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Community begins to cope with shootings
Baltimore Sun reportersSomething awful happened inside the yellow house on Washington Street, as the creaky wooden porch made clear all weekend. It was wrapped with tarps while police worked inside Saturday, sifting through a crime scene more horrid than anything they could...Tags: New Jersey, Facebook, Buddhism, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Children
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Debt believed to be factor in family deaths
The Washington PostThe man who killed his wife and three young children and then himself in a tiny Frederick County town last week was at least $460,000 in debt and owned a Florida house that was in foreclosure, according to property records and police officials. In one of...Tags: Homes, Social Issues, Juvenile Delinquency, West Virginia, Children
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CSX to pay $2 million to Baltimore
Sun reporterFour and a half years after a derailment and fire in the Howard Street Tunnel created havoc downtown, CSX Transportation Inc. has agreed to pay Baltimore $2 million to settle the city's lawsuit against the railroad company. Mayor Martin O'Malley and...Tags: Hazardous Materials, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Disasters and Accidents, Railway Transportation, Transportation
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'Hidden historical asset of Baltimore' was born of necessity
Sun StaffThe 1.7-mile Howard Street Tunnel that billowed smoke yesterday is not a prominent part of the Baltimore landscape, not a source of great civic pride. Yet the tunnel, mostly ignored and unseen - even unknown to many residents - is hugely important, the...Tags: Railway Transportation, Transportation, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Travel, New York
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Derailed train linked to chemical in sewers
Sun StaffA flammable chemical that mysteriously appeared in Inner Harbor sewers - and may have been the cause of a manhole cover explosion Aug. 11 - came from the CSX Corp. train that derailed and caught fire three weeks earlier, the state said yesterday. An...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Washington, DC, Louisiana, Emergency Planning, Maryland
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Tests to seek chemical source
Sun StaffAuthorities hope new soil and groundwater tests will show whether the flammable chemical that exploded Saturday under downtown streets leaked into city storm drains from the Howard Street Tunnel, site of last month's train derailment and fire. City...Tags: Public Officials, Disasters and Accidents, Government, Maryland, Inner Harbor
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Explosions in city still 'a mystery'
Sun StaffTwo days after six small underground explosions rocked downtown Baltimore, authorities remained stumped yesterday as to how 1,000 gallons of a highly flammable chemical pooled beneath a major intersection without notice before blowing up. City, state and...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Maryland, Railway Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Rail inspectors conduct urgent survey of tunnel at city's request
Sun StaffThe Federal Railroad Administration conducted an emergency inspection during the weekend of the Howard Street Tunnel - site of a 2001 derailment and fire in downtown Baltimore - but found no serious safety problems. The inspection was prompted by a...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Railway Transportation, Transportation, Environmental Pollution, Washington (U.S. state)
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Making Baltimore a hard target
Sun StaffOn the Day After, the morning of Sept. 12, Mayor Martin O'Malley was frustrated. He wanted guidance on what Baltimore should do to protect itself against terrorism, and he couldn't get answers or even a basic checklist from anyone, including federal...Tags: Public Officials, National Security, New York, Cal Ripken, Jr., CNN (tv network)
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Train travel still safe, records show
Tallahassee BureauWhen a silver Amtrak train loaded with 452 passengers and crew twisted off the track and crashed north of Orlando on Thursday, four people died, 133 were injured and fears about rail travel were rekindled. The scene of crumpled rail cars strewn side by...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Railway Transportation, Iowa, New York, Environmental Pollution
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Face to Face: A Conversation with John Snow
Interview by members of the Editorial Board and Business staff writersThe Secretary of the Treasury gives his outlook on the nation's economy. Q. What is your assessment of the U.S. economy? What are the strengths and weaknesses? A. The overall economy is in a much, much better posture now than it was a year ago. And we'...Tags: Gaming, Cuba, Wages and Pensions, Social Security, Market and Exchange
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