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• Maryland

In Maryland, a thin electoral line between roguish and rotten

• Maryland

Where to Buy the Times

• New Products

TheraPearl to sell products at Target

TheraPearl wants its brand to become the Q-tips of the hot/cold pack category. The Columbia-based company, which makes therapeutic pearl-filled packs that can be chilled in the freezer or heated in the microwave, started with an idea and three employees nearly six years ago and has grown to $10 million in sales at some of the nation's biggest chain stores.

• Opinion

What's the real story with Santoni's?

Store is closing not because of bottle tax but because of wrong business model

• Drug Trafficking

Four arrested after marijuana found during early morning traffic stop in Laurel

Laurel Police arrested four people, two from Laurel, after finding 146 grams of marijuana in a vehicle during a traffic stop around 1:18 a.m. Monday in the 900 block of Washington Boulevard.

• Obituaries

Donald B. Cohen

Baltimore musician who formed the Don Cohen Trio and the Jazz Express, died Jan. 8 of heart failure at Warren Place senior housing and senior center in Cockeysville. He was 78.

• Services and Shopping

Police and youngsters share the joy at Shop with a Cop

It soon became obvious last weekend at the Westminster Senior Center that there are certainly different approaches to wrapping presents.

• Marketing

Big Santa Official Contest Rules

• Shootings

Ten years ago, snipers plunged region into terror

Little more than a year after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an unknown enemy was again menacing the capital region. Sidewalks emptied; residents holed up in their homes. Those with unavoidable commitments ducked their heads as they scurried from house to car, from car to destination, and back again.

• Shootings

10 years ago, snipers plunged the region into terror

Little more than a year after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an unknown enemy was again menacing the capital region. Sidewalks emptied; residents holed up in their homes. Those with unavoidable commitments ducked their heads as they scurried from house to car, from car to destination, and back again

• Education

Highland: Unique Cedar Lane School begins a new school year

• Business

Scaled-back ethics measure to offer some online records

Starting next year, Marylanders will no longer have to travel to Annapolis to look in to their lawmakers' possible conflicts of interest.

• Health

Safeway, Giant to stop selling pink slime beef

Gant and Safeway pulls pink slime from shelves

• Opinion

Ethical backsliding

The General Assembly should be seeking to fix the problems exposed by the Currie case, not loosening disclosure requirements for local officials.

• Latest

Safeway, Giant Food begin recruiting temporary workers

Giant Food and Safeway, the Baltimore region's two largest supermarket chains, have begun recruiting temporary workers as contract negotiations continue with the union that represents 23,000 workers.

• Opinion

Currie case shows how Maryland's corrupt old boy network protects its own

Currie case shows how Maryland's corrupt old boy network protects its own

• Politics

State Senate votes to censure Currie

The Maryland Senate voted unanimously Friday to censure Sen. Ulysses Currie for numerous violations of ethics laws stemming from his failure to tell anyone that he was being paid by a grocery chain when he sought help for the company from state agencies.

• Opinion

Disgrace in the Senate

Senator Currie disgraced the Senate, and in handling his case, the Senate disgraced itself.

• Politics and Government

Ethics committee recommends Currie be censured

Ethics committee recommends Currie be censured

• Latest

Miller: ethics panel reaches conclusion on Currie

• Politics

General Assembly's ethics committee takes up Currie case

A General Assembly committee charged with reviewing the behavior of Sen. Ulysses Currie met briefly Thursday morning behind closed doors in what was described as an organizational session.

• Opinion

Getting serious about ethics

Maryland General Assembly: Our view: Policing legislative conduct is a low-key issue but one of the Assembly's most important items of business

• Latest

Senator Currie to face ethics inquiry in Annapolis

Maryland legislators will have to decide what to do about Sen. Ulysses S. Currie's admitted ethical lapses that helped land him in federal court on bribery and extortion charges last year.

• Politics

Ex-judge Murphy to represent Currie in ethics proceedings

Ex-judge Murphy to represent Currie in ethics proceedings

• Elections

2011: A re-wind

The year 2011 as seen through the rear-view mirror, the high- and the low lights of the year in Baltimore and Maryland

• Religion and Belief

Calvary Lutheran schedules German Christmas service

The Calvary Lutheran Church will be holding its Christmas service in German Dec. 17 at 4 p.m. German Christmas carols will be sung and the Christmas gospel will also be in German.

• Politics and Government

Common Cause calls for Currie censure

A leading government watchdog organization called on the Maryland Senate to censure Sen. Ulysses B. Currie, the once-powerful budget committee chief who was acquitted of political corruption charges this week.

• Politics

Legally not guilty, but what about politically?

Maryland state Sen. Ulysses Currie is found not guilty of bribery charges, but the case nonetheless raises ethical issues.

• Justice System

Currie not guilty of bribery, conspiracy in Shoppers case

A Maryland jury on Tuesday found Sen. Ulysses S. Currie not guilty of accepting bribes from two Shoppers Food Warehouse executives, acquitting all three men of extortion and conspiracy charges.

• Opinion

Senate must remove Currie from office

State government stood by Sen. Ulysses Currie despite the damning facts.

• Politics

Jury deliberating in Currie bribery trial sends note to judge

Jurors deliberating in the federal bribery trial of state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie and two former grocery chain executives sent a note to the judge Monday, indicating that at least some of them believe a conspiracy may have occurred, though not for as long as prosecutors alleged in the indictment.

• Justice System

Jury still out in Currie case

Jurors had yet to reach a verdict Friday, after their first full day of deliberation, in the bribery trial against Maryland Sen. Ulysses S. Currie and two retired executives from Shoppers Food Warehouse, who are accused of paying the Prince George's County politician $246,000 over five years for legislative favors.

• Justice System

Jurors begin deliberation in state senator's bribery trial

Defense and government lawyers in the bribery trial of Maryland Sen. Ulysses S. Currie sparred for hours Thursday during final arguments before sending the federal case to the jury for deliberation.

• Opinion

Baltimore County gets ethical

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz offers some meaningful ethics reforms that others should adopt as well

• Baltimore County

Kamenetz proposes tougher Baltimore County ethics laws

Balto. Co. Executive Kevin Kamenetz on Wednesday proposed to place officials' financial disclosure forms online and add teeth to a rule that prohibits County Council members from state employment.

• Politics

Currie jurors to begin deliberation Thursday

After six weeks of trial, jurors are expected to begin deliberating Thursday in the federal bribery trial of Maryland Sen. Ulysses S. Currie and two Shoppers Food Warehouse executives.

• Politics and Government

Md. power elite close ranks around Currie

Politicians in other states might be reluctant to stand up for an official accused of corruption, but in Maryland, leading elected officials have testified as character witnesses for state Sen. Ulysses Currie, who is charged with bribery.

• Opinion

What to make of Sen. Currie's friends?

Calling Ulysses S. Currie a 'man of integrity' or something similar raises issues about one's judgment

• Politics

Ehrlich takes stand for Currie in bribery trial

Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. took the stand in federal court Wednesday and said state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie is a "gentleman" and "very friendly."

• Politics and Government

Lt. Gov. Brown calls Currie 'a man of strong integrity'

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown testified Monday morning that state Sen. Ulysses Currie, who's accused of accepting bribes from a grocery chain, has been a mentor to him both professionally and personally.

• Opinion

Flunking Government Ethics 101

Latest conflict-of-interest case in Baltimore County demonstrates why transparency in government, local and state, remains an elusive goal

• Justice System

Rep. Hoyer: Currie does 'not pay attention to details'

Defense attorneys for state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie continued a theme Tuesday, calling an influential member of Congress to the stand who testified that their client as honest, but hopelessly disorganized.

• Opinion

Too dumb to be corrupt?

State Sen. Ulysses Currie's public corruption trial now hinges on whether jurors believe that he was too dumb to engage in a bribery and extortion scheme. Whatever the case, it doesn't speak well for the General Assembly.

• Justice System

Defense begins in Currie trial

Attorneys for state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie, who's on trial for extortion and related charges, began his defense Monday by calling a witness who portrayed the Prince George's County legislator as endlessly pleasant, but not very bright.

• Politics and Government

Currie kept Shoppers ties secret, according to former transportation secretary

Maryland Sen. Ulysses S. Currie warned former Transportation Secretary Robert L. Flanagan that he "would need friends in the Senate" during a rare private meeting in 2006, then urged the embattled agency head to issue a $2-million grant for a pet project, Flanagan said in federal court Monday.

• Justice System

Official says Currie never disclosed Shoppers payments

Former state highway chief Neil Pedersen says Currie lobbied him constantly

• Justice System

Opening statements given in Currie trial

A federal prosecutor detailed extensive contact between state Sen. Ulysses Currie and various state agencies on behalf of Shoppers Food Warehouse, seeking to draw a picture of a senator willing to pull strings on behalf of a company that was paying him.

• Justice System

Jury selection begins in bribery trial of state Sen. Currie

Jury selection in the federal bribery and extortion trial of Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie and two Shoppers Food Warehouse executives opened Monday with the judge reading aloud a long list of potential witnesses that could double as a Who's Who directory in state politics.

• Opinion

Currie case: Not business as usual

Whatever the outcome in the criminal trial of state Sen. Ulysses Currie, the legislature needs to take action to reassure the public that there is not a pay-to-play culture in Annapolis.

• Elections

State senator's future hangs in the balance at corruption trial

Defense is expected to argue ethical lapse wasn't illegal