http://www.mail.com/subjects/1860-municipal-governments.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/1860-municipal-governments.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121, is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, the head of Petroleos Mexicanos said Friday. As hundreds of emergency worke... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html 2013-02-01T23:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862142-authorities-release-photo-accused-ala-abductor.html MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — After four anxious days, only the slimmest of details has come to light in a police standoff with an Alabama man who is accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in a bunker, a sign of just how delicate the negotiations are. Police have used a ventilation pipe to the underground bunker to talk to the man and deliver the boy med... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862142-authorities-release-photo-accused-ala-abductor.html 2013-02-02T02:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html CHICAGO (AP) — They are counting the dead from gunfire again in Chicago, a city awash in weapons despite having one of the strictest gun-control ordinances in the nation. After a year in which Chicago's death toll surpassed 500, the bloodshed has continued in 2013 at a rate of more than one killing a day. It was the city's deadliest January in more than a... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html 2013-02-01T20:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862752-review-politics-old-style-humor-fiorello.html NEW YORK (AP) — What goes around comes around. It's a key principle in politics, and apparently in musical theater, too. In the 1940s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia saved the building that would become New York City Center from the wrecking ball. And so in 1994, when the Encores! series began there, it opened with a revival of "Fiorello!," the 1959 musical abou... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862752-review-politics-old-style-humor-fiorello.html 2013-02-01T19:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861444-koch-yorks-feisty-mayor-dies-88.html NEW YORK (AP) — When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling. And it worked, for a while at least. With a Bronx-born combination of chutzpah and humor, Koch steered New York back from the brink of financial ruin and infused the city with ... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861444-koch-yorks-feisty-mayor-dies-88.html 2013-02-02T00:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861236-iraq-sunnis-protest-al-qaida-front-calls-to-arms.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Sunni protesters blocked a major highway in western Iraq on Friday, as an al-Qaida-affiliated group called on Sunnis to take up arms against the Shiite-led government. The rally comes at a time of mounting sectarian tensions in Iraq. Minority Sunnis complain of official discrimination against them, and the arrests of bo... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861236-iraq-sunnis-protest-al-qaida-front-calls-to-arms.html 2013-02-01T15:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858394-negotiators-talking-to-ala-captor-through-pipe.html MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — More than three days after he allegedly shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, Jimmy Lee Dykes was showing no signs Friday of turning himself over to police. Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe leading to the bunker, hostage negotiators have tried to talk the 65-yea... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858394-negotiators-talking-to-ala-captor-through-pipe.html 2013-02-01T11:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1860446-nyc-mayor-koch-moved-to-intensive-care.html NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mayor Ed Koch has been moved to intensive care for closer monitoring of the fluid in his lungs and legs, his spokesman said Thursday. Koch's cardiologist wanted to keep a closer eye on the 88-year-old, who was also showing an iron deficiency, spokesman George Arzt said. Koch was readmitted to NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital o... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1860446-nyc-mayor-koch-moved-to-intensive-care.html 2013-01-31T21:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1859432-brazil-nightclub-fire-prompts-regional-reaction.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authorities inspected and shuttered night spots around the country on Thursday as part of a crackdown on unsafe public spaces after a deadly nightclub fire left 235 people dead and shocked the nation. Officials in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Mexico followed Brazil's example and tightened scrutiny on their own nightclubs. ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1859432-brazil-nightclub-fire-prompts-regional-reaction.html 2013-01-31T20:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1859142-egypts-political-factions-denounce-violence.html CAIRO (AP) — Representatives from across Egypt's political spectrum held a rare meeting Thursday to denounce violence, hours before a fresh call for a new wave of mass protests across the country aimed at pressuring Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to accept opposition demands to form a national government and amend the constitution. Hosted by Egypt's pr... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1859142-egypts-political-factions-denounce-violence.html 2013-01-31T19:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858736-stalingrad-days-marking-battle.html MOSCOW (AP) — The southern Russian city where the Red Army decisively turned back Nazi forces in a key World War II battle will once again be known as Stalingrad, at least on the days commemorating the victory, the regional legislature declared Thursday. The city was renamed Volgograd in 1961 as part of the Soviet Union's rejection of dictator Joseph Stal... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858736-stalingrad-days-marking-battle.html 2013-01-31T15:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858480-timbuktu-revels-freedom-fears-linger.html TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — A leaflet listing the regulations for women under Islamist rule now lies in dirt here at the tribunal in Timbuktu. Rule No. 1: The veil should cover the entire body. Rule No. 4: The veil cannot be colored. And Rule No. 8: The woman should not perfume herself after putting on the all-enveloping fabric. Several days after French specia... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858480-timbuktu-revels-freedom-fears-linger.html 2013-01-31T15:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1858404-roadside-bomb-kills-2-polio-workers-nw-pakistan.html PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb killed two Pakistani polio workers on their way to vaccinate children in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border on Thursday, an official said. The two men were on their way to Malikhel village as part of the U.N.-backed anti-polio campaign when the bomb hit their motorcycle, said government administ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1858404-roadside-bomb-kills-2-polio-workers-nw-pakistan.html 2013-01-31T13:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1858128-china-14-guilty-pollution-protest-violence.html BEIJING (AP) — Fourteen people pleaded guilty to encouraging a riot in eastern China last year in which the local Communist Party chief was stripped half-naked in a mass protest that ultimately forced the local government to scrap a wastewater treatment project. The official Xinhua News Agency said the defendants were prosecuted Wednesday on charges of en... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1858128-china-14-guilty-pollution-protest-violence.html 2013-01-31T08:00:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/1858098-coyotes-deal-glendale-trouble.html GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The prospective owner of the Phoenix Coyotes is unlikely to complete a deal to buy the team from the NHL before a lease agreement with the City of Glendale expires, a league official told The Associated Press on Thursday. Barring a last-minute change, former San Jose Sharks CEO Greg Jamison won't have the money or investors in place... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/1858098-coyotes-deal-glendale-trouble.html 2013-01-31T02:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855590-brazil-nightclub-owner-blames-country-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The owner of a nightclub in southern Brazil where more than 230 people died in a fire last weekend deflected blame to "the whole country," as well as to architects and inspectors charged with making sure the building was safe, his lawyer said Wednesday. Attorney Jader Marques said his client, Elissandro Spohr, "regretted having ... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855590-brazil-nightclub-owner-blames-country-fire.html 2013-01-30T23:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1855680-orleans-challenge-policing-2-huge-parties.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans police force famed for its crowd control prowess is getting help from state and federal authorities as the city hosts an estimated 150,000 Super Bowl fans while preparing for the raucous buildup to Mardi Gras, which also draws thousands to the historic French Quarter and its restaurants, bars and strip clubs. The security ... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1855680-orleans-challenge-policing-2-huge-parties.html 2013-01-30T19:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1856040-report-ivory-coast-govt-lacks-impartiality.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's government has displayed a "lack of impartiality" by not pursuing specific perpetrators of 2010-11 postelection violence including those who killed hundreds of men in the country's western town of Duekoue, according to a new United Nations expert report that also criticized the indefinite and inhumane detention of those suspects that... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1856040-report-ivory-coast-govt-lacks-impartiality.html 2013-01-30T11:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852862-brazil-police-outdoor-flare-started-club-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern Brazil, according to a police inspector leading the investigation into this weekend's deadly blaze. Inspector Marcelo Arigony told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that members of th... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852862-brazil-police-outdoor-flare-started-club-fire.html 2013-01-30T01:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855074-billionaire-not-that-one-announces-nyc-mayor-bid.html NEW YORK (AP) — From one billionaire mayor of New York City to another? Businessman John Catsimatidis is hoping so. Catsimatidis, whose business interests include grocery stories, oil and real estate, announced his entrance into the mayoral race Tuesday on the steps of City Hall. The Republican joins an increasingly crowded field of GOP, Democratic and ot... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:53:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855074-billionaire-not-that-one-announces-nyc-mayor-bid.html 2013-01-29T23:53:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855198-santa-maria-mourns-dead-calls-justice.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this Brazilian college town. It was grubby and wrinkled, as Halana Pinheiro Rubim alternately smoothed it out on her knees, tracing out the names, then clutched it and cried. "Luiza Al... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855198-santa-maria-mourns-dead-calls-justice.html 2013-01-29T23:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850354-egypt-army-chief-warns-collapse.html PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) — Residents of this Mediterranean coastal city burying their dead from Egypt's wave of political violence vented their fury at Egypt's Islamist president and the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday, demanding his ouster and virtually declaring a revolt against his rule, as the head of the military warned Egypt may collapse under the weight of its turmoil. ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850354-egypt-army-chief-warns-collapse.html 2013-01-29T23:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855136-san-francisco-nudity-ban-upheld-federal-court.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge cleared the way Tuesday for the city of San Francisco to ban most displays of public nudity, ruling that an ordinance set to take effect on Feb. 1 does not violate the free speech rights of residents and visitors who like going out in the buff. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen refused to block the ban temporarily ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855136-san-francisco-nudity-ban-upheld-federal-court.html 2013-01-29T23:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1854740-scouts-future-uncertain-ban-gays-dropped.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America's proposed move away from its no-gays membership policy has outraged some longtime admirers, gratified many critics and raised intriguing questions about the iconic organization's future. Will the Scouts now be split between troops with gay-friendly policies and those that keep the ban? What will a National Jambor... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1854740-scouts-future-uncertain-ban-gays-dropped.html 2013-01-29T21:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1853128-syrian-activists-65-bodies-aleppo.html BEIRUT (AP) — The bodies of at least 65 people, some with hands tied behind their backs, were found in Syria's northern city of Aleppo Tuesday as the government and rebels trying to overthrow it blamed each other for the latest mass killing. Also Tuesday, a bomb wounded former legislator and once governor of the central province of Hama, Abdul-Razzak Qtin... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1853128-syrian-activists-65-bodies-aleppo.html 2013-01-29T19:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852986-recaptured-city-mali-islamists-hunted.html GAO, Mali (AP) — Residents in Mali's newly liberated city of Gao hunted down and beat suspected Islamist extremists who had not fled with their brothers-in-arms as Malian and French military forces closed in and retook the town. Malian troops bundled the men into an army truck Tuesday, their hands bound behind their backs. For the better part of a year, t... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852986-recaptured-city-mali-islamists-hunted.html 2013-01-29T18:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1853402-katrinas-scars-harder-to-super-bowl-looms.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans has celebrated plenty of milestones on its slow road to recovery from Hurricane Katrina, but arguably none is bigger than hosting its first Super Bowl since the 2005 storm left the city in shambles. To see the remnants of Katrina's destruction, fans coming to town for Sunday's game will have to stray from the French Quarter ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1853402-katrinas-scars-harder-to-super-bowl-looms.html 2013-01-29T12:11:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1852870-smog-thick-to-cancel-flights-hits-beijing.html BEIJING (AP) — Thick, off-the-scale smog shrouded eastern China for the second time in about two weeks Tuesday, forcing airlines to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting Beijing to temporarily shut factories and curtail fleets of government cars. The capital was a colorless scene. Street lamps and the outlines of buildings receded into a... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1852870-smog-thick-to-cancel-flights-hits-beijing.html 2013-01-29T10:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1853230-nyc-pulling-dont-honk-signs.html NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's "Don't Honk" signs are coming down, but it's still against the law to blow a car horn unnecessarily. The city Department of Transportation says all the signs will be removed by the end of the year. According to The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/117Avza ), city officials say the decision is part of an effort to de-clutter t... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1853230-nyc-pulling-dont-honk-signs.html 2013-01-29T10:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1852252-mayor-orleans-deserves-super-bowl-spotlight.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 20-story-high mural of the Lombardi Trophy, affixed to the glass exterior of a bustling hotel that was once a shattered symbol of Hurricane Katrina's devastation, rises like a beacon above the expansive white roof of the Superdome. The Super Bowl is back in the Big Easy, finally, after 11 years, giving New Orleans a spotlight of globa... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1852252-mayor-orleans-deserves-super-bowl-spotlight.html 2013-01-29T02:10:00Z