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The runoff election for the Baldwin County Commission’s District 4 and 5 seats has concluded with early voting results.As a result, Andrew Strickland won the 4th District election and Scott Little won the 5th District election.Strickland, a former Milledgeville Planning and Zoning Commission member and former chairman of the Baldwin County Republican Party, defeated local businessman Jay Wright III. Tuesday’s other big winner was singer-songwriter and local businessman Scott Little.Little, running for political office for the first time, handily defeated incumbent Commissioner Johnny H. Westmoreland, who has held elected office in Baldwin County for 12 years. Westmoreland currently serves as…
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Maharashtra BJP’s core group with party president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.The BJP won nine seats in Maharashtra in the recent Lok Sabha elections, down from 23 in 2019. (Photo: PTI)Press Trust of India New Delhi The BJP on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of a change in leadership in Maharashtra following its poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections and asserted that it was formulating a blueprint for the Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP combine to win the state assembly elections due later this year. The decision was taken at…
The Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most notorious drug trafficking organizations, has found an unlikely ally in Southern California: a money-laundering ring made up of wealthy Chinese citizens living in the San Gabriel Valley. The Department of Justice said Mexican drug cartels conspired with a Southern California-based group with ties to underground Chinese banking to launder up to $50 million in drug trafficking proceeds. The sophisticated illegal operation was allegedly carried out as follows: First, Chinese nationals in the San Gabriel Valley area began conducting transactions on behalf of the cartels with Chinese banks controlled by the money laundering…
Get your free copy of Editor’s DigestFT editor Roula Khalaf picks her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Chinese warehouses are building their biggest copper surplus in four years after high prices and sluggish consumer demand led manufacturers in Asia’s largest economy to shy away from buying the world’s most important industrial metal. Gold stocks in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses hit about 330,000 tonnes this month, the highest level since 2020, according to Bloomberg data. The last time they reached that level was in 2015.The surplus metal “cannot be consumed,” said Zhang Jiefu, a senior analyst at Zhengxin Futures Exchange, adding…
Tim Brown looks back on the career and life of a player considered by many to be one of the best players of all time, if not the greatest, and whose unique presence made him one of the sport’s kings.Show moreVideo TranscriptWillie Mays left with him too.Part of the game born for a man with speed, power and determined grace.To many, he was the greatest player of all time.He was, indeed, the greatest player they had ever seen. From his heft at the plate to his grace in center field, from the legacy he left behind to the uniform he…
McLean, Va. (Associated Press) President Joe Biden Speaking at a big fundraiser on Tuesday, Trump again denounced him as a “convicted felon” and said his opponent in November’s presidential election was launching an “all-out attack” on the US justice system.An event with former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday raised $8 million for Biden’s reelection campaign, part of about $40 million Biden and his top surrogates have raised in the past five days, according to the campaign. Most of that came at a glitzy fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday that included movie stars and former President Barack Obama, which raised…
BUTTE — I’m too stupid to mess around with hammers and anvils, but Montana Tech’s Department of Metallurgy and Materials is hosting a summer camp to help high school students safely learn how to use this really cool stuff and think about going into engineering. And right now, these kids are already having some pretty fun.”First off, playing with fire is always fun and making something your own out of glass is really unique,” said Jesse Graham, a senior at Roundup High School.Thirty students from across the state and country are learning about metallurgy and taking part in hands-on laboratory…
If you need to go to the bank or post office this week, consider going before or after Wednesday.Wednesday, June 19, is Juneteenth, a national holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger led 2,000 Union soldiers into Galveston Bay, Texas, and proclaimed the emancipation of more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state. This was two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.Known as America’s Second Independence Day, Juneteenth has been commemorated as a federally recognized holiday since 2021, providing millions of Americans with a…
Rep. Tom Cole, a veteran Oklahoma Republican and chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, is on track to win his 12th term after fending off a challenge from a well-funded right-wing businessman in Tuesday’s primary.First elected to Congress in 2002, Mr. Cole has long been a fixture in Oklahoma politics and an influential legislative voice behind the scenes at the Capitol. Less than an hour after the polls closed, The Associated Press reported that Mr. Cole was leading by a comfortable margin.Cole became head of the influential Appropriations Committee in April, a coveted position in Congress that oversees the allocation…
When Republican lawmakers gather in Milwaukee next month for the presidential nomination, Donald J. Trump will stay at a Trump hotel in Chicago, about 90 miles away, rather than in the convention city, according to three people briefed on the former president’s logistics.But that all changed mid-afternoon Tuesday when reporters from The New York Times and Chicago’s ABC News reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.Trump now plans to remain in Milwaukee, said two people briefed on his plans.Trump has been on the defensive about his views on Milwaukee since he was reported to have called it a “terrible”…