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By Matthew Hay Brown and Matthew Hay Brown,matthew.brown@baltsun.com | October 24, 2009
Workers began disinfecting the water at Stadium Place on Friday while officials wait to learn whether the apartment complex was the source of the Legionnaire's disease that has killed one elderly resident and sickened five others. Specialists from Legionella Risk Management added chlorine dioxide, a chemical used in treatment systems, to the water supply at the senior facility on the former site of Memorial Stadium, and 10 two-person teams swept through individual apartments to flush out water pipes and raise the temperature on water heaters.
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By Michael Dresser and Michael Dresser,michael.dresser@baltsun.com | October 17, 2009
City and state health officials reassured an anxious, standing-room-only crowd of elderly residents of Stadium Place on Friday that the Legionnaires' disease that killed one of their number and sickened four others cannot be spread from person to person. Residents of the senior housing community on the former site of Memorial Stadium peppered officials with dozens of questions - many focused on how they could protect themselves from contracting the sometimes-fatal form of pneumonia and whether authorities had responded quickly enough to the outbreak.
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By Eileen Ambrose and Eileen Ambrose,eileen.ambrose@baltsun.com | September 21, 2009
If you crave shortening in your pie crust or french fries seeped in "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil," you'll have to dine outside Baltimore. As of Sunday, Baltimore restaurants, delis, bakeries and corner lunch carts can no longer prepare food that contains 0.5 grams or more of unhealthful trans fats per serving. The city joined a growing number of places, including Montgomery County, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and California, to ban trans fats that health advocates say clog arteries and lead to heart disease.
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By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,Sun reporter | August 8, 2007
Thomas H. Farrow, a retired Baltimore FBI agent who talked a gun-wielding hijacker into a surrender aboard a jet, died of congestive heart failure Monday at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, Va. The former Marriottsville resident was 82. On Jan. 2, 1973, Mr. Farrow was called to Friendship Airport (now Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport) to investigate Flight 928. A hijacker armed with a .45-caliber automatic pistol had hidden in the washroom of a Piedmont jet that had landed after a stop in nearby Washington.
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By TYRONE RICHARDSON | May 27, 2006
City health inspectors closed the Giant Food store in the Rotunda shopping center in North Baltimore yesterday for pest infestations, said Olivia D. Farrow, the Health Department's assistant commissioner for environmental health. "The main reason for the closure was due to a mouse infestation throughout the whole store, and they also had a fly infestation in the bakery area," she said. Farrow said health inspectors went to the supermarket, located in the 700 block of W. 40th St., yesterday in response to two separate complaints filed through the city's 311 center.
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November 22, 2005
Suddenly on November 19, 2005, MARGARET A. "MAGGIE" (nee Ibex). Beloved wife of the late Fred Kramer and Ramon R. Farrow, Sr. Loving mother of Ray and Doug Farrow, daughter of the late Joseph and Romaine Ibex, sister of Elizabeth, Robert, Joseph, Frank and William. Also survived by five grandchildren. Family and friends may call at Kaczorowski Funeral Home, P.A., 1201 Dundalk Ave. on Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon at which times services will be held. Interment private. In lieu of flowers contributions to Johns Hopkins Mason Lord Elder Plus Center or the Burn Center.