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Moore mayor New law needed
A man fatally shot overnight by an FBI agent in Orlando was being investigated for a possible connection to the Boston bombings, a U.S. law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the Boston Marathon case told CNN. The man who was shot, Ibragim ...
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Jim Traber Discusses Disaster In Oklahoma
Jim Traber joined the show to discuss the natural disaster in Oklahoma this past week. On Monday, a tornado tore through Oklahoma City, killing upwards of 100 people. Steve started out by asking Jim, the former Oriole, about details regarding the tornado as he saw it live on Monday from his work. Jim explained that the weather man let them know that there was bad weather coming. The tornado ...
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Wednesday May 22 2013
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Residents workers share views on Fallston gas pipeline
Baltimore County resident Ruth Moore, second from right, learns how a proposed Columbia Pipeline Group natural gas pipeline will affect her property Tuesday. With her at Fallston High School are, from left, Robyn Susemihl and Matt Long of the engineering firm CH2M Hill and Cheryl Kerr of the Maryland Department of the ...
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Annapolis police warn of traffic woes Friday for academy commencement
U.S. Naval Academy graduation ceremony. Commencement scheduled to be held at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium beginning at 10 a.m. ...
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St. Joseph Medical Center plots $1.7M upgrade to patient floor
The University of Maryland Medical System acquired St. Joseph Medical Center last year. University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center plans to spend $1.7 million on upgrades to a patient floor in the Towson hospital. The project would add privacy to patient rooms and treatment areas, improve infection control and add new resources to the west side of the hospitals seventh floor. The project ...
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Developer looks to put villas condos in Little Italy
Developer Jeff Goolst said his ideas are currently just a wish-list of things that he would like to do to change the looks of the neighborhood. Goolst recently purchased six row homes in the 500 block of Albemarle Street. He said he wants to tear them down and build new ones that resemble Italian villas with cobblestone streets and ...
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Orioles Beat Yankees 3-2 In 10 Innings To End 6-Game Skid
BALTIMORE (AP) — The shaving cream was still glopped on Chris Dickerson’s head and shoulders long after the final pitch, a tell-tale indicator that the Baltimore Orioles had finally returned to celebratory mode at Camden Yards. Nate McLouth homered leading off the bottom of the 10th inning, Dickerson hit a pair of solo shots and the Orioles beat the New York Yankees 3-2 Tuesday ...
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Medicine Cabinet Dangers What Every Parent Needs To Know
Some children are better at sharing toys than others, but all children are champs when it comes to sharing germs. Despite your best instructions about not using each other's sippy cups and covering mouths when coughing, all kids come down with colds at one time or another. Bed rest and lots of T.L.C. may be the best medicine you can offer a sick child, but medications will often be reached ...
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Wednesday traffic No incidents at 755 a.m.
Fox 43 meteorologist MaryEllen Pann says it will be a muggy start to the commute on Wednesday, with a chance for showers on the drive home. (WPMT ...
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Ocean City summer 2013 events
We've put together a calendar of fun events taking place from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day in Ocean City this summer. Many, but not all are free, and most are suitable for the entire family. ...
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Seven people shot one fatally in five incidents in Baltimore
Seven people were shot — at least one fatally — in Baltimore between Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday morning, with the violence stretching from Brooklyn in the south to Gwynn Oak in the northwest and Darley Park in the east.One man was killed in a double shooting that occurred just after 3 a.m. in the Darley Park neighborhood, said Detective Angela Carter-Watson, a police ...
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Financial oversight panel to approve Baltimore property tax credit
A Baltimore oversight panel is expected to approve an additional property tax credit Wednesday for city homeowners. The tax break - known as the Targeted Homeowners' Tax Credit and based on the assessed value of improved property - will reduce taxes by $140 on a property assessed at $200,000. The credit will cost the city an estimated $16 million in the second year of the program. The tax ...
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Orioles Insider Observations on the arrival of rookie RHP Kevin Gausman
Well, the Orioles certainly know how to make a splash. Moments after they beat the Yankees 3-2 in 10 innings on Nate McLouth’s walk-off home run, news broke that the team was calling up pitching prospect Kevin Gausman from Double-A ...
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City residents in largely vacant blocks to be uprooted
Patience Brown addresses city officials who held a meeting to inform residents about plans to take their homes via eminent domain so that they can demolish largely vacant blocks. She was concerned about the 1700 block of Crystal Ave. where she has two nicely renovated rowhomes, attached to vacant ...
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How to spot avoid relief scam websites
While donations are pouring in to aid in the relief efforts for the Oklahoma tornado victims, there are others who are preying on that spirit of generosity to line their own ...
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MASN Reporter Steve Melewski Talks Orioles Baseball
MASN Reporter Steve Melewski joins the Norris and Davis show to discuss the recent happenings with the Orioles. Biggest headline of the day is the report that Orioles first round pick in the 2012 draft (4th overall) Kevin Gausman, will be joining the big league club to make his first career start on Thursday in Toronto. His highly anticipated debut is coming less then a year after being ...
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Morning fog scattered showers expected Wednesday | VIDEO
Fox 43 meteorologist MaryEllen Pann says it will be a muggy start to the commute on Wednesday, with a chance for showers on the drive home. (WPMT ...
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BJs to sell gas for $2.50 gallon to kick off summer
White Marsh store gas station. The discounter is tying the promotion to Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer, at a time when gas prices have climbed 4 cents a gallon in a month, GasBuddy.com says. As of Tuesday, regular gas in Maryland averaged $3.50 a gallon, according ...
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Preakness draws 9.7M TV viewers
The race portion of the Preakness Stakes on national television drew a 5.9 rating 9.7 million viewers up 13 percent over last year and the highest rating since 2009, the Daily Racing Form reported. According to NBC, which broadcast the Triple Crown's middle jewel at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, the Preakness had a 14 share this year, compared to a 13 last ...
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Futuristic movie teaser shot in Hagerstown to attract production company
The producers of a futuristic martial arts dance film to be shot in Hagerstown hope to attract a production company for a distribution deal, the Hagerstown Herald-Mail reported. To this end, the producers, actors, dancers and martial artists, most of whom are locals, filmed a teaser for the proposed movie at the city's Mulberry Lofts, an historic building in Downtown Hagerstown's Arts & ...
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Petition urges Tribune not to sell Sun to union-bashing Koch brothers
Labor groups on Tuesday handed over a petition urging Tribune Co. not to sell the Baltimore Sun to Koch Industries. It remains unclear who might emerge as a buyer for the Baltimore Sun, but about 6,500 Maryland residents know whose hands they don't want the Sun to end up in. Progressive and labor organizations on Tuesday handed over a petition urging Tribune Co. not to sell the newspaper to ...
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Annapolis residents oppose late-night hours for sidewalk cafs
Annapolis homeowners with historic windows and row houses that sit close to the street are objecting to a plan that would allow restaurants and sidewalk cafes to serve customers alfresco well into the wee hours, The Annapolis Capital reported. The city has allowed eateries to offer alfresco dining on public sidewalks since 1995, so long as they shut down by 11 p.m. Residents say late-night ...
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Search for survivors winds down in Oklahoma
No survivors or bodies have been found in Moore since Monday, the day a mammoth tornado ripped through 17 miles of central Oklahoma and pummeled 2,400 ...
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Apples tax avoidance draws criticism admiration at Senate hearing
Apple CEO Tim Cook survived his first congressional hearing Tuesday with his company's reputation for innovation intact, The Business Journals reported. However the focus wasn't on a new technological breakthrough by Apple, it was on the creative ways the multinational corporation reduces its U.S. tax ...
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Baltimore surplus might not be too far-fetched
If the advice of a new report on city government spending is taken onboard by city officials, and if new ways of saving are replicated in all departments, a budget surplus might not be so far-fetched a thought.
A comprehensive report on the state of the Baltimore city government has detailed a number of damning inefficiencies and wastes of financial resources, and has listed a number of steps the city should take to make itself more recession-proof during this time of runaway deficits and plunging income. Read more
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