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Facing life in prison and with his men turned government witnesses, alleged cartel king "El Chapo" has few allies. One is a lawyer from Mulberry Street in Baltimore. - Steve “Ceromundo” Echeverry, a Latino hip-hop artist, calls Laurel home.
- Recounting the newspaper series that revealed Gabriel García Márquez's powerful gifts for storytelling and marked a turning point in his life as a writer.
- I got my passport the summer before my junior year at Baltimore City College High School. Studying a foreign language was mandatory after completing ninth
- If the White House would falsify records and lie to the public about a Cartegena hooker, is it really so hard to imagine that it would deceive the public -- and Congress -- about larger issues?
- RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ¿ With a spectacular swivel-and-strike, James Rodriguez provided one of the highlights of the World Cup and gave Brazil reason to worry.
- Students at Longfellow Elementary School are learning how to enact social change and conflict resolution through the program Move This World
- Christopher Adam Wright, a teacher and former restaurant worker, died of an aneurysm Aug. 27 in Bogota, Colombia, where he was working as an English teacher. The former Mount Vernon resident was 40.
- Jack Hawksworth won the pole Saturday for Sunday¿s Indy Lights race in the Grand Prix of Baltimore.
- Winters Mill graduate will compete in 5000-meter race in Pan Am Junior Athletics Championships this month
- What began for Robert McCollum as a two-year leave of absence for a foreign mission became a five-year stint at a Christian school in Bogota, Colombia with 300 students, about of tenth of the enrollment the educator was accustomed to in Chicago.
- Juan Sebastian Bustamante Sanchez, who took the naturalization test last week, had more in common with his examination officer than he realized. Sarah Moses, an officer for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, also had to pass the examination to become an American citizen.
- Gustavo, a 12-year-old orphan from Colombia, is visiting Maryland this month and enjoying a family reunion of sorts. He and nine other Colombian orphans have traveled thousands of miles on what they believe is a vacation, but in reality, they are on a search for a permanent home.
- Event offers concerts in Baltimore/DC area by choirs from seven countries
- Amid a flurry of international flags, thunderous fireworks and rowdy pirates, Baltimore invited the world to its star-spangled salute to the bicentennial of the War of 1812 next week.
- About 100 U.S. Secret Service agents will take part in a two-day ethics training this week to be overseen by professors at Johns Hopkins University — a response to the widening prostitution scandal that began in Colombia, agency and university officials said Monday.
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- The scandal involving 11 Secret Service agents and Colombian prostitutes is shocking, but whether it represents a serious breach in security is not so clear
- Much-needed transparency surrounds process to pick global financial institution's next leader
- Boys visiting United States from foster home in Columbia have chance to fish for striped bass
- Contrary to the assertions of a congressional fact finding mission, the record of human rights abuses in Colombia remain terrible and will only be worsened by a free trade agreement with the United States.
- Q&A with Roy Higgs of Development Design Group, which in the last several years has taken on many projects overseas.
