SWANSEA — When word got out earlier this spring that Mark Foley had been appointed chief of the Swansea Police Department, his phone was besieged with texts. Many of those texts, from old football teammates and co-workers past and present, not only congratulated Foley but praised him for being a leader. Now more than a […]
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The Alpharetta police are commending some of their fellow officers for taking a more compassionate response to a dangerous situation in April that likely saved a young boy’s life. Sgt. Mark Tappan with the Alpharetta Police Department says he got a call about a child with a developmental disability in crisis who […]
Three flight attendants are winning praise for successfully defusing a physical fight between two passengers on board an EVA Air flight. In a statement to CNN, the airline said the scuffle began when a passenger was reportedly coughing and the man next to him tried to move into another seat to get away. However, the […]
(Bloomberg) — At Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s annual meeting in Omaha on Saturday, Warren Buffett heaped praise on Apple Inc. — after revealing he’d cut his stake in it. Most Read from Bloomberg Berkshire reported a $135.4 billion share in the iPhone maker at the end of the first quarter, down from $174.3 billion at the […]
A Chinese truck driver has been praised for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from tumbling down a slope after a section of the road in the country’s mountainous south collapsed and killed at least 48 people. Wang Xiangnan was driving on Wednesday along the road in Guangdong province, a vital […]
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese truck driver was praised in local media Saturday for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from tumbling down a slope after a section of the road in the country’s mountainous south collapsed and killed at least 48 people. Wang Xiangnan was driving Wednesday along the highway […]
When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired to help clean up environmental devastation from the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. These […]
Sean “Diddy” Combs aggressively marketed himself to the ultra-rich as he turned his edgy rap glamor into a billion-dollar fortune. Billionaires told The Post he would cold-email with business proposals, while other Wall Streeters acclaimed him as a “genius” and one CEO of the New York Stock Exchange called him an “inspiration” on a par […]
Mar. 31—At least 500, and maybe more than 1, 100, rental homes are part of the agency’s goal to deliver roughly 6, 000 homesteads for beneficiaries over the next several years. The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is pursuing its biggest homestead development initiative in history, but one expanding piece of the plan aimed […]
British-American actor Chance Perdomo has been described as “an enthusiastic force of nature” by the producers of TV series Gen V, after his death at the age of 27. The American-born TV star, who was raised in the UK, was known for playing Andre Anderson in the superhero show, a spin-off of the satirical TV […]
California shut down the office that tracks telework in state service. But data from two previously unreleased surveys obtained by The Sacramento Bee reveal new insights about departments’ and agencies’ stances on remote work and return-to-office. More than 110 departments participated in the two statewide surveys, which were conducted in July 2023 and December 2023 […]
Former US president Donald Trump praised authoritarian leaders such as Adolf Hitler and Russian president Vladimir Putin on a number of occasions, according to a former chief of staff. John Kelly, Mr Trump’s former chief of staff, and John Bolton, who served as one of his national security advisers, made the comments to CNN’s Jim […]