Fort Detrick (military base)

Navy Reserve airborne electronic attack squadron makes final Md. flight

For nearly a quarter-century, members of the airborne electronic attack squadron VAQ-209 have launched their jets from this air base in Prince George's County for deployments over Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Earlier this month, Navy Cmdr. James King...

Tags: Afghanistan, Defense, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Iraq, Fort Meade (military base)

Investigators open probe into airplane crash that killed father and son

Federal investigators began examining Monday the wreckage of a two-seater, home-built airplane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing a man from Davidsonville and his son from Westminster, the father of 10 children. On Saturday, experimental...

Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Accidental Death, Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Accidents

Paul W. Ramey

Paul Wilson Ramey, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers who was a founder of AIDS Action Baltimore, died of cancer Dec. 29 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 55 and lived in Hampden. Born and raised in Woodstock, Va., he was a 1975 graduate...

Tags: Technology, Europe, Paul Wilson, AIDS, Armed Forces

Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist

First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of...

Tags: George Washington University, National Government, LSD, Research, Gerald Ford

Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says

Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges. Moreover, the National Academy of Science reported, lead from ammunition...

Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Leon Panetta, U.S. Department of Defense, Employees, Benjamin L. Cardin

Tags: Gerald Ford, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), New York City, Police Investigations, Central Intelligence Agency

Commissioners OK veterans shuttle to Baltimore, Frederick

Tags: Disabled American Veterans, Public Transportation

Howard couple's beach home is like a fairy tale

Ellicott City residents Rosario and Maria Di Marco never lost their desire to have a second home by the sea in Lewes, Del. To this day, the quiet resort town holds happy memories of summer vacations at Fort Miles near Cape Henlopen Park when their...

Tags: Land Price, Cinderella (fictional character), Ellicott City

Tags: Public Officials, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Government

Q&A with fly-fishing expert Lefty Kreh

Lefty Kreh is to fly-fishing what James Naismith was to basketball and, perhaps, what Elvis was to rock 'n' roll. Not only is the now 87-year-old Kreh credited with helping invent the sport in the late 1940s, he later popularized it by writing more...

Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Frederick County (Maryland), Conservation, Natural Resources, Natural Resource Industry

State, local officials preparing for new BRAC

As President Barack Obama proposed a new round of military base closures and reorganization, Maryland's political and business forces already are working to protect installations here and position the state to benefit from any future moves. Maryland...

Tags: Buck McKeon, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Barack Obama, Michael Hayes, Fort Meade (military base)

Howard touts Carroll County as prime location for BRAC-related business

COLUMBIA — Doug Howard, president of the Board of County Commissioners, this week made a presentation to members of a BRAC Business Initiative (BBI) meeting to highlight Carroll County's attributes for companies looking to relocate near military...

Tags: Culture, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Cultural Development, Fort Meade (military base), Elections