By Sara Wysocki (SEATTLE, WA) – The City of Seattle is providing the public a closer look at the energy use of City-owned buildings in a new report, “Seattle Municipal Buildings 2011 – 2012 Energy Use Performance Report.” The report describes City efforts to evaluate the energy efficiency of 6.2 million square feet of City-owned [...]
(NAIROBI, KENYA) – The Horn of Africa is currently experiencing an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1). A four-month-old girl near Dadaab, Kenya, developed symptoms of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) on 30 April 2013. Two healthy contacts of the child tested positive for WPV1. They are the first laboratory confirmed cases in Kenya since [...]
(AMMAN, JORDAN) – Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament, Saad Hayel Srour, emphasised the strong and historical ties between Jordan and Bahrain, which also remain the priority of His Majesty King Abdullah II and King of Bahrain Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifah. At a meeting with Bahraini Ambassador to Jordan Nasser Al Kaabi, Srour [...]
(LONDON, ENGLAND) – City of London Police are on patrol as normal in residential communities and across the Square Mile and officers are available to provide support to anyone who may have any concerns following yesterday’s killing in Woolwich. Community police are as usual in contact with residential communities, businesses and out on the streets [...]
(PENSACOLA, FL) – Charles Kokesh was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pensacola, Florida, for violating the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act by selling two African elephant tusks and for making false accounts of wildlife related to that sale, the Justice Department announced today. The three count indictment returned yesterday alleges that [...]
(WESTMINSTER, ENGLAND) – The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill is a bill proposing to make provision for the marriage of same sex couples in England and Wales, about gender change by married persons and civil partners, about consular functions in relation to marriage, for the marriage of armed forces personnel overseas, and for connected purposes. [...]
(VATICAN CITY) – Pope Francis’ decision to place his hands on the head of a sick child and pray over him on Pentecost Sunday stirred speculation he might have performed an exorcism. The Director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Fr. Federico Lombardi, clarified on Tuesday that the Holy Father did not perform [...]
(MIAMI, FL) – Attorney Mitchell J. Stein, 53, of Hidden Hills, Calif., was convicted by a jury in the Southern District of Florida for his role in operating a five-year, multimillion-dollar market manipulation and fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Stein was charged in a December [...]
(ATLANTA, GA) – Arturo Rojas-Coyotl, Odilon Martinez-Rojas, and Severiano Martinez-Rojas, all of Tenancingo in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico have been indicted on charges of sex trafficking and alien harbouring, announced the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. A fourth man, Daniel Garcia-Tepal, also of [...]
(LOS ANGELES, CA) -Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founding member of The Doors, passed away today at 12:31PM PT at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer. He was 74. At the time of his passing, he was surrounded by his wife Dorothy Manzarek, and his brothers Rick and [...]
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