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Officials consider mandatory curbs on city water use

With water levels falling in Baltimore's drought-depleted reservoirs, the voluntary water conservation efforts the city has urged on customers since January may no longer be enough. The city's water managers...
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Drought persists; city high hits 99

Marylanders cranked up their air conditioners yesterday and opened their taps to cool themselves and their plants as temperatures bubbled into the 90s for the fourth straight day. Utility officials...
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Md. set to act as water levels hit record lows

With reservoirs, wells and streams in Maryland at record lows for the season, Gov. Parris N. Glendening is preparing to declare a drought emergency in parts of the state and...
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No sign of more resistant anthrax

U.S. health officials say it was probably Kathy Nguyen's delay in seeking treatment - and not any new, more antibiotic-resistant strain of anthrax - that prevented doctors from saving the...
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4 new cases of anthrax in Md., N.J.

The anthrax fright continued to spread yesterday as four new suspected cases surfaced among postal workers in Maryland and New Jersey, and spores were found at two mail-handling facilities in...
United States Postmaster General John E. Potter answers a question during a news conference at the White House with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., left, and Washington mayor Anthony Williams. Two postal workers at a site that handles mail for the Capitol died under conditions suspicious for anthrax.

2 mail workers die, 2 ill

The capital region's bioterrorism crisis deepened yesterday after two employees at Washington's primary mail-handling facility died of suspected inhalation anthrax, and two others were seriously ill with the same illness....
Work continues: U.S. postal workers at the West Trenton branch in Ewing, N.J., hand out mail to carriers. Two postal workers were reported to have developed anthrax skin infections.

Postal route in N.J. tracked

TRENTON, N.J. - Federal investigators descended on suburban Ewing Township yesterday, tracking a postal carrier's route where at least one of the anthrax-tainted letters that have rattled the nation in...
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, right, and Attorney General John Ashcroft brief reporters on anthrax concerns around the country. "Instead of speculating, we'd like to focus on the facts," Ridge said.

Anthrax reward: $1 million

WASHINGTON - The FBI and the U.S. Postal Service offered rewards yesterday of up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever sent anthrax-tainted letters...
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Sex invades the treetops

The "song" of the 17-year cicada has crescendoed to the proportions of a "din," or at least a "racket" in Central Maryland; cats and dogs are snacking on them like...