National Honor Society at WHS Donates Four Cases of Books to the Judy Center

Washington High School National Honor Society Collects Cases of Books for Preschool, and Early Childhood Students

Westover, Maryland - Under the guidance of faculty advisor Scott Baker, social studies teacher, and National Honor Society President John Jones, eleven members of the NHS have collected four large cases of books in pristine condition. These books have been donated to the Judy Center.

There are easily 200 books for preschoolers, Pre-Kindergarten students and Kindergarten students. They will be distributed by the Judy Center to help families establish home libraries. Early Childhood Coordinator/Judy Center Coordinator Karen Karten said, “There is a relationship between the amount of books in the home and with student achievement.”

Air Force may ask Congress for permission to grow in 2017

In an era of military downsizing, the Air Force is one of the few parts of DoD that’s already received funding to grow over the next year. Yet officials say they’re still struggling to achieve the end strength they need and may have to ask Congress for additional money to add more uniformed airmen.

Deborah Lee James, the Air Force secretary, told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Feb. 10 that her service might need a budget reprogramming to grow its active duty officer and enlisted force beyond the 317,000 airmen lawmakers approved for 2016.

Congress OK’d that growth from the previous year’s 311,000 after James successfully argued that the Air Force’s previous manpower cuts — 30 percent over the last 25 years — made it too small to keep up with its national security commitments.

“Given our current operations tempo we certainly can’t sink below that number, and I believe the demands will indicate we’ll need even more growth in FY17,” James said Wednesday. “In order to meet these demands, I plan to take a judicious approach to incrementally increasing our total force beyond the current level, provided of course that we can attract the right talent. So we would be grateful for this committee’s assistance should a reprogramming action be required.”

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Blan Harcum, Sr has passed away

Wicomico GOP

With a heavy heart we share with our family here that Mr. Republican, Blan Harcum, Sr. has passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Harcum family at this time. Blan was not only a well known face in political circles but a force in the local farming community for decades. As well, another well known and long time Wicomico County farmer Bill Toadvine has passed away. We send our love and prayers to the Toadvine family.

Dear Hillary Clinton: pay attention (Please watch this video)

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Deal Island Students Working to Raise $1,500 to Fight Childhood Cancer

Westover, Maryland

In a recent email to several schools and the central office within the system, 4th/5th grade math and science teacher Kolby Noble recently wrote, “Hi everyone! The students, staff, and I at Deal Island are raising money for childhood cancer in the Lemonade War that we're participating in. We've already raised more than $950 for cancer research! On February 29th, our Professional Development Day, Peaky's Restaurant in Princess Anne is sponsoring our fundraiser. Anyone who eats at Peaky's on this day will help us raise money. We will receive 10% of every bill that day. Please consider dining in or ordering out to help us reach our goal of $1,500. Thanks for your support!

The Lemonade War’s mission is to raise money and awareness of childhood cancer causes, primarily for research into new treatments and cures, and to encourage and empower others, especially children, to get involved and make a difference for children with cancer.

Obama vows to nominate Supreme Court replacement for Scalia

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif — President Obama vowed Saturday to "fulfill my constitutional responsibilities" to nominate a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court and challenged Congress to grant his choice a fair confirmation hearing.

The president praised Scalia, who died of natural causes at 79 on Saturday, as "one of the towering legal figures of our time" who had "influenced a generation." Obama said he would make a selection in due time, and the president did not field questions from reporters at an impromptu news conference here at the Omni Hotel.

Obama, who already has named two female justices to the nine-member high court, has the opportunity to leave a broad mark on the nation's highest judicial panel. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has vowed to block any nomination, saying that the next president should have the chance to make the selection.

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UPDATE: Arrests made in Accomack County homicide investigation

ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — The Accomack County Sheriff’s Office have made arrests in the shooting death of 22-year-old Robert Franklin Baytops.

Deputies have 24-year-old Tavone Tyrell Cropper and 20-year-old Jahad Arell Triggs in custody in connection with the homicide.

Cropper and Triggs are both being charged with first degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Triggs was arrested February 11 and Cropper on February 12. Both are being held at the Accomack County Jail on no bond.

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Wind Chill Advisory for Wicomico County, MD

... WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST SUNDAY...

* AREAS AFFECTED: VIRGINIA NORTHERN NECK... AND THE LOWER MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA EASTERN SHORE.

* HAZARDS: DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILLS. NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH.

* WIND CHILL VALUES: MAINLY ZERO TO FIVE BELOW ZERO.

* TIMING: LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS: WIND CHILL VALUES POTENTIALLY REACHING DANGEROUS LEVELS. THE LOW WIND CHILLS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO RESULT IN HYPOTHERMIA IF CARE IS NOT TAKEN TO STAY WARM AND SHELTERED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS... MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.

Morning Mix Grandmother who punished 9-year-old with fatal run dies in prison

Joyce Hardin Garrard, the Alabama woman serving a life sentence for punishing her 9-year-old granddaughter with a fatal running regimen, is dead.

Garrard, 50, who was brain dead after suffering a heart attack at the beginning of the week, died Friday, her son’s attorney told AL.com. She was convicted of murdering her granddaughter and subsequently sentenced to life in prison last year.

“This is another loss for a family that already has lost so much,” Dani Bone, the attorney who defended Garrard at her trial last year, told the Associated Press.

Prosecutors cast Garrard as a heartless taskmaster who was bent on punishing Savannah Hardin one February Friday in 2012 for stealing candy from a peer and lying about it. Garrard argued that she was training Hardin for races, the AP reported at the time.

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House Committee Passes Bill to Privatize Air Traffic Control

The Republican-controlled House committee on Thursday endorsed a bill that would wrest responsibility for running the nation's air traffic control system from the government and turn it over to a private, nonprofit corporation run by airlines and other aviation interests.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved the measure on a mostly party-line vote of 32-26 over the objections of Democrats, who called it a giveaway to the airlines that are providing the political muscle behind the bill. The bill reauthorizes the Federal Aviation Administration and sets aviation policy for six years.

The panel's chairman and the bill's chief sponsor, Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., said "transformational" change is needed because the FAA's air traffic modernization program is taking longer and costing more than anticipated. The program will switch the system from one based on radar to one based on satellites.

Both sides agree the delays and cost overruns have come partly because Congress has subjected the agency to shutdowns, furloughs and repeated short-term funding extensions. It's difficult for the FAA to commit to expensive, long-term contracts for new equipment and services because it's dependent on yearly budget infusions from lawmakers.

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Worcester County Tea Party Sponsors Demonstration Of New Voting System

Viguerie: ‘Only Cruz Has Potential to Unite The Party;’ ‘Trump Can’t Unite Conservatives’

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Breitbart News Daily, Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon spoke with Richard Viguerie, author of Takeover: The 100-Year War for the Soul of the GOP and How Conservatives Can Finally Win It, on the current state of 2016 Republican primary and the importance of uniting all Republicans to face the Democrats in November.

Saying that he doesn’t trust businessman Donald Trump ideologically, Viguerie added: “Cruz is the best candidate I’ve seen since Ronald Reagan and in many ways he’s more ideologically consistent than Reagan.” His feeling is that with the establishment currently divided across several candidates, Cruz can to rally not just conservatives, but the entire GOP. Viguerie said the GOP hasn’t been fully united since 1988 and “only Cruz has potential to unite the party.”

Viguerie cited not only the traditional three legs of the Republican stool represented by Reagan — fiscal, social conservatism and national security — but added the Tea Party component, an emerging Libertarian wing and, finally, the GOP establishment. Unlike Trump, or any of the establishment candidates, Viguerie sees Cruz winning the White House handily in November given his ability to unite all six factions.

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Jeff Gordon Police Chase

Guess Who Hate-Filled Libs Want to Replace Antonin Scalia?

Mere minutes after the terrible news of Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia’s death broke across social media, left-wingers took to Twitter to gloat and spew: 

A few minutes after the hate wave came a stream of tweets from libs voting on their preferred replacement. Loretta Lynch? Eric Holder? Nope. The top vote-getter appears to be…Obama himself. 

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North Carolina Drug Testing Welfare Applicants

Starting late last year, North Carolina began issuing drug tests to new applicants for certain state welfare benefits. Now the state is reporting that 24 percent of the first batch of applicants tested came up positive for illegal drugs.

State officials report that of the 89 applicants given the drug test, 21 of them tested positive. An additional 70 applicants who were told to take the test never showed up for their appointment and consequently never got benefits.

The law requiring drug testing of Work First recipients suspected of drug use was signed into law in 2013 despite Republican Governor Pat McCrory’s veto — his first such action.

In his veto statement, McCrory said the legislature “overreached” with its drug testing requirement. McCrory also said the program is too costly.

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Weatherholtz offers no defense to lender

The mortgage holders of the former OC Jamboree children’s theater in West Ocean City have requested, but have not yet received, the blessing of a judge as of press time, to pursue a public auction of the property, tentatively scheduled for later this month.

According to court records, David Weatherholtz Jr. and his business partners were served with papers on Feb. 1 notifying them that the Millersville, Maryland firm Gray and Associates had been appointed as receivers with the intention to prepare the property for sale. But after no response was issued from any of the owners, the mortgage holders filed additional paperwork on Feb. 9 to request a default judgment from the court.

Both decisions are still pending.

Last month, due to nonpayment of the mortgage and other upkeep costs like utilities, U.S. District Court Judge James Bredar ruled in favor of lender U.S. Bank and appointed receivers to manage the assets, collateral and property owned by David Weatherholtz Jr., two partners and O.C. Entertainment, who operated the O.C. Jamboree theater until last year.

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"This video was made in the wake of the killings of two deputies from another county in Maryland. My father is an active Worcester county sheriffs deputy"

Rubio Eyes Brokered Convention After New Hampshire Loss

The best hope of the Republican establishment just a week ago, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) suddenly faces a path to his party’s presidential nomination that could require a brokered national convention.

That’s according to Rubio’s campaign manager, Terry Sullivan, who told The Associated Press that this week’s disappointing performance in New Hampshire will extend the Republican nomination fight for another three months, if not longer. It’s a worst-case scenario for Rubio and many Republican officials alike who hoped to avoid a prolonged and painful nomination fight in 2016.

“We very easily could be looking at May – or the convention,” Sullivan said aboard Rubio’s charter jet from New Hampshire to South Carolina on Wednesday. “I would be surprised if it’s not May or the convention.”

The public embrace of a possible brokered convention marks a sharp shift in rhetoric from Rubio’s top adviser that could be designed to raise alarm bells among Republican officials.

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BREAKING NEWS: SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA DIES DURING HUNTING TRIP IN TEXAS

TEXAS - 79-year-old Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in his sleep last night. Justice Scalia was reportedly quail hunting at Cibolo Creek Ranch near Marfa, Texas.

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Justice Scalia was the longest-serving current Justice on the Supreme Court.

According to an unconfirmed report, Scalia arrived at Cibolo Creek Ranch on Friday for a private party with around 40 people in attendance. When it was noticed Justice Scalia missed breakfast an employee of the ranch went to his room and found a body.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a statement Saturday afternoon, calling Scalia a man of God, a patriot and an "unwavering defender of the written Constitution."
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Ocean City Passes New Trailer Parking Restrictions After Some Debate

OCEAN CITY — Ocean City officials this week advanced an ordinance requiring registered participants in vehicle-related special events to purchase a permit for parking oversized trailers on certain city streets, but not before a spirited debate about where and on whom the new law should be enforced.

As part of the ongoing effort to rein in some of the behavior associated with the vehicle-related special events in the resort, including but not limited to the spring and fall Cruisin’ events and Bike Week, for example, the Mayor and Council last fall proposed an ordinance allowing only those officially registered for the events to purchase a permit and sticker to park oversized trailers on certain city streets. The sticker would have to be prominently displayed on the trailer and those “hangers on” not registered for the event would not be allowed to purchase them.

The intent of the ordinance change is to curb some of the parking of oversized trailers all over the resort during the special event weekends, some of which cause traffic obstructions and other public safety concerns, and others that take up several public parking spots. In the months since, the Police Commission has tweaked and reworked the ordinance several times and a near finished product was presented to the Mayor and Council by OCPD Chief Ross Buzzuro and Captain Kevin Kirstein on Tuesday.

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