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Submissions to the community calendar need to be in writing and arrive or be brought into The Mount Airy News office by 5 p.m. Tuesday for the event to be in Sunday’s newspaper. The calendar runs each Sunday. Be sure to include the full name and address...

IntroductionGoogle Alert has been busy on my account the past few weeks. Every night it leaves me a report of each blog, forum, article or letter on the internet where my name has been bandied about.Why? Well, I am tracking response to my book, but lately...

Heavily armed SWAT teams are increasingly used for such small tasks as raiding poker games and trying to stop underage drinking. How did we get here?   Excerpted from "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces...

Thursday, October 17, 2013 Good afternoon: I write today about justice denied in a sexual assault case in a small town in the heartland of rural America and the power of the internet as a force for change. The small town is Maryville, Missouri and...

LOCAL CORRUPTION? Not to put too fine a point on this one, but draw your own conclusions from this set of facts: DA David Eyster worked in Duncan James’ law office before being elected DA. Daniel Camara, 25, was originally charged with assault...