** Connecticut school shooting responders to be given compensatory time
** Texas paramedic, convicted of conspiring to make a pipe bomb, sent to jail for 21 months
UNITED STATES NEWS
** Connecticut first responders who worked the call to last year’s Sandy Hook Elementary School schooting will be given 40 hours compensatory time. That is the word from a press release put out by Governor Daniel Mallory which said the gift was in recognition of the fact many responders had to take post-tragedy sick and vacation time to decompress from the horror. Pending approval from the General Assembly, the benefit will take effect after 30 days. Occurring on December 14, 2012, the shooting claimed 26 lives.
** A former West, Texas paramedic will spend 21 months in prison after being convicted of conspiring to make a pipe bomb. CNN (Greg Botelho/December 4) said Bryce Reed was handed the sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty in early fall of conspiracy to possess an unregistered destructive device and obstruction of justice. According to the news service, Reed, 31, has also been tasked with paying a $2,000 fine and will be on probation for three years after he is released from jail. Reed’s case first came to prominence earlier this year when a West fertilizer plant exploded on April 17th. Responding to the incident, Reed became a public face of the disaster. His home was damaged in the explosion, though authorities have never linked him directly to the blast.
