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

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: Engineering, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Germany, Armed Forces, Paul Wilson

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: LSD, Research, U.S. Army, National Government, Hotel and Accommodation Industry

Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says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: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Medical Procedures and Tests, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Defense, Fort Meade (military base)

Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, LSD, U.S. Army, White House, Police Investigations

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

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: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Frederick County (Maryland), Drugs and Medicines, The Miami Herald, Newspaper and Magazine

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

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, Sykesville, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Colleges and Universities, Elections

Tags: Disease Prevention, Preventative Medicine, Drugs and Medicines, Common Cold, U.S. Department of Defense

Mississippi biotech startup moves to Baltimore

Ken Malone and the board members of his startup biotech company gathered in a conference room at the University of Southern Mississippi last October to make a gut-wrenching decision. Ablitech Inc.'s funding was slowly drying up, and it couldn't find...

Tags: Research, U.S. Army, Human Body, Colleges and Universities, Science