(The Center Square) — Credit rating agency S&P placed a credit watch warning on Los Angeles’s general obligation and municipal improvement lease revenue bonds, signaling at least a one-in-two chance that the agency could “take a negative rating action during the next 90 days.” L.A.s general obligation bonds are currently rated at AA, while its
Aramis Furse, a 32-year-old Rikers Island inmate, died behind bars early Sunday -- the 14th in-custody death at the Big Apple jail complex this year, Correction Department officials said....