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St. Paul police plan to release skyway surveillance videos Wednesday related to the controversial arrest of 28-year-old Chris Lollie earlier this year. Lollie, of St. Paul, recorded his interaction with police officers on Jan. 31 and posted the cellphone video to YouTube on Aug. 26. The video, which Lollie titled "Black man taken to jail for sitting in public area," has been viewed more than 1.2 million times. The video goes dark after about 2 minutes, when Lollie said an officer put his cellphone on a ledge, but the audio continued.

Chris Lollie was in a public area of the St. Paul skyway when a security guard told police he was in a private area, the city attorney said Wednesday. A guard said the 28-year-old man was sitting "for some time" in a skyway-level lounge area designated for building employees, a police report said, and officers were responding to that information when they arrived, St. Paul City Attorney Sara Grewing said. The guard's report led to the Jan. 31 encounter with police that has drawn national attention and criticism. Whether the downtown area where Lollie was sitting was public or private...

The successful intervention of an armed citizen in a Skyway shooting Saturday night is garnering considerable public reaction, with the majority opinion clearly supportive of the citizen who not only held the perpetrator at gunpoint, but also handcuffed him before King County Sheriff’s deputies arrived. The story is being reported by KOMO, the Seattle Times and on-line Seattle P-I.com, with public comments here, here and here, respectively. The issue is also being discussed on the Northwest Firearms, Defensive Carry and Washington Open Carry forums. Significantly, one of the public comments on the Seattle P-I.com site appears to be from the...

CorridorWatch Member NEWS (01.03.05) CorridorWatch.org Members > CorridorWatch.org Members Newsletter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAPPY NEW YEAR! IN 2005 TOLLS ARE ALREADY A HOT TOPIC As the new year started the news across the country has been filled with complaints and issues surrounding tolls and toll roads. No not in Texas but in places where drivers are supposed to freely accept toll roads, like Illinois and Pennsylvania. Seems that states who have much more history with toll project than Texas are discovering that toll roads are not necessarily the solution to highway funding woes. NON-TRIVIAL PURSUIT Q: Who has the most expensive toll...

Sunshine Skyway bridge drivers might not want to remove the spare change from their cars just yet. A proposal to increase the bridge's toll by 50 percent, thought to have died on the regular legislative session's last day, has been revived in the ongoing special session on the state budget. The Senate already has passed the renewed measure (SB 24A), which would increase the toll on the bridge that connects Manatee and Pinellas counties from $1 to $1.50 each way in July. The bill also would increase tolls on Florida's Turnpike, Alligator Alley, the Beeline-East Expressway and two bridges in...