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KGO-TV
April 24, 2018
San Francisco officials announce reduction in car break-ins at Sutter-Stockton garage ... There's great news for anyone who parks in San Francisco as officials announced Tuesday that car break-ins are down 83-percent at the Sutter-Stockton garage in Union Square and improvements are expectedÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 24, 2018
Federal health officials on Tuesday announced a nationwide crackdown on underage use of a popular e-cigarette brand following months of complaints from parents, politicians and school administrators. The Food and Drug Administration issued warnings to 40 retail and online stores as part of aÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 24, 2018
Firefighters battling a wildfire last week in the Missouri Bootheel found a grim scene: a pile of 163 dead turtles conservation officials say poachers dumped there. ... Conservation officials issued a news release Monday asking for the public's help in solving the case and offering the reward. Officials sayÃâà...
Chicago Daily Herald
April 24, 2018
DuPage board members will continue to make $52,102. They also are eligible to receive health insurance and a pension through the county. The board chairman is the only countywide elected official who won't get a pay raise; the position pays $131,559 a year. As for other countywide officials, the countyÃâà...
Axios
April 24, 2018
Federal agencies have no security requirements for federal employees' personal social media accounts —leaving the door open to mischief and mayhem should one of those accounts get hacked. Why it matters: Officials and federal employees often blur the lines between personal and official-business accounts — asÃâà...
Newsday
April 24, 2018
The site of a small Bay Shore power plant shuttered by the state more than 20 years ago has been sold by the Suffolk County Landbank in a complex transaction that will turn a county tax liability into a tax producer, officials said. The former Hubbard Power & Light site at 1600 Fifth Ave. was closed by theÃâà...
NPR
April 24, 2018
NPR's Ailsa speaks to Natalie Barnes and her mother Paulette Wilson about how their family was shocked in 2015 to receive word from the British Home Office that Paulette was no longer considered a citizen and risked deportation to Jamaica where she was born after not have visited there for 50 years.
Vox
April 20, 2018
President Donald Trump sharply questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray during a White House meeting on January 22 about why two senior FBI officials — Peter Strzok and Lisa Page — were still in their jobs despite allegations made by allies of the president that theyÃâà...
ABC News
April 20, 2018
A suspect was taken into custody Friday following a shooting at a high school in central Florida, authorities said. Gunshots broke out at Forest High School in Ocala, some 38 miles south of Gainesville. One person was injured in the shooting, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. Authorities haveÃâà...
New York Times
April 20, 2018
Nice rally you have there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's aides and campaign staff made a round of phone calls to elected officials, asking them to not attend a rally on Thursday in support of community groups that have endorsed his opponent, Cynthia Nixon, accordingÃâà...
CNET
April 20, 2018
Tesla is a company that is used to making headlines, only lately, the headlines aren't the kind it would prefer to make. Case in point: the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA) is launching an investigation into accusations that Tesla misrepresented serious injuries at itsÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 20, 2018
Human Rights Watch researchers, alerted by a medical worker in the area on March 29, entered the damaged house and found a room full of human remains. Municipal officials, along with Health Ministry and Interior Intelligence Ministry officials, were at the site. Three people who told Human Rights WatchÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 20, 2018
The awkward dance between Gov. Jerry Brown and the federal government over the National Guard jerked back toward discord on Thursday, when Trump said he would refuse to pay for a new deployment of troops — just hours after his administration said otherwise. And a few hours later, CaliforniaÃâà...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
April 20, 2018
An Atlanta rapper connected to a federal raid in southwest Atlanta on Wednesday flew into the city last weekend with 440 pounds of marijuana — worth $840,000 — on a private plane, officials told Channel 2 Action News. Terrell Davis, whose stage name is Ralo, faces two counts of conspiracy to distribute marijuana afterÃâà...
WTOP
April 20, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — Finance ministers from several Latin American nations as well as the U.S. and Europe have agreed to work jointly to locate and seize the proceeds arising from corruption by Venezuelan government insiders, two U.S. Treasury officials said Thursday. The decision came at aÃâà...
New York Times
April 19, 2018
The inspector, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, said on Tuesday that the inquiry would focus on Ace Magashule, secretary general of the A.N.C., and Mosebenzi Joseph Zwane, the former minister of mineral resources — the two officials behind the dairy farm project in Vrede, in the province of FreeÃâà...
The Week Magazine
April 4, 2018
Law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press and Los Angeles Times that the woman who shot three people with a handgun before apparently fatally shooting herself at YouTube's headquarters south of San Francisco was Nasim Aghdam of Southern California. Police in San Bruno have not confirmed the nameÃâà...
fox4kc.com
April 4, 2018
CLAY COUNTY, Mo. – A county is on edge following a FOX4 investigation. Two elected officials have received concerning letters from the county after the story aired. Clay County Clerk Megan Thompson is one of two elected officials who publicly shared concerns about spending and accountability in ClayÃâà...
News 12 Bronx
April 4, 2018
Community members, elected officials and members of the NYPD held a forum Tuesday night to talk about public safety in the Bronx. Congressman Adriano Espaillat hosted the Bronx Public Safety forum and invited the Bronx district attorney, Bronx borough president and other elected officials to standÃâà...
The Tennessean
April 4, 2018
William Lamberth, R-Cottontown, was amended to prohibit such officials from accepting any consular IDs to establish identity. The previous version of the bill sought to specifically ban acceptance of Mexican consular IDs, which are commonly used to verify identity and help the Mexican government track itsÃâà...
CNN
April 4, 2018
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) Authorities in Thailand seized hundred of kilograms of crystal methamphetamine Tuesday in the largest haul of its type in the country's history. Lt. Gen. Sommai Kongvisaisuk, chief of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, told CNN a truck containing 788 kilograms (1,740 lb) of theÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 4, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump again signaled a change in his administration's anti-Islamic State policy in Iraq and Syria, this time as three top U.S. officials publicly restated the United States' long-term commitment to the campaign. “I want to get out. I want to bring our troops back home,” Trump said during aÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
April 4, 2018
(Steve Griffin | Tribune file photo) Steven Beach, a registered nurse with the Salt Lake County Health Department, administers a hepatitis A vaccination at a mobile vaccination clinic set up outside at 500 West and 200 South in Salt Lake City, as seen in November 2017. In spite of two recently announcedÃâà...
NBC4i.com
April 4, 2018
Officials: 3 charged in Ohio's largest methamphetamine bust. By NBC4 Staff Published: April 3, 2018, 11:08 pm. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Ãâ÷ Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Ãâ÷ Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Ãâ÷ Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). (WKYC).
CNBC
April 4, 2018
District of Columbia officials claim Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has been hypocritical in his stance on gun control in an effort to please the National Rifle Association and Floridian constituents. Rubio said he would support a law that takes away the right for 18-year-olds to buy rifles while standing inÃâà...
CSO Online
March 25, 2018
On Thursday, the official investigation included “the FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cisco cybersecurity officials and Microsoft to determine what information has been accessed and how to resolve the situation.” A city employee sent WXIA a screenshot of the ransom demand which included aÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
March 25, 2018
U.S. and European officials said Saturday that President Donald Trump is close to expelling 20 or more Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. The move, which could prompt a new wave of retaliatory expulsions of U.S. diplomats in Russia, may come as early asÃâà...
NewsChannel5.com
March 25, 2018
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Fire officials want homeowners to look through their bathrooms, closets, and garage to get rid of old and unused products classified as hazardous. Improperly disposing of hazardous materials can be bad for the environment, and if they are not stored in appropriate places, theyÃâà...
The Independent
March 25, 2018
Since Papadopoulos pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts during the campaign and agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert S Mueller III, Trump officials have sought to paint the 30-year old energy consultant as a low level volunteer whose outreach to Russia wasÃâà...
Transport Topics Online
March 25, 2018
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For the second consecutive day, a meeting between truck drivers and federal regulators turned sour, with more than a dozen drivers yelling at regulatory officials attempting to have a peaceful presentation and question-and-answer session on hours of service and driver personalÃâà...
Austin American-Statesman
March 25, 2018
The Open Meetings Act requires public notice before a meeting of three or more elected officials. Fort Bend County commissioners will testify before the House Select Committee on Government Transparency and Operations with other city and county officials in Austin on Tuesday in hopes of suspendingÃâà...
CorrectionsOne
March 25, 2018
Inmates overpowered an officer and took control of one side of a dormitory, holding the officer for about an hour and 25 minutes, officials say. Once the dorm and prison were secured by law enforcement, the officer was seen by medical staff and released to go home. The dorm was not damaged, and noÃâà...
CBS News
March 17, 2018
LONDON -- The body of a Russian exile was found Monday, eight days after an ex-Russian spy was poisoned in Britain. On Friday, police in London said it was murder, something that seems to happen a lot to Russians in the U.K.. For example, a photo shows three men together, and all three are nowÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 17, 2018
Idaho officials 'humanely' euthanize snapping turtle that reportedly was fed a sick puppy by a junior high school teacher ... Because it is considered an invasive species, Idaho officials said they have “humanely” euthanized a snapping turtle that had been kept in a Preston classroom and allegedly was fed aÃâà...
The Hill
March 17, 2018
Federal regulators said Friday that a Russian cyber attack aimed at the U.S. power grid last year did not compromise operations at any U.S. nuclear power plants. The Associated Press reported that the Nuclear Energy Commission (NRC) said corporate networks at some of the 99 U.S. power plants itÃâà...
Business Insider
March 17, 2018
Former FBI director James Comey told three top FBI officials about conversations he had with President Donald Trump before he was fired last May. All three officials have since been forced out of the bureau, or reassigned within it. Trump's decision to fire Comey, and his conversations with the FBI director before hisÃâà...
STLtoday.com
March 17, 2018
Glass and Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards said officials have been working to trim the population of both the workhouse and the downtown jail in recent years, bringing it from 1,900 five and one-half years ago to 1,160 now. Officials told reporters that the tour was an effort to show transparency andÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 17, 2018
Officials say a package opened at a Washington jail that hospitalized seven employees contained synthetic cannabis, not fentanyl. March 17, 2018, at 2:13 ... District of Columbia officials had said at a news conference the substance initially tested positive for the powerful opioid painkiller. But, district fireÃâà...
The Denver Post
March 17, 2018
A lead engineer responsible for a pedestrian bridge that collapsed near Miami left a voicemail message for a state transportation official two days before the crash warning of “some cracking,” state officials said Friday night. The engineer with the private contractor FIGG did not consider it a safety issue,Ãâà...
NPR
March 16, 2018
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has given his father, King Salman, a number of different explanations for her absence, say 14 current and former U.S. officials who spoke to NBC on condition of anonymity. Among the fabrications he is said to have created is that she is receiving medical treatmentÃâà...
New York Times
March 16, 2018
“Whenever China has large-scale, top-down campaigns or initiatives, there are problems with overzealous officials and over-compliance,” said Elizabeth Economy, an expert on Chinese domestic and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York who has written a book on policy under Mr.
CBS News
March 12, 2018
Trump administration officials say there will be no more conditions imposed on North Korea before a first-ever meeting of the two nation's leaders beyond the North's promise not to resume nuclear testing and missile flights or publicly criticize U.S.-South Korean military exercises. The officials' commentsÃâà...
WDSU New Orleans
March 12, 2018
More than 100 school threats have led to the arrests of 62 people at Louisiana schools in the wake of February's high school shooting in Florida, officials said. On Monday, FBI and Louisiana State Police issued a joint update on school threats that have been reported across the state. Investigators said thereÃâà...
New Haven Register
March 12, 2018
Office of Emergency Management Director Rick Fontana talks about expected snowfall amounts during a meeting in the Emergency Operations Center in New Haven on March 12, 2018. Photo: Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media. Image 2 of 2. City officials arrive for a meeting about the upcoming snowÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 12, 2018
Top Missouri officials say they have been disinvited from a roundtable with President Donald Trump this week in St. Louis. Trump will make his third trip to Missouri in less than a year Wednesday when he holds an economic roundtable at Boeing's facility in St. Louis and then participates in a fundraiser forÃâà...
ABC News
March 12, 2018
Preliminary information from an interview with Richard Vance, the pilot of the red Eurocopter AS350, suggests a passenger's harness somehow got wrapped around the fuel shut-off switch, accidentally cutting off the fuel supply to the helicopter and resulting in engine failure, multiple officials briefed on theÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 12, 2018
Donald Trump Jr. has a previously undisclosed business relationship with a longtime hunting buddy who helped raise millions of dollars for his father's 2016 presidential campaign and has had special access to top government officials since the election, records obtained by The Associated Press show.
SFGate
March 12, 2018
The San Francisco spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement resigned after the agency's recent Northern California sweep, believing Trump administration officials made false public statements about a key aspect of the operation, The Chronicle has learned. ICE officials confirmed JamesÃâà...
CNN
March 12, 2018
(CNN) White House officials were alarmed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' struggle to answer basic questions about the nation's schools and failure to defend the administration's newly proposed school safety measures during a tour of television interviews Sunday and Monday, according to twoÃâà...
KHOU
March 6, 2018
After voters in the 15 largest counties in Texas smashed the record for early voting in a non-presidential year by nearly 50 percent, political parties and election officials in Harris County are getting ready for potentially huge crowds Tuesday and aiming to avoid a repeat of the long lines and equipmentÃâà...
