaware, who you know still matters more than what you bring to the table.

So Im bringing my message to you, the people: no more talking, we need action. We need diverse courts now.

Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware is a group made up of more than 5,000 members including employees of the global translation services company TransPerfect, as well as concerned Delaware residents, business executives, and others. They formed in April of 2016 to focus on raising awareness with Delaware residents, elected officials, and other stakeholders about the unprecedented forced sale of TransPerfect. While their primary goal of saving the company has been accomplished, they continue their efforts to fight for more transparency in the Delaware Chancery Court. For more information on Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware or to join the cause, visit DelawareForBusiness.org.

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Mr. Cuomo has also lost the support of nearly every major union in New York State: the unions representing hotel workers, teachers, building service workers, transit workers, retail workers and municipal employees, as well as the head of New Yorks umbrella labor organization, the AFL-CIO.

Laura Curran, whom Mr. Cuomo backed for Nassau County executive and whose swearing-in he memorialized on his website, has also called for him to resign. In an interview, she suggested that his defense on Tuesday was tone-deaf and fell flat in her suburban county, which backed him in the 2018 primary with nearly 78 percent of the vote.

Im hearing, you know, his tone of his own victimhood, and his tone of self-pity, was the wrong note to hit, she said. Thats what people found really off-putting. Along with, of course, the findings. But that on top of it that this was something that was being done to him is a turnoff to many people that Im speaking to.

Those who have not demanded the governors head some of them longtime allies who have business before the state are avoiding making public statements on his standing.

Mr. Gresham, the president of 1199 SEIU, a powerful health care union, declined multiple requests for comment. A spokesman for the New York State Public Employees Federation also said nothing. Gary LaBarbera, the president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, was similarly circumspect.

According to his spokesman, Jordan Isenstadt, the union is letting the process play out.

On Tuesday evening, the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist, met with New York City leaders at the National Action Network, then had a Wednesday-morning call with leaders from upstate New York.

We have not come to a consensus, Mr. Sharpton said on Wednesday afternoon. But I can say it is leaning heavily toward calling for his resignation.

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A small light blue house in a West Haven neighborhood looks like any other on the street. But inside the home owned by the University of New Haven are two life-sized dolls with gunshot wound markers, and a dozen high school students learning how to document a crime scene.

The teens in UNHs Crime Scene Investigation Academy found beer bottles scattered around one body in the living room with a bullet wound to the forehead. Another body was found surrounded by drugs in the back bedroom.

I really enjoy it. its really fun, said Samantha Abraham whos in the week-long program from Brooklyn, New York.

She was with a group of six checking out the scene in the front room of the house.

They were playing cards, said one student. Another quickly added, but we dont want to reconstruct that yet.

Its a death investigation they wont soon forget. The teens are putting into practice the forensic science skills theyve learned this week as crime scene investigators.

You always see them on movies and TV, and I wanted to see like how much different it is and what they actually dont tell you, said Isobel Goldberg of Stamford.

Theyre getting the information that were giving to our college students that are here, said Maria Torre, a lecturer at UNH. Im not going into the same amount of depth necessarily because we do have a shorter amount of time, but theyre getting the same info so Im pretty confident that if they choose to go here or somewhere else, theyre going to have a much better start.

The former crime scene investigator is leading the forensic science camp this year, which gives a background in criminal justice, law enforcement and investigation, including how to examine a crime scene.

Documentation methods, they will mark the evidence, theyll collect it, theyll preserve it, Torre said. And well talk to them along the way on why theyre taking certain items into evidence, what it might mean to the investigators who might have this case.

We learned all about writing a search warrant, and the things like how to properly collect evidence, and where to put it and how to document it, Goldberg said. The evidence we collect can be used in court to like show someones fingerprint or if they were there or not.

The weeklong camp also gives them a feel for lab work. Back on campus a second group is learning about evidence that shoe prints leave behind.

I think its pretty interesting. like, youre like oh, this is actually what they do, Abraham said. And its not just oh, lets go catch the bad guy and put him in jail. Its more investigating, DNA, everything.

Torre says the camp and the college courses help better prepare law enforcement officers and forensic scientists out in the field.

I was very interested in coming here and learning everything I can, said Juliana Fiumidinisi of Stratford.

These young campers say it was a great way to start solving the looming mystery of "what do I want to be when I grow up?"

Now I think I definitely want to do something in the like forensics field, Goldberg said. But I dont know exactly what yet.

The teens will present their findings to a real-life panel of experts from the field at the end of the week to figure out how well they performed gathering evidence.

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JACKSON - A 44-year-old township woman has been charged with murder in the shooting death of her husband in the early morning hours of Monday, according to authorities.

Antonia Ashford, wascharged Monday with murder and with possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, announced Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Jackson Township Police Chief Matthew Kunz late Monday night.

Jackson police responded to the home on Harvey Jones Drive at 2:15 a.m. in response to a 911 call that a man had been shot, Billhimer and Kunz said in a joint statement.

The officers found the body of Roderick Ashford, 47, lying unresponsive on the floor with a gunshot wound to hisface. Attempts were made to revive Ashford, but he ultimately succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deadat the scene, the statement said.

An investigation has determined that Antonia Ashford pointed thehandgun at her husbandAshford and then firedthe weapon, killing him, the statement said.

Antonia Ashford was arrested and takento the Ocean County Jail in Toms River, where she remained Monday night pending a detention hearing in state Superior Court, according to Billhimer and Kunz.

Another shooting: Authorities investigate Berkeley shooting involving police

On Monday morning, police tape was stretched across Harvey Jones Drive at two different points restricting access from roughly the middle of the half-mile-long street while Ocean County Sheriffs Office vehicles, including a satellite truck, sat idle near the home where the shooting was believed to have taken place.

Some neighbors just a few feet away from the home at the center of the police investigation said they didnt realize anything was wrong until the morning, when law enforcement officers knocked on their doors.

Sandy Troyano, who lives next door to the house where an investigation seemed to be underway this morning, said neither she nor her children heard anything overnight. She said the family at the home had only moved onto the street a few months ago.

Who would think this could happen? Its right in your own backyard, Troyano said.

Jim Senkewicz, who lives diagonally to the home, said he heard the sounds of a truck backing up just before 3 a.m., which he believes were the first investigatory units arriving on scene.

Billhimer and Kunz said the investigation underway was being done by the Prosecutors Office Major Crime Unit, the Jackson Police Department Detective Bureau and Patrol Division, and the Ocean County Sheriffs Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

ARREST UPDATE: Columbia Police have arrested 28-year-old Darrius L. Davis of Columbia, in connection the Saturday morning's shots fired on Clark Lane.

Davis was arrested on domestic assault in the first degree, assault in the first degree, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm and tampering with physical evidence.

CPD identified the victim of the shooting as a woman.

UPDATE: According to a press release, one person suffered non-life threatening injuries after being shot at the 2200 block of Clark Lane.

The victim, walked into a local hospital's emergency room.

Police originally responded to Clark Lane at 12:30 Saturday morning for a report of a disturbance with shots fired.

During the investigation, police located evidence of shots being fired at the scene.

ORIGINAL: Columbia Police confirmed shots were fired early Saturday morning near the crossroads of Clark lane and Towne Drive in Columbia.

Police say they were originally called to the scene on Towne and Clark for an argument, discovering shots had been fired once on scene.

ABC 17 News crews on the scene saw at least five CPD cars investigating around 2:15 a.m. Crews on the scene reported seeing crime scene tape blocking off part of Towne Drive and an area of a parking lot close by.

Police were seen searching the area and nearby homes with flashlights.

Columbia's Crime Scene Investigation van was also on scene, placing crime scene markers in the parking lot off Towne and Clark.

This is a developing story. Tune into ABC 17 News at 6 a.m. for a live report.

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