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From 'Middle East' to 'Eager Park,' a community is rebranded
Hundreds of residents have been relocated and dozens of homes cleared from Baltimore's Middle East neighborhood in recent years. Now the area just north of Johns Hopkins Hospital may be losing something more: its name. As an ambitious redevelopment...
Tags: Belair Road, Fells Point, Patterson Park, Social Services, East Baltimore Development Inc.
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Manuel M. Nicolaides, attorney
Manuel M. Nicolaides, an attorney who served for many years on the Baltimore County property tax appeals board, died of congestive heart failure Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Timonium resident was 92. "Manny served with distinction for many...
Tags: Taxation, Patterson Park, Dundalk, Parties and Movements, Christianity
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Annapolis man to head FEMA grant program
President Barack Obama has named an Annapolis man to head the multibillion-dollar grant program through which the Federal Emergency Management Agency helps local governments prepare for disasters. Brian Kamoie, 41, will oversee a vast portfolio of...
Tags: Government Aid, White House, Nuclear Power, Annapolis, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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Orlando Ridout V, architectural historian
Orlando Ridout V, a historian of early Maryland buildings who explored crawl spaces and attics for their social and architectural details, died of pancreatic cancer complications April 6 at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The lifelong Annapolis resident...
Tags: Queen Anne (Talbot, Maryland), Crofton, Colonial Williamsburg, University of Virginia, Arts
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At 101, John Nutter is 'the oldest ... of everything'
At 101, John Nutter likes things plain and simple. Which is why his daughter, Betty Fulton, drives him to Slye's Barber Shop on Montgomery Street. Once there, he can get his monthly haircut for $8 while taking in the relaxed, old-style atmosphere. He...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, IHOP Corporation, Entertainment Events, Dance, Diseases and Illnesses
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'The Civil War and American Art' is one of the first in a wave of regional creative projects on the conflict
The lone Union sentry stands atop Federal Hill, outlined against an ominous orange/red sky. In the distance, the tops of the Washington Monument and several spires rise above the city, as straight and determined as the rifle held in the soldier's left...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Towson, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Harvard University, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Annual Women's Expo at CCBC Catonsville March 16-17
"Women mean Business" may be the theme of the CCBC Women's Expo, but education is also a significant component, for the organizer as well as those attending. "Positive and negative changes, the same as anybody being in business will experience," said...Tags: Community College of Baltimore County, Mammogram, Colleges and Universities, Fashion Trends, Small Businesses
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Maryland to host panel discussion on risks of playing sports
Health Maryland to host panel discussion on risks of playing sports Maryland's Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism will host a panel Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. to discuss the risks of playing sports, from children to professionals. Panelists include...Tags: Ron Brace, New England Patriots, Washington Redskins, National Football League Players Association, Rafael Soriano
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Six Harford County students head to Annapolis
Six high school seniors are serving as student pages for the 2013 Maryland General Assembly. Emma Zyriek of C. Milton Wright High School, Alexander McArtor of Fallston High School, Emily Clarke and Bryan Doherty of The John Carroll School, Andrew...Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Maryland General Assembly, Schools, University of Virginia, Princeton University
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Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist
First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of...
Tags: U.S. Army, Trials, Police Investigations, Murder, Research
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Families worry about possible Russian adoption ban
To Heather and Aaron Whaley, they're already parents to a 4-year-old girl living in a Russian orphanage off the Sea of Japan. The Frederick couple have never met the child, but they've given her a name — Addie. They've hung pictures of her in a...
Tags: Adoption, Trials, Judges, Russia, Clarksville
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After 42 years, last original HCC professor retires
Watching from his office, Vladimir Marinich would see everything from deer to cows wander onto the campus of Howard Community College. It was 1970, and the new college had about 560 students and one building nestled between a farm and some woods. Now,...
Tags: Social Sciences, Ellicott City, Teachers, Howard County, Sociology
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