THE WEEK THAT WAS

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Schooner plies new course

The excursion schooner Clipper City went on the auction block, but the bank took it back when no bidder met its price.

Community activist dies

Madeline Wheeler Murphy, 84, a passionate community activist, civil rights champion and popular panelist on the WJZ-TV show Square Off, died.

Heat sears the region

With temperatures around 100 degrees, people had to deal with heat, humidity and bad air quality for much of the week.

Swann Park report criticizes firm

The Allied Chemical Co. deliberately withheld test results three decades ago showing high arsenic levels in South Baltimore's Swann Park, a city task force concluded.

Firefighter exams questioned

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon asked for an investigation of the most recent fire officers exams after two unions made allegations of cheating. A black firefighters group says the rumors are racially motivated.

Church says it will rise from ashes

Members of First Mount Olive Free Will Baptist Church vowed to rebuild the 140-year-old structure, which was destroyed in a fire started by lightning.

Teens held in girl's slaying

Two teenagers were charged with the fatal stabbing of Christine Richardson, whose body was found by her mother returning from work to her Southwest Baltimore home.

Keeler's successor named

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien has been named to replace retiring Cardinal William H. Keeler. O'Brien is known for ministering to troops on the battlefield and supervising the education of priests.

Aberdeen sinks under stadium

Aberdeen is sagging under millions of dollars of debts from Ripken Stadium after a development to defray the costs is delayed.

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