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Circulator bus grows, attracts mix of riders

2012-06-01 17:09:36

Baltimore's free bus, the Charm City Circulator, takes on its newest destination next week, Fort McHenry. Beginning Monday, the route known as the Banner will begin linking riders from Light Street through the harbor and South Baltimore and Locust Point...

John S. Croucher, hospital engineer

2012-06-01 11:42:36

John Stewart Croucher, a retired hospital assistant engineer and World War II naval veteran, died of a stroke Tuesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Bel Air resident was 90. Born in Baltimore and raised on Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown, he was a...

After man's alleged killing by adopted son, family says it was an 'isolated incident'

2012-05-30 17:34:00

George Stevenson grew up in a family that cared for numerous foster children, and after mentoring and coaching boys in youth baseball for years, he decided to adopt a child of his own. He became the father of an 8-year-old boy and named him Galen,...

Dr. Solbert Permutt, physiologist

2012-05-30 14:52:40

Dr. Solbert "Sol" Permutt, a retired physiologist and teacher who helped expand the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, died of esophageal cancer May 23 at Roland Park Place. The longtime Mount...

Dr. Frank Anthony Faraino, surgeon

2012-05-29 13:20:56

Dr. Frank Anthony Faraino, a retired Baltimore thoracic and vascular surgeon whose career spanned more than four decades and who performed the first pacemaker implantation in Maryland, died Saturday of renal failure at his Timonium home. He was 90....

Bel Air woman indicted in connection with 2011 fatal accident

2012-05-29 13:07:00

A 28-year-old Bel Air woman was indicted last week in connection with a fatal accident on Route 543 last July, during which she was allegedly driving under the influence of drugs. Nicole Ashley Albers, who has addresses in the 700 block of Farnham...

In rare move, woman's heroin overdose in NE Baltimore ruled homicide

2012-05-29 11:23:00

The state medical examiner’s office has taken the rare step of classifying a 24-year-old woman’s recent drug overdose death as a homicide, one of several recent killings being investigated by Baltimore detectives. Though there are hundreds of...

Dr. Mark E. Molliver, Hopkins neuroscientist

2012-05-28 12:46:34

Dr. Mark E. Molliver, a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor emeritus of neuroscience and neurology, died of complications after cardiac arrest May 10 at Hopkins Hospital. The Canton resident was 75. Colleagues said his discoveries had...

'CBS This Morning' the thinking person's way to start the TV day

2012-05-26 15:23:00

I have been meaning to write a big piece about CBS News and "This Morning" for two weeks. But other assignments took precedence, so now I'll have to write a much smaller piece a day late after the network has already celebrated 100 days of its revamped...

What Baltimore did for us

2012-05-23 14:00:00

On the front page of the June 22, 1990, issue of The Evening Sun is an article with the headline "Flight from Saigon lands and family grows by 16." The article describes the emotional reunion of a sister with her 16 family members, who had spent the...

Hawkins Point boating accident sends three to hospital

2012-05-21 16:28:00

A water rescue of four people from a boat offshore from Hawkins Point in Baltimore late Sunday night resulted in three people being taken to area hospitals, two of them in critical condition, the United States Coast Guard said Monday. The rescue occurred...

Laurel Board of Trade administrator Gail Reinhardt loses battle with cancer

2012-05-22 18:55:02

In the short time Laurel Board of Trade administrator Gail Reinhardt was in the hospital battling cancer this month, some of her closest Main Street friends wrote up "The Rules of Gail." "Be honest, be selfless, be loving," the list of life...

Renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson performed surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital on Becky to remove a spinal tumor in October 1988. They are shown together in this 1989 photo.

2012-05-26 13:38:00

Sharon O'Keefe, University of Chicago Medicine president, has been named to the board of Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy. CURE was founded by parents of children with epilepsy to spearhead the search for a cure by raising funds for research and increasing awareness of the disorder.

2012-05-23 00:00:00

Scott Meixel, Paypal customer service supervisor, and Susan Clark, Johns Hopkins Hospital R.N., compare notes about the Maryland Film Festival Opening Night Shorts program they had just watched. "They were all good," said Clark.

2012-05-07 00:00:00