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Chesapeake

[ ches-uh-peek ]

noun

  1. (italics) a U.S. frigate boarded in 1807 by the British, who removed part of its crew and impressed some members into British service: captured by the British in naval battle near Boston in 1813.
  2. a city in SE Virginia.


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For instance, in 2014 Bondi, alongside 20 other attorneys general, filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which had filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing the EPA cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay.

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That tattoo became a major point of focus in the trial this month of Deneyvous Hobson, an accused member of a prolific L.A. armored car robbery crew known as the “Chesapeake Bandits.”

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They were called the “Chesapeake Bandits” because they carefully planned the holdups at a home on Chesapeake Avenue in L.A.’s West Adams neighborhood, investigators say.

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Less than a year later, another granddaughter, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, and her 8-year-old son drowned in a canoeing accident in the Chesapeake Bay.

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Led by the non-profit progressive consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, over 1,000 fellow survivors sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday demanding a federal investigation of Big Oil for climate crimes.

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