The Ascension Parish Council’s Utilities Committee voted 3-1 Tuesday to recommend not paying consulting firm URS Corp. $54,100 for inspection work on the Hillaryville wastewater project.
The decision marks the second time in as many months that the committee voted not to pay URS Corp. for the services. The full council voted earlier this month not [...]

Authorities issued a warning to Ulster County residents Friday that a “man with a thick accent” has been making “unauthorized calls” soliciting personal information like social security numbers and banking information.
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The caller states that since the Social Security Administration will be issuing new cards, he needs the verifying information, according to the district attorney’s Consumer [...]

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But on Sunday in the Town of Weston, near Wausau, 11-year-old Madeline Kara Neumann died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a treatable though serious condition of type 1 diabetes in which acid builds up in the blood.
Neumann’s parents said they didn’t know she had diabetes. They didn’t take her to a doctor. They [...]

Sambora, who was taken into custody shortly before 11 pm on Tuesday night in the seaside community of Laguna Beach, could also face child endangerment charges because there were two minors in his black Hummer at the time, police said.
He was stopped for lane-straddling and weaving in lanes, Laguna Beach police spokesman Sergeant Jason Kravetz [...]

The person who likely knows more, Trepp’s 46-year-old boyfriend, Stephen David Royds, made a cryptic statement from jail, where he’s being held on $1 million bail on felony drug charges and a warrant from a 2002 conviction for selling cocaine.Authorities have not said whether they will prosecute Royds for keeping her body or not reporting [...]