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THE ELECTED ARE ASKING FOR PROGRESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BQGREEN PARK WILLIAMSBURG – Several Brooklyn elected officials are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to move forward with BQGreen, a long-standing plan for a platform over a ditch on the BQE section that goes below street level in Williamsburg and turns it into park space. The plan, which has been in the works for more than a decade, would combine and expand Marcy Green and Rodney Park into 3.5 acres of open green space, which would be revamped with a flower garden, a children’s playground, a diamond baseball, barbecues. , grassy…

A trio of progressive prosecutors in large northern Virginia counties swept the Democratic primary Tuesday night — a vote of confidence from Democrats on his performance amid a national debate over which policies strike the right balance in public safety and criminal justice reform. Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, Fairfax County’s Steve Descano and Loudoun County’s Buta Biberaj were elected in 2019, ousting incumbents with support from voters who embraced messages about change the traditional approach of district attorney offices, including directing resources to hold certain defendants. out of prison Each also had the help of a PAC funded…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – As thousands celebrated the Denver Nuggets’ championship victory in Denver Tuesday morning, police responded to reports of a shooting in the 2000 block of Market Street downtown. Denver police reported a total of nine gunshot victims and said a suspect also suffered a gunshot wound shortly after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. Police said three victims were in critical condition and the other victims and the suspect were believed to have non-life threatening injuries. The investigation is ongoing. During a news conference Tuesday, police said they believe there may be a drug connection, as several bags of…

Boston police are investigating the fraudulent enrollment of an adult woman who used falsified paperwork and paperwork to register as a high school student during the academic year, according to a letter from the Boston Public Schools superintendent obtained by 5 Investigates . According to the letter, at various times during the 2022-2023 school year, he attended Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Brighton High School and English High School, using the transfer student process and enrolling under various aliases. The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families said the woman is a former employee of the state agency. Sources tell 5…

BOSTON — A 32-year-old woman who worked for the state of Massachusetts fraudulently enrolled as a student at several Boston high schools using false identification and documentation during this school year, officials said Tuesday. The woman, who has not been identified, “has been discharged and is ordered to stay away from Boston Public Schools,” BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper said in a letter to the school community. At various times during the 2022-2023 school year, the woman attended Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Brighton High School and English High School while using the transfer student process and enrolled under various aliases,…

The names of relatives of accused Long Island Rep. George Santos who agreed to co-sign his $500,000 bond in his money laundering and wire fraud case will be made public Thursday, a federal judge has ruled. “All previously sealed documents, including the bond, must be sealed to the extent that the names of [Santos’] sureties must be disclosed,” U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert said in an order Tuesday.The judge’s decision comes in response to an appeal by Santos’ attorney after a successful legal push by more than a dozen media outlets, including Newsday, to have the names of those who…

NORMAN — A new era of Oklahoma football is on the horizon, and the release of last week’s 2024 SEC conference schedule offered the first glimpse of what it might look like. While the Sooners are still more than a year away from playing their first games as members of their new conference, it doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that it will be a battle every week to compete for a conference championship. They will have a true SEC experience in 2024. With trips to some of the biggest venues in college football, including LSU’s Death Valley, The…

San Francisco, CA CNN — President Joe Biden compared Chinese President Xi Jinping to “dictators” during a political fundraiser in California on Tuesday night, making the unscripted remarks about a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that his recent trip had given “progress” in repairing the fractured relationship between Washington and Beijing. “The reason Xi Jinping was so upset when I shot down the balloon with two wagons full of spy equipment is that he didn’t know it was there. No, I’m serious. This is a great shame for dictators, when they didn’t know what happened,” Biden…