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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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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Denmark has reached a defense agreement with the United States that will allow U.S. soldiers and military equipment to be based on Danish soil, the country’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday. The 10-year agreement was announced after the United States signed similar agreements with Finland and Sweden this …
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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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More than a dozen states are offering National Guard members bonuses to refer people to the service in an attempt to combat the military recruiting crisis. But critics say the new incentive programs look a lot like one that stuck hundreds of innocent soldiers and veterans with a false arrest …
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams had harsh words for Hamas as thousands of New Yorkers, interfaith leaders and elected officials gathered Tuesday to support Israel at a Manhattan vigil and rally and to denounce Hamas the terrorist group. Speaking at “The New York Stand with Israel Vigil and Rally” …
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An armed store owner in Texas fought back against a pair of attempted robbers, trading fire with the suspects in a shootout captured on security footage. Two armed suspects entered a Cash for Gold shop in the 1100 block of N Town EastBlvd in Mesquite just before 7 p.m. on …
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is seeking additional homes for potentially thousands of wild horses rounded up from Western rangelands by asking landowners in a dozen states to submit proposals to rent out pastures for the animals. The federal agency currently has contracts with landowners to …
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RICHMOND, Va. – Former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife have put their suburban Richmond home on the market following their convictions on corruption charges. The Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/18HOb9O) reported Friday that Bob and Maureen McDonnell are seeking $944,000 for the 5,000-square-foot home. They purchased the home in 2006 for …
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