Recent palate-pleasing openings like Eiderdown and Hammerheads have boosted working-class Germantown to the leaders' pack.

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Terri Lodwick, president of All American Window, a 22-person home-improvement company in Germantown, Wis.

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Fell's bank was threatening to kick her out of her Germantown, Maryland, home November 6 because she was behind on her mortgage.

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Dr. Eric Garbuckle, a high school guidance counselor in Germantown, Pa.

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Police found both of them dead Monday inside Arndt's apartment in Germantown while looking into a report of a missing juvenile possibly being at that location, police said.

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And so I know that some of you may have been at the rally we had with 20, 000 folks of Germantown. (Applause.) But you know what, coming to a rally, that's not the hard part.

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Germantown United Methodist Church in Germantown, Tenn.

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Two storm-related deaths were reported in the state: a 74-year-old man died after being struck by a car in Poughkeepsie, and a 23-year-old man died after he went off the edge of a roadway while plowing his driveway in Germantown police said.

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