Maryland Penitentiary turmoil nets two removals
A sweeping Maryland Attorney General led probe found serious security and management failings at the Maryland Penitentiary after the murder of correctional officer Herman Toulson Jr. Warden Leslie Dorsey was removed and reassigned to an administrative post, joining a string of leadership shakeups that reflect ongoing prison system woes.
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Maryland Penitentiary
Maryland
Stephen H. Sachs
Leslie Dorsey
Herman Lester Toulson Jr
State
Baltimore
Hee Sat Sachs
Toulson
Harry Hughes
Secretary of Public Safety and Corrections
Frank Hall
Arnold Hopkins
Les Dorsey
Hopkins
Dorsey
George A. Collins
Sachs
Corrections
Collins
Kenneth Larkin
Maryland Classified Employees Association
Hagerstown
Baltimore City
Wayne McDaniel
Hughes
Public Safety and Corrections
Ton P. Galley
Galley
Roxbury
Women’s Correctional Institution
Jessup
Pen
Bhopal survivors tell stories of loss and fear
Eyewitness account from the Bhopal disaster scene recounts Nasreen Ali and others in a shantytown near the Union Carbide plant. Families describe lung pain visions and deaths from methyl isocyanate. A Union Carbide worker recalls fear despite unemployment pressures. The piece links human misery to ongoing legal battles and safety failures.
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Washington
New York
Union Carbide
Bhopal
India
Lucas Rivera
Syed Mokhtar Ali
Syed Tekhar Ali
Ram Kali
Sultana Ladies Hospital
Ombudsman
Mexico
Florida
Francis Moore
United States
Readers urge P Z Foresight on local zoning and safety
A string of letters calls Frederick County Planning and Zoning to be more responsive to residents regarding an auto paint shop and a new junk yard. Morris T. Willard of Thurmont demands the Appeals Board be relieved, while Andrea Roane and Donna Andrew urge safer off road riding and a track for 3 wheelers in Emmitsburg Thurmont. John Breed encores thanks for Dottie Dade fund drive. The page also notes barbecues, the Jefferson Ruritan Club, and Voyager findings on guitar like sounds in space.
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Frederick County
Health Department
Appeals Board
Rale
Emmitsburg
Thurmont
Frederick News- Post
Dottie Dade Medical Fund
Maryland National Bank
Jefferson, Md
Jefferson Ruritan Club
Woodsboro Promotion Exercises Finish Seventh Grade Year
The seventh grade at Woodsboro held promotion in the Town Opera House with a Bible reading, a class prayer and song, and diplomas awarded after an address by Rev J Frank Fife. Daniel Nallie survived a near snake encounter near Myersville. State Police sold six of nine horses in Pikesville under Major J P Wright orders. Isobel Neel Davies sold 143 acres near New Market for 55000 dollars.
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Woodsboro
Betty Barrick
Robert of Lincoln
Ira Caldwell I Jr
Helen Stoner
Misuse Bair
J. Frank Fife
Woodsboro Lutheran Church
Fife
Pikesville
J. Purdon Wright
Isabel Neel Davis
MD. 75
New Market District
Chase C. Gove
Jack McGolerick
Harold M. Tregoning
Col
Edward H. Drake
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George B. Delepiaine Jr
Tom Mille
Fredenck, M
Collings
John P. Wilt
Wilt
Hood College
Frederick
Arulm
Jack Anderson
By Jack Anderson and
Dale van Atta
Nasreen Ali
Nasreen
Syed Irshad
Irshad
Syed
Moores
Philippines
U.S
Manila
Reagan
United Feature Syndicate Inc
P&z
Big Five
Morris T. Willard Thurmont
Kendra
Kendra Lynn Johnston
Everege
Ken
Linda Johnston
Johnstons
University of Alabama
Washington County
The
March of Dimes
Channel 20
America
Andrea Roane
Wdvm-Tv
Donna Andrew Emmitsburg
Dottie Dade Fund
John W. Breeden
Shadyside Drive
Jefferson
Voyager
Solar System
M Man, Ei
Lems
David Nallie
Myersville
St. John’s High School
J.J. Donlan
T.J. Skraynski
Francis Smith
Dorothy Bader
Ralph F. Wachter
Dan Wight
Urleans
County Planning Commission
Lawrence A. Dorsey
A. Irvin Renn
Planning Commission
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