• Community Football League Raises Money For Man Shot In Edgewood Shooting

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A community football team will raise money for Enco “Ed” Sosa, who was shot in the Edgewood Business Park shooting earlier this week, according to our media partner, The Baltimore Sun.
    North East Youth Football League says they will be raising funds to help Sosa and his family through their annual “pie in the face” raffle fundraiser.
    According to The Baltimore Sun, Sosa always appeared on the sidelines during North East Youth football games. H
  • Baltimore Makes List Of Best Cities For Small Business Development

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Small businesses are finding success in Baltimore, according to reviews and recommendations website “Yelp,” which analyzed 50 cities nationwide to find the most small business-friendly.
    Yelp picked 50 cities where they had lots of data and resources on the ground — and Baltimore made Yelp’s Local Economic Outlook List. Charm City is on the map when it comes to attracting and keeping mom-and-pop businesses.
    “It’s a pretty exciting time f
  • Md. First State To Grant Conditional Permit For Building Elon Musk’s Hyperloop

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Governor Larry Hogan has approved the first portion of the hyperloop system transportation pioneer Elon Musk wants to build between New York and Washington.
    Hogan administration officials say the state has issued a conditional utility permit to let Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Co. dig a 10.3 mile tunnel that will be under the state-owned portion of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway between the Baltimore city line and Maryland 175 in Hanover.
    Maryland is the
  • Dr. Matthew Brennan, physician and anesthesiologist - Baltimore Sun

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    Dr. Matthew Brennan, physician and anesthesiologist
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    Dr. Matthew Brennan, a native of Ireland was an anesthesiologist at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died Oct. 17. (HANDOUT). Jacques KellyContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. Dr. Matthew J. Brennan, a retired Greater Baltimore Medical Center ...
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  • McDaniel To Celebrate 150th Anniversary With Unveiling Of New Mascot At Homecoming Game

    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– 150 years ago when McDaniel was established Andrew Jackson was the president. Now the Westminster campus has a surprise in store for homecoming weekend.
    The Baltimore Ravens have Poe, the Orioles have the bird, the Maryland Terps have Testudo and now McDaniel’s Green Terror is being sent away to make room for a new mascot.
    For its 150th anniversary, McDaniel is updating the image of its mascot.
    Around 3,000 students attend the school, students like Kodjo Nuga fr
  • Authorities Still Seeking Leads In Death Of PG Co. Teen Found In North Carolina

    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– It has been a month since a Prince George’s County teenager went missing. Her body was found nearly 400 miles from where she was last seen.
    Nineteen-year-old Ashanti Billie of Upper Marlboro was last seen going to her job at a naval base in Norfolk, Virginia. Two weeks later her body was found in North Carolina.
    Her car was captured on surveillance video. While investigators look for answers to her death, her parents made another emotional plea for help, describ
  • Ex-Maryland Sheriff Gets Probation For Misconduct In Office

    EASTON, Md. (AP) — The former police chief of a small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to misconduct in office.
    Former Trappe Police Chief George N. Ball pleaded guilty to misconduct in office. He was also ordered to perform 150 hours of community service at sentencing Friday in Talbot County Court.
    The Officer of the State Prosecutor says Ball deliberately mishandled two criminal matters, including one involving the recovery of a
  • Milford Mill's Reggie White named Ravens Coach of the Week - Baltimore Sun

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    Milford Mill's Reggie White named Ravens Coach of the Week
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    Milford Mill Millers head coach Reggie White looks on during a game last year. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun). Katherine DunnContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. Privacy Policy. Milford Mill's Reggie White has been named the Ravens High School ...
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  • Maryland Police Searching For Missing Teenage Girl

    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– The Frederick Police Department is searching for a missing 14-year-old girl who was last seen Monday.
    Authorities say Carolina Rodriguez was last seen leaving for school at her residence located in the 500 block of Sugarbush Circle in Frederick.
    Rodriguez is about 5-feet-3-inches tall and weighs about 120 pounds.
    When she left for school Monday morning, she was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and red sneakers.
    If anyone can provide information that will help t
  • Keidel: Falcons-Patriots Super Bowl Rematch Not A Preview

    By Jason Keidel
    It feels like we’ve heard the football cliche ‘Super Bowl hangover’ more than ever this year.
    Perhaps it’s because we just had our first overtime Super Bowl. Perhaps it’s because of the way it ended. Perhaps it’s because the Atlanta Falcons blew the biggest lead in Super Bowl history. Perhaps it’s because the game was so winnable and yet they let it slip through Matt Ryan’s fingers. Perhaps it’s because the Falcons have lost g
  • Jacques Kelly: Peale Center shines in a new light - Baltimore Sun

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    Jacques Kelly: Peale Center shines in a new light
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    New energy, old-fashioned gas lighting, and private and public funds are helping transform the Peale Center, the 1814 museum building that has reopened after being closed for 20 years. The scaffolding is still up on the Holliday Street landmark near ...
  • Defensive tackle Brandon Williams appears poised to play Sunday for Ravens - Baltimore Sun

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    Defensive tackle Brandon Williams appears poised to play Sunday for Ravens
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    Ravens' Brandon Williams rests between drills during training camp in August at the Under Armour Performance Center. (Kenneth K. Lam / Baltimore Sun). Edward LeeContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. All signs point to the Ravens having starting ...
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  • Community football league raising money for man injured in Edgewood shooting - Baltimore Sun

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    Community football league raising money for man injured in Edgewood shooting
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    Enoc Sosa, 38, was one of the men injured in Wednesday's workplace shooting rampage in Edgewood. (Handout / Courtesy North East Youth Football). Talia RichmanContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. With four children who participate in the North East ...and more »
  • As Prince Awaits Extradition To Md., One Victim’s Funeral To Be Held Tonight

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) —The funeral for a victim of Wednesday’s deadly attack at an Edgewood granite business will be held tonight.
    Advanced Granite Solutions says services for Jose “Oscar” Hidalgo Romero will be held at 8 p.m. tonight in Edgewood Assembly of God.
    Friends of the victim tell WJZ Romero was a kind-hearted man who worked at AGS for several years.
    One survivor described Romero as a man who enjoyed laughing and sharing the food off his plate with other co-workers.
    Po
  • High School Students Protest Over Racist Carved Pumpkins

    COATESVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Several hundred students at a Pennsylvania high school walked out to protest the second race-related incident at the school in just over a week: a Facebook photo showing current and former students posing with pumpkins carved with racist symbols.
    The Coatesville Area High School students walked out around 7:30 a.m. Friday.
    The school district says it appears Facebook photo was taken off school grounds and after school hours. Superintendent Cathy Taschner says the di
  • ‘You Are My Slave:’ School Ends Civil War Dress-Up Activity

    KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — School officials say there will be no more Civil War-related student dress-up activities at a Georgia elementary school after its “Civil War Day” sparked conflict among students, parents and others.
    Big Shanty Elementary School last month invited fifth-graders to dress up as characters from the war.
    The mother of a 10-year-old black child says a white student dressed as a plantation owner approached him and said, “You are my slave.”
    In a Thursda
  • What Happened After Freddie Gray? 'Baltimore Rising' Depicts Protests That Shook the Nation (Exclusive Trailer) - Newsweek

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    What Happened After Freddie Gray? 'Baltimore Rising' Depicts Protests That Shook the Nation (Exclusive Trailer)
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    Sonja Sohn never really could leave Baltimore behind. She spent five seasons in the early aughts playing Detective Shakima 'Kima' Greggs on The Wire. But her own Baltimore story didn't end when the HBO show finished in 2008. Sohn felt as strongly about ...
  • Playboy Welcomes First Transgender Playmate

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Playboy, the 64-year-old men’s magazine, is featuring its first transgender Playmate in the November 2017 issue.Ines Rau, a 26-year-old French model, appears as next month’s centerfold in the first issue of the magazine since the passing of founder Hugh Hefner.
    Top executive at the magazine, and Hugh Hefner’s son, Cooper Hefner, says the publication made the move to help carry out its founding mission of embracing changing attitudes about sex.
    The newest
  • Sitter Who Fed Xanax To Toddler Who Later Died Gets Prison

    ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio baby sitter who gave the anti-anxiety drug Xanax to a toddler before leaving to go shop and meet a friend at the movies has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for the child’s death.
    Thirty-two-year-old Summer Shalodi apologized Thursday in a Lorain County courtroom and admitted giving 17-month-old Nadia Gibbons the drug while baby-sitting in December 2015.
    Shalodi pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter instead of murder in a plea deal.
    A prosecutor s
  • Owner: John Harbaugh, Ozzie Newsome, Joe Flacco not doing anything wrong - ESPN

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    Owner: John Harbaugh, Ozzie Newsome, Joe Flacco not doing anything wrong
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    Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti expressed confidence in coach John Harbaugh, general manager Ozzie Newsome and quarterback Joe Flacco after his team was upset at home by the Chicago Bears to fall to 3-3. "I look at them, and then I look at us ...
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  • Police: Remains Found In Anne Arundel County Belong To Woman

    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Anne Arundel County police have determined that human remains found Wednesday are of a Caucasian or Asian woman.
    In a press release Friday, detectives say the human remains found in the area of Holly and Chesapeake Drives in Shady Side are of a white or Asian female who was in her 20’s or 30’s and is about 5-feet-3 inches tall.
    Investigators believe the remains are of a woman who went missing within the last year.
    Police are still working to identify the cause
  • Baltimore Man Charged In 4.5-Year-Old Murder Of UMD Eastern Shore Student

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) —A man has been charged with murder in the February 2013 stabbing death of a University of Maryland Eastern Shore student, according to Maryland State Police.
    Davonta M. Braxton, 25, was arrested about 10:30 a.m. Friday on the Princess Anne campus where the murder occurred nearly five years ago. He has been a student at the school intermittently, but is not currently enrolled there, according to school records.
    Braxton has been charged with second degree murder, manslaughte
  • Baltimore man arrested Friday in fatal stabbing of Eastern Shore college student four years ago - Baltimore Sun

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    Baltimore man arrested Friday in fatal stabbing of Eastern Shore college student four years ago
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    A 25-year-old Baltimore man was arrested Friday and charged with stabbing to death a student at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore more than four years ago. State police said they arrested Davonta M. Braxton Friday morning on the university ...
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  • Amazon could benefit from Baltimore's legacy in business - Baltimore Sun

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    Amazon could benefit from Baltimore's legacy in business
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    Mayor Catherine Pugh and other city leaders finalize the proposal to make Baltimore the home of Amazon's next HQ. (Kim Hairston / Baltimore Sun). I am a lifelong Baltimorean hoping Amazon picks Baltimore as its second headquarters site next year ...
    Community group pitches Amazon on a different site: “Center Baltimore”Baltimore Brewall 3 news articles »
  • Police Searching For Suspect Who Stabbed Man; Parties Allegedly Agreed To Fight

    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Anne Arundel County police say a man was stabbed after he and several acquaintances agreed to fight another group of men Thursday afternoon.
    The incident occurred around 4:27 p.m. in Edgewater, according to detectives.
    Officers say a friend of the victim called 911 and told dispatchers his friend was stabbed and that he was driving him to the hospital. A police officer then had the driver pull over near Solomans Island Road and Mitchell Chance Road to meet with authorities
  • Police: Pa. Mom Followed Daughter’s Teacher After School, Beat Her Up

    PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman who claims a public school teacher choked her daughter while disciplining her has been charged with following the teacher after school, hitting her with a brick and then pulling her from her car and beating her.
    Daishonta Williams and her boyfriend followed Janice Watkins’ car as she left the Pittsburgh King PreK-8 school on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Earlier in the day, the teacher had called Williams to the school for a conference, claiming Williams
  • Second woman charged in September shooting, Baltimore police say - Baltimore Sun

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    Second woman charged in September shooting, Baltimore police say
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    Baltimore police have charged Whitley Neal in connection with the shooting of a man on Sept. 30. (Courtesy Baltimore Police). Jessica AndersonContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. A second woman has been charged in a shooting in East Baltimore last ...and more »
  • First Flu Cases Reported In Md. Are In Baltimore-Metro Area

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The first flu cases of the season have been reported in Maryland, according to the state’s Department of Health.
    The three laboratory-confirmed cases of seasonal influenza were diagnosed in adults in the Baltimore metro area.
    One of the three individuals was hospitalized and subsequently released. The flu strain for all three was type A (H3).
    Last season, the first confirmed case of influenza was reported a little earlier in the month, on Oct. 7.
    Common symptoms of
  • Baltimore Politician Accuses Police Of 'Raping The City' - The Daily Caller

    Baltimore Politician Accuses Police Of 'Raping The City'
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    Baltimore's City Council president accused police of “raping the city” by living outside of Baltimore during a heated Thursday meeting. The council was discussing a property tax incentive to get more of the city's police officers and firefighters to ...
  • Nearly 200 Report Fireball Streaking Across Northeast Sky

    SEA GIRT, N.J. (AP) — Nearly 200 people across the Northeast reported seeing a bright object streak across the sky.
    The American Meteor Society says the flash of light that was spotted on Wednesday afternoon in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maryland and Delaware was a fireball.
    A fireball is a very bright meteor.
    The sighting comes as astronomers prepare for the Orionid meteor shower. Particles from Haley’s Come
  • Baltimore woman dies following Ohio 158 crash - Lancaster Eagle Gazette

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    Baltimore woman dies following Ohio 158 crash
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    BALTIMORE - A 64-year-old Baltimore woman died following a motor vehicle crash on Ohio 158 Thursday at 11:20 a.m. north of Baltimore in Liberty Township, the Ohio Highway Patrol said. Evelyn K. Held, 64, died after her 2008 Chrysler Town & Country ...and more »
  • Baltimore Paralegal's Scratch-Off Delivers $30000 Win - Patch.com

    Baltimore Paralegal's Scratch-Off Delivers $30000 Win
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    BALTIMORE, MD — A 26-year-old paralegal from Baltimore enjoyed an open-and-shut case involving her $30,000 win playing the Maryland Lottery's Ruby Riches scratch-off. The woman discovered her prize-winning game after stopping at Walther Liquors in ...and more »
  • Maryland Man Sentenced To 40 Years In Death Of Infant Son

    UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in the 2016 beating death of his two-month-old son.
    Prosecutors said Antoine Petty repeatedly hit his son because he would not stop crying. They said that when the infant stopped breathing, Petty and the boy’s mother put his body in a car and drove around with it burying it in a shallow grave in Riverdale. The baby’s body was found about a month later.
    Petty pleaded guilty in August to first-degr
  • TLC's 'Trading Spaces' filming in Baltimore this month - Baltimore Sun (blog)

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    TLC's 'Trading Spaces' filming in Baltimore this month
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    TLC's “Trading Spaces” reboot will be in the Baltimore area the next two weekends filming upcoming episodes. The home design show hosted by Paige Davis will be here Sunday and Monday, as well as Oct. 27 and 28. A spokeswoman for the show declined ...
  • Friday, October 20, 2017

    Ron visits Charm Kitty Cafe, where you can get your caffeine fix and play with cats at the same time!
    Linh and Marty have Coffee With Dawn Ursula and Drew Kopas, who star in ‘Intimate Apparel’ at Everyman Theatre.
  • Baltimore Running Festival: What streets will be closed for marathon? - Baltimore Sun

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    Baltimore Running Festival: What streets will be closed for marathon?
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    About 25,000 people are expected to flood the city's streets during Saturday's annual Baltimore Running Festival. Here are the areas you'll want to avoid if you aren't planning to run 26.2 miles this weekend. The marathon will begin this year at Camden ...
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  • Trump’s Border Wall Models Take Shape In San Diego

    SAN DIEGO (AP) — The last two of eight prototypes for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall took shape Thursday at a construction site in San Diego.
    The prototypes form a tightly packed row of imposing concrete and metal panels, including one with sharp metal edges on top. Another has a surface resembling an expensive brick driveway.
    Companies have until Oct. 26 to finish the models but Border Patrol spokesman Theron Francisco said the last two came into profile, with crews i
  • Witness: Suspect Gathered Co-workers Before Shooting, Said ‘I Want To Say Something To Everybody’

    ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) — A witness to the deadly rampage inside a Maryland granite company said the suspect, Radee Prince, had gathered a small group of his co-workers together by saying “come with me, I want to say something to everybody.” Without another word, he opened fire.
    The witness, a man who worked at the countertop making company for a year and a half, said when Prince arrived on Wednesday morning he responded to a polite greeting with harsh language describing Advanced G
  • Moby Dick House of Kabob coming to Hampden - Baltimore Sun (blog)

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    Moby Dick House of Kabob coming to Hampden
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    A kabob restaurant with locations in the Washington area is branching out to Baltimore with its northern-most location yet. Moby Dick House of Kabob is set to open Nov. 1 at 727 W. 40th St. in Hampden's mixed-use Rotunda development. The restaurant ...
  • Baltimore Running Festival Driver's Guide: Jim Russ' Weekend Traffic Advisory. - WBAL Radio

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    Baltimore Running Festival Driver's Guide: Jim Russ' Weekend Traffic Advisory.
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    Traffic updates six time and hour during morning rush hour with Jim Russ and afternoons with Liz Drabick on WBAL Newsradio 1090. Find a traffic problem or need help, reach the Traffic Center by calling *AUTO on Verizon Wireless, or at 410-261-2309.and more »
  • Edgewood shooting victims remembered: Lives of hope cut short - Baltimore Sun

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    Edgewood shooting victims remembered: Lives of hope cut short
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    Oscar Hidalgo Romero is remembered by family and church members as a loving and well respected person who made an impact on the Latino community. Talia RichmanContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. They came from three continents to make their ...and more »
  • One Step Closer: First Portion Of Hyperloop System Between New York and Washington Approved

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Governor Larry Hogan has approved the first portion of the hyperloop system transportation pioneer Elon Musk wants to build between New York and Washington. That’s according to our news partners at The Baltimore Sun. 
    Hogan administration officials say the state has issued a conditional utility permit to let Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Co. dig a 10.3 mile tunnel that will be under the state-owned portion of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway betw
  • What should replace Baltimore's Confederate monuments? - Baltimore Sun

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    What should replace Baltimore's Confederate monuments?
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    In the aftermath of Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's decision to remove several statues memorializing the Confederacy and its leaders from sites around the city, local artists, activists and educators are asking what, if anything, should replace those ...
  • Attorney To Detail Another Rape Allegation Against Weinstein

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is now facing criminal inquiries in three cities after an Italian actress told Los Angeles detectives the disgraced film mogul raped her in a hotel room in 2013.
    Police confirmed Thursday they are looking into the woman’s allegations, and her attorney said he would give additional details about them at a news conference outside a downtown Los Angeles courthouse on Friday afternoon.
    The unidentified woman is an Italian model and actress, according t
  • Obama Tells Democrats To Reject Politics Of Division, Fear

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama called on fellow Democrats to reject politics of “division” and “fear” while rallying on Thursday with party’s candidates for governors in Virginia and New Jersey.
    “Why are we deliberately trying to misunderstand each other, and be cruel to each other and put each other down? That’s not who we are,” Obama said at the Virginia rally in front of several thousand supporters.
    Stepping back into t
  • Baltimore apartments aim to win over renters by appealing to their pets - Baltimore Sun

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    Baltimore apartments aim to win over renters by appealing to their pets
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    One amenity offered at the Equitable building is a rooftop dog park. (Kenneth K. Lam, Baltimore Sun video). Sarah GantzContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. Laura Goodell and her fiance didn't have a dog when they came to Baltimore a year ago for graduate ...
  • Hernandez Hits 3 HRs, Dodgers Top Cubs To Reach World Series

    CHICAGO (AP) — Enrique Hernandez put a Hollywood ending on an LA story three decades in the making.
    Fueled by Hernandez’s home run trilogy, Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers are finally going to the World Series.
    Hernandez homered three times and drove in seven runs, Kershaw breezed through six crisp innings and Los Angeles ended the Chicago Cubs’ title defense with an 11-1 victory in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series on Thursday night.
    “It feels good to hear
  • Senate Backs GOP Budget In Step Forward For Tax Revamp

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Thursday muscled a $4 trillion budget through the Senate in a major step forward for President Donald Trump’s ambitious promise of “massive tax cuts and reform.”
    The 51-49 vote sets the stage for debate later this year to dramatically overhaul the U.S. tax code for the first time in three decades, cutting rates for individuals and corporations while eliminating trillions of dollars of deductions and special interest tax breaks.
    The tax cut
  • Two shot in Hollins Market - Baltimore Sun

    Two shot in Hollins Market
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    A man and a woman were shot near the 800 block of West Pratt Street Thursday night around 11 p.m., according to Baltimore police. Officers arrived at the scene and found a 35-year-old man and 20-year-old woman with gunshot wounds. Both victims were ...
  • Witness: Workplace Shooter Was Increasingly Angry, Hostile

    ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) — A witness to the deadly rampage inside a Maryland granite company said Thursday that the suspect, Radee Prince, had gathered a small group of his co-workers together by saying “come with me, I want to say something to everybody.” Without another word, he opened fire.
    The witness, a man who worked at the countertop making company for a year and a half, said when Prince arrived on Wednesday morning he responded to a polite greeting with harsh language describ

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