CAMDEN, N.J. | While sitting on the stairs outside her two-story row house, Kathy Soto puts her friend's baby in her lap as if the baby were her own.
Aside from geographic difference, Gary and Camden share similar ties in what brought them significant economic fortunes and how they reached periods of decline.
DULUTH, Minn. | While people may continue to fall in love with its pretty shoreline, Mayor Don Ness believes jobs are going to keep Duluth afloat and one day lift the city's population.
FLINT, Mich. | States should consider broadening their economic development agendas beyond exploring tax cuts for businesses, a Michigan-based employment economist said Wednesday.
Here are some answers from leaders in the city:
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio | Convincing people this city is open for business has been a battle during the last several decades.
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DULUTH, Minn. | While people may continue to fall in love with its pretty shoreline, Mayor Don Ness believes jobs are going to keep Duluth afloat and one day lift the city's population.
FLINT, Mich. | "Patient capital."
FLINT, Mich. | Lorene Randall could have left the city years ago. Randall retired from Delphi Corp. after working 34 years for it and its predecessor companies in Flint. Her husband Frank died nearly four years ago, and her 27-year-old grandson, Jermaine, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in June 2009. Her children, who grew up in the city, have left the area as well.
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Tornadoes that tore through parts of the South and Midwest have killed at least 11 people. The storms collapsed a theater roof during a heavy metal concert in Illinois. Possibly dozens of tornadoes touched down into the night across at least seven states. They were part of a sprawling system that also brought wildfires to the southern Plains and blizzard conditions to the Upper Midwest. A coroner says the dead included four in the small town of Wynne, Arkansas. Other deaths were reported in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi and the Little Rock area.
In Belvidere, Illinois, a tornado collapsed the roof of the Apollo Theatre as 260 people attended a heavy metal concert, killing one person and injuring 28, officials said.
Authorities say one person was killed and 28 were injured when the roof collapsed Friday night during a concert at a northern Illinois theater.
A monster storm system has torn through the South and Midwest, spawning deadly weather including tornadoes that shredded homes and shopping centers in Arkansas, collapsed a theater roof during a heavy metal concert in Illinois and made a fatal sweep into rural Indiana. At least one person was killed and more than two dozen were hurt, some critically, in the Little Rock area during Friday’s storm. The town of Wynne in northeastern Arkansas also was devastated and officials reported two dead there, along with destroyed homes and people trapped in the debris. Authorities say a theater roof collapsed during a tornado in Belvidere, Illinois, killing one person and injuring 28. The emergency management director of Sullivan County, Indiana, says the storm has caused three fatalities there.
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When the suspect asked the woman for money and she replied she had none, the man pulled out a knife, police said.
“Beginning yesterday afternoon and into the early morning hours was a difficult time in our city," Gary police Maj. Chief Jerry Williams said. "Not only were several people shot but two lost their lives to gun violence."
The U.S. Attorney charged Katie Mendez-Mera with possession of a kilogram of fentanyl.
Dwayne Crawford appeared Friday before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Andrew P. Rodovich.
"What we are doing in this piece of legislation is a direct violation of the 8th Amendment," said Senate Democratic Leader Greg Taylor of Indianapolis.
Monday is the deadline for Indiana residents planning to vote in the May 2 municipal primary election to register in advance to cast a ballot, as required by state law.
New county population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau peg the population of Lake County at 499,689 as of July 1, 2022.
"The investigation is still ongoing and no arrests have been made yet," police said.