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The yearbook advisor at a central New Jersey high school had been suspended after the President Trump logo on students’ clothing vanished from their final photo. Grant Berardo, 17, says that he was shocked to find his “Trump: Make America Great Again” shirt had lost its political message in Wall High School’s “Behind the Scenes” book for 2016-2017. Wall Township School Superintendent Cheryl Dyer said that the district is investigating why that image, and Trump’s name on another student’s sweater vest, were wiped out. Dyer’s office confirmed ... that an unidentified teacher was suspended pending an investigation. Mrs. Susan Parsons...

Even the mayor says his taxes are too high. Egg Harbor Township Mayor James "Sonny" McCullough is selling his waterfront home because he says he can´t afford the property taxes, according to a report by the Press of Atlantic City. McCullough, 71, said he has been priced out of the home by local rates and by a township-wide revaluation last year, the report said. "It´s more than what I can afford," the mayor told the newspaper. "It´s kind of disappointing. I thought I would be able to live and die in my home, but it´s gotten to the point where

<p>SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A man was arrested in Macomb County by police responding to reports of a vehicle with a mounted machine gun driving around late at night.</p> <p>The armor-plated military-type vehicle featured a modified World War II .50-caliber machine gun.</p>

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Should Flint Township change its name? Some residents believe the community's reputation suffers when people don't make a distinction between the township and its neighbor, the city of Flint, which is known for a high crime rate and chronically poor finances. A state-appointed emergency manager now runs Flint. "I think the issues with Flint are Flint's issues, and they are made Flint Township's by simply having Flint in the name," Chuck Hughes, a former township treasurer, told The Flint Journal. "We're at the mercy of Flint to fix their image." Hughes, township Supervisor Karyn Miller and...

PHOMOLONG, South Africa (Reuters) – South African police fired buckshot on Tuesday to disperse township rioters who threw stones and looted shops to protest over poor housing and lack of rail services. Hundreds of people in the Phomolong township near the South African capital Pretoria blocked roads with rocks and burning tires, in the latest attempt to persuade the government to supply much-needed infrastructure. Scores of similar protests have taken place across the country in the past two months in scenes reminiscent of the apartheid-era. "People have been trying to use formal ways with government, but been given a cold...

Harding Township Manages To Keep Taxes Very Low Because Residents Volunteer, Do Many Things Themselves HARDING TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBS) ― Across the Hudson River where property taxes are a hot button issue, homeowners in one New Jersey town know how to get more bang for their buck. What's Harding Township's secret? Lawmakers keep those taxes down and residents happy. It's a secret the residents don't want the rest of the state to know about -- how they've managed keep their property taxes down. When you step into Harding Township you feel like you've gone back in time. Horses, farms, barely...

The Las Vegas Township Constable is for illegal immigration lets vote him out of office. On July 25, 2009 on www.alltalkradio.net the Clark County Las Vegas Township Constable Robert "Bobby G" Gronauer told the interviews on the Veterans in Politics talk show that illegal have a constitutional right to be in this country and every illegal should have a roof over their heads in this country visit and listen to the interview: http://www.alltalkradio.net/alt/show.php?folder=veteransinpolitics. Listen to the attached interview and let’s vote him out of office. E-mail this to everyone you know. If we let one elected official get away with...

HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) -- A man with a history of mental illness was shot and killed after driving through a checkpoint at an Air National Guard Base and leading security on a high-speed chase, officials said Thursday.

Corruption and neglect lead to township riots against ANC By David Blair in Khutsong (Filed: 02/03/2006) Riot police patrol the streets, mobs have burned down the homes of local councillors and government offices lie wrecked and abandoned. The streets of Khutsong township, strewn with broken glass and burnt tyres, bear vivid witness to the revolt against the African National Congress that is sweeping its former strongholds. Riot police were deployed in Knutsong township after a revolt against the African National Congress The movement that liberated South Africa from apartheid could once rely on the automatic support of places like Khutsong....

W. C. Fields used to say “Anyone who hates small dogs and children can't be all bad,” well, actually, they can. The people who are in charge of making the rules in Lopatcong Township New Jersey, have decided that apart from visiting their town or just passing through, children should neither be seen nor heard in their rural community. According to the New York Times, the town has passed an ordinance limiting construction of “new multifamily housing units to two bedrooms.” In effect, the powers that be do not want families living in their town.

Tony Kohout's evening in a hot tub with five women turned political and ended with doctors stitching up his eyelid. Kohout ran into a group of women at Brine's Restaurant and Bar in Stillwater on May 24. He knew one of the women from high school. They let him join them in a hot tub at a home in Stillwater Township. For a while it was just the usual story of five high school friends chatting in a hot tub with a guy and some Amstel Light. "I thought, 'Wow, this is amazing,' " Kohout said. "Then it just kind...