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Surveillance state saps freedom
The surveillance state expands. The Patriot Act allows our phones to be wiretapped. Our email and Internet transactions leave a trail for some to follow. The police can access our GPS location data through our smartphones without a warrant. Retailers...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Email, Computer Networking and Internet, Colleges and Universities, National Defense Authorization Act
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Get lifted at Preakness Celebration Hot Air Balloon Festival
It's been more than a decade since hot air ballooning was dealt a huge blow in the aftermath of Sept. 11, when concern for national safety was at an all-time high and many flights were grounded. "We've come a long way since then," said Ron Broderick, a...
Tags: Pimlico Race Course, Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown, Summits, Equestrian
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Three siblings from Fallston die in crash near Bel Air
Three siblings – two brothers and their sister – from Fallston were killed Monday evening in a three-vehicle accident near Bel Air, a Maryland State Police spokesman said.
The accident occurred shortly before 10 p.m. on Route 543 about half a...Tags: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Transportation Industry, Harford County, Hospitals and Clinics, Transportation Accidents
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Anne Arundel teacher learns to fly to help students soar
South River High School teacher Rob Rice could have taught his aeronautics class without ever leaving the ground. Instead, he's bolstering his teaching skills by soaring over the Bay Bridge in a two-seat propeller plane, learning to become a pilot....Tags: Entertainment Events, Baltimore County, Engineering, Teachers, Adult Education
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End domestic use of U.S. spy drones
Drone surveillance in this country has me alarmed. I'm glad the technology saved six missing cows, but drone surveillance won't end with pilfered livestock! When a sheriff in North Dakota can request a Predator B drone from an Air Force base, pull on...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Defense, Law Enforcement, Laws, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Crane chicks to finish migration by truck
What's that saying about leading a horse to water? The latest effort to teach Maryland-bred whooping crane chicks to migrate to Florida for the winter has been called off because the endangered birds will no longer follow the ultralight aircraft...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Natural Resources, Wildlife, Biology, Zoology
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Commissioners reject expansion of Carroll County Regional Airport
One of the most ambitious, and contentious, issues in Carroll County over the past decade came to a crash landing on Thursday, Jan. 26, as the Board of County Commissioners rejected the $74 million expansion plan for Carroll County Regional Airport in...Tags: Sykesville, Media Industry, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Companies and Corporations, Air Transportation Industry
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Effort to save cranes sees successes, challenges
Just as it can with human couples, sharing a good meal apparently sparks thoughts of love among whooping cranes.
The stately, endangered birds at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel are being primed by their keepers for another season of...Tags: Conservation, Natural Resources, Wildlife, Genes and Chromosomes, Zoology
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Up in the air, Harford CAP trains young pilots
The day many Americans were celebrating the freedoms that Martin Luther King's life stood for, some Harford County residents were experiencing another freedom – the freedom of flight.
The Harford County Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol,U.S. Air...Tags: Harford County, Chicago Aviation Partners, Martin Luther King Jr., Transportation Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Reality show begins filming next week at BWI
Travelers at BWI Marshall might notice camera crews scurrying around concourses A and B next week when a new reality TV show about air travel begins shooting at the airport.
The show from TLC, which doesn't yet have a name, claims to give TV viewers...Tags: Twelve Monkeys (movie), Southwest Airlines Co., Sisqo, Dru Hill (music group), Air Transportation
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Body of victim in Chesapeake Bay crash recovered near Smith Island
Search crews on Monday recovered the body of a woman, believed to be the victim of a small plane crash over the weekend, from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, police said. Mary L. Lagerquist, 78, of Sequim, Wash., had been a passenger Sunday in a...Tags: Tangier (Accomack, Virginia), Transportation Industry, Somerset County (Maryland), Chesapeake Bay
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Civilian pilot strays into restricted air space over Washington
The U.S. Air Force sent two F-16 jet fighters to intercept a civilian plane that had strayed into restricted air space over Washington, D.C., at about 8:30 p.m. Monday. The military planes, based at Andrews Air Force Base, escorted the smaller craft until...Tags: U.S. Air Force, Air Transportation Industry, Defense, Washington, DC, Thurgood Marshall
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