Is it Santana Boulevard or Santana Blvd.?
It's Boulevard. In AP Style under "addresses":
Use the abbreviations Ave., Blvd. and St. only with a numbered address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Spell them out and capitalize when part of a formal street name without a number: Pennsylvania Avenue.
In first reference, is it Mayor Datoli or Mayor Bubbles Datoli?
It's the latter. Under "names":
In general, use last names only on second reference.
Is it the East Lansing Fire Chief or the East Lansing fire chief?
Under "titles":
In general, confine capitalization to formal titles used directly before an individual's name . . . lowercase and spell out titles when they are not used with an individual's name.
Is it $6 million or 6 million dollars? We've been through this one before, folks.
Check your AP style!
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