Harford senator recovering from mild heart attack

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State Sen. Robert Hooper of northern Harford County was recovering at home after suffering a minor heart attack earlier this week that he initially mistook for indigestion.

A brief operation to reopen a blocked artery was performed Wednesday morning at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, and the 70-year-old District 35 Republican was back to work Friday afternoon.

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