Ocala police officers have arrested a man who they say was the triggerman in a shooting that claimed the life of a young man last month. Zy’wantre Si’cane Lester was taken into custody without incident on Tuesday in the 400 block of Southwest Martin Luther King Junior Avenue. Police have been looking for Lester, whom […]
Republicans on the US House oversight committee will on Wednesday consider a resolution to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress over his refusal to comply with a subpoena for testimony. The personal struggles and legal travails of Joe Biden’s surviving son are well-known. Republicans are targeting him as part of attempts to portray his […]
The City of Elk Grove is expected to come to a decision Wednesday regarding the Oak Rose apartments, a 67-unit permanent affordable housing project that has been the subject of a lawsuit from the state’s attorney general, who said last year that the city broke state law by rejecting the project. Elk Grove officials plan […]
A Fayette County Public Schools bus was involved in a collision Wednesday morning, according to the Lexington Police Department. The crash happened around 6:54 a.m. on South Broadway and Bolivar Street. Lexington police Lt. Joe Anderson said a truck was heading inbound on South Broadway when it yielded the right-of-way to a fire truck traveling […]
Good morning and welcome to the A.M. Alert! IT’S BUDGET DAY. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS The Super Bowl is still more than a month away, but the Super Bowl of California politics is happening today! State lawmakers, policy wonks, lobbyists and journalists all will watch with keen interest as California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveils […]
Jan. 10—SOMERSET, Pa. — Somerset County’s new commissioners are taking a look at the 2024 budget approved by their predecessors in December in an effort to cut costs. For incoming boards, which are expected to live within their spending plans for the coming year, it’s a common — and permissible — move enabling them to […]
A man has been charged with murder in connection to the death of a 73-year-old man in Whitley County, according to the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department. Michael Connor, 73, was booked into the Whitley County Detention Center Tuesday on a murder charge. The sheriff’s department said it executed a search warrant at his home the […]
A son of the late civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. will make an appearance at Metropolitan Community College’s Chancellor’s Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Luncheon on Friday. Martin Luther King III is the oldest of the three surviving children of MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott King, and is the keynote speaker at the […]
Kent Lovern, the chief deputy to District Attorney John Chisholm, formally announced his bid Wednesday to succeed his boss in office in November’s election. Lovern, whose announcement comes days after Chisholm announced he would not seek re-election after 17 years in office and quickly threw his support behind Lovern, said he would campaign on an […]
Jan. 10—PLATTSBURGH — Dr. Brent Carbajal, former Provost and Vice President of academic affairs at Western Washington University, will join SUNY Plattsburgh as interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Carbajal will begin Monday, August 14. Carbajal’s work at Western Washington, in Bellingham, Wash., 20 miles south of the Canadian border, spanned more […]
When K-12 schools closed their doors for in-person instruction in spring 2020, it had a variety of negative effects on students and teachers. It also shut off the training opportunities for future educators. In response, states instituted a variety of short-term waivers allowing candidates to teach without fulfilling their normal requirements. Those policies helped candidates […]
Two men accused of stealing $5,000 worth of aluminum from business in Morganton Two people in Burke County are facing felony charges after being accused of stealing aluminum from a business in Morganton. According to the Burke County Sheriff’s Office, Dekota Pettry and Christopher Pruett stole $5,000 worth of diamond-plated aluminum from Toner Machining Technologies. […]