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Tornadoes pummel several states and kill 1
But the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...
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Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states
(Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had ...
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Z on TV Mel Brooks an American Master and then some
You cannot understand American humor in the second half of the 20th Century without appreciating the crazed genius of Mel Brooks. And "American Masters" does an all-out appreciation at 9 p.m. Monday (May 20) on PBS. Here's a podcast of my preview from WYPR ...
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Four-state tornado outbreak kills 1
One tornado touched down near Wellston, Oklahoma, taking out power lines and damaging several homes, according to video from CNN affiliate KFOR. The affiliate's helicopter pilot estimated the funnel cloud to be about a half-mile ...
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Same-Sex Couples To Marry In Mass Wedding Next Month
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Same-sex couples from all over the country will flock to Baltimore next month for a historic event. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will preside over a mass wedding at this year’s Baltimore Pride Celebration in Mount Vernon. In November, Maryland became one of the first states to have same-sex marriage approved by voters in a referendum. The mass wedding is ...
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Yahoos board OKs buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash
Yahoo is expected to announce Monday that it is acquiring blogging site Tumblr as part of CEO Marissa Mayer's effort to make the Internet pioneer more popular with younger ...
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WEATHER BLOG Unsettled Weather This Week
Humidity & warmth will combine with ';troughiness'; aloft to contribute to our cloud clover as well as the chance for a shower or thundershower over the next couple of days. We aren’t looking at a washout, but any afternoon thunderstorms/thundershowers that move through will be slow-moving and could bring a few downpours. The good news… temperatures will be soaring ...
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At least one reported dead as tornadoes hammer Oklahoma Kansas and Iowa
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tornado half a mile wide struck near Oklahoma City on Sunday, part of a massive storm front that hammered the central United States. News reports said at least one person had ...
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Glass Blowing An Art At Salisbury University
BRICE STUMP The Daily Times SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — From a roaring furnace, a miniature volcano of sorts at Salisbury University, Riley Greenwood pulled a glob of molten glass at the end of a blow pipe. Yet he saw a finished vase, shining all smooth and hard. It was the same furnace from which his award-winning pieces came, all of which began as flowing, glowing balls of thick, ...
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Afghan Refugee Can Stay In U.S. Despite Assault Case
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that an Afghan refugee granted asylum in 1999 can stay in the U.S. despite pleading guilty to second-degree assault on a Montgomery County police officer. The Daily Record of Baltimore reports the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reversed a final order of removal against Ali Sina Karimi. Karimi was arrested on suspicion of ...
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Allegany County Looks To Revise Tattoo Rules
CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s Allegany County is looking to update its regulations governing tattoo shops, making changes that would let the shops tattoo kids with the permission of their parents. The Cumberland Times-News reports county health officials are looking to make the changes, which would have to be adopted by county commissioners. The paper says kids sometimes get ...
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Agencies aim to restore bays depleted oysters a creek at a time
These oysters on the Robert Lee, an oyster planting vessel, are ready for seeding the new oyster bed built last summer by the Army Corps of ...
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As contraband phones flood Baltimore jail blocking technology comes online
Maryland corrections officials are taking advantage of new technology designed to block the use of contraband cellphones by inmates - a problem at the heart of recent indictments at the Baltimore City Detention Center. In a program being used at another prison facility in Baltimore, phones smuggled inside have been severed from the network and rendered inoperable, officials said. The new ...
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Tornadoes tear through Kansas Oklahoma Iowa
A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas, moving northeast at about 30 miles per hour, the National Weather Service ...
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UMBC Student In Unknown Condition After Being Stabbed On Campus
Springer and his dad were packing up his dorm room at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. He was among those alerted by text message about a stabbing on campus that occurred in his building, Erickson Hall. The crime is considered unusual. ';I never had any concern before and I still don’t. I think yesterday’s incident was an isolated event,'; said Nick’s ...
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New Ad Campaign To Launch In Support Of Firearm Safety Act
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Governor O’Malley signs new gun control legislation into law this week, but the fight over firearms is not over yet. Now, gun control groups push to get the issue before ...
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UPDATE 1-Severe Kansas tornado prompts stark National Weather Service warning
Sun May 19, 2013 7:48pm EDT (Updates with additional reports of tornados) By Chris Francescani NEW YORK May 19 (Reuters) - A dangerous, half mile-wide hurricane struck near Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, part of an extreme weather system moving through the central U.S. and stretching from north Texas to Minnesota. At 6:12 p.m. Central Standard time, the National Weather Service office in ...
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Man charged with setting fire to womans apartment in Bel Air
Deputy state fire marshals on Sunday arrested a Joppa man who they believe set two small fires in a woman's apartment after getting into an argument with her.The Office of the State Fire Marshal said Ryan Lawrence Spann, 28, argued with a woman living at 209 Foxhall Drive, an apartment complex in Bel Air, before the woman left. Deputies said Spann then set two fires in the apartment with ...
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Garcia Os will have to contend with CC in opener
The Orioles were supposed to miss CC Sabathia during their three-game series against the Yankees, which starts on Monday night at Camden Yards. The weather had other plans. Sunday's rainout at Yankee Stadium pushed back Sabathia's start and thrust him right into Baltimore's path. The big lefty will get the ball against former teammate Freddy Garcia in the series opener. The ...
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Anne Arundel preserves a diamond in the rough
The cinder block dugouts are decrepit and the backstop is ragged at the old baseball diamond in Galesville, but giants once ran the bases in this southern Anne Arundel County town. Not just giants but Elite Giants, as in the old Negro Leagues team of the 1930s and 1940s. They and other legendary clubs from era of segregated baseball – such as the Homestead Grays and Newark Eagles – ...
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Os cant solve Moore to back Tillmans quality start
TB@BAL: Jones lines RBI single to tie game in fourth BALTIMORE -- Orioles Magic? Not exactly. At least, not lately. A Baltimore club unable to fire on all cylinders finally got a quality start Sunday afternoon -- its second in nine games -- at the same time the team's surging offense went cold against Rays lefty Matt Moore. A night removed from watching All-Star closer Jim Johnson ...
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Mayor to preside over mass wedding at GLBT Pride event
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will preside over a mass wedding of same-sex couples at this year's Baltimore Pride Celebration, with the event drawing interest from couples as far away as Atlanta, according to organizers.In November, Maryland became one of the first states to have same-sex marriage approved by voters in a referendum."After doing so much work on this — on the ballot ...
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Orioles fall to Rays 3-1 extending losing streak to five games
Adam Jones, James LoneyTampa Bay Rays first baseman James Loney, center, dives to tag first base before Orioles center fielder Adam Jones reached the base in the second inning at Camden ...
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MLB Tampa Bay 3 Baltimore 1
Tampa Bay Rays beat Baltimore 3-1 to complete a three-game sweep. Moore surrendered five hits, walked only one and struck out three en route to his major-best eighth victory. The left-hander lowered his ERA to 2.29 with the 106-pitch ...
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Tornadoes touch down in Kansas Oklahoma
A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas, moving northeast at about 30 miles per hour, the National Weather Service ...
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Maryland’s Greater Baltimore residents are asked to ‘imagine’
Imagine what the world, and more specifically your local community, might be like 50 years from now, in 2060 to be exact. How will our lives have changed? How will transport have changed? Urban planning? City amenities? These are some of the questions residents of Greater Baltimore are being asked to think about.
The Imagine 2060 project is an interesting intellectual exercise designed to engage the community in a workshop aimed at developing ideas for future developments in the areas of land use and transport. The project is interesting because ideas are not constrained by a budget and the imagination can therefore take flight. Read more
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