Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies at 64 after cancer battle
New York AP reports Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died after a three day hospital stay following a diagnosis of non Hodgkin lymphoma. Her passing drew global tributes from public figures as the Kennedy family gathered at her Fifth Avenue home with mourners in the rain.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
New York
John F. Kennedy
Fifth Avenue
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
Central Park
New York Hospital
Cornell Medical Center
Nancy Tuckerman
Ms. Tuckerman
New York Times
Hood College Seniors Retract Senior Challenge Pledge Amid Tensions
A group of 21 of 60 Hoad College seniors pulled their nearly $4,000 pledges to the alumni fund in protest over campus racial unrest and the SGA budget cut to the Black Student Union. They urged early intervention by President Martha Church and officials to quell discord, citing anger and isolation on campus.
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Hoad College
Student Government Association
SGA
BSU
College Development Office
Martha Church
Frederick transitional shelter reports first graduates
Two homeless families have graduated from Frederick's new transitional shelter opened March 21. Nine families, 10 adults and 24 children, have stayed there. two graduates now live in public housing. The shelter, adjacent to the Frederick Community Center, is funded in part by a $5,000 state grant for exterior renovations.
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Frederick
Michael Spurrier
Frederick Community Center
Spurrier
Weather and events notes for western Maryland
Tonight’s lows in the 40s give way to a sunny warmer Saturday with highs in the 70s. Western Maryland weather and map on page A-2. Entertainment and events listings include a City Summer Concert Series at Baker Park on page C-1.
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Maryland
Baker Park
C-1
Frederick News-Post reuses paper and recycles content
The Frederick News-Post notes that portions are printed on 100 percent recycled paper and the newspaper itself is recyclable, highlighting environmental efforts in production.
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Frederick
Mount Airy Fifth Graders Hold Mock Town Council
Fifth graders from Mount Airy and Twin Ridge elementary schools held a mock town council in the Mount Airy cafeteria. Mayor Christine Tracy presided as students debated uniforms and other topics, with real mayor Gerald Johnson advising on parliamentary procedure.
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Skip Lawrence
Christine Tracy
Melissa Overstreet
Tom Vogel
Mount Airy
Nix
Twin Ridge
Jean Eagleson
Patti Cannaday
Larissa Spencer
Matthew Thornburg
David Hynes
Adam Gray
Germantown man gets 13 year term in fatal drunken driving crash
A 28-year-old Germantown man was sentenced to 13 years for a drunken driving crash that killed 19-year-old Kimberly Dawn Comfort of Mount Airy and left her 18‑month‑old son Austin severely injured. The Sept. 28, 1993, collision on Old Annapolis Road near Linganore High School followed multiple DUI offenses and a revoked license. The courtroom heard from Comfort’s family about the lasting pain and medical costs exceeding $250,000, as the judge lamented the tragedy and urged the defendant to reform.
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Frederick County
Germantown
Timothy W. Turley
David Daggett
Kimberly Dawn Comfort
Mount Airy
Austin
Old Annapolis Road
Linganore High School
Turley
Ms. Comfort
Daggett
Mark Moser
Thurmont
Gary
Nancy Comfort
Moser
Herbert L. Rollins
Comfort
Frederick County graduations eye class of 1994 achievements
Frederick County Public Schools expect 1,756 graduates, with Brunswick, Catoctin, Gov. Thomas Johnson, Frederick High, Linganore and Evening High School ceremonies. Communities plan alcohol and drug free post ceremonies, baccalaureates, and student speeches amid a changing economy and job market prospects.
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Frederick County
Brunswick High School
Lovettsville
Brunswick
David Burke
Faith Baptist Church
Catoctin High School
Mount St. Mary’s College
Catoctin
Gov. Thomas Johnson High School
Frederick High School
Hood College
Frederick High
James E. Duffy
American Broadcasting Company
Thomas Johnson High School
Mount St Mary’s College
Linganore High School
Izaak Walton Club
Linganore
Evening High
MD. School For the Deaf
Rock Creek School
ST. John's
NEW Life Christian School
Union files two NLRB complaints against Genstar
The United Steelworkers Local 81- A representing about 100 Genstar Stone Products Co. employees filed two NLRB complaints alleging bad faith bargaining. The complaints, dated May 3 and May 10, come as health and other benefit talks stretch 19 months and a strike began three weeks ago. Union spokesman Bernard Parrish.
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United Steelworkers Local 81- A
Genstar Stone Products Co
National Labor Relations Board
Genstar
Labor Board
Bernard Parrish
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Beth J. Harpaz
Associated Press
Hoad
Glenn McMahan
News-Post
of Hood College
Jessica Gregg
Inside the News
Iil
Martha Eliassen
Ms. Tracy
Robert
George Dorsey
Rollins
Oliver Cejka
Daniel Gadra
Gadra
Union
NLRB
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