Weekend News Brief
Written by Tom Tharp on March 9, 2024
A Western New York woman who authorities said was on the run for allegedly stealing a substantial amount of money from her parish, has been captured in North Carolina, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Forty-three-year-old Lisa Prynn-Noble has been arrested, accused of stealing $465,000 from Saint Amelia Church, in the Town of Tonawanda. Noble worked as a business manager for the church. U.S. Marshals have been looking for her for the past six months.
Nearly 40 years after 14-year-old Wendy Jerome was killed, a man is now convicted of her murder. Jerome never returned home from delivering a birthday card to her friend on Thanksgiving Day 1984. That night, police found her body near School No. 33 on Webster Avenue. She had been raped and murdered. Police used familial DNA to identify Williams as a suspect. Williams, now 60, lived in Jerome’s neighborhood at the time of her death. Williams, who was 20 at the time of the murder, testified Thursday that he had a “consensual” sexual relationship with Jerome. Williams is scheduled to be sentenced April 17.
Some people love it. Some people hate it, but Daylight Saving Time still begins this weekend. Clocks will spring forward an hour, meaning daylight will last a little longer and it’s a welcome change for those looking forward to brighter evenings. Daylight saving time could affect your sleep as the change in when you get up and go to bed can temporarily throw off your circadian rhythm. Most people adjust to the time shift within a week. Firefighters are also reminding people when they change the clocks, they should change the batteries in smoke detectors around the house.
Childcare is hard to come by especially in upstate New York according to a study by Cornell University’s ILR Buffalo Co-Lab. The study found that child care workers make less money than the average at 33 thousand a year which is 40 percent less than the state median wage. 94 percent of workers are women. The availability of childcare dropped in most New York counties last year with the biggest losses in Greene, Schuyler and Oswego counties. Politicians are pointing to the study as proof that they need to create a subsidy for child care workers to raise wages and get more stay home moms and dads into the workforce.
