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TRAFFIC
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FROM LAST NIGHT...
: Aaron Nathaniel McCoy Jr., 20, of the 4000 block of Cedardale Road in Baltimore, was killed when he drove into oncoming traffic while trying to elude police, who suspected him in a burglary, according to a statement from Baltimore County Police.
: Baltimore County will begin giving priority to veterans when making local government hiring decisions, officials announced Tuesday, a policy focused particularly on those returning from conflicts overseas.
: One of Gov. O'Malley's tax proposals this year is to extend the sales tax to digital products. That means digital media you download could become subject to the state's sales tax of 6 percent.
: The program will promote healthy alternatives to smoking, alcohol and drug use. It will also teach the kids techniques to resist peer pressure to engage in these activities.
TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
: With the presidential election in full swing and Congress mired in gridlock, President Barack Obama used his third State of the Union address Tuesday to sound a populist message on the economy, outlining a series of policies he said would give the middle class "a fair shot" at prosperity.
: The stately, endangered birds at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel are being primed by their keepers for another season of carefully orchestrated mating with a "special breeder diet."
: Maryland employers added nearly 25,000 jobs last year, according to new estimates -- the best performance since 2006, but one that still leaves the state with more than 80,000 jobs to make up, given the recession's losses.
: Baltimore City's schools chief told state legislators Tuesday that he hopes to borrow that amount -- six times more than the school system's current bonding authority -- to pay for a massive and rapid overhaul of the city's crumbling public school buildings.
[Compiled by Dean Jones Jr.]