Fort Detrick (military base)

Investigators open probe into airplane crash that killed father and son

2013-05-06 18:05:00

Federal investigators began examining Monday the wreckage of a two-seater, home-built airplane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing a man from Davidsonville and his son from Westminster, the father of 10 children. On Saturday, experimental...

Paul W. Ramey

2013-01-09 13:37:22

Paul Wilson Ramey, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers who was a founder of AIDS Action Baltimore, died of cancer Dec. 29 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 55 and lived in Hampden. Born and raised in Woodstock, Va., he was a 1975 graduate...

Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist

2012-12-08 12:46:00

First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of...

Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says

2012-12-04 04:31:50

Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges. Moreover, the National Academy of Science reported, lead from ammunition...

Frederick family sues U.S. over scientist's mysterious death

2012-11-28 16:05:00

Commissioners OK veterans shuttle to Baltimore, Frederick

2012-10-13 20:47:00

The Board of County Commissioners this week approved creation of a shuttle bus service to transport veterans from two locations in Carroll County to Veterans Administration hospitals in Baltimore City and Frederick. The commissioners voted 4-0 on a...

Howard couple's beach home is like a fairy tale

2012-08-23 12:59:00

Ellicott City residents Rosario and Maria Di Marco never lost their desire to have a second home by the sea in Lewes, Del. To this day, the quiet resort town holds happy memories of summer vacations at Fort Miles near Cape Henlopen Park when their...

Q&A with fly-fishing expert Lefty Kreh

2012-06-09 14:49:00

Lefty Kreh is to fly-fishing what James Naismith was to basketball and, perhaps, what Elvis was to rock 'n' roll. Not only is the now 87-year-old Kreh credited with helping invent the sport in the late 1940s, he later popularized it by writing more...

Group seeks Frederick, Fort Detrick agreement

2012-08-12 08:30:00

Howard touts Carroll County as prime location for BRAC-related business

2011-08-11 12:52:11

COLUMBIA — Doug Howard, president of the Board of County Commissioners, this week made a presentation to members of a BRAC Business Initiative (BBI) meeting to highlight Carroll County's attributes for companies looking to relocate near military...

Event marks Army progress against cold virus

2012-03-12 04:57:00

Mississippi biotech startup moves to Baltimore

2012-02-19 00:00:00

Ken Malone and the board members of his startup biotech company gathered in a conference room at the University of Southern Mississippi last October to make a gut-wrenching decision. Ablitech Inc.'s funding was slowly drying up, and it couldn't find...

Jim Romano, left, president of the Fort Detrick Alliance, talks Wednesday afternoon with Steve Rountree, acting director of strategic partnership with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, during the Fort Detrick Alliance Expo at Hagerstown Community College's Student Center.

2012-06-21 05:15:00

Fort Detrick Commissary employees Blessie Viands, left, and Marilou Pack, right, go through the buffet line Friday during the multi company holiday dinner party at Hager Hall in Hagerstown.

2011-12-16 19:21:08

Marine Staff Sgt. Langlois and his wife, Steph, of Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., worked at the Toys for Tots table at the Hagerstown Ice & Sports Complex.

2011-12-15 05:25:59