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National Interest
Moving Map: Here's Where VA Ranks Among States Drawing Most New Residents
Where Americans put down new roots is changing, and some states are proving far more magnetic than others. A new Gourmet Gift Baskets analysis ranks all 50 states and Washington, DC, by their ability to attract residents. It combines 2024 Census birthplace data with complete state-to-state migration flows from 2023. South Carolina claimed first place with a score of 87.4 out of 100. Idaho followed at 86.6, while Arizona finished third at 86.5. North Carolina ranked fourth with 84.3. Colorado placed fifth at 84.1, and Florida completed the top six at 82.5. The other end of the list was dom…
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Maryland Cop Fired After Viral Video Showed Him Chasing, Striking Man With Cruiser: Police
A viral police chase that stunned Maryland has now cost a Baltimore officer his badge. Baltimore Police terminated Officer Robert A. Parks on Friday, Aug. 21, one day after he was convicted in connection with the now-infamous October 2025 encounter that showed his patrol car chasing a man through West Baltimore. Parks was found guilty of second-degree assault, reckless driving, and three counts of misconduct in office following a trial over the Oct. 28, 2025 incident, according to the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office. The video can be viewed here. He is scheduled to be sentenced o…
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Wanted Maryland Teen Found Dead As Police Close In After 17-Year-Old Girl's Murder: Police
The Maryland man wanted for a deadly July shooting of a Milford Mill Academy student was reportedly found dead amid the ongoing manhunt. An alert was issued by Metro Crime Stoppers this week as they sought to track down 18-year-old Christian Hursey, who is accused of fatally shooting Jada Sellers, 17, late last month. According to reports, late on Thursday night, authorities were serving a search warrant in Woodlawn when they heard a gunshot coming from the basement. That's where they found Hursey suffering from what investigators believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He …
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DC Man Stabbed Girlfriend Over Moving In, Then Tried To Convince Her She Did It Herself: Feds
James Callen did not handle rejection from his girlfriend well. Now, he's heading to prison for decades. The 42-year-old District man has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for repeatedly stabbing his former partner in July 2024, federal authorities announced on Friday afternoon. Things took a twisted turn on July 12, 2024, when Callen and his girlfriend went to her brother's apartment in Southeast DC. While there, he asked his partner to move in with him, and then became enraged when she said she did not want to live with him. The following morning, while Callen and the …
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Ex-Abercrombie CEO Competent For Sex Trafficking Trial, Called Possible Ruling ‘Disaster’: Docs
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries is competent to stand trial on sex trafficking charges, a judge ruled Thursday, Aug. 20. Jeffries, 82, was previously ruled incompetent to aid in his own defense, but following an extended controversy over his mental state, Judge Nusrat Choudhury compiled a 157-page decision that he would face the charges. “Jeffries clearly possesses a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings to adjudicate his criminal charges,” Choudhury wrote. “Jeffries has learned and retained adequate information about the interstate prostitution and sex t…
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4-Year-Old Found Underwater After Neighbors Rush Into Virginia Pond To Save Him (
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Three calls came in over 10 frantic minutes in Virginia. The last one sent everyone racing toward a pond. It began at approximately 10:15 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 17, when a Fauquier County resident called 911 after spotting a small child walking across his property on security cameras, according to the sheriff's office. The boy's parents called next to report their 4-year-old missing. Then a neighbor several hundred yards up the street called with the most alarming report yet: He had seen a small child jump into a pond. A deputy who had already reached the property where the boy was first s…
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$400K Camel Caravan Gets Corralled After Strange Shipment Arrives At Dulles Airport: CBP
A $400,000 shipment of bogus Camel cigarettes just went up in smoke in Virginia. US Customs and Border Protection officers seized 2,250 cartons of counterfeit Camels at Washington Dulles International Airport that could have been worth hundreds of thousands of dollars if authenticated, federal authorities announced on Friday, Aug. 21. The shipment initially arrived from Singapore in July, with 45 boxes labeled “Camel Yellow Cigarettes,” destined for an address in Miami. Each box contained 50 cartons of Camel-branded cigarettes. According to officials, CBP officers detained …
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Maryland Teen Charged As Adult After Stabbing Coworker During Workplace Dispute, Sheriff Says
A 17-year-old in Maryland is being charged as an adult after an argument turned physical, according to the Frederick County Sheriff's Office. Shortly before 3:15 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, deputies were called to the 7200 block of Bank Court in Frederick to investigate a reported stabbing. Upon arrival, investigators say they found a man suffering from multiple stab wounds to his arm, chest, and stomach. He was taken to an area hospital for treatment and listed in stable condition on Friday, Aug. 21. It is alleged that Hyattsville resident Darwin Orlando Martinez-Serrano got into a ve…
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Ex-Fiancé Honors Hayden Panettiere With Emotional Birthday Tribute: 'You Are Missed'
Hayden Panettiere's ex-fiancé shared an emotional tribute on what would have been her 37th birthday as Neutrogena responded to backlash over its past treatment of her. Former world champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko shared the tribute in an Instagram post on Friday, Aug. 21. It came five days after the Rockland County, New York, native was found unresponsive at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina. Panettiere and Klitschko had an on-and-off relationship for about a decade. They were engaged in 2013 and welcomed their daughter, Kaya, in 2014. Klitschko gaine…
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Food Lion Worker Groped, Grabbed By Wanted Virginia Man During Shift, Police Say
A late-night shift at a Virginia grocery store took a disturbing turn. Officers were called to the Food Lion on Dillingham Square in Woodbridge at 9:09 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, after a 35-year-old employee reported being sexually assaulted inside the store, according to Prince William County Police. Investigators say the woman was working when she was approached by a man later identified as 41-year-old Dumfries resident Matthew Stephen Porcelli. During the encounter, Porcelli allegedly touched the employee inappropriately and grabbed her arm before leaving the area in a vehicle, police s…
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He Survived, His Mom Didn't: Maryland 4-Year-Old Faces New Life With Grieving Dad
At just 4 years old, Adam Bouziri's whole world changed in a matter of seconds while walking with his mother along a Maryland roadway. He survived. She did not. Bouziri remains hospitalized following the crash in Rockville on Monday, Aug. 17, which claimed the life of 44-year-old Raoudha Khelifi. Now his family is facing a new future they never could have planned for. Khelifi was walking with her son near Chapman Avenue and Twinbrook Parkway at approximately 8:25 p.m. when they were struck by a vehicle, Montgomery County Police said. Both were rushed to an area hospital, where …
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Friday Traffic Nightmare Builds After Crash Shuts I-270 Lanes, Exit Ramp (
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The Friday afternoon ride through Maryland hit an early snag. A two-vehicle crash on southbound I-270 before Exit 12 for Watkins Mill Road in Montgomery County was tying up traffic on Aug. 21, shutting down half of the highway's travel lanes and the exit ramp heading toward DC. The crash was reported at approximately 11:45 a.m., according to Maryland's CHART traffic system. Two of the four southbound travel lanes were closed as responders worked at the scene. The right deceleration lane leading toward Watkins Mill Road was also blocked, along with the right shoulder and the southbound exi…
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