SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Mired in a stream of multi-billion dollar budget deficits, the California Legislature on Wednesday turned to voters for help. Lawmakers voted to place a pair of $10 billion bonds on the November ballot. If approved, the money would pay for the building of new schools and help communities prepare for the […]
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – Officials in Moldova, a fierce critic of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, pledged on Thursday to crack down on athletes and cultural figures who have travelled to Russia to compete or perform without official permission. The warnings were issued after six athletes from the ex-Soviet state took part in the […]
‘It’s a hot mess’: This Missouri couple’s $1.2M home was listed for sale on Zillow (without their permission) for just $10,200 Jamey and Lauren Bertram bought their 5-bedroom ranch home in Kansas City, Missouri back in 2019 for nearly $1 million. But recently, Jamey explains, the couple found themselves — and their home — at […]
Evidence is stacking up against the state in one of multiple lawsuits over last year’s devastating floods in Merced County. One of the most stunning new pieces of evidence is a string of 12 emails from Merced County staff that went ignored by the state for more than four months before last year’s floods. The […]
The High Court has begun hearing a challenge to permission for a long-stalled €10 million Supermac’s motorway plaza in Co Clare. Representing himself in the action, engineer Michael Duffy is asking the court to overturn An Bord Pleanála’s 2022 decision to approve Pat McDonagh’s plan for the development off the M18, at Kilbreckan, Doora, outside […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden has secretly given Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia – solely near the area of Kharkiv – with American weapons, Politico reported on Thursday, citing a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the plan. “The president recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able […]
When Jamie Dimon was backstage at a conference and heard a competitor crowing about taking on old JPMorgan branch leases and stealing the customers, he vowed it would never happen again. That’s why the CEO of America’s biggest bank, at one point, decided to personally rubber-stamp or veto every branch closure to ensure the institution […]
PORTSMOUTH — The owner of Portsmouth Water Taxi will be allowed to pick up and drop off passengers at the city-owned Peirce Island. The City Council voted to allow the city’s first water taxi service to pick up and drop off customers at the Robert P. Sullivan Boat Launch on the island. Mike Comeau, the […]
A 17-year-old driving his dad’s car without permission took things to extremes when he traveled more than 1,330 miles from Wisconsin to Florida, investigators say. Flagler County sheriff’s deputies arrested the teen Wednesday, April 24, at a gas station in Palm Coast, after his dad reported his car and his son went missing while he […]
Anne Reynolds purchased a vacant lot in Hawaii in 2018 from a tax auction. A developer in Hawaii accidentally built a house on it instead of the neighboring lot. She wants the house to be removed and the flora and fauna to be restored. Instead she got sued. Annaleine “Anne” Reynolds had big plans for […]
A developer’s bid to save its planning permission for 1,593 rental apartments in north Dublin’s inner suburbs has been rejected by the Supreme Court. A partner fund of developer Hines received fast-track approval in November 2021 for the highly contentious €602 million scheme of 12 blocks, including one of 18 storeys, on the site of […]
A High Court challenge has been brought against An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant permission for a hotel and office development close to the historic Royal Hospital Kilmainham building. The judicial review action has been taken by award-winning engineer and architect Paul Leech and by award-winning author and journalist Frank McDonald. They claim that the […]