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Kim Bracey makes history in town with a troubled past

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Woman becomes first black to be elected mayor of York, Pa.

- Motorists honked and shouted congratulations to Kim Bracey as she crossed tree-lined South George Street one crisp morning this week.

U.S. stimulus funds prompt quicker area school renovations

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Fueled by federal stimulus dollars, school districts in Baltimore City and Baltimore County are speeding up construction projects that have been on hold for years for lack of funding, including the possible construction of the first new city school in a decade.

Muslims, Arabs worry about reprisals

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Fort Hood shootings stir concern about reputation

When he saw the name of the Army officer accused in Thursday's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Imam Awni Qudah got that sick feeling again.

Place a homeless man called home

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Neighbors in a block of 26th Street in the city mourn death of Andre Haney, whom they considered one of their own

Andre K. Haney ran errands, washed cars and swept up leaves for the residents of a secluded block in the city's Harwood neighborhood. The residents - many of them elderly women who have lived in their homes for decades - gave him money and food, and brought him inside for holiday meals.

Three others plead guilty in theft of Cal Ripken's No. 8 sculpture

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Young men receive same sentence as fourth suspect in case, pay O's for damage

Three young men pleaded guilty Friday morning in Baltimore Circuit Court to stealing Cal Ripken Jr. 's aluminum No. 8 sculpture from in front of Camden Yards in September and paid the Orioles $7,618 to cover the cost of repairs. A fourth man pleaded guilty in the case earlier this week.

Longing to taste once again foods distinctive to city

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

T he name on the window said Maron, and inside were candy counters and an ice cream parlor. I was walking along Philadelphia's Chestnut Street and, for a second, I was back home 40 years ago. I thought of the old Baltimore Maron and couldn't help remembering all the revered but now-vanished foods once distinctive to the city.

Correction

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

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Housing units to be renovated using stimulus funds

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Porgram would affect 270 units, create 92 jobs

About 270 dilapidated public housing units will be renovated and equipped with energy-efficient fixtures with $66 million in federal stimulus funds, city officials announced Friday.

N.C. court rules against tobacco payments

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Maryland tobacco farmers won't receive about $13 million in payments from cigarette manufacturers under a ruling Friday from the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Police arrest man in stabbing of city officer at Balto. Co. strip club

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Second suspect shot during altercation also expected to be charged

Baltimore County police have charged an Overlea man in the stabbing of an off-duty Baltimore police officer early Thursday at a strip club in the Dundalk area.