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Rabies vaccination clinics make it easy to keep pets safe
Our local Pet Valu store, at 5007 Honeygo Center Dr in Perry Hall, is bringing a VIP Pet Care Veterinary Clinic to our neighborhood. This nonemergency vet care clinic features vaccinations and micro-chipping among its services for dogs and cats. In...Tags: Memorial Day, Disease Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses, Belair Road, Rabies
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5 questions … for Tracy Balazs, president and CEO of Federal Staffing Resources LLC
Tracy Balazs, the president and CEO of an Annapolis-based staffing firm, was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year last month by the Baltimore district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She founded the company, Federal Staffing...
Tags: U.S. Army, Business, Medical Specialization, Conservation, National Government
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Motorcade for injured military members to move through region
A motorcade of police vehicles escorting wounded military service members from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to New York City will cause roving lane closures on multiple area highways Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore Police....
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, New York City
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From Key Highway to Key West, Lemle bikes for cancer awareness
It's more than 1,300 miles from Key Highway in Baltimore to Key West, Fla. — a car drive lasting a couple days or a flight lasting a few hours. Or, in the case of Howard County Education Association President Paul Lemle, an eight-day bike ride....
Tags: Key West, Howard County, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Tylenol (drug), Durham (Durham, North Carolina)
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Wounded veterans' partners get scholarships to UMUC
Two weeks after Beverly Poyer married her husband in 2007, he was deployed to Afghanistan. When he came home a year later, she was thrust into a role she hadn't expected: caregiver. Army Spc. Max Poyer, exposed to frequent mortar blasts in Afghanistan,...
Tags: Financial Aid, Awards and Prizes, University of Maryland, College Park, Afghanistan, Colleges and Universities
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Sacrifices lead to prime opportunity for G.G. Smith
Moving around has always been a big part of new Loyola basketball coach G.G. Smith's life. As a child whose father, Tubby, was a rising star in the college basketball coaching ranks, Smith spent time growing up in college towns like Columbia, S.C.,...
Tags: University of Georgia, Gary Williams, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Georgia Bulldogs, Food and Drug Administration
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Federal firefighters push for shift-swap flexibility
When city or county firefighters have a family event or unexpected obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, National Government, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Parties and Movements, Darrell E Issa
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Marylander who died of rabies contracted disease from kidney transplant
The first Marylander to succumb to rabies since 1976 developed the virus through a kidney transplant that took place more than a year before the Army veteran died of the disease in February, national health and defense officials said Friday. Tests...
Tags: U.S. Army, Medical Procedures and Tests, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rabies
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Md. military bases brace for reductions
Midshipmen at the Naval Academy could spend less time training at sea, some gates into Fort Meade could be shut down and routine maintenance at military installations across the state could be delayed under federal budget cuts set to begin Friday....
Tags: Howard County, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Parties and Movements, Illegal Immigrants, Annapolis
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VFW helping veterans collect VA benefits
Dawn Brown left the Navy after 15 years when she developed Hodgkin's lymphoma. She lost her job as a secretary at a Baltimore school about a month before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She didn't know that her military service qualified her for...
Tags: Prince George's County, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Injuries and Wounds, Veterans Affairs, Hospitals and Clinics
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Injured soldier gets double arm transplant
Brendan Marrocco sometimes looks down at his arms and can't believe they really exist. Until six weeks ago, the 26-year-old didn't have arms. He lost both of his, as well as his legs, in the Iraq War when the armored vehicle he was driving ran over a...
Tags: U.S. Army, Amputation, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Iraq War (2003-2011), Injuries and Wounds
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Martin Guitar makes custom guitar for blind veteran
Lt. Brad Snyder holds the acoustic guitar in his arms for the first time, strumming a few random chords, then moving into a sampling of Neil Young. The sounds take him back to the nights when he was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and sat around a...
Tags: Paralympic Games, Nazareth, Afghanistan, Music, Tom Petty
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