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Despite threats, Beretta plans to stay in Maryland for now
Maryland's largest gun manufacturer has decided not to leave the state just yet. Beretta USA threatened to abandon its home on the Potomac if Maryland passed a strict new gun-control law, but after the law was signed the company announced that its...Tags: Interior Policy, Firearms, Gun Control, Bristol (Hartford, Connecticut), Career and Workplace
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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: Accidental Death, Transportation Accidents, Federal Aviation Administration, Fort Detrick (military base), Timonium
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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: Wildlife, Environmental Issues, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Conservation
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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: Wildlife, Ecosystems, The Pennsylvania State University, Environmental Issues, Marine Science
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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: American Legion, Pink Floyd (music group), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Entertainment, Music
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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: Human Rights, Railway Transportation, Human Interest, Travel, Wars and Interventions
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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: Wildlife, Tourism and Leisure, Africa, Environmental Issues, Travel
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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: U.S. Department of Transportation, Railway Transportation, Wildlife, Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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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: Gun Control, Victor R. Ramirez, Rick Perry, Crime, Law and Justice, Lobbying
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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: The Herald-Mail, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), 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: Wildlife, Little League Baseball, Environmental Issues, Teaching and Learning, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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