Potomac River Weather Advisory Extends Amid Heavy Rains
Heavy rains along the Potomac and its tributaries cause hazardous conditions with high water levels. NWS and Maryland agencies warn against boating on the upper Potomac and note rising river levels may continue today. Roads slippery lead to fender benders. a Maryland State Police dispatcher reports no injuries.
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Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Potomac
Natural Resources Police
Maryland Emergency Management Agency
Cumberland
National Geological Survey
Potomac Basin
NWS
Maryland
Frederick City
Murder suspect kills self in cell at Rockville jail
An 18 year old murder defendant in the Teilo case hanged himself with a bedsheet in his protective custody cell shortly after a psychiatrist visit. Officials say he self harmed in a secure area, with no note and no foul play suspected. he died at a hospital after a routine 30 minute cell check.
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Rockville
Aaron Needle
Corrections
Mr. Needle
Devon Brown
Department of Corrections
Needle
Samuel Sheinbein
Alfredo Teilo Jr
Aspen Hill
Sheinbein
Israel
Montgomery County
Ann Evans
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
Mr. Brown
Ms. Evans
Preservationists race to save Paoli Battlefield site
Patrick McGuigan, who runs a Pennsylvania town where British and American troops clashed in 1777, has 18 months to raise 2.5 million dollars to buy the Paoli Battlefield in Malvern to prevent its conversion to concrete and asphalt. Congress funded Civil War ground protection in 1988, boosting battlefield preservation interest nationwide.
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Patrick McGuigan
Pennsylvania
Paoli
Malvern
Mr. McGuigan
Congress
Manassas
National Park Service
Elizabeth Ann Seton Saint Born in America Highlighted in Frederick History
In Emmitsburg Frederick County celebrates 250 years with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton noted as the first American born saint canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Her Shrine attracts about 50 000 visitors yearly and she is praised for courage and noble character despite personal losses.
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Elizabeth Seton
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Frederick County
Emmitsburg
Elizabeth Ann Seton
St. Elizabeth
Handy
United States
Elizabeth Seton Life of Trials and Faith in New York
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton born 1774 faced a troubled childhood after her mother's death and a disliked stepmother. She married William Seton at nineteen, had five children, but faced bankruptcy and tuberculosis for much of their marriage. After his 1803 death in Italy she converted to Catholicism, provoking outrage in Protestant New York society.
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New York
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William Seton
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Italy
Seton
Veteran Detrick scientist a quiet master of disaster
William Capers Patrick HI, longtime Frederick microbiologist and former chief of Detrick’s product development division, is a respected expert on biological warfare defense. Now a government consultant, he lectures nationwide and advises New York City agencies and intelligence services on bio threats.
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Detrick
United States
William Capers Patrick
Mr. Patrick
Frederick
Fort Detrick
Norman Covert
Patrick
Richard Nixon
New York City
CIA
FBI
Dr Bruce Waxman Dies Shaping NIH Computer Programs
Dr Bruce D. Waxman 67 of Boyds died Sunday April 12 at his residence. He was married 46 years to Shirley M. Waxman. Born November 19, 1936 in New York he was the son of Ida Schwartz Waxman and the late Harold L. Waxman. He held a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s from the University of Connecticut.
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Bruce D. Waxman
Boyds
Shirley M. Waxman
New York
Ida Schwartz Waxman
Harold L. Waxman
University of Pennsylvania
University of Connecticut
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