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  • Annapolis Valley apple orchard quarantined after rare pest detected

    Federal food safety officials have placed an apple orchard in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley under quarantine after the detection of a destructive pest for the first time in North America.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has found an infestation of apple proliferation phytoplasma in an orchard near ...

  • Casey Stern on the Orioles and Instant Replay

    Casey Stern of the MLB Network Radio joined the "Glenn Younes Show" to talk about Major League Baseball. First up was instant replay and we all know Glenn is very passionate about it. "It's kind of an archaic format, it's not like the NHL, and you have an umpire supervisor making the decision". When Glenn compared instant replay to his DVR and asked Casey how they ...

  • Baltimore County Police Investigate Shooting

    EDGEMERE, Md. (WJZ) — Baltimore County police are investigating a shooting in the 53-hundred block of Sparrows Point Boulevard at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The victim was shot in the chest. His condition is not known. There’s no word on a suspect or motive. If you have information, please call ...

  • Digging into day care discipline

    An ABC2 News Investigation in November uncovered the common violations found in the child care centers you trust with your kids. Although those inspections turned up some disturbing results, what we found by digging deeper into the state's discipline process is even more shocking. You won't find Tricia Gajadhar's name in the state's child care registry on www.checkccmd.org. ...

  • Ocean City plans safety campaign for pedestrians

    Last summer, two pedestrians were killed and 13 were injured in Ocean City. Officials say it was a significant increase over 2011 when there were no pedestrian deaths and eight ...


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Head [Blu-Ray]

Head [Blu-Ray]

When U2 released their sixth studio album Achtung Baby in 1991, the band was fond of describing the distorted, opening guitar riffs on the first single The Fly as the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree. The bands desire to essentially destroy that for which they were best kn ... ...

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  • National Briefing | Mid-Atlantic Maryland One Less Charge in Wikileaks Case

    WikiLeaks , as pretrial hearings wrapped up. The trial begins June 3. The judge said prosecutors had decided not to pursue the charge that Private Manning, 25, had leaked a classified State Department cable in February 2010 knowing it could harm the United States. A military legal spokesman said prosecutors told the court Tuesday that they had accepted Private Manning's plea to the lesser ...

  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York D.C. residents have highest student loan debts

    D.C. residents have the highest student debt in the country, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but the data also show D.C. residents paying off their loans quicker than the rest of the ...

  • Foul play suspected in 1995 disappearance of Maryland teen

    After visiting two nightclubs in Pikesville, Md., a friend dropped Mosley off in the early morning hours of April 17, 1995, at Highfalcon Road and Pittston Circle in Reisterstown, the Baltimore County community where the teen lived. Mosley hasn't been seen since, Baltimore County police ...

  • Md. passes thoroughbred breeder incentive program amid bickering

    The Maryland Racing Commission passed a revised incentive program Tuesday meant to persuade thoroughbred breeders to operate in the state and owners of those horses to run on its tracks, but might have shattered the harmony achieved among the sports' stakeholders in recent months. Breeders, who have pushed for a stronger program to reward Maryland horses, hailed the new measure as the ...

  • AIG sues ex-U.Va. lacrosse player Huguely over insurance claim

    GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- A former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend is being sued by American International Group Inc. over his refusal to answer questions from insurance ...

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