Parks avoids runoff, wins a new term

Councilman Bernard Parks learned Friday that he definitely will not have to face a runoff campaign to return for a third term, as final certified results showed he captured 51.21 percent of the vote in the March 8 election. Daily News.

Parks won 9,482 votes over a tough labor-backed challenger, businesswoman Forescee Hogan-Rowles, who took 8,058 votes for 43.52 percent.