Former finance director Robert Winston Burgett has pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $1 million from the City of Homewood in Alabama. He used his position to embezzle funds by moving city money into a commercial bank account he controlled and then transferring it to his personal account. He also altered city bank account statements and made false journal entries to …
In short: A magistrate has sentenced two Extinction Rebellion protesters to 21 days in prison for blocking Melbourne's West Gate Bridge with a rental truck on Tuesday. A magistrate has sentenced two Extinction Rebellion protesters to 21 days in prison for blocking Melbourne's West Gate Bridge with a rental truck on Tuesday. Extinction Rebellion members Deanna "Violet" Coco, 33, and …
HOMEWOOD, Ala. — A man fleeing police caused the Alabama car crash that injured Gayle Manchin, head of an economic development partnership of the federal government and 13 state governments and the wife of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, along with a colleague of hers, authorities said Wednesday. Gayle Manchin, 76, was injured in the Monday wreck as she and a …
In 2012, the visual artist Alisha B. Wormsley embarked on a multiyear project in Homewood, one of Pittsburgh’s historically Black neighborhoods. Of those she gathered she imprinted on them an emphatic declaration: “There Are Black People In the Future.” Years later, in 2014, I came across one of Wormsley’s “artifacts” on Tumblr; it was a window pane with the statement …
