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County considers restricting services for illegal immigrants The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed July 17 to examine ways of curbing the availability of some public services to illegal immigrants and to encourage the Sheriff's Office to enforce federal immigration laws. The resolution, similar to one adopted by Prince William County earlier this month, came after supervisors also agreed to send a letter to Herndon officials stating their opposition to the continued operation of a day-laborer site near the Loudoun border. "No one on this dais is a racist," said board Vice Chairman Bruce Tulloch (R-Potomac). "What we are...

Possible Human-Trafficking Ring Discovered In Loudoun 14 People Taken Into Police Custody POSTED: 5:56 pm EDT April 28, 2006 UPDATED: 7:14 pm EDT April 28, 2006 Loudoun County, Va. -- A Loudoun County police officer recently uncovered a possible human-trafficking ring, and now 14 people are in the custody of federal authorities. Police said they believe that the group, all of whom are believed to be illegal immigrants, had traveled from the southwestern part of United States border to Virginia. Each of them is believed to have paid $1,500 for their transportation, authorities said. Their final destination was unclear. The...

Fires Engulf Multiple Homes in Charles County Updated: Monday, Dec. 6, 2004 - 7:42 AM INDIAN HEAD, Md. - Firefighters in Charles County are working to contain at least fires at 11 or 12 homes in a new development. Charles County officials confirm that all the homes on fire in a neighborhood near Indian Head were under construction and weren't occupied. County government spokeswoman Nina Voehl says the four-alarm blaze was first reported just before 5 a.m. at the Hunters Brooke subdivision off of Route 225. The fires are on Hunters Brooke Drive off Hawthorne Road and are scattered throughout...

The division of the human family into its two distinct branches occurred some 10,000 years ago, a few hundred years after the flood. Humans coexisted as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. In the pivotal event of societal evolution, beer was invented. This epochal innovation was both the foundation of modern civilization and the occasion of the great bifurcation of humanity into its two distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives. Once beer was discovered, it required grain, and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle or aluminum can had yet been invented, so it was necessary to...

Mosquitoes Were On Uninhabited Island ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Researchers say mosquitoes infected with malaria were trapped on an uninhabited island in Montgomery County, Md., on the Potomac River. Dr. Carol Garvey, Montgomery County's health director, said that a decision will be made in the next 48 hours on whether to spray insecticide in areas where malaria-infected mosquitoes may be breeding. Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan plans to seek advice from health and environmental officials before making a decision, health officials said. The infected mosquitoes were found in traps set on Selden Island by federal researchers last week after malaria...

If you're in a labor union, and the head of your union sits on the board of a little-known insurance company, you may want to check and see if there is any money left in your pension. It may be seriously depleted as a result of some shady stock deals - deals in which many union leaders made out like bandits. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., is looking into whether union leaders profited by pulling their money out of deals in which pension money was also invested. Heavy Hitters The company being investigated is a union-owned insurer called...