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As contraband phones flood Baltimore jail, blocking technology comes online
Maryland corrections officials are taking advantage of new technology designed to block the use of contraband cellphones by inmates — a problem at the heart of recent indictments at the Baltimore City Detention Center. In a program being used at...
Tags: Prisons, Dwayne Johnson, Cell Phones, Black Guerrilla Family, Rod J. Rosenstein
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A lifeline for the poor
Critics of a federal program that provides free cellphones to thousands of Maryland residents who can't afford regular commercial service are right that some recipients who don't qualify for the benefit are taking advantage of the system. But there's no...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Media Industry, Republican Party, Elections
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Maryland enrollment soars in federal phone program
Enrollment in a controversial program that provides free cell phone service to low-income families has increased faster in Maryland than any other state in the nation, jumping nearly 90-fold since 2008 — renewing scrutiny on Capitol Hill over its...
Tags: Consumers, Employment, Elections, Cell Phones, Personal Income
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Sinclair Broadcast to become country's largest TV station owner
When Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. completes three deals announced in the past two months, it will own more television stations across the country than any other company. The Hunt Valley company will operate 134 stations in 69 markets, reaching more...
Tags: Corporate Crime, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Freedom of the Press, Hunt Valley
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Sinclair will acquire Fisher Communications for $373.3 million
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.'s shopping spree continued Thursday with the announcement of a $373.3 million deal that extends its television reach to a third of U.S. viewing households. Sinclair will gain 20 additional stations in eight markets by...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Hunt Valley, Radio Industry, NBC (tv network)
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Progress undone on rape
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Or at least, that's Rick Ross' story and he's sticking to it. The Miami rapper has ignited a prairie fire of controversy with a song called "U.O.E.N.O.," its title a phonetic spelling of an ebonic...
Tags: Reebok Ltd., Satellite and Cable Service, Music, Radio Industry, Todd Akin
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Trying to change minds in smart-meter debate
Concerns about utility smart meters are frequently dismissed as tinfoil-hat paranoia. But it's not so easy to dismiss Jonathan Libber. The Baltimore man delivers his arguments against the wireless devices in the calm manner of an attorney. He is, in...
Tags: Timonium, Research, Environmental Politics, Cornell University, Harvard University
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Public emergency shelters stock with two weeks worth of survival items
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, March 21, 1963: Four designated public shelters were stocked 50 years ago with a two-week supply of survival items supplied by the civil defense director. Employees of Harford Memorial Hospital along...Tags: Farms, Leprechauns (legendary entities), Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Radio Industry, St. Patrick's Day
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Roland Park Civic League to hold public meeting about broadband
The Roland Park Civic League has scheduled a public meeting March 14 to talk about options — or lack thereof — for broadband Internet connectivity in north Baltimore. "There is so little competition and we suffer in price because of that,"...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Verizon Wireless, Roland Park, Mary Pat Clarke
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Sinclair to acquire 18 TV stations for $370 million
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.'s stock soared a day after it announced plans to buy 18 television stations owned by Barrington Broadcasting Group for $370 million. The Hunt Valley broadcaster's stock leapt 12.7 percent to end Friday at $15.88 a share....
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Hunt Valley, NBC (tv network), DirecTV Group Inc., Television Stations
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Sinclair will buy four Cox Media TV stations for $99 million
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. has agreed to buy four small-market television stations owned by Cox Media Group for $99 million, the latest deal for Sinclair in a string of acquisitions over the past year and a half. The Hunt Valley TV station owner also...
Tags: Television Stations, Hunt Valley, NBC (tv network), Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., Cox Media Group, Inc.
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WiFi for all
The Internet could eventually be as ubiquitous as the air we breathe if the Federal Communications Commission moves forward with a plan to allow free access to an unused portion of the broadcast spectrum. The WiFi networks that would flourish on that...
Tags: Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Agriculture, Intel Corp., Auction Service, Verizon Wireless
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