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Juárez Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar’s home seized in corruption case

A political scandal with counter accusations is burning in Juárez after the mayor’s home was seized in a raid by armed state investigators as part of a public corruption investigation. Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar, who is currently on hiatus from office while running for reelection, said the seizure of his family’s home was “a media […]

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Campobello Mayor Jason Shamis announces for SC State House District 38

Campobello Mayor Jason Shamis has announced he is running for the State House District 38 seat. Shamis is running against incumbent Rep. Josiah Magnuson in the Republican Primary on June 11. Shamis said Magnuson has “lost touch” with the desires of local leaders and constituents. “Serving as Campobello mayor is a high honor, but I […]

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Cathy Cummings, Vito’s Ristorante owner, dies after cancer battle

Cathy Cummings, former mayor of The Village, respected restaurateur, and loving wife and mother, has died after a battle with gallbladder cancer. She was 62.  Cummings’ husband, Sean Cummings, who owns Sean Cummings Irish Restaurant in Oklahoma City, announced her death Sunday on social media.  More:‘Quit trying to get approval from people,’ Cathy Cummings said “If […]

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Bloomington mayor joins city workers clearing homeless camp

City sanitation crews, police resource officers, social workers, medical outreach specialists and the mayor all pitched in to clear a near-westside homeless camp Thursday. On her fourth day as mayor of Bloomington, Kerry Thomson put on jeans, hiking boots and work gloves and went to a homeless encampment at the intersection of Patterson Drive and […]

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Alabama

Vivek Ramaswamy takes on fentanyl overdoses in Alabama primary debate | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

During the Republican presidential primary debate in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday evening, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy faced a question about how he plans to combat the opioid epidemic throughout the United States, including in Alabama. “Over the past year, fentanyl has killed more than 75,000 Americans, 1,000 of them right here in Alabama,” moderator Elizabeth Vargas […]

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