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City Council

Durham City Council to discuss proposal to clean lead-contaminated parks at Monday meeting | #citycouncil

Durham City leaders will discuss the Durham Parks and Recreation Department’s (DPR) proposal to clean up five parks contaminated by lead and other toxins during their meeting on Monday. The DPR requested $5 million to clean up the parks. “This is really about our health,” Brandon Williams with the Walltown Community Association said. “ The […]

City Council

Kalispell City Council to schedule public hearing on state infrastructure funds | #citycouncil

Kalispell City Council is set Tuesday to confirm the date for a public hearing on how to potentially spend funds made available through the State-Local Infrastructure Partnership Act of 2023. Council will meet Tuesday because of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday. Council meets at City Hall, 201 First Ave. E., at 7 p.m. […]

Mayor

‘Unhealthy for the entire country’: Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker decries partisan extremism

Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker believes the 2024 election has the potential to tear apart her North Texas community — and the rest of the country. It’s not just the final result that has Parker worried, although she readily admits another presumptive matchup between Joe Biden and Donald Trump isn’t something she’ll be thrilled with. […]

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Princeton Mayor Mark Freda is blamed in lawsuit for sparking stolen car chase that lead to 15-year-old thief crossing into oncoming traffic and smashing into a vehicle killing two

Mark Freda, 66, jumped into action while behind seat of his SUV November 7, 2021, when he saw cops were pursuing a Jeep that had been stolen by two teens It culminated with the fleeing car, commandeered 15-year-old Damajia Jenay ‘Majia’ Horner, crossing into oncoming traffic and killing another motorist The head-on collision left the […]

Alabama

Early returns favor Ivey, Britt in GOP primary (updated) | State | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

On a wet Tuesday night in northeast Alabama, hopes were dashed and raised among candidates seeking their party’s nomination for state offices. Around 10 p.m., with two-thirds of the votes counted by an AP estimate, in the GOP primary election for U.S. Senate, Republican Katie Britt (45.4% of the vote) was fending off chief opponents […]