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In Showalter, O's have baseball lifer

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:58:00 -0400

The Orioles on Thursday hired a baseball lifer; a manager with small-town roots, a work ethic forged by his father, and an unshakeable conviction in the fundamentals of the game, born of long heart-to-heart talks with his old man.

A close brush with violence

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:30:00 -0400

Rawlings-Blake's family touched by city's crime

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake rarely speaks of the day eight years ago when the city's dangers literally fell through her front door. But her brother Wendell's stabbing shaped the way she views violent crime and has deepened her empathy for victims and their families.

HEALTHKEY UMD discovery may lead to 'smart pill'

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:02:00 -0400

Scientists make link between brain acid and cognition

A University of Maryland doctor is researching a drug that may be able to help people with Alzheimer's and other brain diseases, as well as healthy people, improve cognition.

Witness to killing found fatally shot in Station North district

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:46:00 -0400

Man, 21, had been inside apartment during stabbing of 24-year-old victim, source says

A 21-year-old man who sources said had been interviewed as a witness to a weekend homicide was fatally shot early Thursday in Baltimore's Station North district, according to police.

Beltway sniper Malvo claims more shootings, co-conspirators

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:42:00 -0400

Prosecutor and defense lawyer in sniper case are skeptical

Lee Boyd Malvo is claiming that he and fellow Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad lined up co-conspirators to broaden the campaign of violence that paralyzed the Washington region eight years ago, but that the collaborators backed away, according to a television interview.

Police commander apologizes to boy who was run over

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:21:00 -0400

Delivers cake, gifts to injured 5-year-old

Alvin Williams' summer is pretty much over.

Torah sellers agree to abandon rescue claims

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:45:00 -0400

Director of Pearlstone center in Reisterstown stands by purported origins of its Torah

A group that salvages Holocaust-era Torahs from Europe and sells them to congregations in the United States has agreed to stop promoting dramatic rescue stories unless it can document them, according to an agreement with Maryland authorities sparked by complaints about the group's practices.

Md. lab to conserve ship remains found at World Trade Center

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:57:00 -0400

Archaeology team now in NYC

A conservation team from Maryland's archaeology lab is in lower Manhattan this week, working to recover the remains of a wooden sailing ship found buried at the World Trade Center site.

Howard Co. Council OKs $19 million Doughoregan deal

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:46:00 -0400

Controversial plan allows 325 new homes on part of historic estate

A plan to cluster development in one corner of historic Doughoregan Manor while preserving the rest of the once vast colonial estate received final, unanimous approval from the Howard County Council late Thursday.

Restaurant workers awarded $34M

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Employees exposed to carbon monoxide while working at Pier 5 Hotel restaurant

A city jury awarded more than $34 million to 20 restaurant workers who claimed carbon monoxide exposure in a downtown hotel left them with permanent brain damage, leading to personality changes, memory problems and, in some cases, marital difficulties.