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Dennis Baranowski
Dennis Thomas Baranowski, a dockside terminal worker who was a skilled billiards player, died of a suspected diabetic seizure April 16 at his Dundalk home. He was 40. Born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown, he was a 1989 Patterson High School...Tags: Fells Point, Diabetes, Easton (Talbot, Maryland), Dundalk, Highlandtown
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Janet S. McKegg, DNR official
Janet S. McKegg, whose career with the Department of Natural Resources spanned nearly three decades, died Friday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Elternhaus, a Dayton assisted-living facility.
The former West Friendship resident was 58....Tags: Science, Natural Resources, Alzheimer's Disease, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), College Park (Prince George's, Maryland)
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USS Sanctuary leaves harbor to be recycled
The former Navy hospital ship USS Sanctuary, which served in the aftermath of World War II and in Vietnam, has been sold and is now under tow from Baltimore to Brownsville, Texas, for recycling. The move marks the end of a 22-year residence in...Tags: Censorship, Lawyers, Hospitals and Clinics, Vietnam, Locust Point
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2009 hurricane season in fast-forward space movie
Maryland WeatherFor those of you who missed the 2009 hurricane season - it only generated three hurricanes (Bill, Fred and Ida) and none struck the U.S. - here's your chance to relive it from the safety of Earth orbit. NASA has assembled......Tags: Hurricanes, NASA, Natural Disasters, Tropical Weather, Meteorological Disasters
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Scrapping ships, sacrificing men
Raul Mendoza knew that scrapping ships was dangerous, knew about the smoke and the fumes and the accidents. He'd worked in Baltimore, where asbestos clouded the air, and North Carolina, where oil spilled into a river, and California, where workers were...Tags: Lawyers, Hands, Employees, Employment, Employers
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'You're going to die anyway'
This dusty, dingy corner of South Texas is a near-perfect place to carry on a dirty job like ship scrapping.Here along the Rio Grande, in a region that has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line of any American metropolitan area,...Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, Employees, Companies and Corporations, Labor Legislation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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The curious captains of a reckless industry
When the U.S. Navy began its great sell-off of surplus ships in 1991, Richard Jaross was among the first to see an opportunity.He began dismantling Navy ships at a California scrapyard, where workers were exposed to lead and asbestos. He came to Baltimore...Tags: Interior Policy, Lawyers, Employees, Bankruptcy, Employment
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Lea Fastow withdraws Enron plea deal
The Associated PressThe wife of former Enron Corp. finance chief Andrew Fastow withdrew a guilty plea to a tax crime today after a federal judge rejected a sentencing deal that would have given her just five months in prison and five months home confinement. The proposed...Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Prisons, Trials, Punishment
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U.K. shipbreaking contract questioned
Special to SunSpotThe recent award of a $17.8 million military contract that eventually went to a British ship scrapyard is under fire at home and abroad -- with environmentalists warning against leaky old ships trolling across the Atlantic Ocean and American companies...Tags: Employees, Bankruptcy, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Cruises, Labor Legislation
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Hollers of joy on the home front
Times Staff WritersFT. BLISS, Texas -- Col. Fred Hudson put down the telephone early Sunday morning, stepped outside his house on "Colonel's Row," as the young soldiers call it, and stared at a flagpole jutting from a nearby parade field. The morning air was still, and...Tags: CNN (tv network), U.S. Military, Christianity, Prisoners and Detainees, Waterford
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Girl, 10, Shot In Brooklyn
pix11.com | @wpixA 10-year-old girl walking in Brooklyn was shot in the leg Friday, according to the FDNY. She was in the Brownsville section when the bullet grazed her leg. Police are now combing the neighborhood for the shooter. The girl was taken to St. John's...Tags: Fire Department of New York
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Memorial Day: Today we remember
As we reflect on Memorial Day, a day set aside each year to honor members of the military who gave the ultimate sacrifice serving this nation, The Morning Call presents 287 names — 11 more than last Memorial Day — of all Pennsylvanians and...Tags: Lancaster County (Pennsylvania), Netherlands, Jim Thorpe, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Dauphin County
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