Admitted killer of 17 executed in Arizona
Douglas Gretzler, 47, admitted to killing 17 people in a rampage across Arizona and California. He was executed by injection in Florence, the state’s first daytime execution, after on death row since 1976. He and Willie Steelman were convicted in the 1973 slayings of Marine Capt. Michael Sandberg and his wife in Tucson.
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Florence
Willie Luther Steelman
Michael Sandberg
Patricia
Tucson
Gretzler
Steelman
Sandberg
University of Arizona
Gretler
Sandbergs
California
Walter Parkin
Parkin
Victor
Calif
Fire log reports multiple 24 hour calls in Maryland area
Fire log for 24 hour period notes multiple incidents including truck fire at 953 pm near Boyle Road handled by Vigilant Hose and Emmitsburg Ambulance, brush fires on Fingerboard Road and Green Valley New Market, venice fire Guardian Hose at Wolfsville Road, Velocile fires around Thurmont and Smithsburg areas, a house fire on Savage Road, and brush fires near Fort Derick US 15 ramp with ambulances and helicopters responding.
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Boyle Road
Emmitsburg
F&m Bank
United
Fingerboard Road
Green Valley New Market Jubilee Foods
Venice Fire Guardian
Thurmont Community
Wolfsville Road
Wolfsville
Smithsburg
Carroll Manor
Lucketts
Savage Road
Fort Derick US 15
Fort Detrick
Maryland Lottery Draw Nods to Evening Pick 4
Maryland lottery results show Wednesday night Pick 4 with numbers 2 8 4 6 and cash in 5 8 G20. Wednesday afternoon Pick 6 lists 2 9 Mek4d 899 5.
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Maryland
Policeman seeks acquittal in off duty misconduct case
Frederick County jurors hear the case of Joshua Michael Segal a Frederick city officer charged with reckless endangerment and drunken driving after an Oct 7 1997 incident. Prosecutors say alcohol fueled his conduct as he threatened and fired a 9 mm Glock while at his ex girlfriend Sherri Gibbons home. defense argues procedures were not followed in blood testing and admission. Segal faces a civil service hearing next week that could end his police career.
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Frederick City
Joshua Michael Segal
Frederick County
Police Department
Brian Hutchison
Matthew Campbell
Montgomery County
G. Edward Dwyer Jr
Scott Rolle
Sherri Gibbons
Mr. Segal
Ms. Gibbons
Hutchison
Man threatens wife abducts wife and surrenders
A 55 year old man from Rippon Jefferson County Jack Hardy surrendered peacefully after six hours of travel through West Virginia Maryland and Virginia with his estranged wife locked in the trunk. He allegedly threatened to drive them off cliffs and into rivers while repeating vows. The wife persuaded him to take her to City Hospital in Martinsburg.
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Martinsburg
Wva
Jack Hardy
Rippon
Jefferson County
David Foreman
Charles Town
Hardy
Kathleen
Foreman
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
City Hospital
Police make drug arrests in Hagerstown and Baltimore youth
Frederick police say a 21-year-old Hagerstown man Michael A. Nelson was jailed without bail after a tip led to a search of a Key Parkway apartment yielding about 21 grams of cocaine packaged for sale. He faces possession and possession with intent to distribute charges. A 17-year-old Baltimore youth was arrested on South Market Street for distributing cocaine and multiple possession with intent to distribute counts. He was handed to juvenile authorities.
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Hagerstown
Frederick
Michael A. Nelson
Timothy Duhan
Key Parkway
Cpl
Allen Yingling
Nelson
Baltimore
South Market Street
Set
Jim Ledwell
Frederick County man escapes serious injury in vehicle crash
A Frederick County man, George Biser, 84, escaped serious injury after his van hit a corn planter on Baker Valley Road. The planter was being towed by a tractor driven by John Noffsinger. A truck escorted the oversized implement, and Biser’s van mirror struck the planter. He refused medical treatment.
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Urbana
Frederick County
Baker Valley Road
George Biser
John Noffsinger
Frederick
Chuck Tobery
Frederick and State Forecast Briefings
Frederick forecast notes tonight mostly cloudy with lows in the 50s and light winds. Friday remains mostly cloudy and cool with a 30 percent chance of showers and highs in the 60s. State forecast mirrors this with widespread clouds and showers in the southeast and far west, highs upper 60s to mid 70s. Extended outlook calls for partial sun this weekend and pleasant mid 70s, with beach forecast showing 40 percent shower or thunderstorm chances Friday.
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Frederick
Extreme weather grips the East with storms and heat
A frontal boundary from the mid Atlantic across the Tennessee and Mississippi valleys brought another day of storms and sharply split temperatures. Severe weather with wind hail and tornadoes was expected in Virginia West Virginia and North Carolina with frosts and rain in the Great Lakes and Northeast. A 2 year old girl in Dunedin Florida died from heat related problems amid extreme Southeast heat.
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mid-Atlantic
Tennessee
Mississippi
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
Illinois
Mocksville
Tazewell
Rockingham
Great Lakes
Ozark Ala
Dunedin
Fla
Central Plains
Oklahoma
Kansas
Plains
Bomb sweeps at all county schools to curb threats
Anne Arundel County police conduct early morning bomb sweeps with sniffer dogs across 12 high schools and several middle schools to prevent further evacuations as exams approach. Since the year began there have been 160 bomb scares, with 55 youths arrested and many given fines or community service.
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Annapolis
Anne Arundel County
Huntley J. Cross
Debbie Mabe
Inci
Maryland
Cross
City high schools see arrests drop amid safety push
Baltimore officials report a substantial fall in school arrests. The Annual Report on School Safety shows a 44.3 percent decrease from September-December to January-April, plus a 10.7 percent drop in crimes including handgun possession theft and property destruction. School officials credit collaboration among community schools and law enforcement and mention plans for anger management programs.
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Baltimore
School Board
Dorothy Siegel
Leonard Hamm
Hamm
Prosecution rests in teen murder trial in Mississippi
In Philadelphia Mississippi the prosecution rested after detailing Mary Woodham’s stabbing and slash wounds as her son Luke Woodham faces trial for her murder and the later shooting deaths of two Pearl High School students. A hickory knife used on Mary Woodham was linked to Luke Woodham. The case moves to separate trials in Hattiesburg and public testimony from a juvenile witness was ordered released.
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Philadelphia
Miss
Mary Woodham
Luke Woodham
Steven Hayne
Hayne
Woodham
Hattiesburg
Pearl High School
Pearl
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Patick Street
Fredenck
Fredericknewspost
Montgomery County Bureau
Maryland Ave
Rockville
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Lottery
George Dorsey
News-Post
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Rockies
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West
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Gerbeie
Morningstar Food, Inc
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the Good Shepherd School of
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Full Gospel Church
All Christian Families & Churches
Penn Shop Road
Frederick Farmers
Peery Srs
Shab Row
Everedy Square
Baughman’s Lane
Contact Educators Mutual Life Insurance Company of
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Terie
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