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Rawlings-Blake looks to legacy of full term
As Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake embarks on a full four-year term after Tuesday's election victory, she faces the challenge of forging a legacy in a city grappling with decades of decline and years of financial shortfalls.
Some political...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Politics, Sheila Dixon, Baltimore County, Johns Hopkins University
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Saved from bulldozer, UM 'hillock' teems with life
Harvard University has a research forest. So does Duke. Yale has multiple forests. The University of Maryland has “the wooded hillock." a 24-acre patch of trees at the northern tip of the state's flagship public campus. Though tiny, largely...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Comcast Center (arena), Animals, Teachers, Conservation
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The mayor: Blowing up The Block
During my time in office, members of the downtown business community and other citizens urged me to take action against the area known as The Block. Since the end of World War II, The Block has been a concentration of strip clubs and X-rated bookstores....
Tags: World War II (1939-1945)
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News briefs for Thursday, May 17
In a first, census figures show minorities make up more than half of babies born in US WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration...
Tags: Social Issues, Adultery, Richard Lugar, Politics, Cancer
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Rev. Marion Bascom, civil rights activist and pastor, dies
The Rev. Marion C. Bascom, a leading Baltimore civil rights activist remembered for his lifetime quest for social justice, died of a heart attack Thursday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 87 and lived in Reservoir Hill.
"A giant has...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Politics, Annapolis, Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice
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More than 250 tickets sold for Doleman Black Heritage Museum's fourth annual Fall Fundraiser
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comThe family and friends of the late Marguerite Doleman, who founded and operated an African-American museum in her North Locust Street home, turned out by the hundreds Saturday night to support finding a permanent site for the artifacts that took her...Tags: Minority Groups, Martin Luther King Jr., African Americans, John P Donoghue, Arts and Culture
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Sister's ex-boyfriend charged with murder in Phylicia Barnes case
For nearly a decade, Michael Maurice Johnson dated the half-sister of Phylicia Barnes. He went along on family trips, and played basketball with their brother. He was like family, and considered Phylicia a "little sister," relatives say.
He was also...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Murder, College Sports, Towson University, Prosecution
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Laurel products prepare for March Madness
There are 345 college men's basketball teams at the Division I level and the National Collegiate Athletic Association allows each to have three full-time assistant coaches on staff. Laurel High graduate Antoine Gaither has been on staff at Howard...Tags: Seton Hall Pirates, Colonial Athletic Association, College Sports, George Mason, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
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Congressman Elijah Cummings lives in a Spike Lee joint
The Baltimore SunRep. Elijah Cummings wants folks to know that he's keeping it real. Like really, really, really real. Starting with where he lives. He told a crowd at Howard University Wednesday just how down-and-dirty real his Baltimore neighborhood is. “I...Tags: Services and Shopping, Baltimore City College, Spike Lee, Real Estate
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Commissioner Robinson at SeaWorld – on volunteering and Ron Blocker
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelEducation Commissioner Gerard Robinson, on his swing through Central Florida, also stopped at the ADDitions School Volunteer and Partners in Education recognition event, which was being held at SeaWorld for the 20th year. He told the crowd that... -
Trayvon Martin case gaining momentum; Baltimore ties to case
Amid mounting pressure, a Florida prosecutor says a grand jury will investigate the fatal shooting last month of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch captain, a move that comes after the U.S. Justice Department said it was also launching an...Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Baltimore efforts under way to rally support for Trayvon Martin
As the nation watches the fallout from the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old unarmed Florida teen, many Baltimoreans are voicing concern. Among those intervening locally is Jamal Bryant, pastor of the Empowerment Temple, a large church in...Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, FBI, NAACP
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