Emergency room works through holiday
Emergency room staff describe a Christmas Day shift that started quietly and grew busier by evening. Dr Jeff Filmore notes he woke to family sounds before reporting for duty as beds fill and triage speeds patient processing with nurses like Michael Stockman and Marlene Hartman guiding care. Jack, a patient with minor injuries, leaves the hospital but is expected to return within 12 hours.
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Barbara Walter
Jeff L. Filmore
Fillmore
Traige
Michael Stockman
Mage
Theeved Beasine
Frazier
E.R
Marlene Hartman
Jack
Stockman
Jth Street
Tanker sinks and 12 feared dead in north Atlantic incident
Lloyds reported the Syneta built in 1969 was en route from Liverpool to Eskifjordur to pickup fish liver oil, with unknown origin. A separate 3,500-ton Icelandic freighter Sudurland sank between Iceland and Norway with three dead, five rescued, three missing. Survivors aboard the Danish frigate Vaedderen head to the Faroe Islands. Sudurland carried 19,000 barrels of herring from Iceland to Murmansk when it went down.
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Lloyd's
Briem
Eskifjordur
Ireland
Lloyd’s
Liverpool
Iceland
Norway
Britain
Royal Air Force
Coast Guard
Vaedderen
Faroe Islands
North Atlantic
Poul Andreasen
Sudurland
Murmansk
Soviet Union
Christmas Day Reflections and Local Festivities Across the County
The piece recalls holiday spirit with churches sending cookies and the Salvation Army delivering toys to inmates’ children. Shayne Bowins enjoys Christmas with new clothes and toys, while teens Dwayne Bell and Tim Whipp spend gifts at the mall arcade. Families attend movies, dinners, and travel plans amid the season. About 70 Christmas trees lie unsold on local lots as stores close for the holiday.
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Salvation Army
Shayne Bowins
West All Saints Street
Shayne
Santa Claus
Dwayne Bell
Tim Whipp
Bell
Francis Scott Key Mall
Preston Crouch
Foley
Pauline Demerys
Leesburg
Hockaday
Commissioners Back Plan To Repeal Blue Laws
A Monday draft letter by Speelman, supported by all five commissioners, urges repealing blue laws by delegation rather than voter input. The push seeks to enact repeal on their authority as the General Assembly has blocked similar measures for two years.
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Eckel
Speelman
General Assembly
Marylanders endure Christmas rainfall and power outages
Marylanders faced a Christmas Eve deluge with 2.49 inches of rain in Baltimore and over 2 inches on the Eastern Shore. Some western counties lost power from freezing rain while crews battled water in basements. A false report of a missing woman prompted a lengthy river search. A Hanover driver, Anthony White, faces charges after a suspected drunken incident. Meanwhile, gatherings and a free Christmas banquet served hundreds in Hagerstown and at the Sheraton Inn.
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Easton
Salisbury
Weather Service
Baltimore
Maryland
Delaware
Baltimore Fire Department
James Kapplin
City Public Works Department
Baltimore City
Wodlessd
Anne Arundel Counties
Howard
Baltimore County
Patapsco
Elkridge
Anthony White
Hanover
Garrett County
Sheriff's Department
Hagerstown
Nick Giannaris
Sheraton Inn
Airport Inn
Giannaris
Tam
Sheraton Ing
Ambassador aided Contra airstrip in Costa Rica
The New York Times reports U S ambassador to Costa Rica Lewis Tambs helped secure permission for a secret Contra airstrip and oversaw its use. Tambs allegedly asked repeatedly to reopen the airstrip after Costa Rica’s new government closed it, saying it had been agoing away present from the outgoing president.
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New York
Costa Rica
National Security Council
Oliver North
Lewis Tambs
New York Times
Nicaragua
the Times
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Luis Alberto Monge
The
Times
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James Hockaday
Los Angeles
Tom Meacham
Honda
Triangle Motors
TRE
Rt. 40
Associated Press
U.S
Central America
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