St. Thomas Public Safety Sgt. Reginald Wright, commonly known as Reggie, has made positive connections with students over his career at St. Thomas, but especially with this class of first-year students, prompting the creation of the UST Reggie Fan Club Instagram page.

Wright has been working at St. Thomas for nine years, and he continues to work at St. Thomas because of the connections and relationships he has made with students.

“I would’ve quit a long time ago if it wasn’t for the actual students; the freshness in (students’) mind and the ideals that have been laid upon, then the ideas that you create as an adult,” Wright said.

The White House announced its plan to vaccinate 28 million children aged 5-11. Within hours of formal approval, expected after the Food and Drug Administration signs off and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel meeting scheduled for Nov. 2-3, doses will begin shipping to providers across the country.

The goal is to ship 15 million doses within the first week following approval. Thousand of vaccine providers have agreed to administer the vaccine doses to children.

A judge on Tuesday refused to lower bail for a Chicago man accused of fatally shooting a Twin Cities man on a Minnesota highway after an apparent road-rage incident.

Jamal L. Smith is being held on a $3.5 million bond, and is being charged with first and second-degree murder.