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GPS could be used to deter poachers

Last updated Monday, October 3, 2011 - 8:44am

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A pilot program to install tracking devices on some commercial fishing boats in the Chesapeake Bay may go into effect next year.

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Bin Laden kill spotlights Navy SEALs

Annie Linskey, The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 10:12am

There is a motto etched on a Navy SEAL training school building in California: "The only easy day was yesterday."

It captures the grit and willpower required to be a member of the Navy's elite force, a group that includes Naval Academy graduates and is supposed to have the training and smarts to be sent on any mission, anywhere in the world at any time.

Sunday's operation was one that two presidents have called America's No. 1 priority: Bring Osama bin Laden to justice.

It shoved the SEALs into the limelight. A spokeswoman for the group said Monday she could not say a word about the mission, even to confirm that the force was involved. Some major news organizations identified the group as SEALs while others were more circumspect, referring more broadly to special forces.

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Naval Academy students hail bin Laden's death

The Baltimore Sun, Yenganeh June Torbati

Last updated Monday, May 2, 2011 - 5:46pm

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The president's speech over, Osama bin Laden confirmed dead, jubilant midshipmen streamed out of their dorms Sunday night and into Tecumseh Court, one of the central gathering spots at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Dressed casually in T-shirts and baseball caps, the crowd grew into the thousands. Some smoked celebratory cigars. After midnight, a brigade commander told the crowd that it was the elite Navy SEALs who had killed the world's most wanted terrorist.

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2 packages explode in Maryland state buildings

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 2:24pm

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Maryland officials say two packages have exploded in two government buildings in the state capital and another city.

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Court ruling or no, gay troops know not to tell

Brian Witte, The Associated Press, Allen G. Breed

Last updated Friday, October 15, 2010 - 4:20pm

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- When word came down of a judge's ruling that gays could serve openly in the military, an Air Force officer received joyous congratulations from a comrade. Realizing there was someone in the room who didn't know his sexual orientation, the officer pretended it was a joke and laughed it off.

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