However, critics believe municipal authorities have neglected needed maintenance on the city's aging sewerage system, and have speculated that more piping features are likely to develop unless action is taken.

He established a good working relationship with the British military authorities, using them to neutralize the workers ' and soldiers ' council that had become an alternative base of power for the city's left wing.

* 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.

However, for reasons unknown, municipal authorities chose to celebrate the city's 1100th anniversary in 1999.

The city's inspector general and federal authorities began investigations in December 2007.

In December 1864, Pooler was a meeting place for Union officers led by William Tecumseh Sherman, who negotiated with Savannah authorities for the strategic port city's peaceful surrender.

In 1995, the London Congestion Research Programme concluded that the city's economy would benefit from a congestion charge scheme, the Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997 required local authorities to study and reduce traffic volumes and any future London mayors were given the power to introduce " Road user charging " by the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Most Jews were expelled from Moscow in 1891 ( except few deemed useful ) and a newly built synagogue was closed by the city's authorities headed by the Tsar's brother.

Much of the city was destroyed during World War II and for several years during the following reconstruction the Soviet authorities prohibited the return of any of Narva's pre-war residents ( among whom ethnic Estonians had been the majority, forming 64. 8 % of the town's population of 23, 512 according to the 1934 census ), thus radically altering the city's ethnic composition.

Large percentages of the city's farming land was confiscated by Israeli authorities and allocated to farming cooperatives and nearby Jewish settlement towns such as Mitzpe Aviv.

Since 2001, the city's authorities along with Random House's Spanish subsidiary, Plaza & Janés, award Spain's second most important annual literary award, the Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja, and its poetry correlative, Premio de Poesía Ciudad de Torrevieja.

In the days of the Dutch Republic, this position brought the community into conflict with local and Stadholderly authorities, because the church members refused to participate in the city's militia.

Despite the initial efforts of the Ottoman authorities to turn Athens into a model provincial capital, the city's population severely declined and by the 17th century the city was little more than a village.

During the first five years or so of the city's foundation, local authorities supervised the construction of the city walls, the majority of the public buildings, including the odeion and the aqueduct.

This exhibition made public a series of proposals for transforming a large area of central London, subsequently dismissed as impractical by the city's authorities.

In a gubernatorial proclamation, he openly condemned the movement's lynching of two criminals that year, citing its complete disregard of the city's municipal authorities.

The Kraków logo, which includes the city's Latin name, Cracovia, is used by the city authorities for Kraków's promotion.

At the turn of the 19th century, Tsarist authorities demolished the city wall and all the city's gates, save for the Gate of Dawn and its chapel.

In the spring of 1891, most Jews were deported from Moscow ( except a few deemed useful ) and a newly built synagogue was closed by the city's authorities headed by governor-general Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the tsar's brother.

The latter plus the poor reputation of local authorities with the city's population led to the widespread settled opinions that Kirovohrad belongs to the group of the low-developed regional capitals of Ukraine.

However, in medieval times the city's history was marked by strong rivalry between the Counts and the Bishops of Rodez, who exerted their authorities in different sectors of the city, divided by a wall.

A major factor that has resulted from the conflict was the confiscation of agricultural land located within the city's or its governorate's jurisdiction by Israeli settlements or military authorities.

To commemorate the event, the Soviet authorities preserved the historic defensive wall bearing the traces of shelling ( situated on the city's Moskovs ' ka Street near the Arsenal ' na metro station ).

To commemorate the event, the historic defensive wall of the Arsenal factory bearing the traces of shelling was preserved by Soviet authorities on the city's Moscow Street ( near the Arsenalna metro station ).

Templar's ultimate goal is to discover the identity of the city's main kingpin who is known only as " The Big Fellow ".

Once there, they discover the city's vibrant hip-hop scene and become immersed in the culture — and the drama that goes along with it.

* December 14-Four people were murdered at Bob's Big Boy on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles and four others were injured by two armed robbers, in what was one of the city's most brutal crimes ever.

On August 1, 1928, Boss Vare suffered a stroke, and two weeks later a grand jury investigation into the city's mob violence and other crimes began.

Guardsmen prevented crimes against persons or property but made no attempt to enforce laws regulating morality or drug use ; for these reasons, some in the French Quarter bohemian community recall 1979 as the city's best Mardi Gras ever.

The Dublin Quarter Sessions Court had cognizance of all crimes committed within the city's boundaries except treason.

The power and influence he held in Minneapolis were often compared to that of Al Capone in Chicago and were associated with several high-profile crimes in the city's history, including his alleged involvement in the murder of a cab driver and the attempted murders of police officer James H. Trepanier and newspaperman Walter Liggett.

Maggie Sawyer, who previously served in Metropolis in a similar position with that city's police, the MCU deals with the most serious crimes, often involving supervillains or politically sensitive cases.

In The Dark Knight Rises, the GCPD has successfully eradicated the city's organized crime under " The Dent Act ," as most remain oblivious to Harvey Dent's crimes as Two-Face.

Certainly in the 20 years that the group was supposedly organising the city's crime, none of its alleged members was ever convicted of serious crimes.

The city's newspapers focused on the crimes for some three weeks, and a coroner's inquest was called in the Black Horse tavern across from the Kings Arms.

Asemota started the project on January 1, 2001 travelling indiscriminately across London City in search of the site-specific Witness Appeal boards installed by the city's Police Force in an appeal for witnesses to numerous crimes.

The film, shot entirely in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California and produced with the cooperation of the city's police department and the Inglewood Unified School District, is narrated by a self-described police detective who is on his way to a school meeting where he is to discuss the issue of hidden sexual predators attempting to lure young adolescent males.

His depiction of the sexual customs of his land was scandalous to much of 1950s Brazilian society and for several years Amado could not even enter Ilhéus, where the novel was set, due to threats received for the alleged offense to the morality of the city's women.

She fought for and won approval of a strengthened smoking ban, an ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, a revamped public housing system, a $ 23 million homeless assistance center, major changes to the city's Trinity River Corridor improvement plan and a taxpayer-funded downtown redevelopment effort.

'" Widely criticized was the technique of the composite character, the most notorious example of which was " Redpants ," a presumed prostitute whom Gail Sheehy wrote about in New York in a series on that city's sexual subculture.

Only after the city's western defences were extended again in 1344 – 46 up to the now-destroyed Christoffelturm, the Zytglogge was converted to a women's prison, notably housing Pfaffendirnen – " priests ' whores ", women convicted of sexual relations with clerics.

Both novels also feature aboveground and institutionalized versions of gay male cruising spaces, although open to all genders and sexual preferences ; in Trouble on Triton the protagonist visits such a space in the form of an indoor club, while in Stars the protagonists visit one of their city's many parklike runs set aside for that purpose.

Concurrent with the rise in illicit sexual activity, the sparsely populated industrial area became the focus of the city's burgeoning BDSM subculture ; over a dozen sex clubs – including such notable ones as The Anvil, The Manhole, the Mineshaft, and the heterosexual-friendly Hellfire Club – flourished in the area.