Obama speaks at Naval Academy graduation
Source: Fox
Annapolis :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 16:07:52 -0700 | political-news
Md. With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no place...
UM says it alerted AG's office about swim coach's abuse of girl
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 19:02:26 -0700 | political-news
A university spokesman said Friday that officials demanded Curl's immediate resignation and then alerted and briefed an assistant attorney general by phone on Sept. 7, 1988. The university did not provide any documentation of the phone call, but officials said...
Use of unloaded guns in training drill under investigation
Source: Baltimore Sun
Reisterstown :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 18:43:40 -0700 | political-news
Deputy Commissioner John Skinner, who is in charge of police operations, said the officers were using unloaded service weapons instead of training guns that do not have firing pins, which he called a critical kind of safety error. It occurred...
President praises Baltimore native at commencement
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:31:22 -0700 | political-news
They're both African-American men who were raised by their grandparents...Obama graduated in 1991, and Shelton will start there in the fall. But he never expected the president to return his adulation. "[Shelton] plans to use his law degree to make...
Officials: Norovirus likely caused sickness at Pot Spring
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:31:26 -0700 | political-news
Norovirus was likely the culprit that sickened 200 students and nine staff members at Pot Spring Elementary in Timonium last week, Baltimore County health officials have found. About a third of the school's students were absent May 17 because of...
White House chief of staff visits local VA office
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:31:16 -0700 | political-news
EDT , May 24, 2013 White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough visited the Baltimore regional office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday to discuss efforts to address the agency's persistent backlog of veterans disability claims. The...
Baltimore Cemetery a little-known and dignified site
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:31:13 -0700 | political-news
The cemetery's uncompromisingly stern-looking gates, modeled after the Battle Abbey in England, sit on the hill where North Avenue terminates near Belair Road . It is a part of the city that has been considerably abandoned by both residents and...
Three Severn-area teenagers charged in armed robberies
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:09:05 -0700 | political-news
Siegel, The Baltimore Sun Three Anne Arundel County teenagers were arrested Friday and charged with armed robbery and other counts when their homes in the Severn area were searched in connection with several recent armed robberies, police said. In a...
Harris calls for expanded audit of education spending
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 18:39:25 -0700 | political-news
Baltimore schools CEO Andres Alonso sought to play down the findings, which found that the district improperly used federal funds provided by the state for $99 chicken dinners, a makeover day and two cruises in the Inner Harbor in 2009...
Assault rifles seized in drug raid north of Patterson Park
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 15:39:16 -0700 | political-news
Baltimore police seized three assault rifles and more than 7,000 rounds of ammunition in a drug raid on an East Baltimore house just north of Patterson Park...Milos, 29, reportedly told officers he had the weapons because he was "preparing for...
Remembering Elbert B. Smith
Source: HNN
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 14:37:03 -0700 | political-news
known to his friends simply as "E.B."-- I lost a much beloved mentor, advisor, and friend. Obituaries in the Washington Post and elsewhere have captured the essential facts of his life. Since 1990, he was professor emeritus at the University...
Moonrise Festival canceled
Source: Baltimore Sun
Ellicott City :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 12:54:00 -0700 | political-news
It is with a heavy heart that we regret to announce the cancellation of this year's Moonrise Festival," states a message on the website. "Although we have put everything we had into this event trying to make it happen we...
TSA seizes stun gun from Frederick man at BWI
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 11:14:45 -0700 | political-news
The unidentified passenger was stopped by a Transportation Security Administration officer who detected the combination stun gun/flashlight in his luggage. Maryland Transportation Authority Police confiscated the weapon and cited its owner on a state weapons charge.
Two $1 million Powerball tickets drawn; prizes yet to be claimed
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:10:30 -0700 | political-news
Two winning Powerball tickets one from Baltimore City, one from Calvert County , and each with a second-tier prize of $1 million were pulled from Wednesday night's drawing, said the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency on Thursday...The winning tickets...
Man charged with assault in Edgemere shooting
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 05:15:52 -0700 | political-news
Himes said he had been in an altercation with Leo Harlen Moser, 53, and that Moser had shot him, police said. Police searched the area near the 7500 block of Sparrows Point Boulevard, where the shooting had occurred, and found...
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