On 09/15/2020 the Cumberland City Police Department served an arrest warrant on Jeremiah Daniel Martin. The warrant was issued when Mr. Martin failed to appear in District Court on a previous possession of a controlled dangerous substance charge. Mr. Martin was taken before a District Court Commissioner and remanded to the Allegany County Detention Center on a $5,000.00 bond.   Arrested – Jeremiah Daniel Martin (36) Cumberland, MD Charge – Failure to Appear

A busy agenda Tuesday for the Cumberland Mayor and City Council with updates on a number of key projects including the downtown mall redesign and the future of the Memorial Hospital site. For the longest while the plans for the former M&T building on Baltimore Street had been to develop it into a boutique hotel- with an opening to coordinate with the new downtown mall. However, Matt Miller, executive director of the Cumberland Economic Development Corporation, reports that with COVID-19 having a negative impact on the hospitality industry and investors now reluctant to commit – it might be time to…

During his emergency COVID-19 briefing Tuesday, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced a new color would be added to the state's color-coded county alert system map. Gold will be the color between the “orange and yellow” advisory. Gold will include cases with the rate of 10-14.9. Governor Justice said the “gold” advisory needed to happen because the range is too wide for the color-coded system. Although his administration has been criticized in some circles for too often changing the guidelines, Justice said it’s imperative for government and citizens alike to be prepared to adapt when it comes to matters of…

As he prepares to run for governor in 2022, Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot has been more frequently using progressive rhetoric while increasing his criticisms of President Donald Trump. Franchot, a Democrat, has called Trump’s tactics “fascist." In a recent interview, Franchot said Trump is realizing his political base is not growing and that he is willing to break the rules to get elected…  

The Allegany County Commissioners, during their regular business meeting, received an update from Board of Education President Tammy Fraley on the system’s plans to gradually return kids to the classrooms.  County Commissioners President Jake Shade said the county’s COVID numbers are continuing to move in the right direction and easily exceed the state’s defined standards for a safe return to school…    Fraley said that the best case scenario at this point may be a hybrid model for school attendance, since there is no way to return all of the kids to the classroom, as long as the social distancing…

Maryland U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen  along with Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Special Committee on Aging Ranking Member Bob Casey (D-Pa.), and Committee on Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and more than two dozen of their Senate Colleagues wrote to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Tuesday calling on him to immediately reverse all operational and organizational changes that have resulted in delays of critical medications to Americans.   “The Postal Service…

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia announced Tuesday she will be in self-quarantine for two weeks, after being exposed to someone who recently tested positive for COVID-19.  Capito said she'll work from home in Charleston. She will have to miss votes on the Senate floor because proxy voting is not permitted. However, she will be able to file proxy votes in committee meetings.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf angrily pledged to appeal a federal court ruling that declared much of his mitigation strategy to limit the spread of coronavirus unconstitutional and blasted Republicans at the state and national level who’ve been critical of his actions and cheered the ruling. “Yesterday Harrisburg Republicans celebrated while thousands and thousands in our state continue to suffer,” Wolf said. “The president could do nothing more than stare at his phone and tweet.” U.S. District Court Judge Wlliam Stickman ruled Monday that Wolf’s limits on crowd sizes of 25 people indoors and 250 people outdoors violate the First Amendment, and…

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced an agreement to obtain $9,466,891 in debt relief for approximately 1,100 former students of ITT Technical Institute in Maryland as part of a multistate settlement with the PEAKS Trust entities (PEAKS), along with 47 other Attorneys General and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  Nationally, the settlement will result in debt relief of more than $330 million for approximately 35,000 former ITT Tech students.   PEAKS, a private loan program affiliated with Deutsche Bank entities, provided loans to finance students’ tuition at ITT Tech, a for-profit college that, prior to its closure, enrolled students…

Peter Laviolette was hired as coach of the Washington Capitals on Tuesday. Laviolette replaces Todd Reirden, who was fired Aug. 23 after the Capitals were eliminated by the New York Islanders in the Eastern Conference First Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 4-0 loss in Game 5 on Aug. 20. It was the second straight season the Capitals lost in the first round of the playoffs after finishing first in the Metropolitan Division each season. After firing Reirden, Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said he wanted to hire an experienced coach to get more out of a veteran roster…