Jun. 26—MORGANTOWN — County clerks from across the state took a look back at the May primary and a look ahead at coming elections on Wednesday. The occasion was the 2024 annual training for county clerks and deputies, held at the Marriott at Waterfront Place, with 52 of the 55 county clerks attending. Deke Kersey, […]
Jun. 26—MORGANTOWN — Back in 2016, some prominent Democrats hollered that President Donald Trump was an illegitimate president. In 2020, Republicans were hollering “rigged election, ” and we had the Jan. 6 insurrection in 2021. And now people on both sides are preparing to holler “rigged ” if the other side wins. Secretary of State […]
MESQUITE, Texas – Police say the man accused of murdering two North Texas convenience store clerks admitted to the killings and confessed he didn’t give them time to comply with his demands. Davonta Mathis is charged with murder for killing 60-year-old Muhammad Hussain in Mesquite and then, just a little over a day later, 32-year-old […]
HILLSDALE COUNTY — The Hillsdale County Clerk’s Office has officially released a full list of every proposal that will appear on the Aug. 6 state primary ballot for Hillsdale County. While a majority of the proposals are continuances of millages enacted in the past, the list includes a proposal for a new millage levy to […]
Jun. 23—TRAVERSE CITY — Election preparation in the region is going well, Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy said Friday. “It’s pretty routine.” County clerks throughout the region are readying for Aug. 6, when voters will decide on a number of primary races and a slew of ballot proposals amid new voting procedures and a divided […]
A store clerk’s error led to not one but two major lottery prizes for one Maryland man, lottery officials said. John Ambrose, of Severna Park, won $200,000 on May 16 playing Pick 5 using the numbers 77477, according to a June 12 news release from the Maryland Lottery. That same sequence of numbers won him […]
A Missouri lottery player was surprised when he went to claim his winnings. The man thought he won only a $4 Powerball prize was told by the clerk that he actually won $50,000. The prize was claimed at Casey’s, 100 N. Highway 71 in Adrian, around an hour south of downtown Kansas City. The man […]
On the first day of Randy Tshilumba’s second murder trial, Crown prosecutors said they would provide the jury with access to the accused’s “most intimate thoughts.” In April 2016, 20-year-old Clémence Beaulieu-Patry was killed in the Maxi grocery store where she worked, located in Montreal’s Saint-Michel neighbourhood. Tshilumba pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, but the prosecution […]
A day after a preliminary injunction from a federal judge put the fate of New Jersey’s county line into question, 17 of the 19 county clerks named as defendants in the federal lawsuit challenging the ballot design have filed an appeal. The clerks also filed an emergency motion to stop enforcement of the order from […]
Jurors in the Tajmon Laterrance Robinson capital murder trial saw graphic security video and police photos from the robbery of a Stripes convenience store in which the clerk, Floyd Kirt, was shot and killed. The video showed Kirt, 51, working behind the counter of the store at Southwest Parkway and Taft Boulevard before dawn Feb. […]
The Senate doesn’t have enough Republican votes to send a bill to the governor that would allow clerks to begin processing absentee ballots on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, said Sunday. “I’m not sure that we have enough votes to pass that this session,” LeMahieu told WISN-TV’s ‘Upfront’ host Matt Smith. Without a […]
A customer tried to leave a note for a store clerk about a broken toilet only to discover she was secretly being recorded, Texas police say. Pierre Holt, 32, is accused of using a pen camera to secretly record customers in the women’s bathroom of the Houston store where he worked, according to a probable […]