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The high-rate if serious head injury demonstrates that the NFL must be better regulated - The Hospital and Health Department are prepared for Ebola, however unlikely it might be
- The Baltimore County police indoor range in Lutherville will undergo renovations after the department was cited because employees were found to have been exposed to high concentrations of lead.
- A Baltimore-based temporary staffing agency faces a $6,000 fine in connection with the death of an employee, who was killed last December after being crushed by a conveyor system at an Amazon fulfillment center in New Jersey.
- Playing with building tools can also inspire girls to enter the construction trades, and more should be done to encourage this, starting in childhood and continuing through school, in training programs and in industry. The dearth of women in construction deprives the industry of productive workers and denies women entry into a most lucrative field on any level.
- The year just ended brought a number of significant milestones, most of them good, to the area covered by The Record, including a couple of noteworthy sports accomplishments, completion of a major highway project, the end of a couple of eras in our history, the celebration of another and possibly the beginning of another of historical proportions.
- George H. Lazzaro Jr. was diving at 127 feet to retrieve testing equipment in Aberdeen Proving Ground's Super Pond shortly after 1:30 p.m. last Jan. 30, when he told his dive mates via radio he was "losing air, losing air fast."
- The U.S. Army has concluded that the death of a civilian diver at Aberdeen Proving Ground earlier this year was accidental, according to a report obtained by the Associated Press.
- Fire and rescue crews were dispatched to a structure collapse reported in the Jarrettsville area at 3:19 p.m. Wednesday.
- The recent publication of Elmer J. Hall's "A Mill on the Point: One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Steelmaking at Sparrows Point, Maryland," marks the last of a quartet of books chronicling the industrial and social history of eastern Baltimore County's once heavy industrial peninsula.
- Amazon.com is bringing 1,000 jobs to Baltimore, but reports about the company's employment practices give reason for concern.
- Chief Warrant Officer 3rd Class Jason M. Bennett, Senior Chief Navy Diver James C. Burger, Senior Chief Navy Diver David C. Jones and Chief Navy Diver Gary G. Ladd Jr. were charged with dereliction of duty in the deaths of Diver 1st Class James Reyher, 29, and Diver 2nd Class Ryan Harris, 22.
- Four sailors are to be court-martialed on charges stemming from the deaths of two Navy divers at the Super Pond on Aberdeen Proving Ground, a Navy spokesman said Monday.
- Charter pilot Capt. Martin Campanella says he thought he was doing the right thing when he refused to fly a plane he believed to be unsafe.
- The Army's Aberdeen Test Center will not contest any of the safety violations cited by the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration in connection with the death of a civilian diver at the post's Underwater Test Facility.
- The federal government's workplace safety watchdog has found "serious" violations in the January death of a civilian diver in the underwater testing facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
- Now in its 100th year, the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company, founded on June 11, 1913, and one of the oldest in Baltimore County, has grown and changed with the times.
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- Five residents of an Edgewood apartment were treated after being exposed to carbon monoxide Thursday evening.
- Boardwalk violinist wins a free-speech case while Ocean City officials get a well-deserved lesson in how not to protect summer vacationers
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- Robert Reich writes that Republicans are undermining government programs by failing to enforce or implement them.
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- A 27-year-old man was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center after bricks from a chimney fall on him in the 3000 block of Dublin Road near Street Monday morning, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said.
- Robert W. Cos, a crane equipment safety consultant who raised awareness in the 1980s over the unsafe car practice called "clipping," died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. The longtime Canton resident was 65.
- Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties.
- Army action follows two fatal diving incidents that killed three.
- Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges.
- OSHA has cited a Montgomery County, Maryland company in the heat-related death of an employee, but an owner says his company did nothing wrong and will fight the citation.
- In a letter to the editor of the Laurel Leader, a resident writes that a July 19 story about two state senators asking the PSC to fine Pepco and BGE $100, 000,000 contained considerable grandstanding by senators Jim Rosapepe and Brian Frosh, and misleading assertions.
- Maryland needs to adopt an opt-out provision for smart meters for those who are concerned about the possible health consequences of the radio signals they emit.
- An advocacy group filed a complaint Friday with the federal government that alleges a Baltimore-based company put hundreds of employees at risk by failing to protect them against asbestos.
- The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is reporting that a man is in serious condition after a workplace accident that occurred Monday at Lehigh Portland Cement near Union Bridge.
- Job creators who think paying unemployment insurance here is bad should try Paraguay
- Mark Chase, the spray paint artist recently arrested for trespassing at the Inner Harbor, creates a public health hazard for passersby with his noxious fumes
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- A man was killed Thursday morning in a tree trimming accident near Forest Hill in Harford County, police said.
- Joshua Cunningham was killed Wednesday morning when a trailer fell at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in East Baltimore, according to police.
