California 7 House Race

Pictured from left are Christine Roche, mother of scholarship winner Liam Marshall; winner Alexandra Gluko-Hyman; Herb Stern, treasurer of the scholarship fund; and winners Megan Rafter and Damen Tomassi during an award presentation Wednesday, May 15 at Longport Borough Hall. LONGPORT – The 2013 winners of the Longport Scholarship Fund scholarships were recognized during the Wednesday, May 15 commission meeting at Longport Borough Hall. Alexandra Gulho-Hyman received $2,000, and Liam Marshall, Megan Rafter and Damen Tomassi were each awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the fund.

Thomas H. Shipley Sr. passed away May 11.

The Contra Costa Sheriff's Office is finalizing a new immigrant detention policy that would decrease the number of deportations stemming out of County Jail. The new policy, announced at an immigration reform forum in Pittsburg on Thursday night, would give the Sheriff's Office more discretion over who it hands over to U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) for detention and deportation.

In a vote that will resonate in upstate New York, where "lake life" and boating are such a part of the fabric of the region, the State Assembly passed a bill Thursday requiring all individuals born after 1995 who operate a mechanically propelled boating vessel to complete a boating-safety course.

The House approved a Republican proposal Thursday to allow interest rates on federal student loans to rise or fall from year to year with the government's cost of borrowing, ending a system in which rates are fixed by law.