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Amateur Arsonist Using Molotov Cocktails Has Baltimore Community On Edge

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Orioles Taylor Teagarden joins Scott and Jeremy

Teagarden discusses the difficulty of getting into a rhythm with limited playing time. He also gets into Chris Tillman’s outing and helping a pitcher through a ballgame who doesn’t have their best ...
Jeremy Conn Best Game Ever…

I’ve heard a lot of people saying its the best game they have ever watched. I don’t know if it was the greatest, but the Heat and Spurs in game 6 did not disappoint. The game had unbelievable shots, missed calls, great blocks and even better slam dunks. I didn’t even mention the late game heroics from Lebron, Tony Parker and especially Ray Allen. Fans will forget some of the ...
3 Navy Football Players Charged With Rape Of Female Midshipman

A female midshipman had claimed she was sexually assaulted by three football players at a party last year. The woman admitted she was intoxicated and did not remember what had happened, but learned about the events through social media. The football players are officially charged with violating two articles of the uniform code of military justice. Stay ...
Newly Applied Stormwater Rule Irks Md. Farmers

By JENNIFER SHUTT The Daily Times of Salisbury SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — A few months ago, Matt Holloway expanded the footprint of his hydroponic lettuce greenhouse. Because of a recent shift in approach by state regulators, that required him to take steps to manage the flow of stormwater. He could no longer allow the water flowing off the roof to be filtered naturally by his farm’s ...

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Live Free or Die Hard

The toughest thing about Die Hard sequels must be coming up with the new titles. Having eschewed the simplicity of just adding a numeral to the end of the title after Die Hard 2 (1990), which carried the it-has-to-be-a-joke subtitle Die Harder, the film ... ...

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Davis blasts two homers as Os rout Tigers

BAL@DET: Davis connects on two-run homer to left DETROIT -- It was a sweet sixteen for the Orioles. Baltimore's lethal lineup posted a six-run fourth inning and turned in its largest offensive output this season, highlighted by slugger Chris Davis' two-homer, five-RBI afternoon in a dominant 13-3 win over Detroit on Wednesday. The offensive barrage extended far beyond Davis -- who ...
Nearly two months after accident Ed Norris returns to radio

SENTENCING - JUNE 2004Former Baltimore City Police Commissioner Ed Norris leaves the Federal Courthouse with his wife Kathryn Norris after he was sentenced to six months in prison. He had plead guilty to federal corruption and tax ...
Davis hits 2 homers and Teagarden also goes deep as Orioles crush Tigers 13-3

American League champions with three homers and 17 hits. The Orioles’ 13 runs were a season high and the most the they have scored since Aug. 10, ...
MLB Baltimore 13 Detroit 3

Chris Davis bashed his major league-leading 25th and 26th homers Wednesday, powering the Baltimore Orioles' 13-3 bashing of Detroit. Davis (3-for-5) unleashed a two-run blast in the fourth inning, triggering a six-run outburst that broke open the game, and added a two-run homer in the ninth to cap Baltimore's 17-hit attack. In ...
Police Molotov cocktails thrown near houses

Baltimore City police and fire officials joined forces at a news conference Wednesday afternoon partly for a public safety plea and partly for a plea to the public to help them solve at least 10 cases since late April, where suspects constructed homemade fire bombs and in some cases tossed them at buildings, mostly in the west and northwest sections of the city. The latest incident happened ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Train Derails Outside Baltimore, Buildings Collapse

WASHINGTON A CSX Corp freight train derailed northeast of Baltimore on Tuesday, sparking a fire and causing buildings to collapse, authorities said.

The train derailed shortly after 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) in White Marsh, Maryland, and there were no reports of injuries, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore County Police Department said. The cause of the accident was unknown.

The Baltimore County Fire Department said on its official Twitter feed that there was a fire at the scene. Preliminary reports said several buildings had collapsed, it said.

Baltimore's WBAL-AM radio reported that several freight cars were on fire.

An attempt to reach CSX for comment was not immediately successful.

It was the third significant rail crash in the United States in the past two weeks. On Saturday, two freight trains operated by BNSF Railway Co and Union Pacific Corp crashed at a rail intersection in rural Missouri, injuring seven people.

That accident came a little more than a week after a Metro North commuter train derailed near Fairfield, Connecticut, injuring more than 70 people and shutting down traffic on one of the most heavily traveled rail corridors in the United States. ...