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Rising Rivers, Melting Snow Caused Floods In Frederick Co.
FREDERICK, Md. (WJZ)– Rising rivers and melting snow are all combining to cause floods up and down the eastern seaboard, and the worst may not be over for thousands of people who live in flood-prone...
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Man Pulled From Md. River By Friend, Hospitalized
GERMANTOWN, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a Gaithersburg man has been hospitalized in critical condition after being pulled out of a Germantown lake. Montgomery County police say a preliminary...
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Salazar To Join D.C., Md. Officials To Discuss River
BLADENSBURG, Md. (AP) — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is joining Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray in celebrating the completion of more than 13 miles of...
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Potomac Conservancy To Release River Report
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Potomac Conservancy plans to release its State of the Nation’s River report along with recommendations for the Potomac, which supplies most of the drinking water for the District...
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Md. Man Killed While Kayaking On W.Va. River
DAVIS, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia authorities are investigating a kayaking accident on the Blackwater River that killed a Maryland man. Media outlets report that the accident occurred Sunday at...
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Potomac River On List Of Most Endangered
WASHINGTON (WJZ) — Despite a cleanup that’s taken decades, the Potomac has been declared the most endangered river in America. Alex DeMetrick reports the reason is pollution mixing with politics. The...
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Chesapeake Energy Gives $500K Following Blowout
BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler says Chesapeake Energy will donate $500,000 for Susquehanna River water quality monitoring. Gansler said Thursday that his office has filed...
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Md. Contest Lets People Name Their Own Stream
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) — Here’s a chance to name a Maryland waterway. The Monocacy Scenic River Citizens Advisory Board is holding a contest to name six unnamed tributaries of the stream in Carroll and...
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Driver Saved After Rig Goes Off Wooden Span In Md.
OLDTOWN, Md. (AP) — A truck driver was pulled from the Potomac River after his tractor trailer toppled off a wooden bridge in Oldtown. Authorities say the truck loaded with railroad ties plunged into...
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Western Md. Wildlands Proposal Hits Opposition
SWANTON, Md. (AP) — The Garrett County Planning Commission is opposing a state plan to strengthen protection of land along the Youghiogheny River in far western Maryland. The Cumberland Times-News...
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The World’s 7 Coolest Floating Hotels
Credit: Flickr user Mark Fischer This article is from Thrillist Nation “Boatels”. That’s a word we (maybe) made up, and you’ll be using it all day after reading this story. From retired ocean...
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Maine, Maryland, Delaware Rivers Get Federal Focus
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it will focus conservation efforts on the Penobscot River watershed area in Maine and the Choptank River complex in...
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Solution For River Dumping Problem Evasive
SYLVIA CARIGNAN The Frederick News-Post FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — The Monocacy River’s tire dumping problem has proved to be a difficult one to solve for everyone from local environmental boards to the...
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Police-Involved Shooting Under Investigation In Middle River
MIDDLE RIVER, Md. (WJZ) — There are still a lot of unanswered questions after a Baltimore County police officer shoost a man in the early morning hours. Ava-joye Burnett with what’s known and unknown...
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Monkey Troupe Vexes Florida Park, Goes Viral On Social Media
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — There’s an upswing in monkey business in and around a state park in Florida, where bands of non-native rhesus macaques live along a river that’s popular with kayakers and...
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DAVIS, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia authorities are investigating a kayaking accident on the Blackwater River that killed a Maryland man. Media outlets report that the accident occurred Sunday at...
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