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Recognition for Dred Scott, wife
A bronze plaque honoring slave Dred Scott and his wife Harriet will be unveiled at ceremonies today in front of Frederick's City Hall. The plaque and granite pedestal is adjacent to an older monument to Roger Brooke Taney, the U.S. Supreme Court chief...Tags: Paul Smith, St. Louis, U.S. Supreme Court, Lawyers, Calvert County
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Md. city erects Dred Scott decision plaque to quell rancor over Supreme Court justice's statue
Associated Press WriterFREDERICK, Md. (AP) — More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled a plaque Tuesday to educate visitors about the opinion and the local man who wrote it —...Tags: National Government, Sculpture, Frederick Douglass, Government, NAACP
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2 civil rights groups sue Frederick sheriff's department over woman's arrest
Two civil rights organizations are suing on behalf of a Frederick County woman who says she arrested for no reason and jailed for more than a month last year before being released. New York-based Latinojustice PRLDEF and Casa de Maryland are alleging...Tags: Migration, Civil Rights, Lawyers
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Meaty issues
Scott Barao sold 420 pounds of ground beef one day last week at his Frederick County farm store, up from the 100 pounds he moves most weekdays. The reason for the run on his $4.95-a-pound burger meat: Bad beef in the news.
"Every time there's a ground...Tags: Weather Reports, Foods and Beverages, Dining and Drinking, Museum Dioramas, Farms
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At what point does safety trump the right to drive?
There are people who simply should not be permitted to own or operate motor vehicles. Thomas Meighan Jr. is one of them. Long before the Oct. 16 incident in which he faces charges related to the hit-and-run death of Johns Hopkins student Miriam Frankl,...Tags: Prince George's County, Transportation, Road Transportation, Judges, Drunk Driving
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Plan targets Frederick illegal immigrant students
Frederick County officials are considering asking state lawmakers to require a count of students with questionable immigration status in the county's public schools. Republican commissioners Charles Jenkins and John L. Thompson introduced the plan Tuesday...Tags: Migration, Demographics, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants
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Scenic roadways to be spruced up
With anniversary observances of two wars expected to bring an influx of tourists, Maryland has received a $5.6 million grant from the Federal Highway Administration to improve and market its scenic roads. The infusion of money for the Maryland's Byways...Tags: Harriet Tubman, Economic Policy
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The Net is colorblind
Morgan State University may have won a Pyrrhic victory in its dispute with the University of Maryland University College over a graduate program to train doctoral candidates in community college administration. The school had wanted the Maryland...Tags: Morgan State University, Further Education, Africa, Racism, Colleges and Universities
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Advocates claim success for Medicaid outreach
Health care advocates said Monday that they had met their goal of adding 10,000 Baltimore residents to Medicaid rolls since the state expanded coverage and lowered eligibility requirements last year.
Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Citizens'...Tags: Sheila Dixon, Small Businesses, Martin O'Malley, Government Health Care, Government
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Despite juvenile reforms, state urged to do more
The Maryland director of juvenile services told lawmakers Tuesday that he has expanded treatment options for the state's youngest criminals and improved the system. But youth advocates and some elected officials said Secretary Donald W. DeVore's reform...Tags: Brian E Frosh, People, Laws, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Teen-agers
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Night owl's photos on view
Baltimore Sun reporterTimothy Dicke works all day doing maintenance and other jobs around Baltimore and then goes out all night with his camera, shooting up to 2,000 photos each week of Maryland scenes lit by a phosphorescent glow. Thirty of the very best are the subject of a...Tags: Fells Point, Photography, Dining and Drinking
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Stimulus created or saved 4,460 jobs, O'Malley claims
Baltimore Sun reportersMore than 4,460 jobs have been created or saved with the infusion of federal stimulus dollars into Maryland, according to an initial accounting that Gov. Martin O'Malley released Thursday showing how some of the money has been spent. That level of job...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, National Government, Economy, Martin O'Malley, Government
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