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For as long as anyone can remember, rent increases rarely happened at Ridgeview Homes, a family-owned mobile home park in upstate New York. That changed in 2018 when corporate owners took over the 65-year-old park located amid farmland and down the road from a fast-food joint and grocery store about 30 miles northeast of Buffalo. [...]
A non-profit group and a cleaning business are collaborating to host a two-day event next week that will feature artwork from individuals who have criminal records. The event, called Fair Chance and The Arts, has a theme of “Changing Perceptions,” and will showcase “justice-impacted” individuals’ artwork at Wild Goose Creative’s community arts space in Franklinton. [...]
Growing up in Virginia Beach, Va., Andrew Waldholtz wanted to live in a bigger city, so he moved to the District of Columbia for college. After four years in the comparatively expensive city, he realized he wanted a place to live that was more affordable. Waldholtz, 35, eventually found a happy compromise in St. Louis, [...]
LAS VEGAS — Limiting the size of new swimming pools in and around Las Vegas might save a drop in the proverbial bucket amid historic drought and climate change in the West. Officials are taking the plunge anyway, capping the size of new swimming pools at single-family residential homes to about the size of a [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The meeting place? A secret. Agenda? Not public. Name tags? Take them off in public. Even one of the main social events — trivia night — would be at an undisclosed location. This was no meeting of spies or undercover law enforcement agents. Instead, these were the security protocols for a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When "Top Gun: Maverick" roared into theaters in late May, the Air Force was ready. The smash hit movie may feature Tom Cruise as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a hotshot Navy aviator, but to much of the movie-going public, the distinction between Air Force and Navy fighter jets is lost. So, Air Force [...]
HONOLULU — Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island recently was given new land in a deal that will protect and manage a pristine white sand beach and ocean bay area that is home to endangered and endemic species and to rare, culturally significant Native Hawaiian artifacts. Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit [...]
HINTON, W.Va. (AP) — Across the New River from Hinton, W.Va., narrow, unpaved Freezeland Mountain Road zigzags its way up narrow hollows, across spiny ridges and through dense stands of hardwood forest, climbing 1,200 feet above the river in 2 1/2 miles. There, the terrain begins to level, forming a gentle bench, as the road [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Steven Marsh never thought he would see the day his church in Laguna Woods, Calif. — a town of 16,500 populated largely by retirees — would be spending $20,000 a month for security. Then a gunman opened fire on May 15 during a luncheon at Geneva Presbyterian Church, where [...]
DALY CITY, Calif. — San Francisco Bay Area high school teacher Lisa Raskin moved out of a cramped apartment she was sharing with a roommate and into her own place this month, paying a deeply discounted $1,500 a month for a one-bedroom with expansive views within walking distance to work. It was once an impossible [...]