Then came the build-up in Vietnam. And I watched the program broken as if it was some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war. And I [...]
Imagine after a long day of business meetings, some CEO is forbidden from taking a swim because some 16 year old high school kid abruptly quit his afternoon job as lifeguard?

Say “so long” to Blue Bag Mondays. Starting January 8, plastic bags are a no-no when it comes to curbside recycling. That’s when the city will start using a new system called single-stream recycling. Gone are the days of separating paper from bottles and cans. [...]
And in Maryland, members of the state's execution team [...]
Via the Baltimore Business Journal
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said Monday it intends to serve a significant increase in naturally raised meat this year.
The Denver company, which operates 670 restaurants, including around 10 in the Baltimore area, said the amount will increase by 40 percent, [...]
Bob Ehrlich campaigned on issues and substance contrasting the differences [...]
Careful what you pick up in the subway _ it could lead to your arrest.
Straphanger Carlos Alayo said he learned that lesson when he picked up what he thought was a derelict wallet laying on a subway platform bench.
He said he [...]
"Can anyone in this country say the war on drugs has been a success? If they can, I really don't know who they are. [...]
Police covered up death of pedestrian run over by patrol car, family says
- A Finksburg man did not commit suicide by leaping in front of a state trooper’s cruiser about a year ago, as [...]
So this is where we've come to, one year after the people spoke at the ballot box, fighting through government propaganda, media distortions, pundit scorn, terrorist scares -- and the Karl Rove vote-skewing, vote-suppressing, vote-stealing machine -- to deliver a strong call [...]
The Supreme Court stopped the execution of Virginia death row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett yesterday, a move that legal experts said might signal a nationwide halt to lethal injections until the justices decide next year whether the procedure amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.[...]
Church group opposes slots at racetrack
BALTIMORE - National Security Agency employees could sell intelligence secrets to support gambling habits if slots opened at Laurel Park racetrack, says a church group that opposes legalized gambling.
“Have to refer you to the League, we have no comment,” general manager Ted Sundquist told The Associated Press in response to an e-mail inquiry about a Denver TV report that Henry had [...]
After all, net neutrality is really just a regulatory solution to a lack [...]
Remember their memories.
Frank Clark, director of the Gang Intervention and Investigation Unit for the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, told his audience at a Catonsville library to be aware of large groups [...]
Like the Nazis of 1930s Germany a small but vocal group of gays intimidate large law [...]
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"After carefully considering the facts of this case, along with the recommendations from the Board of Pardons and Paroles, I believe the right and just decision is to commute Foster's sentence from the death penalty to life imprisonment," Perry said in a statement.
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According to police charging documents, two other girls reported being abused by Carroll between December 2004 and April 2005.
The girl previously [...]
Americans still trust the Democratic Congress far more than the President on "the major issues facing the country." Congress is so deeply unpopular not because they [...]
Discrimination against applicants because of a felony conviction isn't like discrimination based on race. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous quote is about his wanting his children to be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
If a felony [...]
Describing one of the latest trends in substance abuse, Baltimore County drug expert Michael Gimbel pulled out a pink-tinted hookah, its snaking hose dangling behind it.
“You think kids [...]
We’re losing the war on drugs,” said Young, D-District 12. “When teenagers are getting gunned down on the street because of the drug business, then we have to rethink our approach.