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Tornado count for Md., Va. now at seven
Maryland WeatherThe National Weather Service has now confirmed that seven tornadoes, with top winds rated from EF-0 to EF-2, touched down in Maryland and Virginia during the storms on Wednesday and Thursday this week. And surveyors are still looking for more.Damage...Tags: Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Virginia), St. Mary's County, Maryland, Tornadoes, Metal and Mineral
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Civil war events
Sesquicentennial events abound as the four-year observance of the Civil War begins this week. Here's a sampler of those upcoming in the next few months:
Maryland
Baltimore, April 15-17: Commemorative events, living-history exhibits and a grand...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Prince William County, Minority Groups, African Americans, The Washington Post
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Hiking Manassas National Battlefield Park
Baltimore Sun reporterYou get two battles for the price of one at Manassas National Battlefield Park, about 25 miles southwest of Washington. These rolling fields and woodlots in northern Virginia were the scene of the first major clash between Union and Confederate armies....Tags: Defense, Firearms, Natural Resources, Forests
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NWS: Intense storm likened to a Cat.1 hurricane
Maryland WeatherThe howling winds, swirling snow and plummeting visibility that drove plow drivers off the highways today are being driven by an intensifying offshore low-pressure system that meteorologists are likening to a Cat. 1 hurricane.Winds topped 58 mph over part...Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Reisterstown, Tropical Weather, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Disasters
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D.C. sniper Muhammad's lawyers argue for new trial
Attorneys for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad returned to court Tuesday for a third round of appeals, telling a federal appeals panel that Muhammad should not have been allowed to represent himself for two days at the start of his trial. The sniper...Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Trials, Criminals, Lee Boyd Malvo
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Medicare drug benefit enrollment
Joe Berkow, Baltimore: Is it true that any plan I use can change their formulary, deductible and co-pay each month while I am stuck with them for a year? Salganik: Partly true. The prescription plan can't change its premium, deductible or co-pay for...Tags: Retirement, Pharmaceuticals, Wages and Pensions, Personal Income, Prescription Drugs
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Charlottesville, Virginia
Baltimore Sun reporterGo here: Charlottesville is the town Thomas Jefferson built. Perhaps not literally, but his influence is everywhere, from his founding and design of the University of Virginia to Monticello, his historic home and burial site just outside the city. Tours...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, James Monroe, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia)
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'Hairspray' hopefuls vie for a shot to shine
Sun reporterIf Tracy Turnblad could do it, why not one of them? The fictional ingenue in Hairspray, John Waters' movie-turned-Broadway musical, a big girl with a big heart and big hairdo, goes up against segregationist 1960s Baltimore and along the way manages to...Tags: Movies, Theater, John Waters, John Travolta, Queen Latifah
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Va. officer is questioned by Muhammad at trial
sun reportersJohn Allen Muhammad and a Virginia police officer who says he encountered and questioned him a half-hour after a killing got into a testy courtroom exchange yesterday, as Muhammad repeatedly asked him the same questions. "He was trying to get me riled...Tags: Lawyers, Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System, Trials, Vehicles
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Sniper defense dwells on minutiae
sun reporterYellow legal pad in hand, convicted killer John Allen Muhammad pointedly questions a Virginia police officer who has identified Muhammad as the man he stopped behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Caprice, and released, during a police dragnet near an Oct. 9,...Tags: Justice System, Criminals, Central Intelligence Agency, Montgomery County (Maryland), Atlantic Ocean
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Muhammad moved to Maryland prison for 2nd murder trial
Sun StaffDeath row inmate John Allen Muhammad was transported to Maryland from Virginia under heavy guard early yesterday to await trial with co-defendant Lee Boyd Malvo on six more counts of murder in the 2002 Washington-area sniper killings. Muhammad, 44, had...Tags: Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia), Trials, Montgomery County (Alabama), Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland), Prisons
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Avoiding tunnel is impractical, costly, CSX says
Sun StaffAny attempts to reduce the flow of hazardous chemicals through Baltimore's Howard Street Tunnel, where a chemical-laden train derailed July 18 and burned for four days under ground, would face almost insurmountable legal and practical obstacles, safety...Tags: Justice System, Vehicles, Local Government, Sacramento, Natural Resources
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