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Sequestration leads to cuts at Martinsburg ATF facility
matthewu@herald-mail.comNearly 100 government contract workers at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Martinsburg facility recently lost their jobs as a result of across-the-board federal budget cuts. The 98 contractors laid off at the end of March...Tags: Gun Control, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Job Layoffs, Labor Legislation
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Ind. U trustees meet as protesters march on campus
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Protesters on Indiana University's main campus in Bloomington have marched in support of tuition cuts and other demands while university trustees met on campus. The Herald-Times reports campus police allowed five...Tags: Politics, Activism, Indiana University
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Anti-abortion group stirs speech debate at Hopkins
A group of students at the Johns Hopkins University is reviving a campus anti-abortion group that members say will perform "sidewalk counseling" — attempting to discourage pregnant women entering clinics from going through with the procedure....
Tags: Politics, Civil Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Colleges and Universities, Johns Hopkins University
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Death of Palestinian prisoner in Israel sparks violence
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Violence broke out Tuesday in several Israeli jails and West Bank cities following reports that a Palestinian prisoner died of cancer at a hospital in southern Israel. Palestinians said that Maysara abu Hamdieh, 63, died...
Tags: West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas, Throat Cancer, Palestinian National Authority, Salam Fayyad
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Vietnam veterans to be recognized during welcome-home day in The Villages
Those of us of a certain age remember the Vietnam War. Many served in Vietnam or had brothers or sons who did. Others, like me, came home from school and watched it on television every day on the news. Vietnam was the first war to come into the American...
Tags: Japan, Protest, U.S. Army, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Southeast Asia
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Business Calendar - March 17
SBA training March 18 — The U.S. Small Business Administration will offer free Web-enabled, instructor-led training. 1 to 4 p.m. Marketing and Capture Management, March 18 and 19; Construction Contracting, March 20 and 21; Financial Management for...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Jefferson County (Pennsylvania), The Herald-Mail, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), College Baseball
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Syrian civil war enters third year
ANTAKYA, Turkey -- Large protests marking the two-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising were held across the country Friday as the opposition vowed to continue its fight to topple President Bashar Assad. As the fighting entered a third year, there...
Tags: Interior Policy, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Politics, Wars and Interventions, European Union
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Business calendar - March 10
Alliance of Small Businesses March 11 — Alliance of Small Businesses’ networking event. Mike Cumberland of Keller Stonebraker Insurance will discuss the options brought about by the Maryland Healthcare Connector — the state exchange...Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Jefferson County (Pennsylvania), The Herald-Mail, For-Profit Colleges
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Lawmakers look past cuts to next budget battle
Days after the Obama administration threatened widespread furloughs of government employees, one of Maryland's largest federal agencies, the Social Security Administration, said it might shoulder across-the-board spending cuts without sending any of its...
Tags: Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, FLIR Systems Incorporated, Air Transportation Delays, Republican Party
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov resigns
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov offered to step down after anti-government protests sparked street violence four months before parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place. The premier, who has been in office since 2009, told the Sofia-...
Tags: Politics, European Union, National Government, Political Dissent, Sofia (Bulgaria)
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L.A. protesters join campaign against Keystone oil pipeline
L.A. NOWHundreds of protesters marched on Los Angeles City Hall on Sunday as part of a nationwide demonstration designed to pressure President Obama into rejecting a Canadian pipeline that would bring oil into the United States.... -
Baghdad bombings reflect sectarian tensions
BAGHDAD — A string of bombings in Shiite Muslim neighborhoods in eastern Baghdad left as many as two dozen people dead and reflected Iraq’s heightened sectarian tensions in the wake of nearly two months of Sunni protests. The bombs went...
Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Hugo Chavez, Iraq
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