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"They were give so much property around here and they arent doing anything with it," said Tommie Robinson, who lives in the area.

Guide to selected collections The National Librarys collections range in date from the eleventh century to the present, take in every country in the world and are exceptionally broad in format and subject. They consist of books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, maps, manuscripts, private archives, music scores, pictures, microform and digital materials. A significant proportion of what the Library holds, including some of the rarest and most valuable material, was acquired as colle...

An Arkansas state appellate court on Wednesday upheld an injunction requiring a medical marijuana dispensary owner to set aside half the profits and allow his onetime business partner to keep a hand in the company while a dispute between them plays out.

Sonal Shah Tapped to Lead the Asian American Foundation TAAF Sonal Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. The Asian American Foundation Sonal Shah, a professor and founding executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, has been named president of this new foundation. Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innova...

Email A cruel irony hangs over Madagascar, a massive island about 250 miles off the east coast of Africa. In this wonderland of biodiversity and bucket-list destination for travelers, the very thing that has defined it—isolation—could be its undoing. Nearly the size of Texas, and split off from the African mainland some 180 million years ago, this Indian Ocean island is a world apart. It’s the only place on the planet to find lemurs in the wild, and 90 percent of its plants and animals ar...

Detroit — City Council on Tuesday approved 11 contracts to raze hundreds of blighted homes with funds from Detroits neighborhood revitalization bond a week after it first rejected them.  The reconsideration came after members deadlocked 4-4 last week, turning down half of the agreements in a package of 23 overall valued at $30 million. The contracts cover the removal of the first wave of 1,380 blighted houses under the program.  Councilwoman Raquel Castaneda-Lopez voted in favor of t...

"Creating SAFE environments in schools homes, offices and buildings," the companys website says. A suburban company that was once the largest asbestos abatement contractor working on Detroit demolitions is accused of issuing bribes and endangering city residents in newly announced charges from the state. The Michigan Attorney Generals Office alleges Kevin Woods, owner of BBEK Environmental in Warren, swindled the state out of $26,000 in project costs, flouted asbestos air monitoring rules and...

“I have had repeated assurances that this is being fixed, this is sorted, this will change and ‘we are looking into this’,” Simpson said. “The council has proven over 15 years that it does not have the knowledge, skills, understanding, or ability to properly manage this facility.” He then read out an email from a helicopter company which wished to set up a hangar at the airfield but allegedly never heard back from the council after reaching out. Stuff Bruce Simpson has been banne...

A white cross incorrectly positioned at the Tokoroa Airfield to notify pilots of its closure. The South Waikato District Council has admitted fault following years of Civil Aviation Authority rule breaches. It comes after reports of aircraft repeatedly landing amongst drag racing and driver training days at the Tokoroa Airfield due to the incorrect placement of white crosses which alert pilots to runway closures. Although pilots are responsible for checking if airfields are open via Notice t...