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ESSEX, Md. – Baltimore County (search) fire officials say about 50 second-graders were stung by yellow jackets at Deep Creek Elementary School in Essex this afternoon. Fire department spokesman Elise Armacost (search) says two children had mild allergic reactions to the stings, but no one suffered a serious reaction. Some …

FORT BLISS, Texas – A military jury cleared an Army sergeant Friday of all charges that he abused a detainee at a U.S. detention facility in Afghanistan (search). Sgt. Duane M. Grubb (search), from the Cincinnati-based 377th Military Police Company, is the third soldier from this company to be acquitted …

WASHINGTON – The House moved Wednesday to increase the borrowing authority of the federal program overseeing flood insurance, the second such increase since Hurricane Katrina resulted in an unprecedented number of claims along the Gulf Coast. In a voice vote, the House approved a measure that would allow the National …