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WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog: Cons and consumers
Originally published on March 07, 2011
Maryland residents are most likely to be hit by frauds involving credit cards, identity theft, and nonpayment or delivery of merchandise, according to the IC3 2010 Internet Crime Report. more »
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WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog — Don't worry too much about the '809' scam
Originally published on February 28, 2011
If you receive one of these Internet send-around scares warning you about calling 809 area codes, don't fear, it's old. more »
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WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog — IC3 warns of new cons
Originally published on February 21, 2011
The Internet Crime Complaint Center -- also known as IC3 -- sent out a couple of warnings earlier this month of some recent cybercrime trends. more »
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WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog: Free gas? More like hot air
Originally published on February 14, 2011
Charles Proctor of Mount Airy surprised me a couple of weeks ago. more »
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WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog — Maryland ranks 4th
Originally published on January 31, 2011
Maryland comes fourth in states ranked by number of fraud complaints and 11th when it comes to cases of identity theft, according to a recent report from the Consumer Sentinel Network. more »
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WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog — Conning small businesses
Originally published on January 24, 2011
Small-business owners work long, hard hours, and I don't think anyone would disagree they're vital to the economic engine of the United States. more »
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WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog: Businesses that didn't make Top 5 saluted
Originally published on January 10, 2011
Last week I handed out a few nods to businesses you nominated as your favorites. This week I promised to deliver some of the runners-up. more »
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WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog — Top five businesses of 2010
Originally published on January 03, 2011
Fourteen of you wrote in to suggest a business you've had a positive experience with and, as promised, I'm going to list the top five here in the Watchdog. more »
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WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog — Fake references for cash
Originally published on December 20, 2010
My colleague Ed Waters sent me an interesting story to share with Watchdog readers. more »
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WATCHDOG: Nominate your favorite business
Originally published on December 06, 2010
ABOUT A YEAR AGO I put out a call for Watchdog readers to name their favorite business and send it to me, so I could put together a top five. more »
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WATCHDOG: Beware of Cyber Monday scams
WATCHDOG: Internet complaint center racks up 2 million complaints
WATCHDOG: Cyberwarfare and the world
WATCHDOG: Mystery shopping scam
WATCHDOG: More Facebook fracas
WATCHDOG: Sketchy e-mails
WATCHDOG: Too good to be true
WATCHDOG: ATM PIN skimming
WATCHDOG: Tweet attacks, consumer complaints
WATCHDOG: Frederick Watchdog — Watch out for pyramid schemes
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Frederick County employee payroll database for 2011
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Maryland State Government Salaries for 2010
Charter-writing board petition signature report, May 2011
2010 Census: Population changes in Frederick County, Maryland
Frederick County Bridge Safety 2010
Restaurant Inspections, 2007-2011
Cash for Clunkers report, 2010
City of Frederick employee payroll database for 2010
City of Frederick employee payroll database for 2009
Frederick County employee payroll database for 2008
Fast Lane: Speeding tickets issued in Frederick County in 2009
FCPS Employee Salaries for 2009
Taser use reports by FredCo police agencies for 2007-2008
FredCo Towns/Cities Estimated Population (U.S. Census) 2000-2008
Consolidated Federal Funds Report for Frederick County, by Program, for Fiscal Year 2008
Consolidated Federal Funds for Maryland, by County, for Fiscal Year 2008 (U.S. Census)
Use-of-force reports at the Frederick County Adult Detention Center in 2008
Search 214 final protective orders granted in 2007
Retail Lottery Sales for Frederick County for 2005-2007
FCPS injury/property damage data for 2004-2007
2002-2005 traffic stops by the FPD, FredCo Sheriff's Office and Md. State Police
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Bruce Ivins coverage
Bruce Ivins, a Fort Detrick scientist and leading anthrax researcher, was named the sole suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and 17 others. more »
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Domestic Violence
Twenty-one men, women and children in and around Frederick County died as a result of domestic violence in 2007. To understand how and why these deaths occurred, The Frederick News-Post began an extensive investigation into domestic violence.more »
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Left Behind
When the battlefields fall silent and the wisps of smoke from fired rifles dissipate, the tasks are far from done. Eight service members from Frederick County who served in the Korean and Vietnam wars are still unaccounted for. more »
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StopWatch
Among city, county and state police, blacks and Hispanics were more likely than white drivers to be searched by police officers after a traffic stop, and in many cases those searches were unnecessary, an investigation by The Frederick News-Post found. more »
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Beyond the Breach
During a two-week period in April four years ago, officials at the Army’s lead biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick discovered anthrax spores had escaped carefully guarded suites into the building's unprotected areas. more »
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Aviation Deviation
In the skies above Frederick, take off without a detailed flight plan and you're liable to end up with an F-16 as your wingman. Between November 2005 and July 2007, 39 pilots wandered into the prohibited airspace above Camp David known as P-40. more »
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One man vs. One Government
For decades, the most-powerful domestic intelligence agency in the United States watched a Maryland chicken farmer. The Frederick News-Post has obtained the FBI files of Harold Weisberg, local author, farmer and noted expert on assassinations, through the Freedom of Information Act. more »
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