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Union President Tim Leech said there was an 8-day stretch when the Bloomfield neighborhood firehouse had no fire engine
LVMPD started a Police Employee Assistance Program, which was established to help officers through crisis intervention and referral to counseling services
Naperville City Council authorized spending to replace their frontline firefighter PPE with PFAS-free outer shells
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From Tampa to Philadelphia and San Francisco to New York, protesters carried signs and chanted anti-war slogans.
Only six states have laws specifically allowing campaign money to be used for child care.
The destructive cyberattacks on U.S. targets ebbed when Tehran reached a nuclear deal with the Obama administration in 2015. The killing early Friday in Iraq of Quds Force commander Gen. Qassam Soleimani — long after Trump scrapped the nuclear deal — completely alters the equation.
Officer Charles Starks was fired after shooting at Bradley Blackshire at least 15 times through the windshield of a car last February; a spokeswoman for Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott said the city will appeal the ruling
A report last year from the Learning Policy Institute found that the nation’s public schools are among the most inequitably funded of any in the industrialized world
The backlog of 34 unfunded projects -- which include abandoned mines that discharged heavy metals and arsenic in the West to an old wood pulp site in Mississippi and a defunct dry cleaner that released toxic solvents in North Carolina -- is up from only 12 in 2016, Obama’s last year, and the most at least since 2004.
“I have a positive outlook, and I believe in the kindness of strangers,” Officer Peme Canas said. “I knew all we needed was a spark and people would step up and help. I know the officers in Savoonga are moved by the kindness of people they will never meet.”
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.