Jill Zelmanovits of Girl Guides of Canada said members chose "Embers" over "Comets" as the organization renamed its Brownies branch because that name "makes some girls feel like they don t belong."
Jason Schofield, a Republican, pleaded guilty to using voters’ personal information illegally to obtain absentee ballots as a Rensselaer County election commissioner.
Jason Schofield, an upstate New York county's elections commissioner, pleaded guilty to ballot fraud that occurred in 2021. He is scheduled to be sentenced in May.
A former Republican county elections commissioner in upstate New York pleaded guilty Wednesday to applying for absentee ballots in the names of other registered voters.