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Update: In exchange for Emily Salazar’s resignation, 42 hours of back pay will be paid in the settlement between her and the Kern High School District. The settlement states that Salazar will be paid back pay and for her administrative leave through April 30, 2019. The 42 hours of back pay came from when Salazar worked an extended day of twelve hours for an academic decathlon and 30 hours for multiple times she served as a period substitute for the 2018 to 2019 school year. Along with her resignation, the settlement states she is no longer allowed to work or...

SOUTHPORT, N.C. - All police operations in Southport have been suspended and the entire force placed on paid administrative leave after the city's police chief and a lieutenant were arrested Thursday and charged with double-dipping at a second job while on the clock at the police department. Chief Gary Smith, 46, and Lt. Michael Christian Simmons, 48, were both charged with conspiracy to obtain property by false pretenses, willful failure to discharge duties, and obstruction of justice. ... State investigators said Smith and Simmons were driving overnight shifts for an unnamed local trucking company during the same hours they had...

Full disclosure: I didn’t watch a second of Hollywood’s annual “We Are The World” show last night. But I did  hear that Russia hacked the election! That’s right, they tried to award the Best Picture Oscar to La La Land rather than the rightful candidate, Moonlight, in a dramatic climax to what was by all reports a very long evening. Boris and Nastasha, pulling the strings backstage for PricewaterhouseCoopersFortunately the treachery was discovered in time to snatch the statuette for Best Picture Oscar away from the announced winner (La La Land – about white people singing and dancing in LA)...

The nationwide minimum wage, coupled with pension reforms, could reverse a long decline in people working off the books in Germany, and even prompt an increase, according to a study released on Tuesday. The study, from Tübingen’s Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW), working with models from the Austria’s Linz University, said government reforms, including a national minimum hourly wage of €8.50 ($11.49), and retirement for some at 63, could lead to more earnings disappearing from official records. The national minimum wage, which is set to be introduced next year, could encourage employers to hire people off the books in...

Anthony Weiner’s political career may be over, but his wife, Huma Abedin, has returned to her position as director of Hillary Clinton’s transition office.

"The State Department says, “Eligibility for access to classified information, commonly known as a security clearance, is granted only to those for whom an appropriate personnel security background investigation has been completed."

In 2005, USA Today uncovered the scandal that black columnist Armstrong Williams was paid to promote Bush’s Education Department initiatives. In 2013, it’s never a scandal when MSNBC anchors promote Obama’s Education Department initiatives. It’s another Great Leap Forward for government-media synchronicity. Today at 4 pm, after her daily on-air hour is up, MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall is serving as moderator of a Google-Plus “hangout” at Howard University for the Education Department on “A Legacy of Excellence: Celebrating African American Teachers in our Classrooms.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Ronald Miller does more than file his briefs, he also takes them off. Miller spends some days in front of a judge and many nights in front of a camera, where he's known as Don Hollywood, porn star. Miller has performed in more than 90 films in the past seven years. The 56-year-old lawyer says he reveals his night job to his clients and says he's had no trouble balancing the two careers. He's currently working on more than 30 cases. And how does his wife feel about it? No problem....