BOSTON (TND) — A Boston city councilor on Tuesday denounced a budgeting process in which residents at least 11 years old can vote on how to spend some public funds.
The participatory budgeting process allows residents to submit project ideas to the Office of Participatory Budgeting, which then reviews and develops them into proposals before putting them on a January ballot. Residents can vote for up to five proposals to receive up to $2 million each in public funds. Read More...
CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Authorities say a Clearfield County inmate has pleaded guilty for her role in the overdoses of three fellow inmates at the Clearfield County Jail, one of whom died.
District attorney Ryan Sayers says Angela Ricketts appeared in court earlier this week where she entered a guilty plea to charges of drug delivery resulting in death and possession with the intent to deliver, among others.
Police charged Ricketts last September following an investigation into three women overdosing at the county prison. Read More...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Manure. Cigarette butts. Scraps of cloth. Waste batteries. Even, reportedly, diapers. This week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons to dump all of that trash across rival South Korea — an old-fashioned, Cold War-style provocation that the country has rarely used in recent years.
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un confirmed Wednesday that North Korea sent the balloons and attached trash sacks. Read More...
