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Dropkick Murphys, The Gaslight Anthem to headline September 'Shindig'
Dropkick Murphys, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Gaslight Anthem and more will perform at Carroll Park in Pigtown on Sept. 14 for the debut of The Shindig, an all-rock music festival, organizer Paul Manna announced today. Tickets go on sale Friday....
Tags: Entertainment, Concerts, Festive Events, Dropkick Murphys (music group), Music
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Volunteers pour into Fort McHenry wetlands to clean up
More than 100 gloved volunteers, some in boots and others in waist-high waders, streamed along narrow paths and historic sea walls Saturday in a secluded nook of wetlands just south of Fort McHenry, their eyes scanning for trash or the perfect spot to...
Tags: Francis Scott Key, War of 1812, National Aquarium Baltimore, Patapsco, Pikesville
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From 'Middle East' to 'Eager Park,' a community is rebranded
Hundreds of residents have been relocated and dozens of homes cleared from Baltimore's Middle East neighborhood in recent years. Now the area just north of Johns Hopkins Hospital may be losing something more: its name. As an ambitious redevelopment...Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Belair Road, Sales, Hospitals and Clinics, Patterson Park
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Rebecca Rigger, activist
Rebecca Rigger, a League of Women Voters activist who monitored the Baltimore County Planning Board, died of a heart attack March 25 at her Monkton home. She was 85. Born Rebecca Rogers in Big Island, Va., she was raised at an apple orchard in the...
Tags: Christianity, Foods and Beverages, Kill Devil Hills, Lifestyle and Leisure, Voting
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Raymond L. Klingmeyer
Raymond Leroy Klingmeyer, a former boxer and referee who is a member of the state's boxing Hall of Fame, died Friday of renal failure at the Bel Air Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was 88. "When he came into the ring, he looked like a referee. He...
Tags: Welterweight, Crime, Law and Justice, Heavyweight, Justice System, Middleweight Boxing
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Man killed in Pigtown shooting early Thursday
A man died in a shooting reported in Southwest Baltimore about 4 a.m. Thursday, city police said. Officers were called to the 1300 block of Carroll Street in the Washington Village/Pigtown neighborhood, where they found a black man with a gunshot wound...
Tags: Shootings
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Sherwin M. Adelman, health economist
Sherwin M. Adelman, a retired U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health economist and strategist, died Feb. 4 from complications of dementia and heart failure at Sunrise Senior and Assisted-Living of McLean, Va. The longtime Pigtown resident was 77....Tags: Ocean City, Alzheimer's Disease, Chicago Blackhawks, Southern Illinois University, Heart Failure
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Two women charged in knife-point robberies in Federal Hill
City police have charged two women - one who was released from jail recently after prosecutors dropped armed carjacking charges against her - in connection at least four knife-point robberies in the Federal Hill area, a spokesman said. Officers...
Tags: Theft, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lawyers, Federal Hill
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Formstone would be banned on new buildings under proposal
Frankly fake but authentically Baltimore, the Formstone that swaths many a rowhouse may seem low-brow or even tacky to some. But should it be illegal? A proposed overhaul of the Baltimore's zoning code would do just that, banning the faux stone...
Tags: John Waters, Hospitals and Clinics, Entertainment, World War II (1939-1945), Arts and Culture
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The little things that make us happy
My parents gave me a few things: a good start in life, a gray suitcase with plastic, stick-on initials for the DIY monogram (though we spelled out do-it-yourself in 1972), and an electric Timex Dynabeat wristwatch that I haven't worn in more than 30...
Tags: William Donald Schaefer
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Baltimore Behavioral Health files for bankruptcy
Mental health rehabilitation and addiction treatment center Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection because it owes more than $5.5 million to creditors and estimates its assets are less than $500,000, according to federal...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Voting, Baltimore County, Bank of America Corp., Financially Distressed Companies
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State Senator, Judge John C. Coolahan dies at 80
John Carroll Coolahan, a decorated Marine and former member of the Maryland Senate who acquired the reputation as the "Lion of Halethorpe" when he opposed construction of the Baltimore Metro rail system, died Sunday at St. Agnes Hospital. Family members...
Tags: Ellicott City, Christianity, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics
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