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Maryland Children Fighting For Their Lives After North Carolina Crash Maryland Children Fighting For Their Lives After North Carolina Crash
Maryland Children Fighting For Their Lives After North Carolina Crash A Maryland family's trip to North Carolina became every parent's nightmare after a crash left two young children fighting for their lives. Ashley Hildebrandt was driving with the couple's three children on Tuesday, Aug. 4, to visit family when their vehicle hydroplaned, left the roadway, and crashed into a tree, according to loved ones raising money to help the family. In a matter of seconds, a summer trip turned into days of surgeries, intensive care, and an agonizing wait inside a hospital hundreds of miles from home. Ashley and the couple's oldest son, Bryson, have since been released a…

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These Beagles Could Change Dog Ownership For Millions With Allergies These Beagles Could Change Dog Ownership For Millions With Allergies
These Beagles Could Change Dog Ownership For Millions With Allergies Two beagles are making history after scientists said they created the first genetically edited dogs without the major protein responsible for most canine allergies. New York-based Kindred Companion Sciences unveiled the two female dogs named Alfie and Bailey on Wednesday, Aug. 5. The beagles were born in September 2024 after researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology to eliminate Can f 1, the primary dog allergen.  Kindred's findings were published in a peer-reviewed study in The CRISPR Journal. The company said researchers didn't detect Can f 1 prote…

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Dog's Discovery Leads To Rabies Alert After Bat Tests Positive In Virginia: VDH Dog's Discovery Leads To Rabies Alert After Bat Tests Positive In Virginia: VDH
Dog's Discovery Leads To Rabies Alert After Bat Tests Positive In Virginia: VDH A dog's discovery has prompted a rabies warning in Virginia after a bat found in Suffolk tested positive for the deadly virus. The bat was found in the 300 block of Turlington Road in Suffolk and collected after a dog located the dead animal, according to the Suffolk Health Department on Tuesday, Aug. 4.  Animal Control responded, recovered the bat, and testing later confirmed it was infected with rabies. While human rabies cases are rare, the virus is almost always fatal once symptoms develop. Health officials say the disease spreads when saliva from an infected animal enters the bod…

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Virginia Confirms First Locally Acquired Dengue Case As Mosquito Spreads Virus Virginia Confirms First Locally Acquired Dengue Case As Mosquito Spreads Virus
Virginia Confirms First Locally Acquired Dengue Case As Mosquito Spreads Virus A mosquito bite in Northern Virginia has health officials watching closely. Virginia has confirmed its first documented case of locally acquired dengue virus, marking a milestone state health officials say is rare but important, even as they stress the overall risk to the public remains low. The Virginia Department of Health announced that a Northern Virginia resident contracted dengue despite having no known travel outside Virginia before becoming sick. The investigation, conducted with the Fairfax County and Loudoun County health departments, found the patient had been in close proximity…

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Who Is He? Police Renew Search For 2002 John Doe Found Decomposing In Virginia Woods Who Is He? Police Renew Search For 2002 John Doe Found Decomposing In Virginia Woods
Who Is He? Police Renew Search For 2002 John Doe Found Decomposing In Virginia Woods He walked into the woods carrying little more than the clothes on his back. More than two decades later, no one has figured out who he was. Prince William County detectives are asking the public to take another look at one of the area's oldest unsolved mysteries, hoping someone recognizes the face, the clothing, or even the small everyday items found alongside an unidentified man whose remains were discovered on July 29, 2002, behind a commercial business in the 8100 block of Sudley Road in Manassas. The case has remained frozen in time for 23 years. Investigators said the decomposed rema…

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He Bought The Last Scratch-Off Left. It Was Worth $1 Million He Bought The Last Scratch-Off Left. It Was Worth $1 Million
He Bought The Last Scratch-Off Left. It Was Worth $1 Million Talk about leaving nothing behind. A Maryland mechanic became an instant millionaire after buying the very last scratch-off ticket left in a vending machine, turning a split-second decision into a $1 million payday. The Cecil County man, who now jokingly goes by "Mr. Money Bags," wasn't even planning to buy that particular ticket. He had just picked up his children from the babysitter and stopped at the Royal Farms on Perryville Road in Perryville when something caught his eye. The customer in front of him had been loading up on Triple Red 777s scratch-offs. By the time it was his turn, …

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Were You At This Maryland ER? Health Officials Warn Of Measles Exposure Were You At This Maryland ER? Health Officials Warn Of Measles Exposure
Were You At This Maryland ER? Health Officials Warn Of Measles Exposure A new Maryland measles case has prompted a public health alert after officials said people may have been exposed inside a hospital emergency department on the Eastern Shore. The Maryland Department of Health announced Tuesday, Aug. 4, that a Maryland resident tested positive for measles after potentially exposing others at the ChristianaCare Union Hospital Emergency Department in Elkton. Anyone who was inside the emergency department at 106 Bow St. between 7 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 2, may have been exposed, health officials said. State health officials are conducting contact tr…

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Kids In Stolen Kia Linked To Deadly Crash At Maryland Intersection, Police Say (UPDATED) Kids In Stolen Kia Linked To Deadly Crash At Maryland Intersection, Police Say (UPDATED)
Kids In Stolen Kia Linked To Deadly Crash At Maryland Intersection, Police Say (Updated) A stolen car. Four children inside. One innocent driver never made it home. Maryland investigators say the violent Germantown crash that triggered a mass casualty response Tuesday morning began with a stolen Kia carrying juveniles as young as 12 before it slammed into another vehicle at one of Montgomery County's busiest intersections. The crash happened around 5:25 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, at Great Seneca Highway and Clopper Road, where Montgomery County police and fire crews found a white Kia Optima and a blue Toyota Matrix with catastrophic damage. The crash in Montgomery County. T…

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Dump Truck Rolls Onto Side, Shuts Down Busy Virginia Intersection Before Rush Hour (PHOTOS) Dump Truck Rolls Onto Side, Shuts Down Busy Virginia Intersection Before Rush Hour (PHOTOS)
Dump Truck Rolls Onto Side, Shuts Down Busy Virginia Intersection Before Rush Hour (Photos) A morning commute came to a grinding halt when a dump truck rolled onto its side at a busy Virginia intersection, spilling its load across the roadway. The crash happened around 7:50 a.m. Monday, Aug. 3, at the intersection of James Madison Highway and Remington Road in Culpeper County, where emergency crews found an overturned dump truck and a passenger vehicle involved in the collision. Photos from the scene show the bright yellow truck lying on its side with its load dumped onto the shoulder, while deputies, firefighters and rescue crews worked around the wreckage. The dump truck…

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Maryland Preserves Another Farm As Protected Farmland Tops 43,000 Acres Maryland Preserves Another Farm As Protected Farmland Tops 43,000 Acres
Maryland Preserves Another Farm As Protected Farmland Tops 43,000 Acres Some things aren't meant to disappear. Maryland has permanently preserved another piece of its agricultural landscape after a 69-acre farm in Washington County was protected through a state conservation program, pushing the county's total preserved farmland beyond 43,000 acres. The 69.32-acre crop farm on Park Hall Road in Rohrersville was permanently preserved through the Maryland Agricultural Resource-Based Industries Corporation's Next Generation Farmland Acquisition Program, county officials announced Monday, Aug. 3, after the conservation easement was finalized late last month. The pr…

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Johns Hopkins Researcher Detained By ICE At BWI Released In Texas, Returning To Maryland Johns Hopkins Researcher Detained By ICE At BWI Released In Texas, Returning To Maryland
Johns Hopkins Researcher Detained By ICE At BWI Released In Texas, Returning To Maryland She never made it onto her flight. Now, it's her coworkers making the trip. Dr.. Fatima Ameaka, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researcher detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, has been released from federal custody and is on her way back to Baltimore, loved ones say. The update came over the weekend from the organizer of a GoFundMe launched by Ameaka's coworkers just hours after her detention. "I am writing with wonderful news!" organizer Sarah F. wrote. "Fatima was released from a detention f…

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Banana Ball Players Surprise Maryland Fans With Game Tickets At Busy Dunkin' Banana Ball Players Surprise Maryland Fans With Game Tickets At Busy Dunkin'
Banana Ball Players Surprise Maryland Fans With Game Tickets At Busy Dunkin' Baseball has never looked quite like this. Maryland got a taste of the viral phenomenon known as Banana Ball on Saturday, Aug. 1, when players from the Loco Beach Coconuts and Indianapolis Clowns traded gloves for coffee cups during a surprise stop at a Dunkin' in Bowie ahead of their sold-out showdown at Prince George's Stadium. Long before first pitch, the party had already started. Banana Ball fever hit Bowie as players surprised fans with tickets, autographs and plenty of laughs before Saturday night's game at Prince George's Stadium. Alliance Marketing Partners Players laughed…

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Meet The Man Who Helped Keep This Virginia Town Moving For The Past 26 Years Meet The Man Who Helped Keep This Virginia Town Moving For The Past 26 Years
Meet The Man Who Helped Keep This Virginia Town Moving For The Past 26 Years If you've driven through Leesburg over the past quarter-century, chances are OJ Jackson had something to do with it. The longtime Virginia public works leader who spent 26 years helping keep the town's streets safe, clean and moving is calling it a career. Orland "OJ" Jackson officially retired Friday, July 31, after more than two decades with the Town of Leesburg's Public Works Department, where he served as Streets Superintendent. Jackson joined the town in February 2000 as Superintendent of Streets, Buildings and Grounds before transitioning to Streets Superintendent in 2006, a role he …

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Johns Hopkins Researcher Detained By ICE As Coworkers Race To Bring Her Home Johns Hopkins Researcher Detained By ICE As Coworkers Race To Bring Her Home
Johns Hopkins Researcher Detained By ICE As Coworkers Race To Bring Her Home Fatima Ameaka never made it onto her flight. Instead, the Maryland research associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was detained by ICE agents while boarding a domestic flight on Tuesday, July 28, according to her coworkers.  Now they're doing everything they can to get her back. In less than a day, colleagues launched a GoFundMe to help pay for Ameaka's legal representation, saying they were blindsided by her detention and determined to help secure her release.  By Thursday, the campaign had raised more than $32,000 from hundreds of donors. To the…

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Convicted Overseas For Credit Card Fraud, ICE Says He Did It Again In Fairfax County Convicted Overseas For Credit Card Fraud, ICE Says He Did It Again In Fairfax County
Convicted Overseas For Credit Card Fraud, ICE Says He Did It Again In Fairfax County He'd already served prison time overseas for credit card fraud. Federal authorities say he came to the United States anyway, overstayed his visa, and wound up accused of doing it again. A Hungarian-Romanian man wanted in Virginia on credit card fraud charges has been arrested after a weeks-long hunt that ended with ICE officers tracking him down in downtown DC. Sebastian Mihai Caraba was taken into custody by officers with ICE Washington's Fugitive Operations Team after investigators identified both him and his vehicle and followed him to a location he had been frequenting in the city, the…

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'Save Ezra's Walls': Community Fights To Preserve Late Maryland Artist's Legacy Alive 'Save Ezra's Walls': Community Fights To Preserve Late Maryland Artist's Legacy Alive
'Save Ezra's Walls': Community Fights To Preserve Late Maryland Artist's Legacy Alive The murals outlived Ezra Berger. Now, the community is fighting to make sure they stay that way. In Maryland, just days after the beloved Havre de Grace artist's death, residents have launched a growing campaign to preserve Berger's iconic Graw Alley murals as plans move forward for a long-planned expansion of the Harmer's Town Art Center. The effort, led by community member George Wagner, calls on the Harmer's Town Board of Directors, Havre de Grace City Council and local leaders to explore ways to save the mural walls rather than see them demolished as part of the project's next phase. "…

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SCOTUSblog Founder Who Argued 40+ Supreme Court Cases Heads To Prison In Fraud Case SCOTUSblog Founder Who Argued 40+ Supreme Court Cases Heads To Prison In Fraud Case
SCOTUSblog Founder Who Argued 40+ Supreme Court Cases Heads To Prison In Fraud Case He spent years arguing before the nation's highest court. Now, the man who helped build one of its most influential news websites is headed to federal prison. Thomas C. Goldstein, 56, of Chevy Chase, was sentenced on Friday, July 24, after a federal jury convicted the prominent appellate attorney and SCOTUSblog co-founder in a yearslong tax evasion and mortgage fraud scheme tied to millions of dollars in high-stakes gambling. For years, Goldstein built a national reputation arguing more than 40 cases before the US Supreme Court while running the boutique law firm Goldstein & Russell, P…

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Maryland Family Torn Apart After Father Of Four Is Detained By ICE On Way To Work Maryland Family Torn Apart After Father Of Four Is Detained By ICE On Way To Work
Maryland Family Torn Apart After Father Of Four Is Detained By ICE On Way To Work One trip to work changed everything. A Maryland family is scrambling to keep its life together after a Baltimore father was detained by ICE during his morning commute, leaving behind a wife, four children, and the family's only steady source of income. According to a GoFundMe organized by his eldest daughter, Segundo Quizhpi Quizhpi was detained on Saturday, July 11, while on his way to work in Baltimore.  Hours later, at 3 a.m. the following morning, his wife learned he had been taken to the ICE detention center in Farmville, Virginia, roughly four hours from the family's home. Sinc…

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Virginia Councilman Encouraged AI Child Sex Abuse Images, Traded Pics Of Himself: DOJ Virginia Councilman Encouraged AI Child Sex Abuse Images, Traded Pics Of Himself: DOJ
Virginia Councilman Encouraged AI Child Sex Abuse Images, Traded Pics Of Himself: DOJ A Virginia town councilman is accused of encouraging others online to create AI-generated images of children being sexually abused, federal authorities announced. Steven Wayne Erickson, 48, of Pulaski, was arrested on Thursday, July 23, on federal charges of receiving and distributing child sexual abuse material, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia. Pulaski has served on the Pulaski Town Council since 2024, WDBJ reports. His image remained on the town's website as of Monday, July 27. The FBI investigation began after agents received a cyber tip involvi…

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Twice-Deported Illegal Immigrant Tried To Trade 900 Pounds Of Cocaine In Murder Plot: Feds Twice-Deported Illegal Immigrant Tried To Trade 900 Pounds Of Cocaine In Murder Plot: Feds
Twice-Deported Illegal Immigrant Tried To Trade 900 Pounds Of Cocaine In Murder Plot: Feds Revenge had a price. Nearly a kilogram of cocaine. Federal prosecutors say a twice-deported illegal immigrant tried to use discounted cocaine to hire someone to kill a suspected informant before the alleged murder-for-hire plot was cut short by authorities in Maryland. Now, Frelin Hernandez Guardado, 30, has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for his role in the scheme, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced on Friday, July 24. According to court records, Hernandez Guardado had already come onto investigators' radar months earlier after illegally selling …

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Montgomery Officials Push Back After Potomac River ICE Incident, Clarify County's Role Montgomery Officials Push Back After Potomac River ICE Incident, Clarify County's Role
Montgomery Officials Push Back After Potomac River ICE Incident, Clarify County's Role Montgomery County leaders are pushing back after a dramatic ICE operation along the Clara Barton Parkway ended with multiple people in the Potomac River, making one thing clear: County police and firefighters were there to save lives, not help make arrests. In a joint statement released on Thursday, July 23, County Executive Marc Elrich and County Council President Natali Fani-González said the chaos that unfolded near Lock 7 the day before has fueled fear in the community and stressed that Montgomery County agencies did not participate in federal immigration enforcement. "Yesterday's incid…

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Maryland Landlord Slipped Cash In City Hall Bathroom To Wipe Out $145K In Bills, Feds Say Maryland Landlord Slipped Cash In City Hall Bathroom To Wipe Out $145K In Bills, Feds Say
Maryland Landlord Slipped Cash In City Hall Bathroom To Wipe Out $145K In Bills, Feds Say Sometimes, the strangest meetings play out in a City Hall bathroom. A Maryland property owner who admitted slipping cash-filled envelopes to a Baltimore City finance employee, including during meetings in a men's restroom inside a municipal building, has been sentenced to federal prison after prosecutors say the scheme erased more than $145,000 in city debts. Glen Arm resident James Carroll Erny Jr., 55, was sentenced on Thursday, July 23, by a federal judge in Baltimore to 13 months in prison, followed by eight months of home confinement, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Distr…

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Illegal Immigrant Charged In Death, Sexual Assault Of 2-Year-Old Virginia Girl: ICE Illegal Immigrant Charged In Death, Sexual Assault Of 2-Year-Old Virginia Girl: ICE
Illegal Immigrant Charged In Death, Sexual Assault Of 2-Year-Old Virginia Girl: ICE A 2-year-old girl never made it out of the hospital. Now, weeks later, the investigators have charged a 29-year-old Mexican national with sexually assaulting her in a case that has drawn national attention. The investigation began on the Fourth of July, when the child's mother arrived at the Goochland County Sheriff's Office around 3:10 p.m. after driving from a home on Owens Creek Road in Louisa County with the unresponsive girl. Deputies began life-saving efforts until paramedics arrived to rush the child to St. Mary's Hospital, where she later was pronounced dead, according to the Louis…

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'Not ICE': Montgomery Police Push Back After Maryland SWAT Raid Sparks Rumors 'Not ICE': Montgomery Police Push Back After Maryland SWAT Raid Sparks Rumors
'Not ICE': Montgomery Police Push Back After Maryland SWAT Raid Sparks Rumors An early morning SWAT operation in Maryland quickly fueled speculation online that federal immigration agents were carrying out an ICE raid. Montgomery County police say that's not what happened. Members of the Montgomery County Police Department's SWAT team executed a search warrant Thursday, July 23, at a home in the 15300 block of Graaf Place in Burtonsville as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. As photos and reports from the scene began circulating on social media, rumors spread claiming the operation was tied to immigration enforcement. By late Thursday morning, the departmen…

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Police Reveal What Sent Blind Students' School Bus Crashing Into Maryland Storefront (UPDATED) Police Reveal What Sent Blind Students' School Bus Crashing Into Maryland Storefront (UPDATED)
Police Reveal What Sent Blind Students' School Bus Crashing Into Maryland Storefront (Updated) No one inside the school bus caused it to end up buried inside a Parkville storefront. Police now say it never had a chance. Baltimore County crash investigators announced Wednesday that a Ford Focus crossed the center line on Harford Road Tuesday afternoon and slammed head-on into a Baltimore County Public Schools bus carrying students from the Maryland School for the Blind. The Parkville crash. Baltimore County Fire Department The impact triggered the violent chain reaction that ended with the bus plowing through the front of a commercial building. The crash happened around 2:25…

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Kids Among Four Hurt After School Bus Smashes Through Maryland Storefront (DEVELOPING) Kids Among Four Hurt After School Bus Smashes Through Maryland Storefront (DEVELOPING)
Kids Among Four Hurt After School Bus Smashes Through Maryland Storefront (Developing) A school bus barreled through the front of a Maryland storefront Tuesday afternoon, leaving the vehicle lodged inside the building and sending four people to the hospital. The crash happened shortly after 2:25 p.m. on July 21 in the 700 block of Harford Road in Parkville, where Baltimore County firefighters found the bus embedded inside a commercial building after smashing through its front entrance. Photos from the scene show the bus buried beneath the collapsed storefront with shattered glass, twisted metal, and debris scattered across the sidewalk as firefighters worked around the wrecka…

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Maryland To Finally Have A State Park In Every County With New Eastern Shore Addition Maryland To Finally Have A State Park In Every County With New Eastern Shore Addition
Maryland To Finally Have A State Park In Every County With New Eastern Shore Addition A piece of Maryland history is about to become part of its future. State officials on Tuesday unveiled Wetipquin Creek State Park, a 445-acre preserve on the Eastern Shore that will become Wicomico County's first-ever state park, marking the first time every Maryland county will have at least one state park. The new park, now in the planning stages, sits along Wetipquin Creek near the Nanticoke River and features more than 400 acres of marsh, forest, and shoreline, along with the historic Long Hill plantation house, which dates to the mid-1700s. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources…

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Maryland Named In White House Voter Roll Disclosure; AG Says Elections Remain Secure Maryland Named In White House Voter Roll Disclosure; AG Says Elections Remain Secure
Maryland Named In White House Voter Roll Disclosure; AG Says Elections Remain Secure Maryland found itself at the center of President Donald Trump's primetime address on election security. During a nationally televised speech on Thursday night, July 16, Trump announced the release of declassified intelligence records that he said showed voter registration rolls in at least 18 states had been "compromised" by the People's Republic of China.  Maryland was among the states identified by name in a White House document released ahead of the address. The document states that more than 200 million voter records were compromised by China and says Trump is alerting congression…

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Trump DOJ Sues Maryland To Kill In-State Tuition, Scholarships For Undocumented Students Trump DOJ Sues Maryland To Kill In-State Tuition, Scholarships For Undocumented Students
Trump DOJ Sues Maryland To Kill In-State Tuition, Scholarships For Undocumented Students Maryland’s DREAM Act is headed for a federal courtroom. The Trump administration sued the state on Thursday, July 16, seeking to strip undocumented students of access to reduced tuition, scholarships, and other financial aid at public colleges and universities. The 23-page complaint targets Maryland, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and the University System of Maryland Board of Regents, arguing that the state gives undocumented residents benefits denied to US citizens living elsewhere. At the center of the fight is a 2011 law that allows qualifying undocumented students to pay in…

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Love Island USA Has A New Winner, And She's From Virginia Love Island USA Has A New Winner, And She's From Virginia
Love Island USA Has A New Winner, And She's From Virginia Virginia has a new reality TV champion. Newport News model Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff were crowned the winners of Love Island USA Season 8 during the live finale after earning the most votes from viewers, taking home the show's $100,000 grand prize. Tatum, 25, is the latest Hampton Roads native to find herself in the national spotlight after spending the summer on one of the country's most-watched reality competition series, which pairs contestants in search of romance while America ultimately decides the winning couple. The victory capped a whirlwind run for Tatum, who entered the v…

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Convicted MS-13 Associate Sent To ICE Custody After Virginia Murder Sentence Convicted MS-13 Associate Sent To ICE Custody After Virginia Murder Sentence
Convicted MS-13 Associate Sent To ICE Custody After Virginia Murder Sentence His prison sentence is over. His trip out of the country is just beginning. Virginia officials turned over a convicted murderer and suspected MS-13 associate to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after honoring a federal immigration detainer, the agency announced. Jose Jairo Rivas-Santiago, 32, a Honduran national, was taken into ICE custody on June 15 after completing the portion of his incarceration that made him eligible for release from the Virginia Department of Corrections. According to ICE, Rivas-Santiago was arrested by Homeland Security Investigations agents in Richmond in Apr…

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