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Owner of Happy Valley Elite Cleaning charged with theft and fraud. Alleged withdrawals exceed $66,000 after woman who handled invoices died. She was released after her arraignment; preliminary hearing ...

This isn’t the story I set out to write. I was going to talk about a pretty feel-good firearms competition I went to earlier this year, where trans and queer people made up about a quarter of ...