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Sun coverage: AIDS in Baltimore

Reporter Jonathan Bor and photographer Kim Hairston spent over a year exploring the roots of the HIV epidemic in Baltimore.

July 31, 2008

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Help with health comes to Block

Under glowing neon signs, amid strippers, barkers and a nervous parade of humanity, something unprecedented is happening on The Block in Baltimore.

November 5, 2007

Many steps to a fresh start

Angela Jackson strides down Pennsylvania Avenue with pamphlets under her arm, unfazed by the line of dealers hawking drugs beneath blinking police cameras. " James Brown, James Brown!" cries one young man, applying the late soul star's name to his heroin capsules. " Ray Charles, Ray Charles!" cries another.Places like this are utterly familiar to Jackson, who once supported a heroin addiction by selling sex to men eager to step into an alley or vacant building. Today, she spots someone who's trolling for customers as she once did.

November 5, 2007

'I can't turn it off'

More than 25 years after being pressed into a life of addiction and prostitution, Ann Battle thinks she may have found a better path.

November 4, 2007

An epidemic's unseen cause

While just a teenager in the 1970s, she danced on The Block, where she snorted cocaine and heroin and sold sex in backrooms. Later, with her addictions firmly rooted, she set out on her own, offering her body on the streets of West Baltimore as a deadly virus was spreading.

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Officials issue tomato blight warning to home gardeners

MTA bans driver phones

Maryland hopes to buy back crab licenses	Environmentalists climb Mount Rushmore to unfurl global warming message; 11 charged	Solar energy classes offered for free
Hyrbrid speedster on view in D.C. before Le Mans race	Food, Inc., Handmade Nation to be screened next week	Farm pollution help for bay on chopping block
Organic vs. natural a source of confusion in food labeling	Grocers jump on 'local' produce bandwagon	No letup in traffic congestion

Maryland hopes to buy back crab licenses	Environmentalists climb Mount Rushmore to unfurl global warming message; 11 charged	Solar energy classes offered for free
Hyrbrid speedster on view in D.C. before Le Mans race	Food, Inc., Handmade Nation to be screened next week	Farm pollution help for bay on chopping block
Organic vs. natural a source of confusion in food labeling	Grocers jump on 'local' produce bandwagon	No letup in traffic congestion

At what age do kids become truly helpful, and how?	Students, parents protest closure of Towson Catholic	Heart-drug errors more likely in young children, Hopkins study finds
On the trail of the 'Wizard of Oz'	Easy family grilling: Pork over greens	A growing problem: Children who need hormone injections to reach normal height
Well-designed bedroom can be child's play	A flag house tour, a teddy bear picnic, and more	Camp care packages: What should you send tweens and teens?

Officials issue tomato blight warning to home gardeners	Style for less: Ixia sells its decor	Solar energy classes offered for free
Susan Reimer On Gardening: Ladybug, ladybug ...	Grow honeysuckle or clematis to hide a fence	Well-designed bedroom can be child's play
Smith & Hawken going out of business	Still time to plant vegetables that thrive during the heat of summertime	Restoration Hardware warehouse sale through July 12

MTA bans driver phones	Tractor-trailer overturns on I-695 near Wilkens Avenue exit	Gas leak stops train traffic in Northeast Baltimore
Baltimore drivers rank second from worst in insurance survey	MTA hands over accident probe to Baltimore County police	2 lanes of I-95 closed in Laurel for overturned tanker cleanup
No letup in traffic congestion	Tunnel traffic pattern to change Sunday	Morning delays reported for several MARC trains

Sun coverage: AIDS in Baltimore

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