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Mecklenburg County sheriff candidate Aujiena Hicks announces her run for office on Friday, Jan. 7. (Photo: Gina Hicks 4 Meck Sheriff campaign) Aujiena Hicks, a veteran law-enforcement officer, announced Monday that she will run for the office of Mecklenburg County Sheriff — the first Black woman to seek that post. The county’s current sheriff is Garry McFadden, who ran unopposed in the 2018 g...

Shane Bartek (Source: Cleveland Police Foundation) CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland police officer Shane Bartek will be laid to rest on Tuesday. The funeral for the off-duty Cleveland police patrolman who was shot and killed during a New Year’s Eve carjacking is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Grace Church in Middleburg Heights. **19 News will live stream the officer’s funeral** Community members ...

President Joe Biden. President Joe Biden will back changing the filibuster to pass a voting-rights law, per reports. The rule has been used by Senate Republicans to block voting-rights bills. Democrats say voting rights are under attack from restrictive rules passed GOP at the state level. Get a daily selection of our top stories based on your reading preferences. Something is loading....

Zoning Districts in Hudson The Quiet Botanist, a Warren Street business. HUDSON — Mayor Kamal Johnson has signed a resolution that allows commercial establishments to operate in the city district around North 3rd Street zoned residential. The resolution effectively amends the city code which states that no building aside from multiple family dwellings can be constructed in the area. “I think ...

Fewer applicants, more retirees, and the impact of COVID-19 on police officers is causing concerns for area cities as they try to maintain adequate staffing levels. While some aren’t seeing true staffing shortages, a larger manpower problem may be looming on the horizon for area governments. Cities in both Greene and Montgomery counties have seen the number of applicants for police officers d...

President Biden plans to throw his weight behind congressional Democrats’ push to pass long-stalled elections bills, even if it requires changing Senate rules, in a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday designed to build support for the imperiled legislation with votes just days away. While House and Senate Democrats support the proposals, the bills need 60 votes to advance in the 50-50 Senate. Both a...

The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. (Reuters) - Law firms can’t win the talent war with money alone. They must find other ways alongside competitive pay to make...

Initiatives by the European Commission to restore the continent’s degraded areas (J. Cortina-Segarra et al. Nature 535, 231; 2016) have proved disappointing. As the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration gathers momentum, the commission is preparing a law that has legally binding targets. To underscore the urgency, some 1,400 European scientists and 30 expert networks and institutions...

Image credit: New York City Council. The bill promotes transparency of the program due to possible heightened need as the eviction moratorium is set to expire on January 15th. On December 15, 2021, the City Council passed Int. 2081-A, a bill that provides more transparency around emergency assistance grant programs. These grants, run by the Human Resources Administration (HRA), are “one shot ...

Various handguns as seen on display inside Discount Firearms & Ammo in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2018. (Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent) When it comes to gun issues, there isn’t much daylight between the top two candidates in Nevada’s 2022 Republican Senate primary. But there’s one topic that Sam Brown, a veteran and political newcomer to Nevada, is hoping to use as a wedge ag...