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Jeff Raimundo, a former Sacramento Bee reporter of more than two decades who had a successful career in public relations and was remembered by loved ones for his sense of humor and rich enjoyment of life, died Friday. He was 77 years old. Raimundo served from 1964 to 1988 as a reporter and editor for The Bee, covering California politics and reporting for the Washington, DC bureau of the paper’s parent, The McClatchy Co. “Jeff was a dear friend and an extremely valuable colleague,” said Gregory Favre, former executive editor of The Bee. “For years, he was truly an excellent…

Mayor-elect Mike Johnston on Friday named political strategist Jenn Rider as his chief of staff as his full transition into office quickly approaches. A top political strategist both in Colorado and nationally, Ridder will play a key role in managing the operations of the mayor’s office, coordinating the city’s agendas and advancing the Johnston’s schedule, according to a statement from Vibrant Denver. She is also a Denver native with experience in Colorado and national politics. Ridder graduated from East High School and has skied all 33 ski mountains in Colorado. In 2018, Ridder served as campaign manager for Jared Polis’…

GILFORD, NH – A week after three people died in separate water-related incidents in New Hampshire, the State Police Marine Patrol is stepping up patrols on waterways to watch for unsafe boating conditions and encourage safety of sailors. “Due to the heavy rainfall received and forecast throughout the state of New Hampshire, New Hampshire State Police Marine Patrol Officers will continue to monitor conditions in our waterways while maintaining additional patrols to encourage boaters to operate safely,” state police said in a Facebook post Friday. The release comes a week after three people, including two from Massachusetts, died in three…

The camps were closed in protest over the kidnapping of former finance minister Faraj Bumatari. A day after three Libyan oil fields were shut down in protest against the kidnapping of a former finance minister, the oil ministry has said the shutdowns could lead to a declaration of force majeure. A statement from the ministry late Friday called on all parties not to let their disputes affect energy production and exports. Such shutdowns could severely affect the North African country’s vital oil sector, including marketing and demand, and undermine the ministry’s efforts to stabilize crude output, the ministry said. Faraj…

NEW YORK (AP) – He has been charged twice. Found responsible for sexual abuse. And he is viewed unfavorably for about a third of his party. But six months before Republicans begin choosing their next presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump remains the dominant favorite in the race. Front-runners don’t always win their party’s nomination, but the growing sense of Trump’s inevitability is raising alarm bells among some Republicans desperate for the party to move on. Some described a sense of panic, or “DEFCON 1,” as one put it, as they try to derail Trump and change the trajectory of…

BDN’s opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or bangordailynews.com. The world is taking a right turn. Even when parties clash over politics, their shared values ​​can yield practical results through compromise. But now, conservatives are increasingly rejecting compromise, putting shared values ​​at risk. Liberal democracy can go backwards. It emerged from the adoption of social welfare policies and the defeat of fascism by American and European democracies. Once widely accepted, it is now openly challenged. listen to Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister idolized by…

A man is suspected of fatally shooting his elderly parents before taking his own life in what appears to be a murder-suicide, according to Phoenix police. Sgt. Phil Krynsky, a spokesman for the department, said officers arrived at a home near 14th Place and Rose Lane around 9 a.m. Tuesday in response to calls for a welfare check where they found two men and a woman lying dead on the ground. Krynsky said preliminary information suggests Lance Lammers, 50, shot his mother and father, Betty Lammers, 81, and William Lammers, 78, respectively, then turned the weapon against himself. It was…

A Kentucky woman has been charged with fatally shooting her West Texas Uber driver after mistakenly believing she was being kidnapped and taken to Mexico, police say. Phoebe Copas, 48, remained in jail Sunday in El Paso, Texas, after being charged with murder last week in the death of 52-year-old Daniel Piedra Garcia. Copas allegedly shot Garcia on U.S. Route 54 while driving her to a destination in El Paso’s Mission Valley on June 16, the El Paso Police Department said in a statement. “At some point during the drive, Copas thought he was being taken to Mexico and shot…