Opinion
President Trump on crime
Local columns
Democrats have lost another issue. They had hoped to tie President Donald Trump to “ungentlemanly behavior” at the late Jeffrey Epstein’s “Love Island,” but no less a character witness than Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s procurer of underage girls and young women, has told Justice ...
Court tosses lawsuit by Trump against Maryland federal judges
Local columns
BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday threw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against Maryland's entire federal bench in an emphatic ruling that underscored the extraordinary nature of the suit, slamming it as "potentially calamitous." U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, who was ...
Almanac for Aug. 27, 2025
Local columns
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2025. There are 126 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 miles away) and resulting tsunamis in Indonesia's Sunda ...
Scammers never run out of ideas
Editorial
Scammers, it seems to us, never run short of schemes to part people from their money. The police agency involved in one of the latest is the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. According to the agency, the scammer will inform the target that their name was used to rent a vehicle which was ...
Faults county board’s actions
Letters to the Editor
This letter is about the editorial (July 21) titled “Government doesn’t work without citizen participation.” Stated “that in small-town America, governance requires participation, collaboration and a variety of viewpoints to get the job done.” I can’t agree more. But in Delta ...