Local Leads: 6/4/10

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The following stories have been hand-selected by the Assignment Desk at News4:

HEALTH CARE REFORM AND COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
The new health care law is already making Bethesda a little healthier: The federal government just leased more than 70,000 square feet there and plans to hire about 300 employees to help implement the complicated act. The Department of Health and Human Services will occupy the space at 7501 Wisconsin Ave. under a five-year lease negotiated by the General Services Administration. The department plans to move into the space before the end of the month. The agency is moving into a building that’s being vacated by Chevy Chase Bank, which was bought by McLean-based Capital One Financial Corp. in February 2009. (Washington Business Journal)

PINE TREE PEST MAY RUIN CHRISTMAS
Maryland agriculture officials have added Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties to an expanding quarantine zone that they hope will slow the spread of a foreign insect pest that threatens Christmas tree farms and other pines. The quarantine requires that all shipments of cut pine Christmas trees, pine nursery stock, pine logs, stumps and lumber with bark attached, and pine bark mulch have an inspection certificate before they can be moved outside the quarantine zone. (Baltimore Sun

2 ARRESTED AT OBAMA MOTOTRCADE
Secret Service officers have subdued two men who refused to get out of the street as President Barack Obama's motorcade was returning to the White House. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says Obama was returning Thursday night from a school event for one of his daughters when the men refused to move out of the way of the presidential motorcade. A uniformed Secret Service officer was seen lying on top of one man and another officer wrestled with the second man. (AP/wtop.com)

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