By Milana Vinn NEW YORK (Reuters) – The 35-year-old Bank of America investment banker who died from a blood clot earlier this month wanted to leave the U.S. bank because he was working more than 100 hours a week, according to an executive recruiter who spoke with him about seeking a new job. Junior banker […]
By Milana Vinn NEW YORK (Reuters) – The 35-year-old Bank of America investment banker who died from a blood clot earlier this month wanted to leave the U.S. bank because he was working more than 100 hours a week, according to an executive recruiter who spoke with him about seeking a new job. Junior banker […]
PARIS (AP) — Authorities in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia announced a two-day curfew and banned gatherings on Tuesday after violent unrest on the archipelago with decades of tensions between indigenous Kanaks seeking independence and colonizers’ descendants who want to remain part of France. The French Interior Ministry announced that police reinforcements were […]
LYON, France (AP) — An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search. A prosecutor in Metz, France, confirmed Tuesday that Ian Thomas Cleary, 31, of Saratoga, California, had been […]
Public input for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Amarillo District’s Rural Transportation Improvement Plan for 2025-2028 is being accepted now through May 13. A recording of a May 1 meeting is available on TxDOT’s website, https://www.txdot.gov/projects/hearings-meetings/amarillo/2024/2025-2028-amarillo-rural-tip.html as well as a link to the full list of proposed projects. Truck parking areas, safety lights, bridge […]
Reality Check is a Star series holding those with power to account and shining a light on their decisions. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at RealityCheck@kcstar.com. As the Royals and Jackson County began formal negotiations for taxpayer support of a $1 billion downtown ballpark last June, the chair of the […]
A woman who was found in the Columbia River last weekend near Longview has been identified. Olivia Walsh, 22, of Portland, Oregon, was found in the river near the shores of Kalama on Saturday, April 28, according to the Cowlitz County Coroner’s Office. Walsh was identified through dental records and tattoos. The cause and manner […]
El Paso police traffic investigators are seeking the driver of a truck who fled the scene following a fatal two-vehicle collision in the West Side last week, officials said. Eric Isaac Leal Jr., 23, of El Paso, suffered severe head injuries and died at a hospital a day after the collision, which occurred at 1:52 […]
The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is seeking a volunteer to serve as the hiking representative on its Recreation Trails Program Grants Advisory Committee. Interest forms should be submitted by June 30. The committee is a 10-person body that meets once or twice a year to review grant proposals for statewide trail projects. Committee members […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill long sought by counties seeking help to manage huge influxes of mail-in ballots during elections in the presidential battleground state and to avoid a repeat of 2020’s drawn-out vote count. The bill comes barely six months before Pennsylvania could play a decisive […]
CAMERON, Ariz. – Police are searching for a suspect in connection to a shooting that happened on Monday in a small community on the Navajo Nation. Derick Myron, 44, may be driving a black 2017 Ford pickup truck with a New Mexico license plate RFW880. “Myron is considered ARMED AND DANGEROUS. Do not approach him […]
Tarrant County’s public hospital agreed to pay its former chief financial officer $900,000 in severance after it fired her in October, according to records obtained by the Star-Telegram. Sharon Clark, previously the senior executive vice president chief financial officer at JPS Health Network, was fired from her position effective Oct. 9, according to records released […]