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The article offers July 16, 2015 U.S. news briefs including arrest of a man named Lloyd Michael Welch, Jr. for murdering two sisters, Katherine and Sheila, who got disappeared in 1975 in Maryland.

The article reports on the dead bodies of a father named Rodney Eric Todd and his seven children found in Maryland by police.

3:44 p.m. Updated For President Obama, the fainting spells are back. A woman listening to the president discuss his energy policy in Maryland on Thursday fainted among the standing-room-only crowd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. -- Kimberly Fitzgerald, a freshman at St. Mary's College of Maryland here, loves it when people ask where she lives. ''It's a good story to tell,'' she said. That is because Ms. Fitzgerald and 239 schoolmates live on a cruise ship that was converted into student housing after an outbreak of mold shut down two dorms on campus. The closing forced students into hotels miles from campus, and Ms. Fitzgerald, 18, stayed in a Holiday Inn that was a 45-minute drive from campus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The House will take up the impeachment of a Louisiana federal judge on Friday, the majority leader, Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, said on Tuesday. The judge, G. Thomas Porteous, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, is accused of accepting cash and gifts from lawyers whose cases he presided over in court. He is also accused of lying about his finances when he filed for personal bankruptcy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]