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Scott Franz's top stories from 2016 City Council plagued by controversies The Steamboat Springs City Council hired a new city manager, advanced police station plans and spent many hours discussing the future of Howelsen Hill this year. But it was the...

Chief Sappal being sworn in. (DAVE MATHERS/Courtesy) City Hall was packed with Martinez residents and members of the police force for a busy agenda at Wednesday’s Regular City Council meeting. Kicking off the meeting, Manjit Sappal was formally sworn...

Despite a consensus that the best way to end homelessness is to give the homeless homes, a traveling consultant advises cities to build shelters like the Pinellas Safe Harbor facility in Clearwater, Florida. (Photo: Chris McGonigal/The Huffington Post...

Florida criminals have a well-earned reputation as some of the strangest in the country, possibly the world. But as the Escambia County Sheriff's Department demonstrated late last month, when it shot an unarmed man in his own driveway, it's not just...

A Winona Senior High special-education teacher who was charged with slapping a student has resigned. Amy Pearson of the Winona Daily News writes that the Winona Area Public Schools Board accepted Theresa Kersting's resignation Tuesday, agreeing that...