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Health bill's abortion limits stir Md. activists
Baltimore Sun reportersMarylanders on both sides of the abortion divide are steeling themselves for a historic clash over the procedure, after lawmakers voted to prohibit federal subsidies for insurance that covers it. Under the restriction, which was added late Saturday to...Tags: Barack Obama, Laws, Democratic Party, Government, National Government
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Md. man killed, 6 hurt in Pa. speakeasy shooting where multiple shooters fired up to 30 shots
READING, Pa. (AP) — A fistfight at a crowded speakeasy touched off a shooting that killed a man, and six people were wounded in an ensuing gunfight, authorities said Monday. "This was an outright gun battle," Berks County District Attorney John...Tags: Berks County, Injuries and Wounds, John Adams, Dining and Drinking, Armed Conflicts
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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: Judges, Road Transportation, Vehicles, Drunk Driving, Frederick County (Maryland)
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Beltway sniper's execution nears
Los Angeles TimesSeven years ago, the captured "Beltway Snipers" - John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo - were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had set out to create a reign of terror in the Washington...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Dining and Drinking, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), FBI, John Ashcroft
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Alexander Gray Jones, Somerset County lawyer
Alexander Gray "Sandy" Jones, a retired Somerset County lawyer who had been a civil rights activist, public school advocate and a longtime member of the board of visitors and governors at Washington College, died Saturday of multiple organ failure at...Tags: Executive Branch, World War II (1939-1945), Colleges and Universities, Government, National Government
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P.G. Co. police investigate UM student's report of rape
The Associated PressPrince George's County police were investigating the reported rape of a 21-year-old University of Maryland student early Sunday. Police said the student was at her home in College Park when she was awoken by a man sexually assaulting her. The woman...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Rape
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A tougher line on dropouts
A report last week that Montgomery County officials now favor raising from 16 to 18 the minimum legal age at which students can drop out of school signals a growing awareness that Maryland's future depends on a well-educated work force capable of...Tags: Globalization, Prisons, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Teaching and Learning
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Fighting foreclosure
With the number of home foreclosures on the rise again in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to require mediation before banks can begin proceedings to seize the houses of delinquent borrowers is a good idea, but it doesn't go far enough to help...Tags: New York University, Executive Branch, Legal Services, Government, Personal Income
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ICC was always intended to exclude most people
There wasn't much public in the public hearing held by the Maryland Transportation Authority last week in Beltsville on its proposed tolls on the just-around-the-corner Intercounty Connector. A couple of dozen folks who might actually be described as...Tags: Road Transportation, State Budgets, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Activism, Transportation
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Lipscomb could save a bundle
Part of the sentence handed down Thursday for developer Ronald Lipscomb after his guilty plea in the City Hall corruption investigation was that he'll stop donating to any city political candidates during the next three years. Fortunately for Maryland...Tags: Local Elections, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Ulysses Currie, Democratic Party, Government
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BWI gains altitude
Kevin Crowley's job as a computer salesman for Hewlett-Packard requires a lot of travel, and lately his company is telling him to do it as cheaply as possibly.
So even though the Montgomery County resident could fly from any of three nearby airports,...Tags: Business Trips, Air Transportation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Transportation Accidents
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Span nearing a crossroads
Congested, narrow and functionally obsolete, the Gov. Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge stands as a monument to an earlier era of American infrastructure when the country was still coming to grips with the reality that this invention called the automobile was...Tags: Construction, Executive Branch, Road Transportation, Calvert County, Natural Resources
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