Displaying items 85-96 of 2300
» View baltimoresun.com items only
< Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-192
Next >
-
Officials investigate long lines at polls
State officials are investigating complaints about long lines at polls that left some voters waiting for two hours on Election Day despite lower than expected turnout. Baltimore elections officials and the Maryland chapter of the American Civil Liberties...
Tags: Voting, Judaism, Electronics, Elections, Regional Elections
-
Peter H. Anderson, Morgan professor
Peter H. Anderson, a former professor of electrical engineering at the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering at Morgan State University, died Sept. 19 from complications after brain surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Bel Air resident was 66....Tags: Electronics, Rube Goldberg, Montpelier, Engineering, Columbia University
-
Gene patent case could impact patients, research
Every time a woman is tested for gene mutations linked to significantly higher rates of breast and ovarian cancer, her blood is sent to a lab in Utah. That's because Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics Inc. owns the patents to the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2...
Tags: Research, Justice System, Genetics, Cancer, Biotechnology Industry
-
Leopold documents don't answer questions, ACLU says
Anne Arundel County police released hundreds of documents this week regarding media inquiries on topics as broad as gang investigations, cold cases and school shootings, but none of those are any use to the group looking into allegations against County...
Tags: Anne Arundel County, Justice System, National Security Agency, Trials, Judges
-
Arundel police chief stepping down amid controversy
Embattled Anne Arundel County Police Chief James Teare Sr. agreed to retire next month, ending the criminal investigation of his role in the misconduct case against his boss, County Executive John R. Leopold. The sudden announcement Wednesday by the...
Tags: Justice System, Police Investigations, Parent Organizations, Lawyers, Prosecution
-
Gambling, gay marriage and presidential race draw long lines to polls
Voters across Maryland reported overflow crowds and hours-long waits Tuesday as a close presidential contest and controversial state ballot questions drew people to the polls. The crush of voters overwhelmed some precincts, where lines bottlenecked at...
Tags: Voting, Elections, Executive Branch, Same-Sex Marriage, Regional Elections
-
Drone keeps eye, and lens, on Baltimore sights
During the Patterson Park pagoda's 120 years of existence, it has been photographed, painted and otherwise rendered too many times to count. But never in all that time did anyone depict the landmark the way Terry and Belinda Kilby just did. No one zoomed...
Tags: Photography, Photography Supplies and Services, Bolton Hill, Bars and Clubs, Military Equipment
-
City police seek personal records of man in taping lawsuit
Baltimore Police want to know whether a man suing police for deleting images from his camera at the 2010 Preakness has a drug history, and have reached out to his ex-wife and former employers, an effort his attorneys say amounts to harassment and...
Tags: Witnesses, Justice System, Equestrian, Preakness Stakes, Lawyers
-
A roadmap for city schools
The physical needs of Baltimore City schools seem overwhelming. Leaky roofs, faulty boilers, boarded-over windows, broken or non-existent air conditioning, unusable water fountains and outmoded science labs. Baltimore has the oldest inventory of schools...
Tags: Investments, Finance, Teaching and Learning, Annapolis, Students
-
Report finds $2.45 billion in city school building upgrades
Fifty Baltimore schools are so dilapidated or underused that they should be closed or rebuilt, according to a new report that also identified $2.45 billion in school infrastructure needs across the city. The findings, released Tuesday, were used by school...Tags: Elections, Television Industry, Carl Stokes, Teaching and Learning, Students
-
Editing and etiquette
ThI have been brooding for the past week over a part of a comment at the Language Log post "A half century of usage denialism," in which Deniz Rudin writes: "Descriptivism is an investigatory approach to the formal study of language, and it is...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Civil Rights, Bars and Clubs
-
Harford County library won't stock 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and sequels
Three of the most popular books in America are being kept off the shelves of the Harford County Public Library system because administrators consider them to be pornographic. British author E.L. James' erotic trilogy about a steamy affair between an...
Tags: Libraries, Anne Arundel County, Harford County, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Enoch Pratt Free Library
Nov 7, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 25, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 22, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jul 3, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jul 11, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 6, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 16, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 11, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jun 26, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jun 26, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 21, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 31, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Original site for American Civil Liberties Union topic gallery.
