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Maryland green events Bird Blitz Baltimore Herb Festival and other events
that will start on May 25 and run until June 30. A bird blitz or "bird watching with a purpose" is a survey intended to identify and preserve areas that are home to vulnerable bird species in Maryland. Bird Blitzes are part of the Audubon's Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program. Since 2006, Bird Blitzes have been used to identify 20 new IBA's. This Blitz will be held at the ...
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Man Woman Taken Into Custody With Drugs Assault Weapons
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A man and a woman are behind bars, facing multiple weapons and narcotics charges. Fransico Milos and Lynnie Lewis were arrested Thursday at their home on Kenwood Avenue. That’s where police found assault rifles with over 7,500 rounds of ammunition. Additionally, more than 500 grams of suspected marijuana were seized as well. Milos has a criminal record. ...
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Teen Daughter And Boyfriend Indicted In Murder Of Howard County Blogger
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (WJZ) — A 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend have been indicted and charged as adults in the killing of her father in his Ellicott City home. According to our media ...
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Brew at the Zoo set for this weekend
It's advertised as "Baltimore's biggest beer festival." Organizers at The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore say you don't want to miss the selection of brews, bands and bites as you become a "social animal" and raise a glass in support of a good cause. The event is hosted in support of animal care and conservation work at the zoo. The event will be held on Saturday, ...
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Baltimore Co. schools ranked among best
More than half of Baltimore County's high schools are ranked among the nation's best. In effort to recognize the achievements of the 13 schools, district superintendent Dr. S. Dallas Dance and Baltimore County executive Kevin Kamenetz partnered to honor faculty, student and parent representatives on Thursday afternoon. The rankings of the schools came from national publications based ...
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Grand jury empaneled to review Medicaid contract
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Louisiana attorney general's office says a special grand jury has been selected to look into possible criminal activity involving the award of a $200 million Medicaid contract by Gov. Bobby Jindal's ...
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Md. Man Dies After Motorcycle Accident on I-295 North
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A man dies after colliding with a Hummer on Interstate 295. The accident occurred on Wednesday at approximately 7:44 p.m. when Michael Swann,45 of Forestville, Md, was in a 1997 Honda CBR motorcycle traveling northbound on Interstate 295, S.E. near Suitland Parkway, when he lost control, collided with a 2006 Hummer and fell from the motorcycle, officials said. He was ...
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Worker crushed to death after Montgomery Mall garage collapses
One construction worker is dead and another severely injured after a 50,000-pound piece of concrete fell and crushed them at a Montgomery County ...
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Ex-swimming coach banned from sport because of sex abuse sentenced to 7 years in prison
ROCKVILLE, Md. - A Virginia man who was once one of the nation's most prominent swimming coaches has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed. Richard J. Curl, who pleaded guilty in February, apologized to the victim Thursday afternoon in Montgomery County Circuit Court. Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Marielsa Bernard imposed the ...
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Daughter boyfriend indicted in Ellicott City bloggers killing
Morgan Arnold poses next to a Scooby-Doo display during a 2012 trip to California with her mother, Cindi Arnold. Morgan, 14, now stands accused of orchestrating a plot with her boyfriend, Jason Bulmer, to kill her father, Dennis Lane, in Ellicott ...
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Howard County Council approves budget higher than Ulmans request
Howard County Council on Thursday adopted a $923.5 million annual general fund spending plan that increases allocations for schools and police while not raising income or property taxes. The council voted 4-1 to approve the budget, roughly $2.7 million higher than the proposal made a month ago ...
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Man Dies After Being Hit by Metro Bus
MONTGOMERY COUNTY (WUSA9) -- A Metro Bus hit and killed a pedestrian on Georgia Avenue on Wednesday night. The accident occurred at approximately 11:08 p.m., when a male pedestrian fell under the bus as the bus was pulling away from a bus stop. Ronald Maurice Johnson, 50, of Brookeville was transported to Suburban Hospital with non-life threatening injuries at the time but he died after his ...
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1 Person Dead After Parking Garage Partially Collapses At Mall In Bethesda
BETHESDA, Md. (AP/WJZ) — Montgomery County officials say a parking garage has partially collapsed outside a shopping mall in Bethesda, trapping two people. One of those trapped has ...
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Federal Audit Finds Baltimore City Schools Missused Federal Stimulus Title I Funds
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A federal audit finds stimulus dollars intended for Baltimore City Schools is spent on things far from the ...
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Michael Felder Talks OTA’s And College Football
Michael Felder of Bleacher Report joins The Scott Garceau Show with Jeremy Conn to discuss the OTA’s going on around the NFL right now. Michael goes on to breakdown the Ravens drafting of Arthur Brown, who is going in for sports hernia surgery. University of Houston running back Charles Sims is talking of either transferring or even entering the supplemental draft in the NFL that is coming ...
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Former Smoker Who Appeared In Anti-Smoking Commericial Is Honored By CDC
Mary Bubala explains you may not know her name but you’ve likely heard her voice. Her name is Terrie Hall, a former smoker who’s known for appearing in anti-smoking TV ads. Hall is being honored by the CDC with a special award for her courage in telling her story. ';Everywhere I go I’m recognized as that lady on TV,'; said Hall. Hall started smoking at age 17. Now, ...
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Pedestrian killed by Metrobus in Olney
Ronald Maurice Johnson of Brookeville was hit as a Metrobus pulled away from the curb at Georgia Avenue near Olney-Sandy Spring Road around 11:08 p.m. The bus had just picked up riders in the southbound ...
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Basketball-playing teen stabbed near Silver Spring park
Around 6:40 p.m. Monday, two men approached a 17-year-old at Stonegate Park and tried to engage him in a conversation. The victim became scared and began to leave. The men followed him to Cobblestone Drive, where he was confronted by another male who stabbed him three times with a folding ...
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Obama outlines plans to limit use of U.S. drone strikes close Guantanamo
Barack Obama outlined plans on Thursday to limit the use of U.S. drone strikes against extremists abroad and took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing ...
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Ravens Insider Ray Lewis pledges to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
has apparently found his next challenge. The former Ravens linebacker said today on his Twitter page that he will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money and awareness for clean water projects in East Africa. Lewis will undertake the mission, which he has billed TackleKili, next month. Kilimanjaro is the highest free-standing mountain in the world and is over 19,000 feet above sea ...
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Body of Hyattsville man found in Edgewater creek
White Marsh Creek in Edgewater, authorities said Thursday. Natural Resources Police spokesman Sgt. Brian Albert said the man was identified as William Eckert, 70. He said Eckert's wife was unable to reach him on his cell phone Wednesday evening while he was cleaning his boat at Holiday Hill Marina, and she asked a friend to check on him, he said. The friend called 911, Albert ...
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Sun Investigates Some Baltimore City workers rack up overtime
It’s been a busy year so far for Audrey Dyer-Brown, collections supervisor at the city Department of Public Works. Her job duties have ballooned - and so has her ...
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Visitors See Rare Agave Bloom At The Rawlings Conservatory In Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Something strange is happening at the Rawlings Conservatory in Druid Hill Park. At first, you might think of the little shop of horrors, but ...
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Woman dies after being rescued
Anne Arundel County fire officials say 52-year-old Patricia Hart died at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore late Wednesday afternoon. She was rescued from a second-floor bathroom of the burning home a day earlier. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Hart becomes the third person to die as a result of a fire in Anne Arundel County this ...
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CSX Maryland move forward on Baltimore intermodal site
CSX hopes to start construction this fall on an intermodal facility in Southwest Baltimore. Plans for Baltimores intermodal facility took another step forward Thursday as the states transportation agency approved entering into a lease with CSX Transportation Inc. for property along proposed site. The Maryland Transportation Authority signed off on starting negotiations for an airspace lease with ...
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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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