Updated: 2:44 p.m.
A 19-year-old Naval Academy midshipman was cited for underage drinking at downtown Annapolis bar during an enforcement sweep last week, police said Tuesday.
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Updated: 2:34 p.m.
Democrat Alan Klein got some significant support Tuesday as Del. Elizabeth Bobo formally endorsed his bid to replace incumbent Mary Kay Sigaty on the Howard County Council.
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Baltimore schools CEO Andres Alonso officially kicked off the 2010-2011 school year with an emotional presentation Tuesday to hundreds of principals and school system leaders, in which he emphasized that the district needs to focus on making strides in the number of students attending school and what they're learning when they get there.
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Updated: 12:32 p.m.
The body of a 35-year-old man was found this morning at rush hour in a stairwell on a downtown street, a death that police say they consider suspicious.
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Updated: 7:57 a.m.
Searchers combing the Elk River for a drowned Cecil County man found his body Monday evening, according to a Maryland State Police spokesman.
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Updated: 12:48 p.m.
Wallace D. Loh, a Chinese native who immigrated to Iowa as a teenager and went on to become a star law professor and provost of the University of Iowa, will be the next president of the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Updated: 17 hours ago
In a move that was expected to go down to the wire, the
Orioles agreed to terms with their first-round pick, high school shortstop Manny Machado, with three minutes to go before baseball's signing deadline of midnight Monday.
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Updated: 18 hours ago
Most Maryland colleges and universities remained in similar spots in annual rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report, but the magazine highlighted individual programs at the University of Maryland College Park and again placed the University of Maryland, Baltimore County at the top of its up-and-coming list.
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Updated: 19 hours ago
A 24-year man and two unidentified teenagers have been arrested by Baltimore County police and charged in rape of a 12-year old girl last weekend at Skateworks roller rink in Woodlawn.
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Updated: 18 hours ago
Adam Jones had seen and sweated enough.
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Updated: 21 hours ago
The Peace of Sunshine store off the main drag in Catonsville has lately been making more than half its weekly sales in K2, a "legal pot" known also as "spice." But owner Lawrence J. Zwick says he has sold his last bag. As soon as he heard Monday morning that Baltimore County might make it a crime to sell the smokable leaf, he says, he packed up his inventory of two boxes and shipped it back to the distributor.
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Updated: 20 hours ago
As a group of 20 people demonstrated Monday outside the Anne Arundel County courthouse in Annapolis supporting of the owners of a dog fatally shot Aug. 2 in a Severn park, county prosecutors said it may take another week or more for them to finish their investigation and decide whether to charge the shooter.
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Updated: 19 hours ago
The chief challenger to Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy announced Tuesday that he raised more than $200,000, a figure that experts say should continue to boost the visibility of a race that has been heating up.
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Updated: 20 hours ago
A 26-year-old Baltimore County man who died Saturday at the scene of a high-speed automobile crash has been identified by police.
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Updated: 22 hours ago
A Baltimore school police officer was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison, with all but five years suspended, and five years' probation for sexually abusing a 16-year-old student in his office at Masonville Cove Community Academy last year.
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Updated: 22 hours ago
Frustrated by a string of particularly violent weekends, Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said he is instructing officers to put more pressure on known criminals and find better ways to share internal intelligence.
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Updated: 23 hours ago
The consumer protection division of the Maryland attorney general's office has sued a Missouri marketing company and its owners for selling auto repair warranties that didn't provide the coverage promised, the state announced Monday.
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Updated: Aug 16, 2010
The mother of an Essex man who was shot to death two years ago by Baltimore County police officers has filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit against the county government and six members of the force.
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Updated: Aug 16, 2010
The first Baltimore Grand Prix will be run over Labor Day next year instead of Aug. 5-7, the city and Baltimore Racing Development announced today.
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Updated: Aug 16, 2010
Searchers have resumed combing the Elk River for the body of a 49-year-old Cecil County man who was lost in the water Saturday after a boating accident. Deforrest Timlin, who lived in Rising Sun, is presumed to have drowned.
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Updated: 22 hours ago
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. will deploy its "smart meter" technology intended to save customers money by helping them control energy use, agreeing Monday to terms set by state regulators on how the utility can pass on infrastructure costs to ratepayers.
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Updated: Aug 16, 2010
Maryland State Police are looking for a motorist who struck a 20-year-old West Virginia man as he walked on I-70 in Hagerstown. After the driver left the scene, the struck man was hit by a second vehicle and later pronounced dead.
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Updated: Aug 16, 2010
Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III was huddling with commanders Monday morning to assess their violence prevention strategy after a bloody weekend in which 13 people were shot, three fatally.
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Updated: Aug 16, 2010
As if the double-lane closure on downtown Pratt Street weren't enough, the city Department of Transportation started a series of street closings downtown as part of the preparation for next year's Grand Prix auto race.
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Updated: Aug 15, 2010
A St. Louis man suspected by Illinois State Police of leading a local officer on a fatal chase has turned himself in to authorities in Maryland.
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Updated: Aug 15, 2010
There were times earlier this season when the
Orioles would have loved the mere thought of a .500 road trip. After all, they haven't had one in two years and they've won just 17 of their 60 games away from Camden Yards this season.
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Updated: Aug 15, 2010
A 10-year-old Maryland boy survived being stabbed in the abdomen by a stingray barb in North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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Updated: Aug 15, 2010
St. Mary's County authorities have charged a Lexington Park man in the death of his 4-month-old daughter.
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Updated: Aug 15, 2010
The family of a Maryland father and son who were on board the plane that crashed in Alaska last week is preparing to return home.
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Updated: Aug 15, 2010
Authorities say one Cecil County man is missing and another is injured after a pleasure boat hit a buoy in the Elk River.
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Updated: Aug 15, 2010
Anne Arundel County police are investigating two separate shooting incidents less than a mile apart in the Severn neighborhood Friday night.
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Updated: Aug 14, 2010
— Brian Matusz clearly thought he struck out Kelly Shoppach. He gave an extra look into home plate umpire Brian Knight and then took a couple of steps off the rubber. It was as if Matusz was convinced that if he waited a little longer, glared a little harder, Knight would raise his left fist, pull back his right arm and send Shoppach back to the dugout.
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Updated: Aug 14, 2010
Ernest "Ernie" C. Kiehne, a Baltimore native who spent more than 40 years with Legg Mason Inc. and once co-managed its flagship Value Trust Fund, died Friday in his sleep, the company said. He was 92.
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Updated: Aug 14, 2010
After three shootings that left two men dead and three others wounded Friday night, police commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III ordered an increased police presence and overtime in specific target areas Saturday.
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Updated: Aug 14, 2010
A 19-year-old man was shot three times by Baltimore police after a traffic stop early Saturday near Gwynns Falls Park, police said.
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Updated: Aug 13, 2010
With the hardest schedule in the major leagues over the final month and a half of the season, the Orioles will have a definitive say in who makes the playoffs from the American League.
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Updated: Aug 13, 2010
City homicide detectives were called to two separate shooting incidents Friday night, a spokesman said.
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Updated: Aug 13, 2010
A man was killed after driving into a telephone pole in Dundalk Friday morning, Baltimore County police said.
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Updated: Aug 13, 2010
Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley and Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. each raised more than $3 million this year, their campaigns reported this week.
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Updated: Aug 13, 2010
Baltimore County Police have charged an Owings Mills man in the death of a 37-year-old who was found shot earlier this month in his Windsor Mill home.
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Updated: Aug 13, 2010
An autopsy suggests that a man found dead in a downtown apartment building trash chute might have fallen into it, according to police.
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Updated: Aug 13, 2010
Lytia Solomon had never met a park ranger or taken a family vacation to a national park. And growing up in Philadelphia as a "complete urban city girl," she never knew what a park ranger did.
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