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December 28, 2020 On Saturday, December 26, 2020, at approximately 9:05 a.m., firefighters from Solomons, Bay District, Hollywood, NAS Patuxent River, Second District and Seventh District responded to 46655 Millstone Landing Road in California, for the reported structure fire. Crews arrived on the scene to find a two-story residence with nothing evident. Upon further investigation, firefighters reported they had an active fire within the walls of the basement with extensions into the first and ...

A Look Back at a Roller Coaster of a Year in L.A.... Jose Huizar: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images | Protester: Ronen Tivony, Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images | Sheriff Villanueva: Ryan Schude A Look Back at a Roller Coaster of a Year in L.A. Politics In 2020, the halls of power were dominated by big fights, big surprises, and the mother of all federal investigations The biggest national political story of 2020 was Joe Biden’s defeat of Donald Trump. The saga of news v...

For The Inter-Mountain CHARLESTON — The union representation of the state and nation’s telecommunication workers is siding with Frontier Communications as Republican lawmakers call on the Federal Communications Commission to closely scrutinize Frontier’s winning bid for rural broadband projects. Ed Mooney, the vice president of the Communications Workers of America District 2-13, wrote a letter to the FCC encouraging the federal agency to reject the calls by congressional and state lawmak...

sadams@newsandsentinel.com CHARLESTON — The union representation of the state and nation’s telecommunication workers is siding with Frontier Communications as Republican lawmakers call on the Federal Communications Commission to closely scrutinize Frontier’s winning bid for rural broadband projects. Ed Mooney, the vice president of the Communications Workers of America District 2-13, wrote a letter to the FCC encouraging the federal agency to reject the calls by congressional and state la...

Staff writer CHARLESTON — The union representing the state and nation’s telecommunication workers is siding with Frontier Communications as Republican lawmakers call on the Federal Communications Commission to closely scrutinize Frontier’s winning bid for rural broadband projects. Ed Mooney, the vice president of the Communications Workers of America District 2-13, wrote a letter to the FCC encouraging the federal agency to reject calls by congressional and state lawmakers to review the w...

A student who was arrested while praying on campus in 2018 is suing the University for enabling a “negligent, discriminatory and intentional act,” allegedly having been assaulted by police during the arrest. In a five-page complaint filed in the D.C. Superior Court Thursday, Juanita Abii, a fourth-year graduate student, alleges the University harmed and discriminated against her when a priest’s request for her to leave the GW Newman Center, which houses a Catholic chapel, after closing t...

December 22, 2020 On Tuesday, December 22, 2020, at approximately 1:40 p.m., Leonardtown, Hollywood, Mechanicsville, Seventh District, Second District and Bay District responded to 40470 Parsons Mill Road in Leonardtown, for the reported grain dryer on fire. 34 firefighters responded and arrived on the scene to find an approximately 20 foot tall grain dryer with smoke showing. Firefighters extinguished the fire in under 30 minutes, and operated on the scene for approximately one hour. No injuri...

UpdatedTue, Dec 22, 2020 at 3:11 pm ET Reply Mayor Muriel Bowser taps Assistant Chief Robert Contee to succeed Peter Newsham as chief of the Metropolitan Police Department. (Metropolitan Police Department) WASHINGTON, DC — The District of Columbia has a new top cop. On Tuesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser named Assistant Chief Robert Contee as her pick to be the new chief of the Metropolitan Police Department. "With all that he has seen, he is confident that MPD can lead the way and serve as a bluepr...

Puzzling spike in auto thefts, many of them violent, worries D.C.-area police Paul M. Duggan Jose Banzon, who works in advertising, was spreading holiday cheer in his 2014 Acura SUV, bringing gifts of wine and candy to clients in the District. Just after 6 p.m. on Dec. 15, on the eastbound side of U Street NW in the Cardozo area, he pulled to the curb and got out, leaving the motor running, a bad mistake. “Now, all this took about 30 seconds,” he said of what happened ...

  Share Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite UPDATE - After all of this, the outrage and pressure has grown to such a degree that the Democrats appear to be abandoning their attempted election theft scheme in Iowa.  Breaking earlier today, Speaker Pelosi now says she will seat the rightful winner in the IA-02 race, Congresswoman-elect Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) when the new Congress is sworn in early next month. Unless something changes, Hawkeye State voters seem to have prevailed at last:...