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Ambassador to Syria keeps profile low in Bolton Hill
When the violence in Syria began spinning out of control last year, the Obama administration made the unusual decision to bring its ambassador to the troubled country home.
And for Ambassador Robert Ford, coming home has long meant returning to...Tags: Egypt, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Bolton Hill, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Paul P. Snead, electronics repairman
Paul P. Snead, a World War II Navy veteran and self-employed electronics repairman, died of kidney failure May 27 at the Dove House hospice in Westminster. The Mount Airy resident was 86. Mr. Snead was born in Pikesville, the son of a homemaker and a...Tags: Mount Airy, Sykesville, Randallstown, West Point, World War II (1939-1945)
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Seven Marylanders honored in Memorial Day ceremony
Last year, Aaron Marchanti invited his father to the annual Memorial Day ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.
On Monday, he returned to the event to honor him.
Maj. Robert J. Marchanti II, a member of the Maryland National Guard who went to...Tags: Murder, Armed Conflicts, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Iraq War (2003-2011), Timonium
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Mids describe smooth transition from 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
When his roommate at the Naval Academy said jokingly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut it out.
His friend didn't know it, Atwill says, but he really was gay — and under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy,...Tags: Annapolis, Michael G. Mullen, Barack Obama, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Middletown
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Baltimore firm develops automatic rifle for military, SWAT
The Army's next-generation carbine may come out of a Highlandtown machine shop best known for making high-volume bottling equipment for major drink makers.
Adcor Industries Inc. learned this month that it was among a handful of weapons makers selected to...Tags: Highlandtown, Weaponry, Companies and Corporations, Interior Policy, Iraq
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Havre de Grace, Aberdeen high schools get AP grant
Harford County Public Schools is "very pleased and very proud" that Aberdeen and Havre de Grace high schools are the first schools in the county to be involved in the National Math and Science Initiative's grant program for military families, school...Tags: High Schools, Science, Schools, Boeing Co., Havre de Grace
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Not so Secret Service
In the 1962 Howard Lindsay-Russel Crouse-Irving Berlin Broadway musical, "Mr. President," one of the songs in the production is titled "The Secret Service," which begins, "The Secret Service makes me nervous ..." If allegations are true that at least...
Tags: Irving Berlin, Ethics, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Telemundo (tv network), Prostitution
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Former Mid sues Naval Academy over rapes
A former midshipman who says she was raped twice while at the Naval Academy has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force officials to improve their response to sexual assaults at the service academies. In a complaint filed Friday, the woman, now 22, says...Tags: Trials, Annapolis, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Sexual Assault, Health and Safety at School
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6th District Dems square off on Iran, ethics
The Democratic congressional candidates in Maryland's 6th District largely agree on major issues facing the country: They all favor immigration reform, more infrastructure spending to help boost the economy and a woman's right to have an abortion. But...Tags: Ethics, Iran, Republican Party, Values, Military Equipment
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Harford firm's new CT scanner benefits troop safety
U.S. troops may be heartened to know that a Belcamp, Md., company is using some of the latest technology to check, double-check, and triple-check the efficacy of their body armor and helmets. Chesapeake Testing, of Belcamp, Md., bought the $1.2 million...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Vehicles, Wars and Interventions
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Northern Chesapeake West Point Society celebrates Founders Day
The Northern Chesapeake West Point Society held its Annual Founders Day Celebration March 16 at the Maryland Golf and Country Clubs in Bel Air. More than 85 people representing graduates, cadets and parents of cadets, former professors and friends of...Tags: Bel Air (Allegany, Maryland), Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), West Point, World War II (1939-1945), Korean War (1950-1953)
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Quiet the war drums
The drumbeat for war only helps Iran by driving up oil prices, undermining the effect of sanctions on its economy and stifling domestic opponents of the regime. President Barack Obama conveyed that message clearly and emphatically to the American Israel...Tags: Mitt Romney, Weaponry, Israel, Bashar Assad, Petroleum Industry
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