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Promising dancer bows out of Washington Ballet to study at Towson
Rebecca Houseknecht was destined to be a star.
Everyone said so: her ballet teachers, the judges at international competitions, the director who chose the Odenton teen from among hundreds of aspiring ballerinas to feature in "First Position," a...Tags: Baltimore County, The CW (tv network), Odenton, Colleges and Universities, Black Swan (movie)
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NAACP head calls for death penalty abolition this year
Ben Jealous, the national NAACP president, came to Annapolis Tuesday to call on Maryland legislators to make this the year the state does away with the death penalty. Flanked by several legislators, Jealous said he intends to return to Annapolis...Tags: Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Baltimore County, NAACP
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Court upholds cell phone monitoring across state lines
Maryland's highest court has upheld a law allowing police to listen in on cell phone calls that suspects make outside the state, a tool that authorities say is key to fighting the drug trade. The 5-2 Court of Appeals ruling is a victory for law...Tags: Punishment, Tyrone Davis, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Drug Trafficking
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Couples take heart in O'Malley decision on gay marriage
Jon A. Kaplan imagines a beautiful wedding ceremony on the beaches of the Eastern Shore, followed by a big party in Baltimore, where he and partner Joel Pearson, have lived for more than a decade.
Dan Gilbert likes the simplicity of signing a marriage...Tags: Elections, Cancer, Social Issues, Family, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Candidates run for Congress despite home address
All politics is local. All candidates for Congress are not. At least eight candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland — including four prominent contenders — are running this year in congressional districts that do not...Tags: Elections, Harford County, Pittsburgh, Government, Belinda Conaway
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State biotech firms hope Congress will act
A proposal to speed the approval of new prescription drugs has patient advocates and biotech firms — including many based in Maryland — hoping that Congress will deliver a rare dose of bipartisanship this year.
Lawmakers are proposing a 6...Tags: Elections, Science, Cancer, Barbara A. Mikulski, Crime, Law and Justice
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Reading Day promotes love of books
alnotarianni@aol.comPeople walked in the mall Saturday morning and browsed crisp, new books. They chose their favorites, picked them up and walked off without paying. By midafternoon, $5,000 worth of books had been taken. But there was no need to call security. A book... -
Protest groups move into place as G-8 Summit begins
andrews@herald-mail.comWith world leaders on their way to Camp David for a Group of Eight summit, protesters trickled into nearby Thurmont to speak their minds. The movement started slowly Friday morning, with just two representatives of the Larouche Political Action Committee...Tags: NATO, Weis Markets Incorporated, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Summits
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Free Music Friday! A bludgeoning punk track from OFF!
Forget that third cup of coffee. Here's a track to give your Friday afternoon a brain-rattling burst of energy. OFF! is a sort of supergroup, but not the boring kind. This is a punk-rock band with velocity, songwriting chops and subversive vision. Yes,...
Tags: Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), OFF! (music group), Black Flag (music group), Boston, Brooklyn (New York City)
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Berkeley County grand jury indicts 89
The following 89 individuals were indicted by a Berkeley County grand jury seated for the October term of circuit court, which began Tuesday. An indictment merely indicates that an individual is believed to have committed the crime. Joshua L. Stitley,...Tags: Crimes, Prisons, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Child Abuse
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Rudolph James Redd Sr., engineer
Rudolph James "Rudy" Redd Sr., an engineer who spent his nearly 40-year career with the Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground and was an advocate for the mentally ill, died April 27 of a cardiac arrest at his home...Tags: Druid Hill, Science, Towson, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Behavioral Conditions
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Review: Psychedelic Furs at Rams Head on Stage March 19
Reporter Matthew Hay Brown took a break from covering military affairs and national security to review the Psychedelic Furs' show at Rams Head on Stage Monday night.
Is there anyone having more fun at a Psychedelic Furs show than frontman Richard...Tags: John Lydon, David Bowie, Annapolis, John Hughes, Pink (singer)
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