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The number of assaults by inmates on guards in the city’s jails rose 46 percent and use-of-force incidents by uniformed personnel increased 27 percent in fiscal year 2015, which ended June 30, compared to the prior year, the report released on Friday by city Comptroller Scott Stringer showed. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has made reforming the city’s jails a priority in response to widespread allegations of violence at Rikers
Local fire departments were working to extinguish the blaze, which could be seen lighting up the night sky for miles around according to pictures captured on local media. “Multiple fire departments that responded this morning have contained the fire and the immediate danger to surrounding residents and motorists is over,” the La Salle County Sheriff’s office said on its Facebook page. The Encinal City Manager’s office said there have been
Residents have been forced to evacuate more than 400 homes due to a wildfire in central Texas that has destroyed more than 40 structures and prompted Governor Greg Abbott to declare a state of disaster, officials said on Friday. With a large air tanker designed to fight wildfires and more resources on their way to Bastrop County, east of Austin, authorities said they hoped to bring under control the so-called
The candidates want CNBC and the RNC to shorten the Oct. 28 event.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada regulators ordered daily fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel to shut down Thursday, saying the hard-to-miss sites that have flooded the marketplace with TV and Internet ads cannot operate in the state without a gambling license.
The US government’s budget deficit fell to an eight-year low in fiscal 2015, dropping to $439 billion, the Treasury Department announced Thursday. The cut in the finance gap — which was $1.4 trillion in 2009 — brought the deficit down to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product, the lowest level since 2007. The achievement marked a long effort by the administration of President Barack Obama to pare back the budget
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Boeing Co., General Electric Co. and other companies wanted to show Congress last February the dangers of closing the Export-Import Bank, they turned to a time-tested Washington ritual: knocking on Capitol Hill office doors. Working together, they mobilized executives from more than 650 companies to descend on Washington in a two-day “fly-in”. In over 400 meetings they warned lawmakers that thousands of American
Cempra Inc stock plunged 37 percent on Friday over potential safety concerns related to the company’s drug to treat a common bacterial infection that met its main goal in a late-stage study. The company said while increased levels of liver enzymes were seen across treatment arms, the magnitude was higher in those who received its drug, solithromycin. Patients in the second late-stage trial initially received IV administration of either solithromycin
Saturday, October 24th is Food Day, and we will be celebrating it at the very heart of the Yale University campus, on the beautiful expanse in front of Sterling Library. Much as we need rain in this part of the country, please join me in hoping it doesn’t come that day. We have a canopy, just in case.Food Day is an annual event, established…
