Meanwhile, authorities say they have recovered the body of a fifth person who was missing after the March 26 collapse.
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Auburn police nab Maryland man in credit card skimming investigation
AUBURN — A Maryland man was arrested and charged in connection with a credit card skimming ring. Local police said in a news release that they arrested Brian Boley, 32, of Takoma Park, Maryland on Wednesday after conducting a four-month investigation. He was charged with felony forgery and theft and two misdemeanors stemming from his […]
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4 dead, including suspect, after Maryland Rite Aid warehouse shooting
ABDERDEEN, Md. (AP) — An employee at a Rite Aid warehouse opened fire at work Thursday, killing three people before taking her own life, authorities said. Several other people were wounded. The suspect was a 26-year-old temporary employee at the Rite Aid distribution center in northeastern Maryland, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told a news […]
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Desda Rutledge Fogg
FREDERICK, Md. — Desda Rutledge Fogg, 80, of Mount Airy, Md., and formerly of Norway, passed away at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Frederick, Md. She was born in Norway on Sept. 4, 1938, to Leonard Rutledge and Ruth Louise Tracy.
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Slain newspaper employees were dedicated to work, community
Four journalists and a sales assistant were killed Thursday in a shooting at a Maryland newspaper. Authorities said the gunman entered the Capital Gazette in Annapolis and “looked for his victims.” The employees killed were Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters. GERALD FISCHMAN Gerald Fischman, the editorial page editor at […]
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'They're kind of mesmerizing': Goats draw spectators to overgrown park
WASHINGTON — He almost didn’t see them at first. A crowd of people standing along his usually clear jogging route up Eastern Avenue, straddling the Washington-Maryland border, tipped him off that something was up. Following their gaze into a small clearing of overgrown trees and wild flora, he saw something move. “I thought it was […]
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Officer's response praised as Maryland school shooting ends quickly
GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — In the latest school shooting in America, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute. This time, the shooter, a 17-year-old student, was killed. Authorities said a 16-year-old girl who had some type of relationship with the shooter was critically injured, and a 14-year-old boy also […]
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Teenage shooter killed after he wounds 2 others at Maryland high school
GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — A teenager wounded a girl and a boy inside his Maryland high school Tuesday before an armed school resource officer was able to intervene, and each of them fired one more round as the shooter was fatally wounded, a sheriff said. St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron said the student […]
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Maryland man seriously injured in snowmobile crash on Rangeley Lake
RANGELEY — A Maryland man was seriously injured Wednesday when he was thrown from his snowmobile when it hit a pressure ridge on Rangeley Lake, Cpl. John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service said in a news release. Mark Chase, 46, of Baldwin, Maryland was operating a 2017 Polaris Switchback 800 snowmobile near Hunter Cove […]
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Raymond A. Buckminster
LEWISTON — Raymond A. Buckminster, 84, of New Vineyard, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at CMMC in Lewiston, surrounded by his wife, Debbie Martin and family. Raymond was born on Nov. 30, 1932 in Sunshine, Deer Isle, Maine, the son of Emery and Ethna (Shepard) Buckminster. He graduated from Stonington-Deer Isle High School in the […]