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25 years after 9/11: Department of Homeland Security has cost taxpayers trillions

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security had a budget of about $31 billion in its first full year of operation. For 2027, the Trump administration wants $118 billion. Created in 2003 in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by folding 22 agencies into a single cabinet department, the Department of Homeland Security has become a permanent part of the federal government, and one that is getting bigger. Adjusted for inflation, its budget has grown substantially over its first two-plus decades, although it has held relatively steady as a share of the ...

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Mifflin County measles cases rise to 57

LEWISTOWN – Mifflin County’s confirmed measles count has climbed to 57, giving it the second-highest county total in Pennsylvania as the statewide outbreak continues to spread. The county added eight cases between Sept. 2 and Sept. 4, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s measles dashboard. Its count has nearly doubled since Aug. 25, when the state reported 29 cases in Mifflin County. Only Lancaster County, with 246 cases, now has more. Mifflin County moved ahead of Chester County, which has 56. Pennsylvania had recorded 577 confirmed cases through Sept. 4, an ...

14 hospitalized in overturned tractor-trailer crash

DILLSBURG — Fourteen people were taken to five hospitals after a tractor-trailer overturned in a seven-vehicle crash Saturday in York County, according to York County emergency management officials. Reports state that two people were flown by helicopter to hospitals and were listed in critical but stable condition. One person had to be extricated from a vehicle. Two other people declined medical treatment. The ages of those injured were not immediately available, although Czech said one of the patients was a teenager. The crash occurred on U.S. Route 15 in the Dillsburg area and ...