A registered nurse and fourth-year med student got a no-jail, misdemeanor deal today for the Tennessee-registered gun she tried to check at the 9/11 Memorial in December.
Manhattan prosecutors this morning dropped the felony gun possession charges Meredith Graves had originally been slammed with — charges carrying a mandatory minimum of 3 1/2 years prison. Graves pleaded guilty instead to a misdemeanor weapons possession charge, a move that she hopes will save both her gun license and pending medical license, said her lawyer, Daniel Horwitz. Read More...
The friends and family of Trevor Francis have gathered to pay tribute to British football’s first million-pound player as the former England striker is laid to rest in Marbella today.
Francis died aged 69 at his home in Spain on Monday, having suffered a heart attack, his family said.
Former Scotland captain Graeme Souness, who also captained Scottish club side Rangers during Francis’ stint there in the 1987-1988 season, was among those seen arriving at the service today. Read More...
The subject is severely distressed public housing: ragged buildings, drugs and violence, despairing people. A new report concludes that 86,000 of the nation's 1.6 million public housing units deserve that label.
"We shouldn't allow human beings to live in these environments," said Vincent Lane, chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority and co-chairman of the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing, which issued the report.
Jacqueline Massey, who lives in Southeast Washington's Valley Green, one of the public housing developments the commission deems severely distressed, disagreed with that assessment. Read More...
