PWC Police step up to the plate, reassure community

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News and Messenger:   (Amanda Stewart)

When students arrived at many area schools Monday and Tuesday, they may have noticed extra police officers at school.

Prince William County police officials planned to have extra officers at area schools throughout the week in response to Friday’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

“An increased presence of police will be in and around the county schools this week,” Prince William County police said in a statement posted on the department’s Facebook page. “Please do not be alarmed. The pain of last Friday’s events has reached across our nation. We simply want to reassure our children that they are safe in school and our community.”

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Daniel K. Inouye dies at age 88–

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Sen. Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, a highly decorated World War II combat veteran who used his status as one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington and the second-longest-serving senator in history to send billions of dollars to his home islands, died Monday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. He was 88.

Since 2010, Sen. Inouye had been the Senate’s president pro tempore, which put
him third in the line of succession for the presidency.

Sen. Inouye was the first Japanese American elected to Congress.  He also gained notoriety during Watergate.  A war hero, he lost his arm during WWII.   His last words were ” Aloha.”

Read more about Senator Daniel Inouye in the Washington Post.