Mayor Eric Adams faces bribery and fraud charges and a growing number of calls for his resignation, but he has not lost the support of his incoming schools chancellor.Melissa Aviles-Ramos was announced Wednesday as David Banks’ successor and is expecte…
ONTARIO COUNTY, NY — A former treasurer of the Citizens Hose Company in Shortsville has been arrested for allegedly stealing more than $100,000 from the fire company over a four-year period, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced today. Jill Havens, was charged with grand larceny. Authorities said she used her position as treasurer from […]
ITHACA, N.Y. — A neighborhood-scale development project is seeking local tax breaks to the tune of nearly $85 million. The SouthWorks project is a pitch to transform the former Emerson […]
A debate of Propositions 133 and 140 was hosted by the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission and the Arizona Media Association on Sept. 26. The competing proposals ask Arizona voters whether they want to change the election system or keep it as is. Former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson argued for Prop. 140, a citizens initiative […]
For the first time, New York City’s sitting mayor is now a criminal defendant — one who says the 57-page case against him is a pack of “lies” and that the federal government and the city’s permanent powers are trying to bring him down for doing right by New Yorkers. In an “emergency” episode marking […]
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No. There is no evidence sanctuary policies meant to shield people from immigration authorities freed Venezuelan Alejandro Coronel Zarate before he was jailed Sept. 5, 2024, on a sexual assault charge in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
A debate of Arizona’s Proposition 137 — a question about ending term limits for judges — was hosted by the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission and the Arizona Media Association on Sept. 26. Kory Langhofer, a managing partner at Statecraft Law, argued in favor of the measure and Andy Gordon, a retired lawyer and election-law […]
Nearly three months after what was to be the start of congestion pricing, lawyers will head to court Friday in hopes of upending Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pause on the vehicle-tolling program. Oral arguments will be heard in Manhattan Supreme Court in a pair of lawsuits against the governor that seek to put the Central Business […]
Mayor Eric Adams surrounded himself outside Gracie Mansion with some of his longest-standing allies on Thursday, asking New Yorkers to “wait to hear our defense” just minutes after federal prosecutors unsealed their indictment against him on bribery and other charges. “We are not surprised,” he said, surrounded by New York State NAACP president Hazel Dukes, […]
