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U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 20, 2007 @ 11:55pm neoform

Denver Post -- The story is so absurd, so unfair, so ludicrous, I had a difficult time believing that it could actually happen - even in Boulder. It's about a couple named Don and Susie Kirlin. They moved to the city in 1980. A few years later, the Kirlins purchased.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

USA Today -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa confirmed Tuesday that he is in an ongoing relationship with a television reporter, three weeks after sidestepping questions about whether he was involved in an extramarital affair. The mayor, who is in divorce proceedings, m.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 1:19am neoform

MSNBC -- The mayor and police chief assured Bosnian immigrants Thursday that authorities would not stand for any backlash against them after an Bosnian teenager shot five people to death in a crowded shopping mall and then died in a shootout with police. As man.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Feb 3, 2007 @ 11:50am neoform

Reuters -- Turner Broadcasting has agreed to pay all costs of a security scare triggered by a marketing campaign that disrupted travel in the city for nearly a full day, a spokeswoman for Mayor Thomas Menino said on Friday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 22, 2007 @ 9:39am mrmdc

New York Times -- Early last summer the mayor of this small town east of Atlanta issued a decree: no more soccer in the town park... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 1, 2007 @ 11:59pm neoform

Seattle Pi -- The newly elected mayor of this Louisiana town was found shot to death over the weekend, less than three days before he was set to become the community's first black leader... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 12, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The city of San Francisco offered 150 specially trained municipal workers to help clean up beaches and save birds - but essentially got shrugged off by the Coast Guard, according to the city's acting mayor and the president of the Board of Supervisors... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 7, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco voters were defeating a measure to create significantly more parking in the city, and were closely divided on a plan to pump more money into the Municipal Railway transit system, early election returns showed Tuesday. Ballots were cast in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 5, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Police shot and killed a man who shot five people in a downtown law office, killing two of them, the mayor said early Friday. John Ashley, a 63-year-old former city worker, opened fire Thursday afternoon. Two of the wounded managed to escape, and polic.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Carmen Chu, the 29-year-old policy wonk tapped by Mayor Gavin Newsom to fill suspended Supervisor Ed Jew's seat on the Board of Supervisors, was widely hailed Tuesday by her City Hall colleagues and others as smart, poised and likable. Privately, thoug.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently defended his anti-crime surveillance camera program, in which 70 cameras have been placed at 25 high-crime corners, with a commentary in the San Francisco Examiner. These are the key points Newsom made in the a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 12, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's push to have hundreds of city department heads, mayoral-appointed commissioners and senior staffers in his office submit their resignation letters by the end of the week was met with pockets of resistance Tuesday, with s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- A small-town Georgia police chief who left to face enemy fire in Iraq only to return and be fired by town officials got his job back Wednesday, thanks to an angry mayor. Doraville Mayor Ray Jenkins deemed his council's recent vote to oust Police Chief.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

USA Today -- The murder of three college students left residents of Newark shaken and angry Monday, prompting a march on City Hall and providing a major challenge for the city's new reform-minded mayor. Mayor Cory Booker, 38, a Rhodes scholar and Yale-educated lawy.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 12:51pm neoform

FOX News -- Many people in this southern Illinois town thought Bruce Mendenhall was loud, hot-tempered and a little peculiar, but they were still stunned to hear police say he has confessed to killing six people. "Everyone's in disbelief that we had an individual.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Spanish-language network Telemundo has placed a newscaster on leave while it investigates whether her romantic relationship with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa breached journalistic ethics, TV station KVEA said Thursday. The Telemundo affiliate announced the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 24, 2007 @ 11:50am neoform

CNN -- Is city water better than bottled water? Mayor Gavin Newsom thinks so. Newsom has issued an executive order banning city departments from buying bottled water, even for water coolers. The ban goes into effect July 1, and will extend to water coolers by.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 4:21pm neoform

CNN -- An inferno raced through a Charleston, South Carolina, furniture warehouse collapsing its roof and killing nine firefighters in a tragedy that the city's mayor described Tuesday as "difficult to fathom." "They lost their lives fighting for the safety o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

CNN -- Fire swept through a furniture warehouse, collapsing the building's roof and claiming the lives of nine firefighters in a disaster the mayor described Tuesday as "difficult to fathom or quantify." "Nine brave, heroic, courageous firefighters of the cit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:32am neoform

Yahoo News -- The mayor has ordered the city's firefighters to cut grass and trim shrubs while on duty to help the service department care for parks and other public areas. "We have 54 firefighters, and they have a lot of downtime," Mayor Eric Brewer said Thursday... Read More