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Hagerstown sets new weather record with hottest day ever in June
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comA new weather record was set in Hagerstown on Friday. The temperature reached 100.7 degrees at 3:57 p.m., the hottest day in June ever recorded in Hagerstown, according to i4weather.net, a website operated by local weather observer Greg Keefer. It...Tags: Fishing Forecast, Swimming, Sports
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Local veterans organizations place wreaths at the memorial in Martin L. "Marty" Snook Park
dona@herald-mail.comMore than 80 people gathered on a cold, blustery Friday morning for a ceremony to honor the 22 million surviving veterans who have served in the armed forces and the millions more who have died, either in military service or long past their discharge or...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, Armed Forces, Television Industry, Veterans Day
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Feedback for Wednesday, May 8
Local high schools recognized nationally Seven local public high schools are ranked among the top 2,000 in the nation, according to an online list released by Newsweek magazine Monday. More than 5,000 schools were invited to participate and nearly 2,...Tags: Schools, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, High Schools, Politics, York (York, Pennsylvania)
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Whereas at last Obama officially publishes said memo creating Gitmo North in Illinois of all places
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Eight US Soldiers Killed in All Day Battle At Remote Outposts In Afghanistan
Web ReporterEight U.S. Soldiers have died after hundreds of insurgents armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades storms a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border. 20 Afghan security troops were also captured. The battle started at dawn on Saturday and...Tags: Armed Forces, Rebellions, Religious Conflicts, Kabul (Afghanistan), Wars and Interventions
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'Liberty'
Most Americans would probably agree with the 19th century abolitionist Wendell Phillips that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." But our vigilance has been erratic, and we have paid the price for our inattention. This nation's history is littered...Tags: The New York Times, Government, Republican Party, Mike Huckabee, John McCain
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A voice from Gitmo's darkness
JUMAH AL-DOSSARI is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain. This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his attorneys. Its contents have been deemed unclassified by the Department of Defense.Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba — I AM WRITING from the darkness of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo in the hope that I can make our voices heard by the world. My hand quivers as I hold the pen. In January 2002, I was picked up in Pakistan,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, Armed Forces, Death, Pakistan
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Returning war dead: A reappearing image
The Swampby Mark Silva The flag-draped coffin of Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va., who was 30 and the victim of an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, arrived late last night at Dover Air Force Base in Maryland. It was......Tags: Defense, Armed Forces, Death, International Military Interventions, Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia)
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Richard Armitage: Bush's CIA tortured
The Swampby Mark Silva Richard Armitage, who served as chief deputy to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says now that he would have resigned if he had known that the CIA was interrogating suspected terrorists with "water-boarding,'' that simulated drowning....Tags: Government, Prisons, Social Issues, Police Investigations, Wars and Interventions
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