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Investigators open probe into airplane crash that killed father and son
Federal investigators began examining Monday the wreckage of a two-seater, home-built airplane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing a man from Davidsonville and his son from Westminster, the father of 10 children. On Saturday, experimental...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Timonium, Federal Aviation Administration, Accidental Death
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Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel makes recovery
Trapped in a steel cage barely big enough to hold her, the large squirrel was not happy, pawing at the bars and trying them with her teeth. Matt Whitbeck and Cherry Keller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were glad to see her, though. The furry...
Tags: Endangered Species, Zoology, U.S. Congress, Science and Technology, Dorchester County
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With rare chickweed in bloom, ecologists gather in Baltimore to celebrate biodiversity
Leading a tour of the Soldiers Delight area of western Baltimore County on Sunday afternoon, Paula Becker, an ecologist with Maryland's Department of Natural Resources, was pleased to report the first blooming of serpentine chickweed — a plant as...
Tags: Inventories, Baltimore County, Endangered Species, National Aquarium Baltimore, State Parks
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Series of suspected arsons investigated in Dorchester
The Deputy State Fire Marshal is calling for the public's help as officials work to solve a series of suspected arsons in the Cambridge area of Dorchester County. The latest fire occurred 10:17 p.m. Friday, April 5, and involved a two-story, vacant... -
Music brings family together at 'Strength of Strings' benefit for father and son
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comDozens of people clamored around the small stage inside the ballroom at American Legion Post 211 in Funkstown, eager to hear 12-year-old Drake Fignar perform. Skillful beyond their years, Drake and friend Anthony Pappas played “Wish You Were Here&...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Pink Floyd (music group), Diabetes, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Honoring Harriet Tubman
President Barack Obama's designation Monday of a new national monument to Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery on a Dorchester County plantation in 1849, then helped guide scores of other slaves to freedom in the North during the decade before the Civil...
Tags: Travel, Transportation, Wars and Interventions, Politics, Dorchester County
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Obama establishes Tubman park on Eastern Shore
President Barack Obama set aside 480 acres on the Eastern Shore on Monday as a national monument to honor Harriet Tubman — a victory for advocates who have long sought to memorialize the abolitionist's role in leading dozens of slaves to freedom....
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Justice System, Politics, Dorchester County, Gardens and Parks
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Harriet Tubman park to be on Maryland land she worked as a slave
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman's struggle to help roughly 70 slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad was remembered on Saturday at the groundbreaking of a Maryland state park in her honor. An escaped slave herself, Tubman toiled in bondage...
Tags: Travel, Transportation, Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), State Parks, Dorchester County
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Other states woo Maryland's gun manufacturers
As Maryland contemplates passing one of the nation's strictest gun laws, at least seven other states have courted its gun manufacturers, offering tax incentives and open arms elsewhere. The governor of Texas, West Virginia's House speaker and an Illinois...
Tags: Connecticut Economic Development, Firearms, Personal Weapon Control, Justice System, Prince George's County
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City's 'bubble' bound to burst, but when?
In one of the more original and perhaps accurate descriptions of downtown Hagerstown, attorney Bruce Poole this week said the city is suffering from a bubble, “a bubble of inactivity.” Bubbles are traditionally thought of as the product of...
Tags: Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), The Herald-Mail, Allegheny Energy Inc.
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National Archery in the Schools Program hits the target
John Leck will never forget the look on the face of the paralyzed boy sitting in his wheelchair. When the arrow left the bow that had been strapped onto the eighth-grader's arm, a mixture of wonder and excitement was apparent as he watched it sail...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Rocky Hill, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Teachers
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History Matters: St. Paul's Church to observe 100th anniversary
100 Years Ago Quoth the Raven "The Poe literary society of the Ellicott City High School was called to order Jan. 8, 1913, by the president, William Holman. "The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. After transacting business the...Tags: Montgomery County (Virginia), Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Politics, Science and Technology, Elections
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