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BGE prepares for gas tower implosion
For about eight decades, the 258-foot Melvale Gas Holder has towered above northern Baltimore. In seven seconds Sunday morning, the storage tank will be brought to the ground. BGE plans to implode the steel structure, which hasn't been used since 1997....
Tags: Physiology, Jones Falls Expressway, Jones Falls
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Social Security considering 'barrier' at Woodlawn campus
The Social Security Administration is planning to build a "security barrier" at its Woodlawn headquarters that officials say is needed to protect employees and visitors. Though available details of its design are sparse — several elected...
Tags: Kenneth N. Oliver, Local Government, Kevin Kamenetz, Social Security, Oklahoma City Bombing (1995)
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A day to remember
Sun reporterNot long ago Angelika Williams was watching television when she saw, once again, videotape of those jets slamming into the World Trade Center. Williams had no personal connection to the events of five years ago: The victims were strangers, the attacks...Tags: George W. Bush, Long Island, Albrightsville, Terrorism, Stanford University
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Tenacious defender represents Muhammad
Sun StaffJames Wyda's message outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt on Monday was a lonely one. In a region still raw from the sniper shootings that are blamed on his client, in a legal arena where prosecutors jostle for the chance to send John Allen...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Judges, Trinity College, Prosecution, Health and Safety at School
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FBI ends interviewing of U.S. Iraqis; no spies found
Associated PressWASHINGTON - The FBI has wrapped up its wartime interviews of almost 11,000 Iraqis living in the United States and will return its prime focus to combating terrorism now that the war in Iraq is winding down. The interviews, which began March 20, were...Tags: FBI, Defense, International Military Interventions, National Security, Al-Qaeda
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Deadly Iraqi blast targets Italian police
Times Staff WritersNASIRIYAH, Iraq -- A suicide truck bomb exploded outside an Italian military police base here Wednesday, tearing off the facade of the three-story building and killing at least 26 people, including 12 Italian military police and a 10-day-old Iraqi baby....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Defense, George W. Bush, Civil Unrest, Health and Safety at School
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Everything changed yesterday
Sun StaffYesterday, September 11th, 2001, will be remembered as the day America stopped feeling like America. No longer can we tell ourselves that we are safe simply because we live in the United States. No more can we cling to the faith that our military and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Brown University, Anthropology, Terrorism, Death
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Jet fuel-fed fire may have melted steel in towers
Sun StaffThe upper floors of the World Trade Center's twin towers collapsed and toppled over because both airplane crashes turned the buildings into infernos, according to the head of the Maryland firm that cleaned up the last terrorist attack on U.S. soil. J....Tags: Defense, Armed Forces, Transportation Accidents, National Security, Boeing Co.
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Don't rush to blame, Arab-Americans urge
Sun StaffAlmost as soon as the planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the threatening calls began at the Washington headquarters of the Arab American Institute. Anonymous callers threatened retribution and offered sarcastic compliments on the attacks. The...Tags: U.S. Embassy, FBI, George W. Bush, Terrorism, Family
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Access to U.S. chemical-site records is spotty
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - A law Congress passed more than a quarter-century ago to alert the public to chemical hazards is seen today by some government officials as a potential tip sheet for terrorists. As a result, public access to hazardous-chemical...Tags: New York University, Judges, Local Government, U.S. Congress, Inventories
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Chaos after tornado led to double reporting in death toll
After night fell in Oklahoma, amid the chaos in the hours after a devastating tornado left a 20-mile path of destruction, the death toll stood at 51, and officials believed it would only increase. But by Tuesday morning officials and locals found...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Mary Fallin, Tornadoes
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Three friends of Boston bombing suspect charged
WASHINGTON — Shortly after the FBI released photos of two Boston bombing suspects on April 18, several college friends texted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on their cellphones. One said Tsarnaev looked like suspect No. 2, who wore a white cap backward over...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, FBI, Prosecution, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Police Investigations
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