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Domestic violence coalition receives $1 million grant
The Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence will receive a $1 million Department of Justice grant to expand a program that identifies women who are at high risk of domestic violence, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski said Wednesday. The statewide initiative...
Tags: Abusive Behavior
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Group chosen to help implement health reform settled with feds over fraud
Maryland tapped the nonprofit Seedco to help implement health care reform despite a $1.7 million settlement the agency agreed to in December to resolve a federal fraud suit. The U.S. government sued the agency, saying it defrauded a federal employment...
Tags: Employment, Manhattan (New York City), Employment Opportunities, Government Health Care, Health Insurance
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Dissident gun activist moves forward on vote
A Montgomery County woman who has split with other Second Amendment activists on how to fight Gov. Martin O'Malley's recently passed gun safety bill said Friday that she has received the green light to begin a petition drive to bring the issue to a...Tags: Gun Control, National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Elections, Activism
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Coppin to break ground on $80 million science center
Coppin State University is moving forward with an $80 million Science and Technology Center that it hopes will boost sagging enrollment despite concerns that the West Baltimore school will not have enough money to operate the building. A ceremonial...
Tags: Computer Science, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Department of Education, Education, Science and Technology
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Columbia's Friends & Farms harvests the mid-Atlantic
Janet Hirsch says she has always been an adventurous eater, willing to try new things. But the Catonsville resident never ate pork ribs, Delmonico steaks or even turnips -- until last year. That’s when Hirsch joined Friends & Farms, a Columbia-...
Tags: Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Turnips, Windsor (Isle of Wight, Virginia), Consumers, Mussels
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Super Mario Bros. in D-minor
For at least a generation of pop-culture consumers, the soundtrack of their lives has included themes from the likes of Mega Man and Super Mario. As they've grown up, the music of video games has branched out — to solo piano, to rock concerts...
Tags: Music Industry, Physical Therapy, Services and Shopping, Entertainment, Education
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Maryland lawmakers call for answers on alleged jail corruption involving BGF
Maryland lawmakers called Wednesday for a sweeping inquiry into the state prison system, amid allegations that a gang effectively took over the Baltimore City Detention Center, orchestrating crimes from behind bars and impregnating female correctional...
Tags: FBI, Martin O'Malley, Budgets and Budgeting, Black Guerrilla Family, Howard County
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Washington at its best -- and worst
WASHINGTON -- This last weekend of April displays the very best and the very worst of Washington. Most of the country sees the worst part: the triumph of money and power. For the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday and its...
Tags: Social Issues, Washington, DC, Philosophy, Religion and Belief, Human Interest
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Keeping a third-generation piano business finely tuned
Recession being the bane of piano retailers, it seems wholly remarkable that Harry Cohen and his son, Lou, decided to start selling Baldwins and Wurlitzers in 1937 — the year the economy relapsed toward the end of the Great Depression. But somehow...
Tags: Baltimore County, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Cecil County, Music
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Arundel executive vetoes 'rain tax' fee
Anne Arundel County Executive Laura A. Neuman on Thursday vetoed that county’s version of the so-called rain tax — making it the first jurisdiction to take action against the controversial state-mandated stormwater management fee. Under...
Tags: Annapolis, Politics, Elections, Media Industry, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
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City's revamped pre-K showing promise
Before Lauren Preston opened the cover of the book "Spring" to read to her pre-kindergarten class at Mary Ann Winterling Elementary School, her students excitedly told her why, and showed her how, the season was underway. Daffodils — not just...
Tags: Baltimore County, Teaching and Learning, Finance, Financial Aid, Teachers
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Health officials consider increasing plastic surgery center oversight
Maryland health officials may ask state lawmakers for permission to oversee plastic surgery centers, a move inspired in part by the death of a Lochearn woman after liposuction.
The state health department had already been considering whether to ask...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Procedural Sedation, Liposuction, Strep Throat, Judges
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