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NORRISTOWN — A Dock Mennonite Academy senior won first prize in Montgomery County’s Overdose Prevention Billboard contest.

Caitlin May was recognized for her efforts participating in this year’s contest hosted in partnership with the county’s family services and drug and alcohol offices. Her artwork was featured during the June 18 Montgomery County Board of Commissioners meeting.

Established in 2017, the competition aims to cultivate artistic pieces that spotlight available resources to combat overdose prevention, substance addiction and promote healthy lifestyles.

This 2025 competition had more than 40 entries featuring the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s national hotline, which is 1-800-662-HELP (4357), according to Jennifer Gehert, program specialist with the county’s drug and alcohol office. There were 350 votes cast to decide the winner.

May’s artwork will be displayed for a month on 10 different digital billboards across Montgomery County, however, the exact locations are not yet known. May also earned a $200 Amazon gift card as part of the contest winnings, according to a Montgomery County spokesperson.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “client list,” the Justice Department acknowledged Monday as it said no more files related to the wealthy financier’s sex trafficking investigation would be made public despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.

The acknowledgment that the well-connected Epstein did not have a list of clients to whom underage girls were trafficked represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was “sitting on my desk” for review.

Even as it released video from inside a New York jail meant to definitively prove that Epstein killed himself, the department also said in a memo that it was refusing to disclose other evidence investigators had collected. Bondi for weeks had suggested more material was going to be revealed — “It’s a new administration and everything is going to come out to the public,” she said at one point — after a first document dump she had hyped angered President Donald Trump’s base by failing to deliver revelations.

That episode, in which far-right influencers were invited to the White House in February and provided with binders marked “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” and “Declassified” that contained documents that had largely already been in the public domain, has spurred conservative internet personalities to sharply criticize Bondi.

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The FBI and the Department of Justice under Donald Trump have determined Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide and the fabled ‘client list’ does not exist.

Sentiment was widely shared online that Epstein’s 2019 death was made to look like a suicide, but was actually a murder meant to prevent him from revealing his client list or co-conspirators in the pedophilic sex trafficking conspiracy.

Now, the administration is publishing a memo and plans to release a video showing their findings, backing Epstein’s death as ruled by the medical examiner as a suicide by hanging.

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Sonia Ossorio – National Organization of Women (NOW) – “Zohran Mamdani doesn’t highlight it in his campaign materials, but the 33-year-old mayoral candidate has endorsed a radical policy that would turn New York City into the nation’s first testing site for a fully open, decriminalized sex trade — where men would be free to buy sex without any fear of law enforcement interference and promoting prostitution would be a protected business venture.

It’s clear he hasn’t thought this through. A decriminalized commercial sex market would lead to a range of devastating social consequences. One of the most immediate impacts would be the expansion of street prostitution, gang activity, drug sales and violence.

New York City would become a sex tourism destination attracting men from across the metropolitan area — and even from international locales flocking to the city to buy sex much like Times Square prior to the mid-1990s, only this time, it’s legally protected.

De facto prostitution zones and pop-up brothels would depress real estate values and increase the strain on our overburdened city already grappling with affordability and quality-of-life issues.”

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While it’s not exactly news that G and PG-rated films perform well with audiences, particularly families, news headlines tout that Hollywood has “finally” realized that these films do well at the box office.

The Los Angeles Times recently wrote about this phenomenon, proclaiming that “The PG rating has made a major comeback in Hollywood.” The Wall Street Journal wrote, “PG-rated films that appeal to parents, nostalgic childless adults, and children are on a hot streak.”

We hope that streak continues.

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At Lynn’s Warriors, Independence Day is more than fireworks and parades. It is a sacred reminder of the cost of freedom and the duty we all share to protect it.

Our Founders pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to secure a nation built on truth, law and the dignity of the individual. That same spirit drives our fight today to protect the innocent, speak for the voiceless and stand firm against those who seek to destroy the moral fabric of our country. Freedom is never free. It must be guarded, generation by generation.

We believe that true independence means safeguarding our children, our families and our future from exploitation, abuse and silence. While others celebrate blindly, we call on every American to remember: freedom without responsibility is chaos. The battle today may not be on a battlefield, but in courtrooms, classrooms and digital spaces where predators and profiteers lurk. This Fourth of July, let’s recommit to being Warriors for justice, for truth and for the America we must never lose.

The cause of death for Arizona teen Emily Pike has been confirmed, but questions still loom as the search for her killer continues.

According to the Pinal County Medical Examiner’s Office, 14-year-old Pike died from “homicidal violence with blunt head trauma,” according to FOX 10 Phoenix. Although the cause of death has been confirmed, officials have not yet released the full autopsy reports.

As CrimeOnline previously reported, Emily Pike, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, was reported missing in late January. She was last seen walking near Phoenix before investigators found most of her remains, but some have yet to be recovered.

Pike was in a group home when she vanished from the Mesa area. Her former roommate told the media that Pike had a history of running away, and that she vanished after wanting to be with a boy she met while taking guitar lessons.

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UPDATED with Combs’ attorney statement: Awaiting his sentencing fate after being found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, Sean “Diddy” Combs will remain behind bars.

In a shocking move by Judge Arun Subramanian mere hours after a New York jury handed federal prosecutors a walloping defeat with acquittal on the most serious of five charges, racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, the Bad Boy Records founder was denied bond during a Wednesday afternoon hearing. Having failed repeatedly to secure a $50 million bail since being taken into custody by NYPD and federal agents in September, the “All About the Benjamins” performer has been in custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center the past nine months.

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