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Teen arrested after alleged victim sees him at bus stop
A Baltimore teen was arrested after a woman spotted him at a Brooklyn bus stop and told police he had robbed and sexually assaulted her two months earlier, according to court records. Police were called to the corner of Fifth Street and East Patapsco...Tags: Sexual Assault, Rape, Juvenile Delinquency, Abusive Behavior
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Ellicott City art competition brings creativity into the open air
Standing at her easel on the bridge over the Patapsco River at the base of Ellicott City's historic Main Street, Sam Alger was pleased with the visual elements of the scene she'd staked out earlier in the summer.
Arched stone B&O Railroad overpass?...Tags: Restaurants, Ellicott City, Catonsville, Painting, Awards and Prizes
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Walbrook High School reunion in Cherry Hill turns deadly
A 28-year-old man who was recently released from prison was charged Saturday night in what police described as a bloody melee that left one dead and seven others wounded at a high school reunion in Cherry Hill earlier the same day.
James L. Dixon of...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Cherry Hill, Prosecution, Assault, Murder
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Candus Thomson: Letting it flow will help Patapsco
Baltimore Sun reporterThe Patapsco River doesn't get a lot of love. Pronounced Pa-taps-i-co by many locals and sometimes used as a punch line to an urban joke, the waterway winds about 50 miles from its headwaters to the Chesapeake Bay. It's not a Blue Ribbon trout stream,...Tags: Water Pollution, Fishing, Trout, Environmental Pollution, Ellicott City
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Undammed Patapsco has just about unlimited potential
The Patapsco River doesn't get a lot of love. Pronounced Pa-taps-i-co by many locals and sometimes used as a punch line to an urban joke, the waterway winds about 50 miles from its headwaters to the Chesapeake Bay. It's not a Blue Ribbon trout stream,...Tags: Water Pollution, Fishing, Trout, Environmental Pollution, Ellicott City
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6,000 dropped cases? This can't be good
Anyone who has spent significant time observing the dockets in the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City has noticed some changes over the years: The police officers don't know the prosecutors as well as they used to, and vice-versa; police...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Criminals, Defendants, Witnesses, Court Preliminary
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Dream home: Heaven on a hilltop
Four years ago, a neglected mansion sat high on a hill in Oella and was known throughout the neighborhood as the eyesore at the end of the Trolley Tour. But when the house went on the market, Jeanne and Sean St. Martin, who lived right down the street...Tags: Ellicott City, Homes, Renovation, Painting, Metal and Mineral
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Author's study of Amtrak helps explain MARC as well
James McCommons isn't a starry-eyed romantic about railroads. He's not a dreamer who envisions Maglev trains racing from city to city at 300 mph or more. But he does think that passenger rail service — that unwanted stepchild of American...Tags: Railway Transportation, Trips and Vacations, Transportation, Economic Stimulus Plan, Public Transportation
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Student billboards around Baltimore display message of tolerance
Amid all the glitzy advertisements vying to capture the motoring public's attention in the Baltimore area, the students who designed five billboards promoting tolerance hope their messages stand out.
Students at Patapsco High School and Center for the...Tags: Dundalk
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Chicken and waffles go Amish
Dining@LargeSomething on the menu at Baltimore's new Amish farmers' market caused me to do a double-take: chicken and waffles.Fried chicken and waffles are a classic, if improbable, soul food combo well known to Baltimoreans. But the Pennsylvania Dutch version is.......Tags: Foods and Beverages, Waffles, Chicken and Waffles, Chocolate Cake, Ice Cream
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A clean Point
With all the attention given the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and BP's efforts to reimburse those who have been harmed by the pollution, one might think this was the only example of a poorly regulated industry damaging a critical ecosystem in this country....Tags: Water Pollution, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Environmental Pollution, Bodies of Water, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
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Pedaling a simple life
Up the road five miles, at a mini-mart that didn't exist when she and her husband built their home in the rural town of Harwood, there's a big sale on.
And Joyce Gillespie knows all about it.
"[It's] milk — just $2.99 a gallon," says Gillespie,...Tags: Gaming, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Vehicles, Catonsville, Conservation
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