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Police investigating sex abuse allegations at Anne Arundel Catholic school
Anne Arundel County police are investigating sexual abuse allegations by a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Wednesday. In a letter posted on the archdiocese website and...
Tags: Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Students, Police Investigations, Religious Education, Glen Burnie
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O'Malley signs death penalty repeal
Surrounded by religious leaders, civil rights activists and others who have fought for years to stop executions in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Thursday repealing the state's death penalty. Unless the law is overturned in a...
Tags: NAACP, Political Fundraising, Death Penalty, Judges, Referenda
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O'Malley to sign death penalty repeal today
Gov. Martin O'Malley will sign legislation Thursday morning abolishing capital punishment in Maryland -- a goal of his since he took office in 2007. The governor's approval will make Maryland the 18th state to repeal the death penalty. A throng of...
Tags: Government, NAACP, Punishment, Basilica of the Assumption, Martin O'Malley
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Keeping a third-generation piano business finely tuned
Recession being the bane of piano retailers, it seems wholly remarkable that Harry Cohen and his son, Lou, decided to start selling Baldwins and Wurlitzers in 1937 — the year the economy relapsed toward the end of the Great Depression. But somehow...
Tags: Baltimore County, Cecil County, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Music, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Joseph E. Welsh, educator
Joseph E. Welsh, a retired Baltimore County public school educator who was also a hospice volunteer and Eucharistic minister, died Monday of melanoma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Oak Crest Village resident was 80. "He was both my teacher and...
Tags: Timonium, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Skin Cancer, Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Jesus Christ
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Baltimore Catholic schools: stronger, but still in need of help
It has been nearly three years since my predecessor, Cardinal Edwin O'Brien, and the Blue Ribbon Committee on Catholic Schools released the Strategic Plan for Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Since that time, enrollment declines have been...
Tags: Parochial Schools, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Awards and Prizes, Christianity, School Examinations
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$1.4 million raised for baseball field at Cardinal Gibbons site
Saint Agnes Hospital and the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation said Friday that they have raised $1.4 million to renovate the baseball field of the former Cardinal Gibbons School, preserving a site where Babe Ruth once played. The hospital, meanwhile, is...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Cal Ripken, Baseball, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Fourth-grader from St. Joseph awarded Knott scholarship [Cockeysville]
Olivia Mezzullo, a fourth-grade student at St. Joseph School Cockeysville, recently got some exciting news: She is the recipient of one of seven elementary-level scholarships awarded by the Knott Scholarship Funds. The Knott Scholarship Funds are based...Tags: Annapolis, Timonium, Awards and Prizes, Students, College Park (Orlando, Florida)
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Students at St. Joan of Arc School participate in conclave web chat with Archbishop Lori
The eighth grade students at St. Joan of Arc School participated in a Conclave web chat with William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, on March 11. St. Joan of Arc School was one of 17 Catholic elementary schools invited to participate. Archbishop Lori...Tags: The Pope, Teaching and Learning, Students, Religious Leaders, Benedict XVI
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Church bell tower repairs signify change in Oliver neighborhood
A few weeks ago, I spent a few quiet minutes in Green Mount Cemetery, where its higher ground offers unexpected views of Baltimore. As I looked to the southeast, something curious caught my eye. What was going on in the nearby Oliver neighborhood? What...
Tags: Roland Park, Ceremonies, Natural Disasters, Building Material, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail
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Plan for wall repair ready to take shape in historic Ellicott City
Before it became "The Wall That Ate Some Cars," it was just a stone wall on Mulligans Hill Lane, bracing a 20-foot-high embankment — stalwart as the steep hills that give Ellicott City's historic district much of its character. Then in early...
Tags: Ken Ulman, Tropical Storms, Natural Disasters, Renovation, Patapsco
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Fire destroys building at St. Joseph in Fullerton, Easter services go on
An early-morning fire on Saturday destroyed a maintenance building on the property of St. Joseph Church in Fullerton, according to church and county fire officials. But church officials said the parish's celebration of Easter services on Sunday would...
Tags: Arson, Belair Road
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