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A man accused in a downtown Lexington shooting made another appearance in court Thursday morning.

Land, a no-nonsense real estate agent who grew up in Jasper, ran his mayoral campaign on the promise of reducing customers’ utility rates, increasing transparency i

Jasper’s second Black mayor wants to help residents pay their bills while a younger city council wants to invest in the city’s culture. Residents call their heated arguments at city council meetings “foolishness” and “embarrassing.”

After weeks of knocking on doors, petition gathering, and a concerted effort from neighbors in the Missouri City subdivision of Vicksburg, it finally happened.

In the last two years, residents of Vicksburg Village of Shiloh have successfully petitioned to rename five streets, including Confederate Drive and Bedford Forrest Drive.

Missouri City changes name of street that honored Ku Klux Klan official

Published: 7:30 PM April 27, 2021    Lily Peterkin and Peter Heppelthwaite of Limitless Academy receiving a trophy from the then-mayor Councillor Barbara Fitzsimon at the Welwyn Drama Festival in 2019. - Credit: Supplied by Welwyn Drama Festival This years Welwyn Drama Festival will go on – with an online version being staged in May. When the 86th Welwyn Drama Festival was cancelled last year following the COVID-related closure of the Barn Theatre in Welwyn Garden City, nobody imagined that...

Former Western Power employee Rodney Pearson fined $10,000 for corruption TueTuesday 2 Rodney Pearson admitted corruptly supplying his friend with confidential quotes. ( Share Print text only Cancel A sacked Western Power employee has been fined $10,000 for giving a friend "a significant competitive advantage" by corruptly providing him with quotes for work from rival companies. Key points: He was sacked from Western Power after 30 years at the utility Judge John Staude said the offences were a...

can get water or retardant, and dump that specifically on spots throughout the fire zone. caught up with one of the pilots of one of those air cranes, and he described for me some of the challenges hes facing with this fire. whats the most challenging thing about this fire? >> about losing a house. we dont like that. we take that kind of personal. the challenging part is being up 10,000 foot with the winds. you can see how the clouds or the fog, or the smoke is standing up today, but y...

verdict to their advantage. good morning, everyone. im randi kaye. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. on the west. we start in colorado, where daylight brings new dangers along the fire lines. the waldo canyon fire has destroyed nearly 350 homes so far, and thousands more are threatened. firefighters have been working around the clock to protect those homes. cnns rob marciano has been in colorado springs all week for us. rob, the firefighters get a bit of a break overnight with...