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The Rochester plan includes creating an EMS division and building a new station
The public health emergency is set to expire in a month
The agency will use the L3Harris PatrolSim simulator for routine training for new and existing officers and remedial training for officers who get into accidents
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The U.S. saves $7 in avoided costs for every $1 spent through federally funded grants to acquire or demolish flood-prone buildings. But that doesn’t mean these programs are boons for every community member.
Nationally, experts say, problems with 19th century-style set-ups of wires dangling from wooden poles will only grow as the climate worsens. And it’s state and local governments -- not to mention rate-payers -- who are left holding the bag.
Bloomberg left office with nearly two-thirds of voters saying he made the city better, according to a Quinnipiac University poll, and a long list of important mayoral moments.
“The fact that people stepped forward and said what they had heard led us to prevent a tragedy today,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
“I’m running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America,” Bloomberg wrote in his campaign announcement.
Though still a work in progress, Chicago Lawn is no longer the South Side neighborhood of violent repute, and it may just be a model that helps struggling neighborhoods across the country.
Native American women experience some of the nation’s highest rates of murder, sexual violence and domestic abuse.
Waymo’s instructional video comes two days after the National Transportation Safety Board found a distracted human safety driver caused a fatal crash of an autonomous Uber car.
There are several ways to make your own firearm, some requiring more knowledge than others. And they don’t require a background check
The gun used to commit the recent school shooting in Santa Clarita, Calif., is what authorities refer to as a ghost gun: one assembled from parts, allowing the owner to bypass background check and registration requirements.