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No major delays reported on area transit systems. - Guy E. Flynn, recently named the head of the Maryland real estate group at international law firm DLA Piper, discusses his practice.
- No major delays reported on area transit systems
- Sections of Charles Street and Guilford Avenue closed due to water main repairs.
- Service a theme in conflicts, past and present
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- A long unmarked grave at The Baltimore Cemetery finally offers monumental recognition to the War of 1812 hero laid to rest there nearly 130 years ago.
- No major delays reported on local transit systems
- Nearly one-year old, the Intercounty Connector is about $1 million ahead of toll revenue projections and gaining users at a rate of about 3 percent a month
- Charles Pomeroy Ives III, a state of Maryland telecommunications worker who immersed himself in history causes from North Point to Carroll County, died in his sleep of a circulatory illness Oct. 20 at his Stoneleigh home. He was 63.
- "There's going to be blood," Wendy McCord warned her parents before they watched the bouts against Mobtown Mods, Speed Regime, Junkyard Dolls and Night Terrors on Oct. 13 at the DuBurns Arena in Canton. McCord, a Summit Park resident, is a member of the Charm City Roller Girls, Baltimore's only all-female flat track roller derby league.
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- A New York man wanted for murder was stopped by police after a fixed license plate reader on Interstate 95 in Baltimore County alerted authorities to his location.
- The Baltimore region is home to dozens of kayaking clubs and groups, each full of friendly paddlers eager to share the water — and their expertise — with newcomers to the sport.
- A group of actors and actresses from Baltimore School for the Arts put on a set of short plays about the War of 1812 to the middle school students at St. Paul's School for Girls Tuesday, including one written by St. Paul's School for Girls theater teacher Natalie Pilcher.
- Fort McHenry holds its first maritime and musical education experience for city schoolchildren as the 1814 Battle of Baltimore was re-enacted Tuesday.
- Volunteers move mounds of mattresses to help Ronald McDonald House.
- State awards $1.5 million in grants to projects linked to War of 1812 bicentennial.
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- Chuck Wienckowski of Bel Air arrived at the top of his age group in two ways Sunday as the 2012 triathlon season neared its conclusion.
- students at Charlesmont Elementary marked the 198th anniversary of the Battle of Fort McHenry Friday by unfurling a replica of the flag that flew over the fort 198 years ago to the day.
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- Media coverage of Baltimore's Grand Prix was biased and unfair
- It's this Sunday, Sept. 9. Congratulations to all my readers who happen to be grandparents! Remember yours. Sept. 11, Tuesday, is Patriot Day and the National Day of Remembrance. Celebrate First Fridays in downtown Havre de Grace today (Friday), 5 to 9 p.m. sponsored by Havre de Grace Main Street
- The Grand Prix car race returns to Baltimore, a city that could match London for its propensity to "whinge." It's not the Olympics, but we can still treat it as an impending disaster
- Anne Arundel's three regional concert series offer entertainment bargains to county residents in search of live musical performances by classical, folk and jazz artists.
- There will be two weddings, two weeks apart, as this couple wants to share both families' traditions and cultures.
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- Going block by block, crews in bucket trucks are converting 70,000 Baltimore street lights from sodium vapor lights to long-lasting, energy-saving LEDs. Critics complain the new lights don't illuminate the area as well.
- Star-Spangled Sailabration events helped draw visitors to the historic property.
- As Baltimore has moved to take the homes of hundreds of city residents for unpaid water bills as small as $350, the city water system has allowed some big businesses, nonprofits and government offices to run up delinquent accounts totaling more than $10 million, The Baltimore Sun has found.
- John D. Danko stops in mid-conversation to note the sound ringing through the house. The small brass bell chimes from behind the face of the grandfather clock in the foyer.
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- Two weeks after Vi Ripken was abducted at gunpoint, fans of the Aberdeen IronBirds were glad to have her back to her routine Wednesday night — taking in a game at the stadium named for her famous baseball family.
- Wednesday at Fort McHenry, Marc Bunting and Kieffer Rittenhouse unveiled The Racer's Group-owned No. 66 Porsche 911. The car, which will compete in the GT3 class of the Grand Touring Challenge on Saturday, Sept. 1, carries a star-studded red, white and blue design.
- Jewish Community Services in Owings Mills creates and rents out Centerpieces for Tzedakah with benefits going to help the needy in the community.
- Local historian Robert Reyes and others in the community are trying to build support to create a 2-mile foot trail that would connect Battle Acre and the North Point State Battlefield with the Bear Creek area of Dundalk. They hope to encourage awareness of the area's importance to the War of 1812.
- Cal Ripken Jr. speaks out about his mother's kidnapping July 24 and the mysterious circumstances that led to her return, without injury, about 24 hours later near her Aberdeen home.
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