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Navy moving hospital ship Comfort to Virginia
The USNS Comfort, the white-hulled hospital ship that has been a fixture of the Baltimore waterfront for a quarter-century, is moving next year to Norfolk, Va., the Navy announced Tuesday.
Maryland officials had fought the move of the ship, whose...Tags: Port of Baltimore, Hospitals and Clinics, Executive Branch, St. Mary's County, Government
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Fight the scourge of sex trafficking
"Melissa," one of the girls we've encountered in street outreach in Baltimore, is originally from Baltimore County. As a child, she loved fairies and wanted to be a dancer. After her parents' divorce, she experimented with drugs, which opened her up to...Tags: Prostitution, Overlea, Benjamin L. Cardin, FBI, Maryland
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Tubman Underground Railroad center on Shore gets funding
Harriet Tubman has long inspired a deep sense of pride among Marylanders, especially in the rural communities of the Eastern Shore, where the former slave was born and led dozens to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
While her story is taught to...Tags: Government, State Parks, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Land Resources, Dorchester County
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Friends, family, community offer touching farewell to WBAL's Ron Smith
The Baltimore SunFriends, family, fans and colleagues said a public farewell to WBAL radio show host Ron Smith Tuesday at Goucher College. And it was as powerful and moving in some respects as the way Smith, who died in December at age 70, lived his final weeks and months...Tags: Radio, Radio, Pancreatic Cancer, WBAL-TV, Ottawa Senators
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Federal birth control ruling upsets religious groups
Church officials and other religious-based groups are gearing up to fight an order by the Obama administration that they include birth control in employee health plans — a requirement some say could threaten the protection of other moral beliefs and...Tags: Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Barack Obama, Justice and Rights, Colon Cancer
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Cardin launches re-election campaign
U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin kicked off his re-election campaign Sunday, promising several hundred supporters that he'd fight for better schools, more jobs, a cleaner environment and access to health care. "It's not about this election. It's about the...Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Federal Election Commission, Feminism, U.S. House of Representatives, Tea Party Movement
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Maryland dedicates 9/11 memorial at Baltimore's World Trade Center
Beautiful September days are difficult for Basmattie Bishundat. Her son was killed on one 10 years ago.
"Sometimes I hate those days," said the Waldorf woman, whose son, Romeo, was three days short of his 24th birthday when Flight 77 struck the Pentagon,...Tags: Terrorism, Ellicott City, Barack Obama, Islam, George W. Bush
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Cheating by China threatens Maryland jobs
They still don't get it. Every four years, presidential candidates pledge allegiance to American manufacturing and profess a love for "Made in America." But when the going gets tough, no presidential candidate can match this rhetoric with action. In a...
Tags: Business, Barack Obama, China, Benjamin L. Cardin, John Sarbanes
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Reisterstown: Girl Scouts, Hadassah mark 100th anniversaries
Two venerable organizations are marking their 100th anniversary this year. Both have positively impacted the ever-emerging role and status of women in our society. Girl Scouts of America marked its 100th year on March 12, as they continue in what they...Tags: Judaism, Reisterstown Road, Anne Arundel County, Auction Service, Harford County
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Female trailblazer honored for work at Aberdeen Proving Ground
Winifred "Wink" Jonas of Webster Village near Havre de Grace has the distinction of being the first mathematician at Aberdeen Proving Ground to work with the world's first practical computer. In recognition of her accomplishments and her contributions to...
Tags: U.S. Army, Electronics, Aberdeen Proving Ground, University of Pennsylvania, World War II (1939-1945)
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Groups react to Susan G. Komen's Planned Parenthood reversal
The Susan G. Komen for the Curebreast cancer advocacy and charity group backed away Friday from a plan to slash funding to Planned Parenthood programs, but the public apology might not be enough to repair its damaged image right away.
Experts in public...Tags: Safeway Inc., Cancer, Planned Parenthood, Marketing, University of Maryland, College Park
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