Wisda Returns Home After Heart Transplant Journey
Kathleen Wisda recalls her husband Keith Wisda recovering from a heart transplant at MCV in Richmond after a long hospital stay. Doctors sought a suitable donor due to his height of 6 feet 2 inches and 200 pounds, with his Left Ventricular Assist Device supporting him post surgery. The community held a Washington benefit raising over $100,000 as the Wisdas celebrate a turning point with family and a planned Christmas tree and Santa visit.
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Kathleen Wisda
MCV
Wisda
Mr. Wisda
Christmas Eve ride-along seeks volunteers for shifts
Ms Carver seeks about two dozen volunteers for three Christmas Eve shifts starting at midnight to accompany officers. most rides are uneventful but can involve accidents or brief chases. volunteers may work four or eight hours and should call 831-9151 to sign up.
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Ms. Carver
Monocacy River
Santa's Workshop Students Practice Face Painting Fun
Gigi Wixom volunteered to read to the class while Rodney Richard and other ninth graders prepared to paint faces for 5-year olds. They practiced on science teacher Thomas Smith before painting designs on young children.
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Gigi Wixom
Rodney Richard
Rodney
Mr Smith
Thomas Smith
Budget clash deepens as shutdown stalls budget talks
A Democrat task force works for a fourth straight day to forge a balanced budget with unified support while a partial shutdown idles a quarter-million workers. Clinton vetoes GOP bills. markets drop as Republicans blame the president.
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Daschle
South Dakota
House
Dick Gephardt
Missouri
Clinton
McCurry
Senate
White House
Leon Panetta
Dow Jones
Federal Reserve
Tom DeLay
Texas
Interior Department
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Environmental Protection Agency
Nation
Snow Closes Maryland Schools Across Several Counties
Snowy weather shuts Frederick County schools on Tuesday and prompts closures in Allegany Carroll Garrett Harford and Washington counties. Carroll sees about four degrees below normal per Mount St. Mary’s College professor William O Toole. Garrett, the westernmost and mountains region, records deeper cold and near 50 inches of snow this season.
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Allegany
Carroll
Garrett
Harford
Washington
Maryland
Carroll County
William O'Toole
Mount St. Mary’s College
Hagers Town
Garrett County
Illusion patrol car aims to slow speeders on I 95
Maryland State Police test a portable mock patrol car called the Illusion. Inventors Sgt Robert P Mueck and Bryan K Goodson built a one foot wide stand resembling a parked cruiser. The $7 000 prototype is to be moved around the region to study its effect on speeding and aggressive driving.
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College Park
Maryland
University of Maryland
Robert P. Mueck
Beltsville
Bryan K. Goodson
Catonsville
Mueck
Interstate 95
Christmas light displays brighten Frederick area homes this year
Residents from But terfly Lane in Frederick to Kemptown Road unveil elaborate displays. Charles and Faye Martin decorate a 45year old home while the Mullinix family completes a three acre life size nativity. Neighbors report crowds admiring Santa, reindeer, angels and a painted daylight friendly scene. A Swiss billionaire kidnapping dominates news from Lugano with Geo Mantegazza seized in his office by unknown captors.
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Charles
Faye Martin
Butterfly Lane
Frederick
Ms. Martin
Charles Clem
Dad
Barbara Smothers
Harold
Jeannie
Rodney Mullinix
Kemptown Road
Mullinixes
Lugano
Switzerland
Geo Mantegazza
Robbery attempt ends with robber shot by liquor store owner
In Hagerstown a would be armed robber, David Bannon Rogers, 37, wearing a ski mask, entered Stop N Shop Liquors on Md 60. He demanded money, and when owner Dennis Gigeous, 45, hid behind the counter, retrieved a handgun and fired. Rogers was shot in the upper leg and hand, treated at Washington County Hospital. He faces multiple charges including armed robbery and assault.
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Hagerstown
Maryland
David Bannon Rogers
Leitersburg Pike
MD. 60
Rogers
Dennis Gigeous
Gigeous
Mr. Rogers
Washington County Hospital
Frederick
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