(Bloomberg) — Romania’s Mugur Isarescu, the world’s longest-serving central bank governor, is poised to be confirmed for a new five-year term as lawmakers seek a vote on the extension by the end of June. Most Read from Bloomberg Isarescu took over the leadership of the National Bank of Romania in 1990, less than a year […]
Apr. 29—MABEL, Minn. — Rep. Greg Davids, the state’s longest-serving GOP state representative, was defeated by challenger Gary Steuart for the GOP Party’s endorsement to represent House District 26B in southeastern Minnesota during its convention. Davids was first elected in 1991 and has served 16 non-consecutive terms. Steuart, a rural Mabel business owner, said Davids […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The longest-serving member of the Alabama House of Representatives has resigned from the Legislature after pleading guilty to federal conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges related to a grant program. John Rogers, 83, submitted his resignation effective last Wednesday, Clay Redden, a spokesman for the House of Representatives confirmed Monday. Rogers […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The hour of Thomas Eugene Creech’s death has been set, and it is rapidly approaching. On Wednesday morning Idaho prison officials will ask the 73-year-old if he would like a mild sedative to help calm him before his execution at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution south of Boise. Then, at 10 […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. appeals court panel on Friday declined to delay Idaho’s scheduled execution next week of one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates. Thomas Creech was sentenced to death in 1983 for killing a fellow prison inmate, David Jensen, with a battery-filled sock. Creech, 73, had previously been convicted of […]
Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate, Thomas Eugene Creech, who has admitted to killing dozens of people and been convicted of five murders, was named a suspect in the fatal shooting of a man nearly 50 years ago in California. The victim, Daniel Walker, was killed near Needles, in eastern Bernardino County, on Oct. 1, 1974. […]