The Jackson City Council implemented a hiring freeze across most city departments, excluding police and fire, until the end of June. The freeze follows Mayor Lumumba’s recent hires of David ...

Former England captain David Beckham and actor Gary Oldman have been knighted in the King’s Birthday Honours list. Strictly ...

Indiana Week in Review. Mayor Joe Hogsett Resisting Calls to Resign | June 12, 2025. Season 37 Episode 42 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Indiana slashes pre-k program enrollment.

Scotland's first black professor Sir Geoff Palmer has died, aged 85. Sir Geoff, chancellor and professor emeritus at Heriot-Watt University, moved to the UK from Jamaica as a teenager and became ...

He was known as a passionate advocate for the rights of black communities, work which saw him invited by Edinburgh City Council to chair a review group looking at the city's colonial legacy.

The group presented a number of recommendations, including that the city council should apologise for Edinburgh's past role in slavery and colonialism. ADVERTISEMENT In 2014 Sir Geoff was knighted for ...

Campaigning for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election officially started on June 13, with roughly 300 candidates -- the largest since the Heisei er ...

Born in 1940, Sir Geoff arrived in Edinburgh in 1964 to pursue a PhD in grain science and technology jointly with the then Heriot-Watt College and the University of Edinburgh. ... Sir Geoff’s legacy ...

A former Edinburgh council leader is back in Scottish Labour after police found no criminality following a complaint about his conduct. It is understood Cammy Day’s administrative suspension has ...

A former Edinburgh council leader is back in Scottish Labour after he was cleared by police of inappropriate behaviour. It is understood Cammy Day’s administrative suspension has been lifted by Labour ...

There were “inadequacies” in the City of Edinburgh council’s handling of complaints against former leader Cammy Day, an investigation has found. Day stepped down as the leader of the local authority ...

FLINT, MI -- Mayor Sheldon Neeley isn’t taking no for an answer on his proposal to hire up to 100 Flint teens for a six-week summer jobs program.