Philippines quake toll climbs as rescues continue
A major Luzon earthquake leaves nearly 500 dead and 1,000 injured as hundreds remain missing. Rescue teams fear more bodies in Cabanatuan and Baguio hotels, with 24,000 displaced and power, water, and food shortages widespread. USAID workers' deaths reported. search at the Nevada Hotel ends with no survivors.
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Philippines
Luzon
Cabanatuan City
Manila
Office of Civil Defense
Red Cross
Corazon Aquino
Nevada
Richard Finley
U.S. Agency For International Development
Jaime Laya
USAID
U.S
John Mitchell
Miami
Fla
Mario Say-Ocha
Pete Rose Sentenced to Five Months in Prison
Pete Rose was sentenced to five months in prison today. The ruling was reported on Page D-1, detailing the case and next steps.
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Pete Rose
Mount Airy Site Back Under Consideration For Frederick County School
Frederick County Commissioners and Mount Airy officials reached a deal to provide water sewer and roads for a Mount Airy elementary school in the Twin Ridge subdivision in exchange for 380000 to develop a town park. The Mount Airy site remains uncertain as the school board meets August 1 and weighs the Summerfield site near New Market already chosen.
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Mount Airy
Frederick County
Twin Ridge
Interagency Committee
Sterling Bollinger
Bollinger
Brook Lee
Guardian Angels founder to visit Frederick for new city chapter
Curtis Sliwa plans to visit Frederick next Tuesday to establish an Angels chapter at the Sagner housing development. The project includes housing, meals for volunteers, and two way radios with a potential vehicle. The effort will start with four members from Washington or Baltimore and expand to nearby North Bentz Street apartments.
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Curtis Sliwa
The
Guardian Angels
Frederick
Sagner
Pennsylvania Avenue
Angels
Washington, D.C
Baltimore
Sliwa
House On the Prairie
John Hanson and
Taney
North Bentz Street
Area builder fined $51 600 for Monarch Ridge violations
The Maryland Department of the Environment fined Winchester Homes Inc 51,600 for sediment pollution and sediment control violations at Monarch Ridge, a 200 home Frederick development off Butterfly Lane. Inspectors visited seven times between December 1989 and April 1990, noting breached and absent dikes and an unstabilized construction entrance. The company may respond by prepaying 30,900 within 20 days of the July 6 notice.
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Maryland Department of the Environment
MDE
Winchester Homes, Inc
Monarch Ridge
Frederick
Michael Sullivan
Butterfly Lane
Sullivan
Winchester Homes
Winchester Homes Inc
Irish lass travels to Frederick with two wee girls
Jacqueline Beck a ten year old from Belfast joins over 750 Irish children in Project Children. She stays two months with the McCarthy family and their daughters Deirdre and Schivawa to experience life where Catholics and Protestants coexist. The story highlights violence in Belfast and contrast with the US environment.
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Jacqueline Beck
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Jacqueline
United States
Project Children
Frederick
Robert
Nuala McCarthy
Deirdre
Shhivawa
McCarthy
Rcom
Schivawa
Robert and
Shivawn
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Frederick County Democrats condemn Kelly and Harris candidacies
The Frederick County Democratic Central Committee criticized two candidates linked to the KKK and a former member running as a Democrat. The unnamed targets were Roger Kelly and Edgar A. Harris Jr. Speakers condemned racism and urged loyalty to Democratic values while Kelly defended his campaign and attacked party leadership.
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Frederick County
Democratic Central Committee
Ku Klux Klan
KKK
Central Committee
Roger Kelly
Edgar A. Harris Jr
Wilbur Ford
United Democrats
Kelly
Maryland
Harris
Democratic County Central Committee
Democratic Party
Cal
Ford
Rocky Ridge
Marion Barry
Jesse Jackson
Mr. Kelly
Frederick
William Abrecht
County Central Committee
Nathan Landow
Weather outlook for Western Maryland Friday showers likely
Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the upper 60s. Friday turns mostly sunny and hot with a 30 percent chance of late afternoon showers or thunderstorms. Highs reach the low 90s as Western Maryland weather details appear on PAC map.
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Maryland
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