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Weather service says 9 tornadoes touched down in Md.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that at least nine tornadoes touched down in Maryland. The weather service confirmed Sunday that nine tornadoes touched down in six counties across the state during a powerful storm Friday. Meteorologist Kevin...Tags: Tornadoes, Natural Disasters, Montgomery County (Maryland), Prince George's County, Weather Statistics
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Fallston shaken in storm's aftermath
The rain had begun to fall harder, so Anthony Sadleo figured he'd stop and see his buddy Keith Matthews in Matthews' small auto-detailing shop off Belair Road. Why plunge into rush-hour traffic before the weather cleared? Matthews was laughing when the...
Tags: Business, Hospitals and Clinics, Natural Disasters, Montgomery County (Maryland), Prince George's County
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Trio of Manchester schools added to state 'green' listing
Ebb Valley Elementary School, Manchester Elementary School, and Manchester Valley High School have all been selected for certification as Maryland Green Schools for 2012, according to the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education....Tags: Schools, Elementary Schools, Sykesville
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Eagle Archives: German POWs in Westminster helped harvest the crops during World War II
I recently came across a local newspaper headline from May 18, 1945, noting, "German Prisoners For Farm Work." The idea that Carroll County was the home of German prisoners of war during World War II was nothing new to me. I had heard many oral...Tags: Employees, Prisons, Culture, Prisoners and Detainees, Sociology
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Carroll transplant recipients rappel from 32-story building to raise fund for kidney foundation
Two Carroll County residents will help the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland reach new fundraising heights this week when they rappel off a building in downtown Baltimore for the foundation's third annual Rappel for Kidney Health event. The...Tags: Renal Failure, Kidney Disease, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Kidney, Pancreas
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Transit of Venus offers rare glimpse of heavens
When Venus passed between Earth and the sun 251 years ago Tuesday, scientists scribbled down observations that helped calculate a rough estimate of the size of our solar system. Using crude telescopes, they watched the yellow planet move across the sun'...Tags: Science, Howard County, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Johns Hopkins University, Astronomy
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Tornado, severe storms batter Harford Co., Baltimore region
An intense, widespread storm system spawned at least one tornado Friday and battered parts of the Baltimore region with damaging winds and torrential rain, halting flights and flooding roads during rush hour. The storm ripped through Harford County,...
Tags: Business, Natural Resources, Forests, Natural Disasters, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail
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Severe storms spawning tornado warnings across region
8:57 p.m. Tornado warning until 9:30 p.m. for Frederick, Carroll, western Baltimore and NW Howard counties, including Eldersburg, Westminster, Hampstead and Manchester.
8:45From The Aegis: The storm ripped through Harford County, doing some of the most...Tags: Natural Disasters, Montgomery County (Maryland), Locust Point, Fells Point, Severna Park
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Harford County library won't stock 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and sequels
Three of the most popular books in America are being kept off the shelves of the Harford County Public Library system because administrators consider them to be pornographic. British author E.L. James' erotic trilogy about a steamy affair between an...
Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Brevard County, Howard County, American Civil Liberties Union, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland)
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Finksburg man arrested in Westminster stabbing
A 27-year-old Finksburg man was arrested Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of stabbing another man in the middle of E. Main Street in Westminster on Monday, according to Westminster police. Frank Anthony Douma Jr., of the 1600 block of Deer Park Road in...Tags: Westminster (Carroll, Maryland)
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Overflowing juvenile jails
For years, lawmakers and child advocates have been urging Maryland's Department of Juvenile Services to speed up the process of getting troubled youths out of the state's overcrowded juvenile lockups and into residential treatment facilities where they...
Tags: Prisons, Trials, Juvenile Delinquency
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'Skip' Amass leads the charge for Westminster's 145th Memorial Day observance
Not long after the sun comes up on Memorial Day, and hours before Westminster's 145th Memorial Day parade kicks off at 9:30 a.m., Arnold "Skip" Amass will be on site, helping set up the TV cameras and tying up last-minute loose ends. Most of all, he'll...
Tags: Memorial Day, Holidays, Cancer, American Legion, Korean War (1950-1953)
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