Chemicals dumped decades ago in trenches at Fort Detrick have contaminated the groundwater on private property next to the Army post and ruined the parcel's development potential, a developer claims in a civil lawsuit seeking $37 million in damages from the U.S. government.

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FREDERICK — Fort Detrick officials say two construction workers were injured when a fire broke out at an Army lab under construction. The two-alarm blaze broke out Wednesday afternoon at the fire at the new U.S. Army Medical Research Institute ...

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FORT MEADE — Lawyers for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning opened their case Monday in the sentencing phase of his trial by attacking commanders’ decisions to send the young intelligence analyst to Iraq and let him keep his top-secret security clearance ...

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WASHINGTON — Nearly a dozen safety standards were violated at an Army weapons-testing pond near Baltimore where three people have died this year, the Labor Department said Thursday. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration found seven serious violations at the ...

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FORT MEADE — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy — the most serious charge he faced — but was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges Tuesday, more than three years after he spilled secrets ...

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FORT MEADE — Pfc. Bradley Manning’s defense rested its case Wednesday after presenting evidence from 10 witnesses, hoping to prove the loads of material the soldier gave to WikiLeaks did not threaten national security or U.S. troops in Iraq and ...

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FORT MEADE — Prosecutors are moving quickly through the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning. The former Army intelligence analyst is charged with aiding the enemy. He has acknowledged sending reams of government secrets to WikiLeaks, but says he didn’t think ...

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FORT MEADE — A video of a U.S. Apache helicopter attack leaked by Pfc. Bradley Manning revealed sensitive information that could help enemies plan deadlier assaults, according to a Pentagon official’s statement read Wednesday at the soldier’s court-martial. The cockpit ...

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FORT MEADE — Three days into Pfc. Bradley Manning’s court-martial for giving thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, prosecutors have shown the soldier was trained to guard classified information and knew it could easily fall into enemy hands, yet broke ...

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FORT MEADE — A one-time computer hacker who told authorities Pfc. Bradley Manning was giving information to WikiLeaks testified Tuesday the soldier never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats. Manning is on trial for giving ...

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