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The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours.

"Splitsville" usually refers to a couple that is the throes of a divorce. But the term also could be used to describe the lone voting precinct in Washington County that is divided between two congressional districts.

A man who allegedly tried to rob a woman of her prescription pills outside the Giant Food Store in Middletown has been charged in the crime, police said.

A man suspected of trying to rob someone at Tuesday evening near Giant Foods on East Main Street was taken into custody that evening, police said today.