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Benjamin C. Whitten, city educator
Benjamin C. Whitten, a prominent Baltimore educator and community activist who served as president of the Baltimore Urban League, died Sept. 21 of cancer at Good Samaritan Hospital. The Morgan Park resident was 89.
"Ben was a true giant in the...Tags: John Ward, Teachers, U.S. Army, Civil Rights, Cherry Hill
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In defeat, a victory for Baltimore pension reform
Baltimore's Fraternal Order of Police is celebrating what is, at most, a Pyrrhic victory in its effort to reverse the pension reforms Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the City Council enacted two years ago. Federal Judge Marvin J. Garbis' ruling that...
Tags: Politics, Laws, Pension and Welfare, Judges, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Save the Mechanic
Robert Moses told Baltimore to put a highway through Mount Vernon Square. Aren't you glad Baltimore did not listen? William Donald Schaefer and every public official in Maryland wanted to put an interstate highway through Fell's Point that would have run...
Tags: Mount Vernon, Inner Harbor, Highway Transportation, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Harbor East
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150 years later, preservationists see victory at Antietam
— The fighting that killed or wounded 21,000 Americans in the rolling hills of Western Maryland was over in about 12 grisly hours. But a century and a half after the bloodiest day in American military history, the struggle to preserve the ground...
Tags: Antietam National Battlefield, Government, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Abraham Lincoln, Armed Forces
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Pa. teen injured in August car accident home, in good spirits
A Franklin County, Pa., teenager who was seriously injured in an early August accident returned home Tuesday as expected, her father confirmed. Malory Weller, 17, left William Donald Schaefer Rehabilitation Center at Kernan Hospital in Baltimore...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
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Greencastle teen to go home from hospital after August accident
roxann.miller@herald-mail.comDoctors didn’t think 17-year-old Malory Weller would survive the accident that trapped her inside her vehicle without food, water or medical treatment for more than 11 hours. But, they didn’t take into account the fighting spirit of the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, The Herald-Mail, Hospitals and Clinics, Services and Shopping, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
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State poised to cut Rocky Gap losses
After sinking millions of dollars into the dream of a world-class tourist destination in the mountains of Western Maryland, the state is poised to cut its losses and turn the Rocky Gap hotel and conference center over to a private company that plans to...
Tags: Executive Branch, Companies and Corporations, Government, Golf, Tourism and Leisure
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Carl Hyman, neighborhood activist
Carl S. Hyman, an executive of a firm that tests students and assesses their achievement both in the U.S. and overseas who was also a Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood activist, died of lung cancer Sept. 5 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 57.
Born in...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Science and Technology, Lung Cancer, Colleges and Universities, Human Interest
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Louise K. Smith, retired teacher
Louise K. Smith, a retired Harford County public school kindergarten educator and longtime volunteer, died Aug. 27 at her Havre de Grace home from complications of recent surgery. She was 84.
A daughter of an artist and a homemaker, the former Louise...Tags: Havre de Grace, Colleges and Universities, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Towson University
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Doris J. Spriggs, aide to six mayors
Doris J. Spriggs, a former Social Security Administration specialist who later became an aide to six Baltimore mayors, died Tuesday of heart failure at Mercy Medical Center.
The longtime Edmondson Village resident was 79.
"Doris was really one of the...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Howard University, Sheila Dixon, Social Security
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Hearing set for Tuesday to discuss 'smart meter' fires
The news that a Southeast Pennsylvania utility company has suspended "smart meter" installations following reports that some have overheated and caused fires has prompted the Maryland Public Service Commission to schedule a public hearing Tuesday to...
Tags: Science and Technology, Companies and Corporations, Government, Electronics, Economy, Business and Finance
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O'Malley signs gambling expansion bill
Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Wednesday asking voters to approve expanded gambling in Maryland as supporters and opponents prepared for what could be a bruising referendum campaign this fall.
The governor's action capped a whirlwind special...Tags: Referenda, Government, Voting, Movies, Crime, Law and Justice
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