Ouch! Tattoo removal for entrance to society
They’re inked letters peaking out from shirt collars, hate emblems sported on fingers or teardrops drawn below the eye.
And the visible tattoos can keep reformed gang members from being hired, joining the military or pursing other positive endeavors that can help them shed their checkered pasts.
Launched in 1994, X-TATTOO is one of hundreds of tattoo-removal programs nationwide that supporters say provide at-risk youths a new lease on life by erasing the final evidence of their delinquent lifestyle choices.
City releases 911 calls from Sept. 11, editing out cries for help
NEW YORK (AP) — City 911 operators caught up in the chaos of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks offered calm compassion but little help to callers trapped in the doomed World Trade Center, partial transcripts of several calls released Friday show.
U.S. airports warned after screening equipment fails in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. airports were warned about possible screening equipment
problems Friday after a software glitch knocked out the metal detectors, x-ray machines and
security checkpoint computers at Nashville International Airport for five hours.
Tennessee bans peanut butter jars from prisons
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The state Department of Correction has banned jars of peanut
butter from state prisons because inmates were using them to conceal drugs and guns.
911 calls go unanswered in Tennessee
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Thousands of calls to Chattanooga’s 911 call center have been going unanswered, according to records examined after a caller was unable to report a kitchen fire because three of four dispatchers were taking breaks at the same time.
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