Giving youngsters a head start on life

Giving youngsters a head start on life

Eighty or so boys and young men participated in a new football camp called Commitment 4 Change, which aims to teach children from ages 8 to 17 how to better play the game — and equip them with what they need to succeed both on and off the field. The five-day camp was organized by retired...

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Digging for Indian heritage

Archaeologists have uncovered an Algonquian camp on a bluff above a lush bend in the Patuxent River.

Change 'like night and day'

Induction marks the first day of service for a new class of plebes at the U.S. Naval Academy.

City trash collection changes

The new once-a-week Baltimore trash and recycling schedules begin Tuesday, July 14.

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Alleged bank robber caught after leaving cell phone behind

Police say Carlos Williams left two huge clues at the scene of a bank robbery in Frederick in May -- his cell phone and his wallet.

Ex-boyfriend charged in killings of man, woman in Annapolis

Elbert Gardner Jr. was in his basement apartment late Tuesday night when he heard his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend together in her bedroom. Gardner, who still shared the rental house with Lei Tyree Johnson on a quiet Annapolis street, grabbed his .38-caliber revolver from under a pillow and...

Slain Crofton boy's mother to sue Anne Arundel Co. school system

A lawyer for the mother of Christopher Jones, the Crofton teen who died in an apparent eruption of suburban gang violence, has notified the Anne Arundel County school system of the family's intention to sue for failing to protect the 14-year-old from gangs at school.

Newest frontier for social media: describing transplant surgery

Robert Imes, a painter and mechanic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, had been too sick to work for nearly a year. When he came back, he ran into Pamela Paulk, the hospital's vice president for human resources, outside her office.

Fire forces Bethel AME Church in city to move its Sunday services

The congregation of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Druid Hill Avenue will hold Sunday services at Pier Six Pavilion at the Inner Harbor this weekend after a two-alarm fire damaged the church's steeple Wednesday night.

O'Malley issues 6 pardons to former convicts

Gov. Martin O'Malley issued six pardons to former convicts on Thursday afternoon, the first time he has exercised the power after declining to use it during his first 2 1/2 years in office.

Judge denies Wells Fargo motion to dismiss city lending lawsuit

A federal judge on Thursday denied Wells Fargo's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Baltimore over what city officials said were racially discriminatory lending practices that led to a wave of foreclosures that cost the city millions.

City teen to face trial as adult in attempted rape

A Baltimore teenager who has confessed to attempting to rape a 22-year-old baby-sitter during a random home-invasion and robbery will be tried as an adult, a Baltimore Circuit Court judge ruled Thursday.

City woman gets year for assault on son's teacher

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge sentenced the mother of a city elementary school student this weeek to one year in prison for a November assault on her son's teacher, which was witnessed by a class of at least 20 students. Prosecutors said Lakia Farmer, 30, hit a Matthew A. Henson Elementary...

Three in Middle River suffer carbon monoxide poisoning

Three Middle River residents were hospitalized Thursday afternoon with carbon monoxide poisoning, a Baltimore County fire official said. About 4 p.m., a carbon monoxide detector went off in a townhouse in the 800 block of Northrop Lane, said Battalion Chief James Devers. One adult from that home and...