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'Quilts for Cancer' the latest fundraising project for River Hill High graduate Matthew Beck
It's back-to-school time and for one local resident that means one thing: time to start fundraising for cancer. Matthew Beck, a 2010 graduate of River Hill High School, started a special fundraiser, "Cookies for Cancer" back in 2007. With the help of his...Tags: Howard County, Charity, Family, Dunkin' Donuts, High School Sports
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A funding cut that endangers America
In a time of great political gridlock, there is at least one issue that both parties still agree on — the urgency to confront and reduce the threat posed by terrorist groups that are actively seeking nuclear weapons.
But Congress reduced the fiscal...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Weaponry, Theft, Robert Gates, National Security
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The things we say
It was with a profound sense of personal validation that I opened Volume V of the Dictionary of American Regional English to discover an entry for the term my family back in Kentucky used for the chamber pot: thunder mug. There are also entries for...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Now a free woman, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson heads to L.A. pursue her dream
To rebuild her life, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson had to destroy her reputation.
The actress who portrayed a cold-blooded killer so memorably on three seasons of the HBO cable series "The Wire" pleaded guilty this month to a crime she says she didn't commit....Tags: Punishment, Employers, Ed Burns, Arts, The Wire (tv program)
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Popular piano trio opens a new round of Sundays
Three years ago, the Mendelssohn Piano Trio opened the season for Columbia's Sundays at Three chamber music series. The group's performance went over so well that the series decided to have them back again to open this year's season opener on Oct. 2.
It'...Tags: Music Industry, Colleges and Universities, Christianity, Arts, Howard Community College
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Dorothy R. "Dot" Lamborn
Baltimore Sun reporterDorothy R. "Dot" Lamborn, an educator who assisted her husband during his tenure as headmaster at McDonogh School, died from complications of a fall Sept. 20 at Bassett Healthcare, a Cooperstown, N.Y., hospital. The Potomac resident was 95. The daughter...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Clubs and Associations, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Stamford
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Dorothy R. Dot Lamborn
Dorothy R. "Dot" Lamborn, an educator who assisted her husband during his tenure as headmaster at McDonogh School, died of complications from a fall Sept. 20 at Bassett Healthcare, a Cooperstown, N.Y., hospital. The Potomac resident was 95. The daughter...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Stanford University, Clubs and Associations, Chevy Chase, Stamford
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Educating the family
Poverty, undereducation and disconnectedness to society beget exactly those same things — a problem that has stymied policymakers since the advent of public education, which was supposed to be the solution. Four centuries of publicly funded...Tags: Minority Groups, Colleges and Universities, Mount Vernon, Northwestern University, Hispanic and Latino Americans
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'Little Willie' Adams had his hand in many business ventures
The other evening, former Baltimore Sun reporters Antero Pietila and C. Fraser Smith sat in the studios of WYPR radio discussing the life and times of William Lloyd "Little Willie" Adams, who died Monday at 97.
Adams, who went from numbers runner to...Tags: Labor Legislation, Consumers, NAACP, Banking, Maryland
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Police spent $3,900 to accompany Rawlings-Blake on recent trips
Baltimore police officers assigned to protect Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake racked up about $3,900 in expenses while accompanying the mayor on three business recent trips, according to the city spending board's agenda.
The five-member Board of...Tags: Michelle Obama, Rentals, Healthy Diet, Rahm Emanuel, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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James Hall Bready
James Hall Bready, an Evening Sun editorial writer for more than three decades and originator of the "Books and Authors" column that was published in The Baltimore Sun for nearly 50 years, died Saturday of renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in...Tags: James Hall, Retirement, Cartoons, Christianity, Periodicals
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Francis N. Craig
Francis N. Craig, a retired Edgewood Arsenal scientist, died of respiratory failure Thursday at the Broadmead Retirement Community in Cockeysville. He was 100 and had previously lived in the Loreley section of Baltimore County near White Marsh.
His...Tags: Science, Libraries, Columbia University, Biology, Planned Parenthood
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