A second suspect in the kidnapping and torture of an Italian man inside a luxurious SoHo apartment in a failed bid to get him to give up his cryptocurrency password was criminally charged Tuesday after turning himself in to authorities, police said. William Duplessie, 33, surrendered at 7:45 a.m. to cops at the 13th Precinct
Parkersburg City Councilman Andrew Borkowski, left, makes a motion to refer a budget revision resolution to the full council during Thursday’s Finance Committee meeting at the Municipal Building. (Photo by Evan Bevins) Parkersburg Police Chief Matthew Board, right, discusses the department’s plans to purchase license plate readers with federal funds during a Parkersburg City Council
QUINCY ‒ Quincy’s economic outlook has been revised downward from stable to negative, while maintaining its “AA” score on long-term debt, according to S&P Global’s ratings. “AA” is the third highest grade issued by the agency. The change stems in part from the $91.9 million loss on investment sustained by Quincy’s retirement system in 2022,
With California short of nearly half a million affordable homes and a slew of projects stalled amid adverse market conditions, Sen. Dave Cortese has proposed a bill that would allow the state to use its credit to insure construction and permanent loans for multifamily housing, giving developers access to more favorable interest terms and letting
The former owner of a trio of San Diego businesses that provided surrogacy consulting services to prospective parents was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for stealing money from her clients. Lillian Arielle Markowitz, 40, who owned My Donor Cycle, Surrogacy Beyond Borders and Expecting Surrogacy, pleaded guilty to taking hundreds of thousands of
Amanda Cruz doesn’t limit her conception of Head Start to federally funded preschool. For her, it means Franklin Park playgroups for her son, home visits for her daughter and community connections to things like a dentist and cooking classes. Head Start and Early Head Start are provided by Community Services for Children to Cruz and
OAKLAND — Oakland’s interim mayor is delaying the release of a deeply consequential, two-year budget proposal that had been expected to detail how the city would balance a looming $265 million budget shortfall. The move by Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins comes just two weeks after Oakland’s top finance official quietly resigned from the job she’s
The good news is that the state’s schools are not going to lose $418 million in federal funding they feared was lost last month when federal officials abruptly announced they were clawing back unspent pandemic recovery funds. The bad news is that the state could still be out $232.1 million, the Maryland Board of Education
Here’s some common court terms that’s good to know Here’s a list of some of the most used legal jargon and their definitions. A former Howell man who admitted to bilking the government out of $3.75 million in funds set up to aid small businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic has been sentenced to 16
Back in 2021, when Utah’s housing prices shot up amid the COVID-19 pandemic homebuying frenzy, Juanita Huertero, 56, said her landlord decided to cash in and sell her home, so “she just kicked us out.” Just like that, Huertero and her adult son — whose medical issues prevent him from working — had to find a new