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Megan Aubuchon is a decade ahead of the national average in completing a key life goal: buying a home. "It was a really cool opportunity to close out on a home, especially as a first-time buyer," said Aubuchon, 23, after she was able to buy a new home in north Springfield earlier in May. The median age for first-time homebuyers is 33, according to the National Association of Realtors. Aubuchon, though younger than the typical homeowner, is one of many nationwide to take advantage of historically-low interest rates to purchase a home. Local experts were conflicted, however, when they were as...

BBC News By Robert Plummer image captionWeezy was the first app-based rapid grocery delivery service to launch in the UK "I'm amazed it hasn't been done earlier by some of the big supermarket chains," says satisfied customer Kiran Wylie. "To be able to deliver supermarket-quality food within 10 minutes is very enticing." The 28-year-old communications manager lives in Hackney, one of the London boroughs that form the new battleground of grocery shopping. If you live in the right part of the country, you can now call on a whole raft of app-based systems that promise to bring you groceries with...

Law enforcement in the United States appears to be at a turning point. The proliferation of video cameras has brought the reality of police brutality and misconduct to the wider public consciousness. It has also highlighted the often unrealistic demands we place on officers, particularly dealing with untreated mental illness and substance abuse, for which a badge and a gun is a poor solution. It is clear that the nature and role of policing needs to be rethought. Even relatively quiet and secure Napa faces an era of reform and reorientation in law enforcement. Support local news coverage and ...

Sylvia Macrae Moir, a former chief of police in Arizona and California, will lead Napa Police while the city looks for the next permanent head of local law enforcement. The City Council unanimously approved the 55-year-old Moir as acting police chief at its meeting late Tuesday afternoon. Moir, the first woman and first openly gay person selected for the role in Napa, will replace Robert Plummer, who was the city’s first Black police chief and retired Jan. 1 after a 2 ½-year tenure. Although police chiefs normally are chosen by the city manager, California law pushed Moir’s tempo...

The successor to Napa’s first minority police chief may be — at least in the near term — the first woman to lead city law enforcement. Sylvia Macrae Moir, who spent four years as chief of police in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Arizona before resigning in October, will become interim chief of Napa Police pending an approval vote Tuesday by the City Council. The candidacy of Moir, whose law enforcement career has spanned more than three decades, was disclosed in a council meeting agenda published Thursday morning. If cleared by the council, the 55-year-old Moir would become Napa�...