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News Bites: Abuse of Presidential Powers, Local ICE Detainment, Ukraine Farmers Face Minefields
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President Trump orders probe into Biden aides’ alleged misuse of autopen to conceal cognitive decline and influence executive actions.
June 7, 2025
Hagerstown community organizes meeting to support Melissa Tran after ICE detention; deportation to Vietnam possible.
June 1, 2025
April McClain Delaney ignores vaccine-injured constituents while focusing on political grandstanding with out-of-state groups.
June 6, 2025
New book What Effective Leaders DO by Sean Glaze offers leadership lessons through a story featuring a plumber as an unlikely mentor.
June 6, 2025
US vetoes UN Security Council resolution seeking permanent Gaza ceasefire despite broad international support, due to lack of disarming Hamas.
June 4, 2025
Ukrainian farmers face dangerous mined fields and urgent food security threats as the war enters its fourth year, FAO calls for more aid.
June 2, 2025
NASA awards $475M in new crowdsourcing contracts to expand innovation through public collaboration.
June 6, 2025
Hagerstown hosts a Community Open House June 26 to gather input for its 10-Year Downtown Plan. Residents encouraged to participate.
June 6, 2025
The continuing war between Shaun Porter and Justin Holder against Washington County Government has had unexpected consequences, including assault charges filed against a County Commissioner.
June 6, 2025
West Virginia’s school voucher program, the Hope Scholarship, is clarifying how students can use the money for education expenses after parents asked to purchase ammunition, gaming consoles, live animals, witchcraft herbs and more through the program.
June 2, 2025
Maryland man sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for wire fraud conspiracy involving fake real estate sale in Hampshire County, WV.
June 5, 2025
The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War.
After all, it was one town among hundreds on a map that needed to be taken from the occupying Germans in the slow, methodical, grinding Battle of Normandy that began on D-Day: June 6, 1944.
June 5, 2025
While federal law prohibits the importation of endangered species parts and the sale of these parts between states, it does not ban the sale within states. Pennsylvania law currently allows endangered animal parts to be sold only with a permit.
June 5, 2025
The Virginia Department of Education is preparing to launch a new Office of Excellence and Best Practices by hiring an executive director who will be responsible for fostering innovation, highlighting high-performing schools, and directing resources toward initiatives with a proven track record of improving student outcomes.
June 3, 2025
As President Donald Trump’s administration scales back national climate initiatives, local leaders in the Washington Metropolitan region are stepping up to push for cleaner skies — with jet fuel made from trash, crops and forest waste.
June 5, 2025
NewCold to invest $275M in automated warehouse in Hagerstown, creating up to 150 jobs and boosting Maryland’s logistics sector.
May 30, 2025
Consumer sentiment in Virginia continues to slide, reaching its second-lowest level on record, according to the latest quarterly report by the Institute for Policy and Opinion Research (IPOR) at Roanoke College, released Wednesday.
May 29, 2025
Smart & Safe Florida, the political committee working to get a constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana use for adults before the voters next year, has collected enough petition signatures to trigger a review of its ballot language and financial impact.
June 5, 2025
As an ordinance aimed at prohibiting homeless people from sleeping on public property goes into effect in Morgantown, the city announced Tuesday an alternative sentencing program for enforcing the camping ban.
May 29, 2025
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said his agency is reviewing three “cases of potential public corruption” that went unsolved by the Biden administration.
May 26, 2025
Frederick launches an Extreme Heat Relief Plan to safeguard the community as temperatures soar past 95°F.
June 6, 2025
New legislation proposed by Virginia’s Capitol Hill lawmakers and their colleagues could prevent cost-sharing for prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal and postpartum care, keeping families from being saddled with big bills after birth.
June 5, 2025
Whole milk could return as an option in school cafeterias, according to a bill supported by Sen. Jim Justice.
June 5, 2025