Md. event marks Army progress against cold virus

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 12, 2012
Tags: common cold, Health Care, u.s. army, vaccine

FREDERICK — Military medical experts at Fort Detrick are marking progress against an enemy most of us have encountered: the common cold. On Monday, Assistant Defense Secretary Jonathan Woodson will join Army medical researchers in celebrating the licensing and fielding of a vaccine against adenovirus (AD’-noh-vy-rus) types 4 and 7. The virus can cause respiratory [...]

Ex-soldier ordered held in terrorism-related case

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 11, 2012
Tags: Al-Shabaab, greenbelt, soldier, somalia, terrorism, trial, u.s. army, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Connolly

GREENBELT — A former U.S. Army soldier accused of trying to provide support to a terrorist organization in Somalia has been ordered held pending his trial. That was the ruling Wednesday from U.S. Magistrate Judge William Connolly, who agreed with prosecutors that Craig Baxam was a flight risk if allowed to go free. The judge [...]

Army floats plans for former nuclear site in Silver Spring

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: July 1, 2011
Tags: army, diamond ordnance radiation facility, electronic componenets, forest glen annex, fort detrick, frederick, maryland, Nuclear Power, nuclear reactor site, reactor, silver spring, u.s. army, walter reed army medical center

SILVER SPRING — The Army is seeking public comment on the proposed decommissioning of a former nuclear reactor site in Silver Spring. A spokesman at Fort Detrick in Frederick said Friday that the comment period runs through July 29. The site is called the Diamond Ordnance Radiation Facility at the Forest Glen Annex. Fort Detrick [...]

Robert H. Bouse Sr. remembered as helpful, reliable

BY: Danielle Ulman
POSTED: March 2, 2011
Tags: Anderson Coe & King LLP, Baltimore, baltimore superior court, court clerk, died, obituary, Robert H. Bouse Sr., u.s. army, U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Comments: 1

Robert H. Bouse Sr., who had served as a court clerk in Baltimore for 45 years, died Monday at age 91 following a short illness with cancer. Bouse began in 1941 as a clerk in Baltimore Superior Court, one of five courts in the city system that made up the Supreme Bench before the courts [...]

Defense seeks GI’s release in WikiLeaks case

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 14, 2011
Tags: arrest, bradley manning, cables, cia, detained, fbi, hagerstown, intelligence, investigation, julian assange, leak, private, quantico, release, State Department, u.s. army, united states, virginia, wikileaks
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HAGERSTOWN — The lawyer for a U.S. Army private suspected of passing thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks says he has asked the government to release his client from a Marine Corps brig due to what he says are needlessly harsh pretrial confinement conditions. Civilian attorney David Coombs of Fall River, Mass., said in a [...]