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Man Who Drove Hours To MD With Homemade Bomb To Kill Role-Playing Romantic Rival Sentenced: DOJ Man Who Drove Hours To MD With Homemade Bomb To Kill Role-Playing Romantic Rival Sentenced: DOJ
Man Who Drove Hours To MD With Homemade Bomb To Kill Role-Playing Romantic Rival Sentenced: DOJ A love triangle turned explosive in Maryland when a man drove seven hours from Ohio into Carroll County to deliver a gift-wrapped bomb intended to kill a romantic rival, federal authorities announced. Clayton Alexander McCoy, 32, of Chesterland Ohio, has been sentenced to 262 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to transporting explosives with the intent to injure and possession of an unregistered firearm or explosive device, in connection with an explosion at a home in Carroll County that severely injured the boyfriend of a woman McCoy was interested in. McCoy took elaborate mea…

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More Than 32K Still Without Power 24 Hours After Storms Smash Through Maryland More Than 32K Still Without Power 24 Hours After Storms Smash Through Maryland
More Than 32K Still Without Power 24 Hours After Storms Smash Through Maryland Tens of thousands of Maryland residents were still in the dark a day after severe storms left the region in tatters.  Despite working around the clock to make repairs, as of 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 8, Baltimore Gas and Electric was still reporting 1,415 active outages that were impacting 32,962 of the company's 1,340,185 Maryland customers. The Baltimore Gas and Electric Outage Map at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 8.Baltimore Gas and Electric Outages by county:  Anne Arundel: 73 outages affecting 1,406 customers; Baltimore: 618 outages affecting 11,437 customers; Baltimore City: 199 outag…

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Firefighter Injured Battling Tricky Two-Alarm Maryland House Fire Firefighter Injured Battling Tricky Two-Alarm Maryland House Fire
Firefighter Injured Battling Tricky Two-Alarm Maryland House Fire One firefighter had to be treated for injuries as crews contended with a tricky early-morning two-alarm wall fire that broke out in Carroll County, officials said. Shortly before 7 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1, first responders in Union Bridge were called to the 600 block of Raywell Avenue when a passerby alerted them to a fire that broke out in a multi-family home. According to the Maryland State Fire Marshal, a crew of 50 firefighters from the Union Bridge Volunteer Fire Company and nearby agencies responded to the call, where they were met with a fire that had sparked inside a wall at the re…

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Maryland Police Chief Reportedly Placed On Administrative Leave (DEVELOPING) Maryland Police Chief Reportedly Placed On Administrative Leave (DEVELOPING)
Maryland Police Chief Reportedly Placed On Administrative Leave (Developing) Questions are surrounding a police chief in Maryland who has been placed on administrative leave for unknown reasons, according to multiple reports. In Carroll County, Taneytown Police Chief Jason Etzler, who has been with the department for two decades, is on temporary leave from the agency for undisclosed reasons. He has been the chief since 2019 when he took over for another embattled chief who resigned after admitting to a weapons charge, according to WBAL. City Manager James Wieprecht announced the decision to place Etzler on administrative leave this week, but failed to provide detai…

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