Tag: Local governments
South Carolina county OKs $10 million jail death settlement
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina county has agreed to pay $10 million to the family of a man with mental health issues whom...
Boston’s MLK memorial cleared by city Landmarks Commission
BOSTON — A memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King planned for the Boston Common has received unanimous approval from...
Dueling harassment claims in transphobic rant, beer toss
GALLOWAY, N.J. — A New Jersey vice principal who threw beer at a group of people who were filming his wife's rant against a...
Threats mount up against top European beauty spot in Hungary
SZIGLIGET, Hungary — Fishermen in small, wooden boats drift among the reeds and placid waters of Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe...
SC high court hears 1st suit in monument protection law
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court heard its first challenge to the state law protecting Confederate and other historical monuments since it...
Roadblocks and protests disrupt Colombian city of Cali
CALI, Colombia — The sugar mills that employ tens of thousands of people have ground to a halt. Broken stoplights dangle uselessly over downtown...
A little city, battered by the virus, tells its stories
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — The beleaguered people of Central Falls moved quickly through the high school gym’s injection stations and then to rest on...
Mississippi’s last abortion clinic at center of US debate
JACKSON, Miss. — The bright pink building in an eclectic neighborhood of Mississippi's capital goes by different names. To the anti-abortion protesters whose demonstrations...
Residents search for dead killed by Congo’s volcano eruption
KINSHASA, Congo — Residents searched for missing loved ones amid their destroyed homes on the outskirts of Congo’s eastern city of Goma Monday, where...
Former northern Indiana mayor dies after COVID-19 illness
ELKHART, Ind. — The former mayor of a northern Indiana city has died after what his family has said was a weeks-long hospitalization with...
