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Consultants: Design issues, operations lapses led to big Kansas oil spill

A report for U.S. government regulators says pipeline design issues, lapses in its operations and problems caused during construction led to a massive oil spill on the Keystone pipeline system in northeastern Kansas

The Independent UK · May 16, 2023

Editorial: Never-ending line of fire: Wrong-address shootings expose a broken society

Everyone has made the same error at some point: looking for an address and accidentally ending up at the wrong door. The moment of awkwardness is usually forgotten quickly. For 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis, it was her last memory before being gunned down by 65-year-old Kevin Monahan after she and some…

Tribune News Service · Apr 20, 2023

Ron Cook: Mel Blount's 'life's work' all about helping youths reach their goals

Steelers Hall of Famer Mel Blount turned 75 on Monday. He celebrated the milestone by doing what he does every day on the 300-acre farm on 6 Mel Blount Drive in Buffalo Township, Washington County, that he has owned since 1989. He shoveled horse manure out of the stalls in…

Tribune News Service · Apr 17, 2023

Virginia sheriff defends removal of items from deputy’s home after California triple homicide

WASHINGTON — A Virginia sheriff says that he ordered two of his deputies to search the home of a colleague who killed three people in California, and insists they acted to protect the public.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 13, 2022

Kansas Oil Spill Biggest in US In Past Decade

A ruptured pipe dumped enough oil this week into a northeastern Kansas creek to nearly fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, becoming the largest onshore crude pipeline spill in nine years and surpassing all the previous ones on the same pipeline system combined, according to federal data. The Keystone pipeline spill…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 10, 2022

Keystone pipeline leaks 14,000 barrels of oil into creek in biggest spill yet

The leak occurred in Washington county, Kansas, with the affected segment being ‘isolated’ and the drip contained

The Guardian - US · Dec 9, 2022

Brickbat: All Alone

A federal lawsuit contends that Jazmin Valentine was forced to give birth on the floor of a cell in the Washington County, Maryland, jail. The suit says that nurses working for the jail's medical provider laughed at her and said she was trying to get out of the cell or…

Reason · Oct 10, 2022

Psilocybin In Oregon: County Considers Temporary Ban On Legal Psilocybin Therapy Program

Centers providing supervised therapeutic use of psilocybin are set to commence their services in Oregon in January 2023 thanks to the 2020 Oregon Psilocybin Services Act.

Benzinga · Jul 22, 2022

My Dear

I noticed that the Virginia A.G.'s 1989 opinion on residential picketing began with "My Dear Mr. Godfrey:"—the opinion was a response to Washington County Commonwealth's Attorney Dennis Godfrey—and it made me wonder: How long had the "My Dear" salutation (as opposed to just "Dear") endure? It appears that, true to…

Reason · Jul 5, 2022

Dan Rodricks: Republican grandstanding on the border will never solve the nation’s drug crisis

Forty-eight-year-old Thamar Smith of Hagerstown, in Washington County, Maryland, pleaded guilty to federal drug charges last week, the latest in a long line of American men who have contributed to the spread of heroin and fentanyl during an epidemic of opioid abuse that represents the tragic extent of despair across…

Tribune News Service · Jul 5, 2022