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- On July 9, 1920, the now-defunct Union Bridge Pilot reported at length about a baseball game in town, but took special note that "Easily the most outstanding feature (of the Fourth of July) was the army airplane in charge of Lieut. Philips, one of the most daring in the Aviation service…
- The move to make available rooms in the County Office Building for prayer meetings — as proposed by Commissioner Robin Frazier — opens county government to unnecessary controversy.
- My goodness it is hard to believe it is July already. Half the year is over. Welcome to summertime!
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Jonah Goldberg says the chief justice seems to have worked backward from the outcome he wanted -
- In the competition to name Baltimore's Funniest Celebrity, former Lt. Gov. Michael Steele brings the funny
- The public may be moving toward a new way of thinking that rejects parties, embraces solutions
- I didn't spend 20+ years in the Army as an Infantry grunt upholding the oath to "Support and Defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic," so you could practice "your" religion to then abuse that freedom by deny freedoms and rights to others.
- Under federal program, University of Maryland, Baltimore to address pain management in curriculum
- Babe Ruth No. 1 The Baltimore Sun's 175 Top athletes
- Rich guys can have the common touch -- Nelson Rockafeller did -- but Mitt Romney doesn't.
- In March and April of 1917, chaos and confusion in the global agriculture markets led to a series of testy meetings between local farmers and the canneries in Carroll County.
- Life-saving pancreatic cancer surgery perfected over 30 years at Hopkins
- For those uninitiated in the intricacies of today's equipment, two award winners have put together a daylong Annapolis photography workshop with coaching, technical assistance and lively dialogue.
- Tuesday afternoon incident in 1936 left school bus overturned and automobile severely damaged.
- Monticello and the University of Virginia Gardens bloom early this Spring, 2012
- Many of our Founding Fathers came to the conclusion that the death penalty is wrong; why do we continue to cling to it?
- Rick Santorum is GOP's best candidate and the man most likely to defeat Barack Obama this fall
- Match Day matches resident programs with students
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- Our state's judges have not received a raise since 2006, and our Circuit Court Judges' pay, when ranked among that of their national peers and adjusted for cost of living, pathetically ranks 43rd in the nation.
- Lawrence R. "Larry" Sibley, a retired Baltimore County police officer who had additional careers in security and as an office manager, died Thursday from heart disease at his home in Shrewsbury, Pa. He was 64.
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- Judges' pay in Maryland ranks near the bottom nationally
- Lost art of auscultation, or listening with a stethoscope, being revived in medical schools
- Valentine's Day travel: Spas work out the kinks in your relationship
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- Watching "Gleam" at Center Stage is like visiting a distant era that actually wasn't all that long ago.
- The politics of roads, growth and development, recessions and the cyclical boom and bust of agriculture has always played a prominent role in the history of Carroll County.
- Three people connected to the theft of more than 321,000 pounds of stolen metal have pleaded guilty in a scheme with tentacles reaching from a scrap metal dealer in West Baltimore to companies in Pittsburgh, New York, Switzerland, India and Australia.
- Three Baltimore men have pleaded guilty to being involved with a scheme to steal imported metal worth $2.6 million from the Port of Baltimore, prosecutors said Tuesday.
- Newt Gingrich gives voters, even some conservatives, real pause with his assault on the judiciary.
- Jules Witcover says Gingrich's apparent disregard for separation of powers is troubling
- The Republican primary season is about to begin, and so far, the candidates are all competing over the same narrow segment of the party base.
- Tea party: In Maryland, conservative activists are branching out and making a difference
- Herman Cain is being pressured to drop out of the presidential race after an allegation that he had a 13-year affair with a Georgia woman. Is that really any of the public's business?
- The Baltimore Irish Festival will take place Nov. 11-13 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds.
- More than two centuries after an American ship blew up off the shores of Tripoli, an ad hoc group that includes history buffs, military veterans and descendants of the sailors is working to repatriate their remains for burial with honors on U.S. soil.
- Leaders eventually will emerge out of the Wall Street protests, but there's no telling what their agenda will be
- 'Something of Splendor' explores decorative arts in presidential history
- Supreme Court: What was lost in the Snyder v. Phelps decision: the importance of jury trials in important cases
- Six years in the making, the just-completed renovation of Old Brick will be celebrated Oct. 16 as parishioners and visitors alike step back in time to the early 1800s.
