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Jones Elementary dismisses students early for heating repairs: GCS [Video]

GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — Guilford County Schools has announced that Jones Elementary will be dismissing students early today at 11 a.m. 

The school district said the early dismissal is to allow crews to work on repairing the elementary school’s heating unit.

Students will receive lunch before they leave, according to the school district.

Several other schools in the county have had remote learning days in response to heating issues. 

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Milwaukee public defender accused of paying clients for sex [Video]

THE PUSH ALERTS TO HELP YOU PLAN AHEAD. NOW TO THE INVESTIGATION INVOLVING A MILWAUKEE PUBLIC DEFENDER RECENTLY CHARGED IN A PROSTITUTION RING FOR THE FIRST TIME, 12 NEWS HAS ACCESS TO HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF NEWLY UNSEALED SEARCH WARRANTS IN THE CASE AGAINST TRAVIS SCHWARTZ, NEW RECORDS SHOW HE MAY HAVE PAID AT LEAST THREE CLIENTS WOMEN HE REPRESENTED FOR SEX 12 NEWS KENDALL KEYS. WITH THAT STORY. TRAVIS SCHWARTZ, ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS, MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF AS A PUBLIC DEFENDER IN MILWAUKEE FOR HIS WORK IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEX CASES. BUT NOW ITS THE MILWAUKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT HUMAN TRAFFICKING TASK FORCE THATS INVESTIGATING HIM. LAST MONTH, PROSECUTORS CHARGED SCHWARTZ IN A SWEEPING PROSTITUTION RING OF A NEAR WEST SIDE APARTMENT BUILDING. AND NOW IN A SERIES OF NEWLY UNSEALED SEARCH WARRANTS. DETECTIVES SAY IT APPEARS SCHWARTZ PAID AT LEAST THREE OF HIS OWN CLIENTS FOR SEX. COURT RECORDS SHOW DETECTIVES SCOURED SCHWARTZS PHONE FINDING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT PHOTOS AND SAY SCHWARTZ REPRESENTED SEVERAL OF THE WOMEN IN CRIMINAL CASES AS THEIR PUBLIC DEFENDER. ALSO IN HIS PHONE, A TRAIL OF VENMO AND PAYPAL TRANSACTIONS TO THOSE WOMEN, PAYMENT DESCRIPTIONS LIKE JOY, JUST US AND JUSTICE, RANGING FROM $20 TO $1500, ONE WOMAN TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT MOST OF THE TIME THEY TALKED ABOUT HER CASES WAS AT MIDNIGHT. WHILE BOTH WERE LYING IN BED. INVESTIGATORS SAY SCHWARTZ INVITED A KEY WITNESS IN A HOMICIDE TRIAL TO CULVERS FOR LUNCH TO DISCUSS HER CASE, AND THEN THE NEXT MONTH, SCHWARTZ RENTED A ROOM AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL, WHERE INVESTIGATORS SAY HE PAID HER FOR SEX. THE COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW. SCHWARTZ KNEW SHE WAS A SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIM. SCHWARTZS ATTORNEY TELLS ME HE DOES NOT HAVE A COMMENT AT THIS TIME. NOW, THERE ARENT ANY NEW CHARGES TONIGHT. RIGHT NOW, HE FACES TWO FELONY CHARGES FOR SOLICITING PROSTITUTES AND MAKING FALSE REPRESENTATION TO QUALIFY FOR ASSIGNMENT OF COUNSEL. IN THE NEWSROOM, KENDALL KEYS WISN 12 NEWS. WISCONSINS RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT FOR ATTORNEYS PROHIBITS LAWYERS FROM HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH CLIENTS, UNLESS THAT RELATIONSHIP EXISTED BEFORE THE LEGAL REPRESENTATION. FIVE OTHER MEN ARE CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR SOLICITATION IN THIS INVESTIGATION. THEY ARE A RETIRED JUDGE, A FIREFIGHTER, A FUNERAL HOME DIRECTOR, AND AN INVESTMENT BANKER, AND A FORMER ATTORNEY ALL FACE UP TO NINE MONTHS IN PRISON AND A MAXIMUM FINE OF $10,000. THEY ARE SCHEDULED T