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- Letters to the editor that ran in the July 3, 2019 edition of the Carroll County Times.
- A few past presidents were known for bearing grudges. But all of these men stoutly, steadfastly, defended America and Americans. That can't be said for Trump.
- The White House attempts an "alternative fact" first - make a U.S. Navy destroyer disappear in plain sight.
- Despite the rainy weather, Carroll County residents laid almost 10 times more wreaths than last year at various cemeteries participating in this year’s annual Wreaths Across America ceremony.
- Two congressmen who raised concerns after a false alarm about an active shooter caused an 80-minute lockdown at the Walter Reed National Medical Center campus in Bethesda last month say they are now satisfied the U.S. Navy is “taking proactive steps” to prevent similar occurrences in the future.
- Dr. Robert Mahon was chief doctor at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.
- A look at what's coming to Charm City as part of Maryland Fleet Week & Air Show Baltimore.
- Eddie McKinnon is the new president of Driven, an Annapolis-based executive travel company, which uses a fleet of 15 vehicles in the Mid-Atlantic — and a new concierge business with affiliates across the globe — to offer flat-rate, membership-based luxury ground transportation.
- In 1909, the original Lincoln “wheat” penny first went into circulation, replacing the “Indian Head” cent.
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Just promoted Lt. j.g. Keenan Reynolds, former Navy star and ex-Raven, looking to land with Seahawks
Keenan Reynolds recently became a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy. He'd also like to become a Seattle Seahawk. - Maryland families of the sailors killed in collision aboard the USS McCain last year have filed legal claims against the owners of the oil tanker with which the U.S. Navy destroyer collided.
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- The Monocacy Valley Memorial VFW Post 6918 will host its annual Veterans Day Observance, Saturday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m.
- The U.S. Navy on Tuesday fired the USS John S. McCain's top two officers, calling the warship's deadly August collision with an oil tanker "preventable."
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- U.S. Navy and Marine Corps divers have now recovered the remains of all ten USS John S. McCain sailors who were killed last Monday, Navy officials said late Sunday.
- The body of a U.S. Navy sailor who was killed in a ship collision earlier this month returned to Maryland on Thursday.
- The head of Maryland's VA health system urges us this Independence Day to remember those who sacrifice to safeguard our freedom.
- Xavier Martin, 24, from Halethorpe, was among seven sailors who were killed when the Fitzgerald collided with a container ship Saturday.
- YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — A Halethorpe man is among the seven sailors who died when their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan on Saturday, the U.S.
- In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea
- In 1957, CBS-TV broadcast “The Edsel Show,” a one-hour live special starring Bing Crosby designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile. (It was the
- In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A truck driver died Thursday after his tractor-trailer was swept off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel by high winds, authorities
- The commitment to service at sea of the midshipmen graduating this spring couldn't be more relevant or more needed to ensure the security and prosperity of our maritime nation. Because the oceans remain the lifeblood to global commerce, with 90 percent of trade traveling across them, freedom of navigation is an imperative and the ability to control the sea is essential. The security interests of the United States and those of our allies are increasingly challenged by near-peer competitors,
- Midshipman Alfred A. “Monk” Miles wrote the lyrics while the U.S. Naval Academy’s popular bandmaster, Lt. Charles A. “Zimmy” Zimmermann, wrote the music.
- Several Blue Angels met with will visit Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital to visit with young patients as part of Maryland Fleet Week and Air Show this week.
- Marathoners streamed into the Baltimore Convention Center Thursday to pick up their race packets as Blue Angels practicing their formations screamed overhead — the first signs of what officials expect to be a busy, crowded, chaotic weekend in the city.
- The USS Leyte Gulf, a 567-foot, gray-hull guided missile cruiser, sailed up the Chesapeake Bay into Baltimore waters Wednesday, tying up alongside the U.S. Navy's newest stealth destroyer in Locust Point to headline Fleet Week as the flagship for the public maritime event.
- It's Fleet Week, bringing dozens of vessels from the Canadian and U.S. militaries here to Baltimore. The U.S. Navy's newest multi-million dollar killing
- Sea and sky will set the stage this October for the first ever Maryland Fleet Week & Air Show.
- U.S. Paralympics announced the 115 athletes who have been selected to compete at the Summer Games held September 7-18 in Rio de Janeiro.
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has revoked Bill Cosby's title of honorary chief petty officer, citing allegations of sexual abuse against the comedian, the Pentagon said on Thursday.