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The City Commission approved bringing in an east Winter Garden enclave that has been in the works for more than five decades.
Applicants for a chaplain's job at a Maryland county jail had to sign a statement affirming that they are Christians, a Muslim man claims Thursday in a
Applicants for a chaplain’s job at a Maryland county jail had to sign a statement affirming that they are Christians, a Muslim man claimed Thursday in a federal lawsuit accusing the county and a contractor of religious discrimination.
Lawsuit: Only Christians could apply for jail chaplain job MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Applicants for a chaplain's job at a Maryland county jail had to sign a statement affirming that they are Christians, a Muslim man claims Thursday in a federal lawsuit accusing the county and a contractor of religious discrimination. Lawyers from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, sued Prince George's County on behalf of Edrees Bridges, who has been a volunteer chaplain at a county jail in Upper Marlboro since 2018...
Winter Garden commissioners are moving forward with an ordinance that will ban certain classifications of trucks from traveling on a portion of Marsh Road, but enforcement of the ban is on hold. The ordinance earned approval during the April 8 City Commission meeting. Winter Garden has been in negotiations with officials from Lake County, Orange County, Clermont, Titan America and Center Sand Mine for more than a month after it initially passed a resolution banning the trucks in February. Ordinance 21-11 was drafted to correct a few errors in the details of the resolution. However, the seco...