Apartment City

BELLEVUE -- There were tears of joy in Bellevue on Friday evening, as residents of Highland Village Apartments were told they could stay in their homes. The plan to save one of the last affordable housing options in the area was unveiled to residents during a community meeting. The City of Bellevue, the King County Housing Authority , and members of the state legislature all worked together to make it happen. "For Bellevue, this was in a sense a test of, do we really mean we want to work on affordable housing ?  And this was an opportunity that came up to make something happen and we were determined to do that," said Bellevue Mayor John Stokes . Instead of being re-developed and sold as condos, the 76 apartments will now be bought by the housing authority . Officials say rent will be staying the same and no one will have to move. "This is gonna be the greatest good news of the year. This is Merry Christmas. This is Merry Christmas. I love it,” said Michael Simekhs, wh...

CLOSE HUD inspects Washington Heights Apartments Washington Heights (Photo: Roger Weeder) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Federal inspectors were out at Washington Heights Apartments in Jacksonville Tuesday, conducting what management is calling a routine, annual inspection. The federally- subsidized housing complex is owned by the same Tennessee organization under scrutiny for what city leaders have called deplorable conditions at Eureka Gardens , which sparked investigations by city code enforcement and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Global Ministries Foundations owns both complexes, which provide rent-assisted housing through a federal program. At Eureka Gardens , some residents complained of poor maintenance. Inspectors found that some stair cases used to access units at the complex were structurally unsafe and they also uncovered mold in some apartments. At Washington Heights , some residents told First Coast News off-camera that there are maintenance delays. One res...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In Riverside Monday afternoon , the rain came down hard and suddenly, residents in the area of N.W. Waukomis Drive and N.W. Vivion Road realized they and their belongings were in trouble. FOX 4's Molly Balkenbush is headed to the scene of the apartments and duplexes and homes in that area and will bring us the latest on FOX 4 newscasts , the fox4kc app and Facebook page. Work crews were also called out to Highway 152 and Green Hills Road where water pooled in the median and then spilled over into the eastbound lane. Drivers were directed off the highway while the crews tried to clear the water to drain. Nicole Kirby, Park Hill School District spokesperson , said elementary school buses were delayed Monday afternoon because of flooding. Parents were notified that the buses would have to take alternate routes because of high water. Additionally, Liberty, Mo., leaders tweeted on Monday that they were putting up barricades on Birmingham between Ruth Ewing and Ho...

I n the late afternoon of March 14 in the Toronto suburb of Woodbridge , a masked gunman jumped out of the passenger side of a black Jeep Cherokee , darted across a snow- dusted parking lot and unleashed a flurry of bullets into a black BMW. Thirty seconds later, he was back in the car, leaving Saverio Serrano – the son of a notorious Canadian Mafia figure and cocaine importer – wounded, and Mr. Serrano's 28-year-old girlfriend dead. Two weeks later, in the west end of Toronto, an SUV rolled into the driveway of a bungalow at the end of a suburban cul-de-sac around 2:30 a.m. As 53-year-old Antonio Sergi , a beefy, cigar-chomping showman known in Mafia circles as "Tony Large" or "T Large," got out of the car and lumbered toward the front door, he was shot in the head and killed, execution style. Convicted drug trafficker Diego Serrano , 69 is pictured in a police surveillance photo from Project OPHOENIX." class="article-media-photo__content_...

BARCELONA, Spain — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say on the...