Joe Albero

More and more hospitals and major health systems are requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine, citing rising caseloads fueled by the delta variant and stubbornly low vaccination rates in their communities and even within their workforce. Many hospitals say their efforts to immunize their employees have stalled, in much the same way the nation’s …

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Accused Murderer Set Free in St. Louis after Kim Gardner’s Prosecutors Fail to Show at Court Three Different Times

Friday was the last day for residents of a New Jersey town to smell the sweet aroma of freshly baked Oreo cookies as the community’s Nabisco plant shut down after 63 years in operation. Parent company Mondelez International confirmed it was the last day of production at the Fair Lawn plant, which has produced Oreos, Ritz …

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A Florida man who was let into the US Capitol on January 6th was sentenced to eight months in prison  – the first such sentence for a felony case in the Capitol ‘riot.’ The man, Paul Allard Hodgkins, was not charged with property destruction or assault – yet “contributed to the collective threat to democracy,” according to …

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The American Academy of Pediatrics released new COVID-19 guidance for schools on Monday that supports in-person learning and, among other things, recommends universal masking in school of everyone over the age of 2. “The AAP believes that, at this point in the pandemic, given what we know about low rates of in-school transmission when proper …

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Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from purchasing American farm operations and receiving taxpayer subsidies. The push to drain China’s influence from the U.S. economy has reached America’s farm country, as congressional lawmakers from both parties are looking at measures to crack down on foreign purchases of prime agricultural real estate. House lawmakers …

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Photo by Ocean City Fire Department BERLIN – A monetary reward is now being offered for information resulting in the arrest of a suspected arsonist. After an investigation last month, the Worcester County Fire Marshal found the fire at 12847 Harbor Road on the commercial harbor in West Ocean City to be arson. The early-morning …

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Participants in today’s Freedom Bus tour of the Eastern Shore are pictured outside City Hall Monday. Photo by Shawn Soper OCEAN CITY — Leaders of state and local NAACP branches completed a Freedom Bus tour of the Eastern Shore with a rally in front of City Hall in Ocean City on Monday evening. The tour …

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Baltimore City continues to descend into chaos this summer as labor shortages plague the police department and firehouses. Residents could be at risk of police not responding to 911 calls or firefighters not arriving to a fire or other emergency. Under new management, newly elected Mayor Brandon Scott fails to keep public emergency services stocked …

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Congressional Democrats introduced the Reconciliation in Place Names Act last Friday to address land areas with racist and bigoted names. More than 1,000 land units and geographic features with racist names, such as “Negro Mountain” along the Allegheny Mountains, stretching 30-mile from Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, to Casselman River in Pennsylvania, are still labeled on US maps. …

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