Cheryl Geidner figured council members in Volant, a tiny borough north of Pittsburgh, would adopt a preliminary year-end budget despite no discussions at public meetings on the proposed financials. She never figured they’d raise property taxes by 57%. “There had never been a mention of that,” said Geidner, a property …
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A driver traveling the wrong way on a four-lane Georgia highway crashed into two other cars, killing all three drivers, state troopers said. The wreck happened Monday night on U.S. 27 near Roopville, south of Carrollton. Investigators say a Lincoln Town Car was traveling north in the highway’s southbound lanes …
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NEW YORK – Autopsy results show New York Times media columnist David Carr died of complications from metastatic lung cancer. Julie Bolcer (BOHL-suhr), a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner’s office, says the autopsy shows heart disease was a contributing cause of death. Carr collapsed at the newspaper’s …
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NEW CASTLE, Del. – Police in Delaware have issued an Amber Alert for a 3-year-old girl who they say was kidnapped by her father after he assaulted her mother. Police are looking for 43-year-old Michael Trotta and 3-year-old Elinor Trotta, saying they believe the girl “is in imminent danger.” New …
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A woman was killed and four people were wounded in a Los Angeles County shooting shortly after the arrival of the new year, police said. Officers from the Hawthorne Police Department responded to a shooting report around 12:30 a.m. Monday, KABC-TV reported. The Hawthorne police said a male victim who …
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A Texas homeowner fatally shot two masked men late Friday after they posed as officers serving a warrant and opened fire on the house, police say. The Houston Police Department responded to reports of gunfire in the southeast part of the city around midnight, Officer C. Jones told Fox News …
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Fast-paced police bodycam video shows a Seattle police SWAT team battering down a barricaded door and arresting a knife-wielding, naked man who was accused of holding two women hostage in Queen Anne. Hostage negotiators attempted to reason with the suspect – who allegedly made threats to harm both victims. After …
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A Utah mom of three and children’s book author accused of poisoning her husband to death last year allegedly asked her brother to falsely testify in a letter she wrote from jail, according to prosecutors. Summit County Sheriff’s Office deputies located the six-page, handwritten letter written to Kouri Richins’ mother, …
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GLUED TO HIS SEAT – Indicted Dem facing pressure from his own party to resign takes the mic. Continue reading… GOING ROGUE – Hillary Clinton issues warning about 2024 election interference. Continue reading … ‘LACK OF URGENCY’ – GOP senator turns up the heat on White House’s handling of migrant …
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A New York City college professor who threatened a reporter with a machete in May, appears to have a new gig as an adjunct professor at another school. The Cooper Union School of Art, which is a private school in Manhattan, lists Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, as an adjunct professor who …
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