In the early morning hours of May 27, Richmond officials knew they would likely have to issue Richmond’s second boil advisory of the year due to collapsing water pressure, text messages obtained by The Times-Dispatch show. When contacted by The Times-Dispatch that morning, they said that overnight issues at the city’s water treatment plant hadn’t been serious enough to necessitate the notice — despite the internal communications to the contrary. Three hours later, they backtracked and warned Richmond residents in large swaths of the city against consuming the tap water without boiling it. In a statement, Lawson Wijesooriya, chief of staff to Mayor Danny Avula said she and her colleagues did not misrepresent the situation to The Times-Dispatch, but rather, were acting on shifting developments amid an uncertain situation.

Two members of the Frederick County Board of Supervisors spent part of Wednesday’s meeting hurling personal attacks at each other. The heated moments centered around Chairman Josh Ludwig and Red Bud Supervisor Blaine Dunn accusing each other and their wives of lying and slander. Ludwig and Dunn went after each other’s integrity and character, speaking for a combined 29 minutes during supervisor comments. It got so contentious that Opequon Supervisor Bob Wells got up and left early after criticizing them for using their time on the dais to personally attack each other. It started when Dunn’s wife, Joy, approached the dais during citizen comments at the end of the meeting. She claimed that over the past four years, she had allegedly been contacted by people on multiple occasions who had been told false information about her by Ludwig’s wife, Rani.

The Evanston Police Department shared its network of 18 automatic license plate readers with at least seven out-of-state agencies that sent vehicle searches to other Illinois cities for immigration enforcement cases, according to a RoundTable analysis of public records obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. This comparison identified seven non-Illinois city and state police departments that were able to search EPD’s license plate reader network as of June 4 and also had made at least one 2025 search with “immigration” or “ICE” in the “reason” field that included Mount Prospect, Danville or both, including “Richmond (Virginia) Police Department: 35 searches to Mount Prospect for “ice ero” (Enforcement and Removal Operations) between March 31 and April 9.”

A controversial court case involving the Butte-Silver Bow County coroner and other officials has become even more contentious after a hot mic picked up a conversation between the county attorney and Butte’s Chief Executive at city council meeting on June 11. “Even under our statute — the FOIA stuff that they’re doing — if we don’t give it to them, the only remedy they have is the cost and the attorney’s fees. That’s it,” says B-SB County Attorney Matt Enrooth in YouTube footage of the weekly council meeting. “Okay, sure, it costs ya $500 bucks and a thousand dollars in attorney fees. The remedy is $1,500 bucks, that’s it,” says County Attorney Enrooth. A Butte man believes they are discussing the specifics of a lawsuit involving the coroner’s mishandling of his late husband’s remains.

The story of the 1963 civil rights movement in Danville — and how it was met with police violence and challenged by the city government and a segregationist court system — would go largely untold for decades. Decades, because of an unwillingness to talk about the tumultuous time period. It was shameful for the city, and painful for members of the Black community to recall. Decades, because the paper of record tried to make it “dwindle” away in the minds of its readers. An article from the archives of the Commercial Appeal, a weekly publication in Danville. The first mention of the local civil rights movement in the Commercial Appeal appeared June 10, 1963. It was an editorial by staff member Charles Crowder calling for a committee of both Black and white folks to discuss the issue. “Journalism is the first draft of history,” said Patrick Walters, a journalism historian and professor at Washington and Lee University. “If the first draft of history doesn’t get written, then it’s not surprising that it wouldn’t make it into the history books.”