Howard County Police are mourning the loss of an 8-year veteran who died while off-duty over the weekend. Police Officer First Class Jennifer Cree, 31, was found deceased by a family member in her Columbia home Sunday. The cause of death is unknown at this time, but detectives do not [...]
Built in one of the remotest sections of South Carroll, bordering Baltimore County, the New South Carroll Senior and Community Center located at 5928 Mineral Hill Road, engineered with poor sight lines, hairpin curves, steep grades and narrow meandering lanes in Eldersburg -- a road even the most seasoned and [...]
Michelle Courtney Johnson, age 31, of Baltimore, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. to 18 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for stealing patient information to fraudulently obtain credit used to purchase merchandise and obtain cash. Judge Quarles also entered [...]
Police in Baltimore County are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect responsible for the attempted armed robbery of the Dunkin Donuts in the 8000-block of Liberty Road, Pikesville just after midnight on November 5.
[...]Martin O'Malley's "Salary Reduction Plan" prompts closures for State Parks and other public lands for the 2009 Thanksgiving and Christmas season. Coined as the 'State’s Furlough and Temporary Salary Reduction Plan,' public access to parking lots, buildings and other public owned facilities will be denied. However, state parks will remain' [...]
Police in Howard County are searching for a driver of a Honda involved in a hit and run of a pedestrian on Farewell Road in Columbia, just past noon on Sunday. The victim, a 16-year-old, suffered non-life threatening injuries after being hit from behind by the driver of the Honda.
[...]As I predicted, when I saw that Doug Howard had opened an office on Liberty Road, he was going to be a commissioner candidate in the upcoming commissioner election in 2010.
For the District 5 South Carroll commissioner seat, I now see Howard and a number of unannounced candidates. Michael Zimmer [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Ethical questions about U.S. lawmakers' stock holdings are becoming more acute as Congress intervenes in the private sector, watchdogs say.
' [...]During the first ten days of October 2008, the Dow Jones dropped 2,399.47 points, losing trillions of investor equity. The Federal Government pushed TARP, a $700 billion bail-out, through Congress to rescue the beleaguered financial institutions. The collapse of the financial system was likened to an earthquake. In reality, what [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, made the following statement after 60 Democrat senators voted in favor of advancing the Reid-Obama health care takeover bill:
[...]DANVERS, Mass. - Theodora Michaels, a New York City attorney, sent an impulsive one-word email to Danvers High School officials recently: "Meep."
The reply was swift and a bit more wordy: "Your email has been forwarded to the Danvers Police Department."
[...]The Senate will soon begin a historic debate on healthcare reform after a 60-39 vote during a rare Saturday session.
The outcome was clear hours before the vote after two centrists announced they would vote with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on his motion to proceed. Republicans unanimously opposed the [...]
Today is Sunday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2009. There are 39 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey [...]
Two Maryland state troopers, along with a motorist were hospitalized and a suspect is in custody facing criminal charges after an extended pursuit this afternoon from Prince George’s County to Baltimore County along Interstate 95/495.
The suspect is a 30-year-old man believed to be from Pennsylvania. He is in State Police [...]
Updated: Suspect in I-95 pursuit that injured a motorist and two state troopers has been identified and charged with attempted murder and numerous other charges.
The driver who led police from several departments on a pursuit this morning from Prince George’s County to Baltimore and deliberately rammed and attempted to ram [...]
WASHINGTON - (UPI) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of Salomon USA ski bindings due to a fall hazard.
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Affordability, accessibility, quality―the hallowed trifecta at the center of the debate over health care reform. Proponents of reform argue that these three goals must be achieved for all Americans before any reform effort can be called a success. As a means to this end, supporters of market-based [...]
FOREST HILL, Maryland — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Rutledge today called for a comprehensive independent audit of the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ program created and passed earlier this year by Congressional Democrats and demanded heightened accountability for taxpayer dollars spent to date on the government-run program.
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[...]Audrey Scott, the new Chairman of the MDGOP, is in the saddle and wasting no time in making her first "call to action" for all conservatives and free thinking liberals to call, fax, and e-mail legislators to vote against Harry Reid's dishonest attempt to force a vote on a motion [...]
In Obama's Congress, orchestrated mendacity is a right of passage, a tool to be used with finesse and stealth. The Congress is a place where politicians can foment a lie while dancing a political two-step and hiding in vacillating, evolving shades of gray and suffer no moral consequence. If the [...]
Joppatown, MD - Detectives working a serial robbery case nabbed the assailant seconds after he struck a pharmacy on the Pulaski Highway corridor in Harford County Thursday night.
Anthony Pierre Willis, 45, of the 4000 block of Hawksbury Road, Pikesville, Maryland, was taken into custody as he left the Rite Aid [...]
While our indecisive Commander-in-Chief dithers about a troop surge in Afghanistan, Lawmakers are dawdling on funding the federal government. Congress didn't finish the nation's spending bills on time, yet Members of Congress are racing to establish government-run health care and (supposedly) combat non-existent global warming. Before the' [...]
While our indecisive Commander-in-Chief dithers about a troop surge in Afghanistan, Lawmakers are dawdling on funding the federal government. Congress didn't finish the nation's spending bills on time, yet Members of Congress are racing to establish government-run health care and (supposedly) combat non-existent global warming. Before the' [...]
(Manassas, VA) – Richard A. Viguerie, a Catholic layman in a parish in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, has sent two letters to Catholics throughout the nation to encourage them not to contribute to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) this weekend because of the pro-abortion and homosexual organizations [...]
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
The liberal writ was that a strutting “bring ’em on” George W. Bush for eight years did what he pleased on the international scene. His “unilateral” America supposedly did not consult with either allies or international organizations, as he rammed through democracy in Iraq and [...]
Steven Groves, Heritage Foundation
The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, is supposed to produce a successor agreement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a treaty signed by the Clinton Administration but never sent to the U.S. Senate for advice and consent.[1] The proposed "Kyoto II" successor agreement, [...]
OneNetNews-AP--Merriam-Webster's annual Words of the Year dating to 2003, when the publisher started making the selection:
2009: Admonish _ "to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner."
[...]A new book documents the elite media's preoccupation with denigrating former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
[...]Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today urging opposition to H.R. 3961, the Pelosi "doc fix" bill that will add more than $200 billion to the deficit:
[...]Ed Pound, the director of communications for the Obama Administration’s “stimulus” website (recovery.gov), dropped a bombshell in interview with the New Orleans Times Picayune, stating that the Obama Administration has no idea how phantom congressional districts - such as Ohio’s 00th or Louisiana’s 26th - received “stimulus” [...]
On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia last April and to the emperor of Japan last week, the world refuses [...]
While the military still is reeling and recovering from the massacre at Fort Hood, my wife, Gena, and I decided to boost the morale of military personnel by visiting the cadets at West Point and the wounded warriors at Brooke Army Medical Center, at Fort Sam Houston. Little did I [...]
Well, we're shocked...
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's choice for a top job with the Treasury Department is having tax problems.
' [...]WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding President Obama's "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd's official mission and responsibilities.
[...]A regulatory expert says the effort by General Motors to spin its massive third-quarter loss is just like "putting lipstick on an Edsel."
[...]Police in Howard County closed US Route 29 just south of I70 for about three hours Wednesday evening due to a serous accident involving a tractor trailer, sending a Hampstead man to shock-trauma.
[...]U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, made the following statement today addressing the government takeover of your health care:
[...]A Catonsville store owner is in shock-trauma today and a customer is dead after gunshots were fired by a lone gunman in a robbery of the Yours Convenience Store on Frederick Road yesterday.
[...]A virtually empty prison in Thomson, Illinois could be the next possible location to house foreign terrorism suspects moved from the Guantanamo Bay prison. What a stupid idea. They should be tried as enemy combatants by a military court and summarily dismissed, in Cuba. The federal government spends millions for [...]
The president of the Metropolitan Money Store, Joy Jackson, age 41, of Fort Washington, Maryland, was sentenced Monday to 151 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that falsely promised to help [...]
Annapolis, Maryland -- Maryland deer hunters took advantage of mostly cool temperatures and a healthy deer population by harvesting an estimated 24,384 deer during September and October. This is a slight decline from last year’s harvest of 25,655 deer for the same period.
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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the two-week deer firearm season opens statewide on Saturday, November 28. This popular season is a Maryland tradition for deer hunters with nearly half of the annual deer harvest taken during this period.
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A lot has been made of the non-existent congressional district in Arizona that the White House claimed received “stimulus” money. So today, we went to Recovery.gov to find out how the state of Ohio - a state with 18 congressional districts - fared. Guess what we found: TEN [...]
A federal grand jury has indicted former Prince George’s County Police officer Eddie Lee Smith, Jr., age 41, of Fort Washington, Maryland, and Earl Blake, age 53, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, for conspiracy to commit bank larceny and attempted bank larceny.
[...]Criminal complaints have been filed charging Daniel Chase, age 64, of Brownsville, New Jersey; Nikolaos Mamalis, age 53 of Edgewood, Maryland; and Antwone Bell, age 25, of Rosedale, Maryland, of conspiring to commit a series of armed commercial robberies, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. [...]
Police in Howard County have charged two men for an armed bank robbery in Jessup, last week Friday, that led to a vehicle pursuit and foot chase.
[...]On Sunday, the day after the House passed legislation that will bankrupt the United States of America and lead to the demise of our constitutional form of government, I was discussing the matter with my parents. It was my mother, in response to my need to reduce seemingly incomprehensibly complex [...]
I hope this finds everyone well, and is meant for our mutual edification!
If you believe some form of zoning is Constitutional, I would like for someone to show me where in the federal and State of Maryland Constitutions it is authorized. I have been studying those Constitutions now for 16 [...]
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[...]During 2007, more than 14,000 people in passenger vehicles died in crashes while unbelted. About half of these lives could have been saved if they had been wearing seat belts at the time of the crash. As sad as this statistic is, the numbers are even worse at night than [...]
Jose Fidel De Paz-Lopez, age 34, of Ellicott City, Maryland was sentenced last week to 114 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to interfere with commerce by robbery and the use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
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"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing." -Abraham Lincoln
House Democrats are [...] Former state corrections officer Terry Robe, age 26, of Glen Burnie, Maryland pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to distribute heroin in connection with a scheme to smuggle drugs and cell phones into Maryland prisons on behalf of the “Black Guerilla Family” (BGF) gang.
[...]Barack Obama leaves no doubt, he is subservience personified.
[...]No matter how many times you see it-- all that technology, poking another hole in the ozone, docking with something, built by man, then bringing it's crew back onto terra-firma, once again. The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Florida carrying six astronauts on a mission to deliver spare [...]
An Iowa congressman is questioning the timing of the sudden resignation of a controversial Obama administration official, whose husband has had close ties to ACORN and has recently been named President Obama's White House counsel.
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Police in Baltimore County are searching for a teen involved in an attempted murder last month of another teen in Halthorpe.
[...]WebWire--Using just 1 popular test or the other could miss serious cardiac abnormalities
To best detect early signs of life-threatening heart defects in young athletes, screening programs should include both popular diagnostic tests, not just one of them, according to new research from heart experts at Johns Hopkins.
[...]There is a new star in the GOP firmament and she is principled, savvy, articulate and beautiful. No, I don't mean Sarah, though the former Alaska Governor has already demonstrated the ability of a conservative woman to connect with the voters.
' [...]A shining example of why it is important for communities to demand public oversight and seats at the table over all public water systems and enterprise funds.
Mayor Richard Daley says any part of city government is up for grabs if the price is right.
[...]If only Marylanders could get energy tax credits for all the manure Martin O'Malley spreads around with his misguided approach to, well, just about anything. Now, there's a plan all Marylanders can rally around. "We don' need no stinkin' carbon credits, we've got Martin O'Malley's, pure Md. State certified, grade" [...]
The Washington Times Editorial Staff
President Obama repeatedly has declared that the government needs to take over health care to keep America competitive, yet the version of reform that is emerging attacks the heart of this country's investor class.
[...]WASHINGTON -- What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that on November 3rd it filed a "Notice of Appeal" as a first step to ask United States Supreme Court to consider its lawsuit filed on behalf of U.S. Foreign [...]
Presented by the National Defense University Foundation with Special Remarks by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), General Ann Dunwoody, USA, and General John Rogers Galvin, USA (Ret)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, nearly 630 people gathered to honor the National Defense University Foundation's 2009 American Patriot Award recipients: General David [...]
"This is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," says President Obama. Au contraire, mon frère.
Whatever your views on abortion, the fight over abortion in the Obama health plan illustrates perfectly why government should stay out of health care.
[...]Pew Research poll bears out the fact that incumbents in both parties will be feeling the brunt of a voter backlash for their inability to hold to principle. Political pandering and vacillating in order to look good in public whilst stabbing a constituency in the back while they're not looking,' [...]
Cynthia Hall tried to warn us, but we didn’t listen.
Hall, as you may recall, was a 51-year-old Fulton County sheriff’s deputy assigned to escort alleged rapist Brian Nichols to court in 2005. Alone. He was a strapping six foot, 200-plus pounds. She stood five feet, maybe around 100 pounds; it [...]
Edward Pinto, Wall Street Journal
All agree that the bursting of the housing bubble caused the financial collapse of 2008. Most agree that the housing bubble started in 1997. Less well understood is that this bubble was the result of government policies that lowered mortgage-lending standards to increase home ownership. One [...]
It was two years in the making, two years when designers were forbidden from showing their work even to their colleagues. Now, Avatar, the video game based on James Cameron's new 3D animation film, is about to hit the streets. Ubisoft releases its new game on December 1.
[...]The league fines Chad Ochocinco, Eric Mangini defends his coaching methods and more NFL news.
[...]A conservative media watchdog believes that former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs was forced to resign because the network didn't agree with his stance on illegal immigration.
' [...]The Colorado parents accused of pulling a spectacular hoax by reporting their son was aboard a runaway balloon pleaded guilty Friday to charges that could bring some jail time and probation.
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ACORN is doing what it does best: playing the victim, blaming everyone else for its self-inflicted wounds, perpetuating false narratives and defending the entitlement industry to the death.
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Of all the emotions known to man, emotion of hate is the most devastating, both to what lawyers might call the hater and the” hatee” (for the person getting hated).
[...]Police in Howard County are asking the public’s help in finding a man wanted for a series of commercial burglaries that occurred earlier this month at 16 area businesses. Police have a warrant for the arrest of Nakym Jon Sheffield, 31, of 2318 Brooke Drive in Suitland.
[...]–n. fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.
Origin: [...]Sheriff’s Deputies in Carroll County are investigating the robbery and theft of a purse taken from an employee leaving the SERRV Offices at 500 Main Street, New Windsor late Thursday afternoon. At approximately 5:45pm, the employee passed a tall, thin male wearing a light colored hooded sweatshirt and baggy jeans [...]
Police in Howard County have two men in custody following an armed bank robbery in Jessup that led to a short-lived vehicle pursuit and foot chase this morning.
Police received a call at 9:51 a.m. for an armed robbery at Bank of America in the 7300 block of Assateague Drive in [...]
Our neighboring state of Virginia offers a stark contrast to Maryland in its criminal justice policy that provides for swift punishment of those who commit the most heinous crimes.
[...]Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Williams Richard Zichos, Jr, age 57, of Arnold, Maryland; Dale Martin Kowalewski, age 54, of Reisterstown, Maryland; and Joseph Ross Bell, age 66, of Cockeysville, Maryland, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to [...]
CROFTON, MD—Deputy State Fire Marshals charged a 31 year-old Crofton man with 2nd degree arson. The charges stems from the intentional burning of a 2002 Volkswagen belonging to Mark E. Gregory.
[...]A woman was accosted in the Weis grocery store parking lot today by a man indicating he was armed.
[...]The American Time magazine article headline asks, "Will Switzerland Vote to Ban Minarets on Mosques?"
Swiss citizens are becoming concerned about the threat that Islam presents to their traditional culture, economy and religious institutions. As an American, I know how I would vote were I Swiss but the decision will [...]
Editor:
I write in response to Commissioner Minnich’s radio comments from Sunday, November 8, 2009, in which he implied that the people opposed to elements of Pathways had intentionally misinformed and frightened others saying they were “large and in some cases dark sources.”
[...]We don't mean to be so blunt and it may not be politically correct, but the reality is the man is plainly disjointed.
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Howard County police are investigating an early morning crash in West Friendship that took the life of one driver and put another in the hospital in critical condition.
[...]We were emailed the following list of Democratic Senators that are either undecided or have hidden their position from public view on the Pelosi/ObamaCare Bill. Do not take their word for it. Tell them that it is not worth the ire they will receive at home if they vote for [...]
Is it the media's duty to provide pertinent background on anyone considering a run for office in Carroll County's next election cycle? If they have documentation on a prospective candidate with a nefarious criminal and abusive history, is it important to share it with voters?
[...]With the opening of the new senior center off Oakland Mill Road there are now two possible places to have a presentation by the Carroll Citizens Association LLC. This non-political group has the sole objective of getting factual information in front of the public.
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