Dad scolded for taking toddlers to men’s restroom
A family wants an apology after a father said he was publicly accosted by a security guard after taking his 3-year-old and 1-year-old daughters to the men’s restroom at the Frederick County Department of Social Services.
“He banged on the (stall) door like he was a cop,” said Donovan O’Neil. “He was just really inappropriate about it.”
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Business owners, residents seek Historic Preservation Commission reform
In a room overlooking Frederick ’s historic downtown, about 45 people worked on a plan to reform a city regulatory body they said has gone too far. On Monday, a group of about 45 downtown business owners and residents and more than a few city candidates met inside a restaurant to talk about ways to fight “HPC tyranny.”
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Greenbelt-built satellite set to observe solar unpredictability
The newest satellite creation to study the sun was created and built in Greenbelt and will continue to be controlled from NASA-Goddard for the next five years.
At nearly 15 feet tall and 6,800 lbs., the Solar Dynamics Observatory is en route to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where it will be launched in November 2009
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Officials Confirm One Case of Swine Flu in Frederick County MD
FREDERICK, MD - Health officials in Frederick say one resident has tested positive for the H1N1 virus.
The woman took a laboratory test at Frederick Memorial Hospital and it came back positive for swine flu.
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Controversial Incinerator Approved in Frederick, Co., MD
FREDERICK, MD – The Frederick County Board of Commissioners have reached a decision about plans to build a trash incinerator near the Monocacy Battlefield.
They voted 3-2 in favor of proceeding with plans to build an incinerator.
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Woman arrested after three crashes
FREDERICK, Md. — A woman was arrested Thursday after the car she was driving traveled the wrong way on U.S. 15 and Interstate 270 for seven miles, causing three car crashes, according to a Maryland State Police press release. Amanda Tyerar, 21, of Gaithersburg, Md., was charged with DUI, troopers said.
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Frederick County agrees to settle death lawsuit
Lawyers in Frederick County in agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a firefighter trainee who was felled by heatstroke in 2002.
Attorneys for the county and the parents of 23-year-old Andrew Waybright said Tuesday that a settlement deal has been reached but not yet approved in Frederick County Circuit Court.
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State license law starts Monday
Applicants for Maryland driver’s licenses and identification cards will soon have to prove they are in the country legally.
A new state law takes effect Monday that is designed to prevent illegal immigrants from getting new licenses or ID cards.
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Frederick Mayor will not seek re-election
Frederick Mayor Jeff Holtzinger announces he will not seek a second term while standing in front of city hall on Tuesday. Mayor Jeff Holtzinger announced Tuesday he will not seek a second term, and did so in his own low-key style. “My most proud accomplishment is I told you what I was going to do and I did it,” he said.
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Lt. governor says he and O’Malley will run in 2010
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - No surprise: Gov. Martin O’Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown plan to run for re-election next year.
Brown disclosed those plans Friday night at a gathering of Frederick County Democrats.
Brown said, “The fight that we started is not over. There is a tremendous amount of work to be done.”
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Area woman dies in Frederick Md. accident
A Kearneysville resident was pronounced dead on the scene after she lost control of her vehicle Thursday night while driving through a construction site in Frederick, Md., according to police. Deborah Mendez, 42, lost control of her 2002 Chevy Monte Carlo while driving on Interstate 270 southbound near Dr. Perry Road, according to the Maryland State Police.
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BP Solar lays off 620
BP Solar is laying off 620 people at manufacturing plants in Frederick, Md. And Madrid, Spain. The company, which this year moved its headquarters for the unit to San Francisco, said moving module assembly and cell manufacture to other facilities will help reduce costs of panels by 25 percent by the end of 2010.
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Frederick, Md., in minor-league stadium standoff
The city of Frederick is playing hardball with a minor-league baseball team over a municipal ballpark lease.The city is pitching a 43 percent increase — from $17,000 to $30,000 — in what the Frederick Keys would pay to play in Harry Grove Stadium this season.
Read full story here : Maryland Daily Record.
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Frederick woman sentenced in brothel bust
A federal judge has sentenced a Frederick woman to prison for a prostitution scheme organized at Maryland and Virginia brothels. Forty-two-year-old Adriana Delcid was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to money laundering charges.
Read full story in the Examiner.com.
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Elevator work begins at Brunswick Railroad Museum
After nearly two decades of planning, hoping, and waiting, work began last week on an elevator to improve accessibility to the displays on the Brunswick Railroad Museum’s second and third floors. The elevator is necessary, museum officials say, because the layout of the building does not have a means for disabled people to access the higher floors of the museum, where some of its greatest treasures can be found, including its famous HO Scale model railroad layout.
Read full story here: Elevator work begins at Brunswick museum.
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Md. chef supplies advice, thousands of food items
Chef’s Outlet provides supplemental food and supplies for restaurants and to the public. It’s the retail store for FoodPro on East Fifth Street in Frederick.
Area restaurant chefs know it as the go-to place for emergency needs. It’s a secret consumers are discovering, too. Dave White used to be the one making the calls to what was known as the cash-and-carry outlet of the wholesaler: “This is Dave. I’m freaking out … I need a case of burgers.”
Now he’s the one taking the calls. A former banquet chef at several area ...
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Model railroad entertains inside retired train car
Frederick News-Post - Model railroad fans and owners alike have something to celebrate each new year, and that’s the opening of the Catoctin Central Railroad, a miniature train layout operated by the Frederick County Society of Model Engineers. Each Sunday in January and the first Sunday in February, FCSME opens the doors of its genuine rail car, at the rear of 423 E. Patrick St. in Frederick.
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Frederick man charged with passing fake $10 bills
Examiner - Maryland State Police say they’ve charged a Frederick man with passing counterfeit money at a convenience store. Police say 26-year-old Jose Enrique Guandique Torres bought items from the Sheetz convenience store on Buckeystown Pike using four counterfeit $10 bills.
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Painting stolen from Frederick art exhibit
Examiner - Frederick police say an oil painting was stolen from an exhibit at the Frederick Arts Council. Local artist Carol Hutson says her painting of a red covered bridge over a stream in a rural setting was priced at $2,000.
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