Corrections
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 22nd, 2009 5:35 am by HL
Corrections
— A Dec. 21 Page One article about the weekend snowstorm, in reporting that a family member delivered the baby when a woman went into labor at a house in Takoma Park, said responding emergency vehicles became stuck in a snowbank, implying that they did not make it to the scene. A Montgomery County…
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