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Gun rally planned in Chambersburg
The Franklin County 912 Patriots will host a “Second Amendment Freedom Rally” on Saturday, April 6, from noon to 2 p.m. adjacent to the old courthouse in downtown Chambersburg. The event will feature numerous speakers discussing the importance...Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Justice and Rights, Politics, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), George W. Bush
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W.Va. House votes to repeal local gun laws
By The Associated PressA nearly unanimous West Virginia House of Delegates on Monday approved a measure that would repeal a handful of municipal gun control ordinances, affirming the Legislature’s supremacy over that area of law. The bill and its 94-4 passage to the...Tags: Dels (music group), Mental Health, Justice and Rights, Politics, Gun Control
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Dougherty named new Jefferson County sheriff
richardb@herald-mail.comPeter Dougherty, president of the Jefferson County Board of Education, Tuesday was appointed to replace ousted Jefferson County Sheriff Bobby Shirley on a 3-2 vote following public interviews. Jefferson County Commission members Walter Pellish, Dale...Tags: Prisons, Justice and Rights, Laws, Politics, Law Enforcement
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Nine former or current RCI officers named in federal indictments for 2008 beating
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comTwo federal indictments have been filed charging a total of nine former or current correctional officers at Roxbury Correctional Institution in connection with a pair of 2008 beatings of an inmate at the facility south of Hagerstown, according to the U.S....Tags: Prisons, Justice and Rights, FBI, Punishment, Prosecution
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Website chronicles lives of African-Americans in Civil War
Frederick News-PostIn May 1862, Robert Ford was captured by Confederate soldiers and sent to the officers’ jail in Richmond, Va., known as Libby Prison. A black resident of Frederick in his early 30s, Ford had been working as a teamster for the Union Army’s...Tags: Prisons, Slavery, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Justice and Rights
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NRA president to talk at Franklin County GOP dinner
waynesboro@herald-mail.comNational Rifle Association President David Keene is slated to speak about gun rights during a Franklin County (Pa.) Republican Committee dinner scheduled for April 3. Committee Chairman Dwight Weidman on Wednesday announced Keene will be the keynote...Tags: Spiro Agnew, Executive Branch, Bob Dole, National Rifle Association of America, Justice and Rights
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Letters to the Editor - Feb. 8
Wilson College abandoned a 144-year commitment To the editor: On Jan. 28, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a letter by Notre Dame of Maryland University President James F. Conneely in which he declares the continuing need for women’...Tags: Justice and Rights, Lobbying, Politics, Justice System, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Jefferson County Commission must appoint a Democrat to succeed Shirley
richardb@herald-mail.comA ruling Monday from the West Virginia Attorney General’s office made it official that no special election will be held to find a replacement for former Jefferson County Sheriff Bobby Shirley. The Jefferson County Commission will, by law, have to...Tags: Prisons, Injuries and Wounds, Justice and Rights, Politics, Broken Nose
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Ben Cardin: Nickens, others stood against racism, hatred
African-Americans have been part of the American story from the founding of our nation. Men and women of African ancestry have been instrumental in forging the great nation we have today. For too long, racism and prejudice obscured the rich history of...Tags: Racism, Africa, Justice and Rights, Ku Klux Klan, Black History
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Jefferson County looking to avoid special election to fill sheriff's post
richardb@herald-mail.comWhile no formal vote was taken Thursday, the Jefferson County Commission dropped plans for a special election this year to replace former Sheriff Bobby Shirley, who was forced out of office after pleading guilty in a federal civil rights violation case....Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Justice and Rights, Politics, Broken Nose, Elections
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Boonsboro High School luncheon honors King's legacy
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comJames Fisher and Edith Weedon, who lived through the Civil Rights movement and have been lifetime members of what they said is the only predominantly African-American Church in South County, spent time Thursday in the Boonsboro High School library for a...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Justice and Rights, Students, Education, Crime, Law and Justice
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Federal authorities still investigating inmate beaten in cell in 2008
dona@herald-mail.comNearly five years after an incident in which a Roxbury Correctional Institution inmate was beaten in his cell, federal authorities say it is still under investigation after a former correctional officer pleaded guilty this week in U.S. District Court to...Tags: Prisons, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Justice and Rights, Politics, FBI
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