Alawsuit filed by Martinsville Councilman Aaron Rawls against Deputy Reva Keen and former city manager Aretha Ferrell-Benavides is still awaiting a judge’s opinion on whether Keen’s late filing will be accepted. The lawsuit stems from the ejection of Rawls from a regular council meeting in Council Chambers on March 25. Rawls claims the action violated his rights under the First, Fourth, and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The general objection Keen makes in the most recent filings concerns two videos submitted by Rawls, depicting the meeting in which Rawls was ejected. The video, described as “Video B,” shows Rawls being escorted from the building by Keen, and “Video A” appears to have been taken from someone sitting in the gallery; neither is the official video of the meeting recorded by the city. “Unlike Video A, which is identical to portions of a video uploaded by the city of Martinsville itself, there is doubt as to whether Video B fully and fairly depicts the events of March 25, as they actually occurred.

An online dashboard the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office says will give residents a better understanding of crime in their communities debuted Aug. 28. The Loudoun County Crime Dashboard provides information updated daily about crimes against people and property. It includes detailed information about suspects and victims, including age, gender, race, and whether they’re a Loudoun resident, categories and frequencies of crimes, the times and locations they occurred, and whether different categories of crime are up or down from the previous year.

The car is having a moment. No longer just a grocery getter or a signal of wealth and status, the kind of vehicle you drive is increasingly tied to partisanship. From expiring EV tax breaks, tariffs on imports, and new tax incentives for cars built in the United States, Pennsylvania drivers — already divided along party lines — are impacted. Tesla owners are also caught up in Elon Musk’s support of the Trump administration. As a battleground state, Pennsylvania is ideally suited to examine how consumer car choices diverge in strongly Republican and Democratic regions. To understand this divide, The Inquirer talked to car owners, industry experts, and analyzed data on over 11 million registered vehicles in the state as of April 2025 from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, comparing the most popular brands by zip codes based on the Republican or Democrat lean of the drivers there.

A federal court has granted summary judgment to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), concluding that the agency was justified in withholding certain records related to a “control deficiency” under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The decision marks a setback for the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a non-profit organization that filed the lawsuit seeking transparency on the matter. The case, New Civil Liberties Alliance v. Securities Exchange Commission, stems from an April 2022 public disclosure by the SEC about a “control deficiency” in its systems that allowed enforcement personnel to improperly access confidential adjudicative materials. The NCLA, which represents a plaintiff in one of the impacted cases, submitted a FOIA request to obtain records related to the breach, including reports from an outside investigator, the Berkeley Research Group.