Posts Tagged as ‘reporter’s life’

January 26, 2009

What school can’t prepare you for

For the third time in my life, I told someone that someone they knew died. It happened last week. I was on nights and we’d gotten a report that morning that an official in Mercer County had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. I was assigned to call Mercer County officials and [...]

July 14, 2008

Nothing to fear but fear itself

I haven’t blogged in a while, but I think it’s time to get back into it.
I don’t often get scared by my job. But I’m going to be tomorrow.
Back in April, East Moline cops were attempting to serve a warrant on a kid. He was named Kelton Trice and he was 21. He was younger [...]