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Purcellville Vice Mayor Ben Nett has filed motions seeking to release the transcript of the grand jury that handed down six felony indictments against him and two for Town Manager Kwasi Fraser. Nett and Fraser were arrested July 23 and released the same night on $5,000 bonds. Nett is charged with four counts of using a law enforcement database to gather identifying information through the use of material artifice, trickery or deception; one count of rigged government bidding, and one count of commercial fraud against the government. Fraser is also charged with rigged bidding and commercial fraud.

In a cost-cutting move, Lynchburg canceled its membership in the Virginia Municipal League (VML), a 120-year-old nonprofit, nonpartisan association based in Richmond that works for the benefit of the state’s cities and towns. Among Virginia’s 38 incorporated cities, Lynchburg, the 10th largest, is now the only city that is not a member of VML. In another cost-cutting move, the city canceled its membership in the Virginia First Cities Coalition, saving $22,767 in dues paid to the coalition in fiscal year 2025.

Speakers at Los Angeles City Council meetings will be banned from using the N-word and the C-word, the council decided Wednesday. The ban comes after years of tirades by a few speakers who attack officials’ weight, sexual orientation or gender and who sometimes use racial slurs. Speakers will now receive a warning for using either word — or any variation of the word. If they continue with the offensive language, they will be removed from the room and possibly banned from future meetings. Attorney Wayne Spindler, who often uses offensive language at council meetings, said Wednesday that he plans to sue the city over the ban. He said he will read Tupac Shakur lyrics, including offensive curse words, until he is banned from a meeting. “You’re so weak you have to curb freedom of speech for everyone, and you know this is going to bring lawsuits,” said Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger, a member of the Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council who often punctuates her remarks with singing, at the council meeting earlier this month.

In early February, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine was one of two operatives for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) granted potentially wide-ranging access to a number of systems at the Small Business Administration (SBA). Through that foray, DOGE gained access to the National Finance Center (NFC), a sensitive system that provides human resources and payroll functions for the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), among other agencies. This access has not been previously reported. And new reporting from WIRED, including the review of hundreds of pages of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, offers insight into the comprehensive access DOGE operatives were able to gain to federal systems in the early days of the second Trump administration—and just how quickly they got it.