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“First responders were sent to the wrong location, or were misinformed about the emergent situation, or were not dispatched,” Helena Moreno said
Expansion of the Heart and Lung Act will add park rangers, some corrections employees, port and housing police and university officers
Novato Chief Bill Tyler said officials will work to ensure the facility has ample notification and warning systems to quickly stop potential fires from spreading
Duke Energy pleaded guilty in 2015 to federal environmental crimes after an investigation found the company allowed coal ash dumps at five power plants to leak toxic waste into water supplies.
What hurts the most, said Kellee Fernandez, sister to one of the victims, is knowing how much her brother had to offer to others
Days after the killings in Jersey City, a local school board member there, Joan Terrell-Paige, assailed Jews as “brutes” on Facebook, saying she believed the killers were trying to send a message with the slaughter.
The former mayor made the attention-getting choice of Puerto Rico as his first campaign stop, recited the names of black victims killed in high-profile police shootings and was the first in the field to call for Trump’s impeachment. He also was a leading voice in the field on poverty and ending hunger.
Lawyers for the fire victims have asked the judge to reduce the government agencies’ claims, arguing that the California governor’s office of emergency services can’t recover the costs of carrying out public services such as response to fires.
Keith Thomas Kinnunen visited the congregation several other times this year and was given food but denied money, a move that repeatedly angered him, the church’s minister said.
State legislators had rejected an amendment allowing the use of public assistance IDs, which District Court Judge Loretta Biggs described as “particularly suspect”
“We are ending the 50-year-long war on cannabis,” Gov. JB Pritzker said in a statement. “We are restoring rights to many tens of thousands of Illinoisans.”
Several crashes — some fatal — have been blamed on driver inattention linked to overconfidence in the cars’ autopilot systems.
Birmingham firefighter Gary Michael Horsley Jr. says in his lawsuit filed last week that the station has reopened despite safety concerns.