Editor's note: This editorial was updated Dec. 14 to correct an error regarding the relationship of the person at whom April Sloane was accused of throwing a drink. April Sloane needs to resign. Immediately. On Tuesday, Sloane, Washington County’s controller, was charged with two felony ...

Last week, the country marked the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a tragedy that wounded the national psyche the way Pearl Harbor did 22 years before and 9/11 did almost four decades later. Just two weeks after Kennedy’s death, tragedy visited more ...