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- Sara Walser's column from South Laurel gave a great tribute to our retiring priest friend, Jesuit Frank Gignac. Why would Fr. Frank make the trek to St. Nicholas Church, from Catholic University to Contee Road, nearly every weekend for 35 years? Well, let us tell you about our church.
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In a move to enhance what is one of the nation's most robust African penguin breeding colonies, Maryland Zoo officials are preparing to break ground on a $10.4 million state- and grant-funded project to build a new, 1.5-acre exhibit for the birds to call home. -
- The way marijuana laws are enforced in Maryland and nationally is ineffective and expensive — and profoundly unfair to African Americans.
- Head of Catholic Relief Services says we must be vigilant against a leading killer of children
- To Funlayo Alabi, Shea Radiance is much more than a business. It's a mission.
- President Barack Obama on Monday set aside 480 acres on the Eastern Shore for a federal park to honor Harriet Tubman — a victory for advocates who have long sought to memorialize the abolitionist's role in leading dozens of slaves to freedom.
- With a winter storm watch in effect and the possibility of several inches of snow Tuesday into Wednesday in Central Maryland, officials at Baltimore Gas and Electric have put the call out for 500 out-of-state utility workers to be prepared to help in the aftermath of the storm.
- "Searching for Sugar Man" was based on Craig Strydom's 1997 article about musician Sixto Rodriguez.
- Oscar Pistorius case in a window on a society ruled by a terror of crime
- Ephrem Kouakou prefers to work while the world sleeps. In the dead of night, absent the sound of any human voice or music, the artist says he can best hear the "spirits" talking.
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- Jonah Goldberg says Dr. Ben Carson's policy differences with President Obama are a sign of progress.
- Algeria and Mali underscore the continuing threat of Islamic extremism across North Africa
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- Norton's biggest giver between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day gets a poster of 'The 25th Hour' signed by the star and Spike Lee.
- W. Kennedy Cromwell III, a retired foreign service officer who spent the majority of his 32-year career in Africa, died Dec. 13 from complications of a stroke at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville. He was 88.
- Maryland's advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights fails to report any findings despite ample evidence of discrimination in the criminal justice system.
- The Rev. Ricky Spain, pastor of East Baltimore's Waters African Methodist Episcopal Church who had also been a community activist in his years as an Annapolis area pastor, died of cancer Nov. 16 at the Tate Chesapeake Hospice House in Linthicum. The Severn resident was 63.
- South African government has released its death grip on the wine industry; apartheid is a thing of the past; the world has opened its doors once again to South African wine.
- Roman Catholic bishops convening in Baltimore joined students and volunteers to transform a Harbor East hotel corridor into a food packing operation to benefit West African orphans and battered women.
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- Distinguished alumni Earl Christy, Sheldon W. Cole, Ernest Rodia and Lou Ward have been selected for the Havre de Grace High School Hall of Fame, the committee overseeing the hall of fame announced Monday.
- Sixto Rodriguez's two albums sank without a trace in the U.S. He never knew that in South Africa, he was a superstar.
