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Questions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. Third District County Supervisor Neil Derry is pushing forward with a proposal to establish an independent ethics commission that would investigate allegations of corruption and misconduct in the county.
Zhou Yongkang (C), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, visits Aygul, an injured woman of minority group, at a military hospital in Urumchi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 9, 2009. Zhou started an inspection tour in Xinjiang on Thursday.
Construction worker Zhang Binkun was seething over the death of his mother, whom he believes was killed by a mob of Uighurs with sticks and stones.
Catholic Social Services is putting its faith in a national consortium to obtain $10.75 million in federal stimulus funds to help its community housing program fix up the former St. Patrick’s Church school, half a dozen foreclosed or vacated city properties and do smaller projects in New Bedford and Taunton.
Judge and Rev. Wendell Griffin, Rev. Martha Blackmon of the Church of God in Christ, Bishop Kenneth Hicks, Rev. Gene McElroy of Greater Archview Baptist...
Plans to replace the reservoir have sparked an uproar among local environmentalists. (photo by Michael Lanza) The skewed results of a public survey presented last Tuesday is leading many Ridgewood Reservoir advocates to ask: is the Parks Department stuffing the ballot box?
Supervisor Neil Derry laid out his vision Thursday for a county ethics commission and a sunshine ordinance to help restore public trust and further expand the availability of public records.
Whether in Somalia or elsewhere, any attempt to tame religious extremism with violence leads to costly tragedies and disenchantments. Anyone who doubts this ought to simply evaluate the miserable results of the global war on terrorism.
A Chinese official says that mosques in riot-hit Urumqi have been ordered to stay closed for Friday prayers in the wake of ethnic violence that left 156 dead, and another city in Xinjiang province has suspended visits by foreigners.
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state budget stalemate entered what one senior lawmaker called “terra incognito” Thursday with an announcement by House Democrats they will soon uncork floor debate on a no-new-taxes Republican budget that they hope will ultimately fail.
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