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  • Former Orioles Great Ken Singleton Talks Orioles Yankees Series

    Former Orioles outfielder and current Yankees broadcaster Ken Singleton joined the Norris & Davis show to talk about the upcoming Yankees and Orioles series. Baltimore has lost five straight games and dropped to fourth place in the AL East with a 23-20 record. Steve started off by asking how the Yankees continue to win with all their injuries. Ken said it has primarily been because of the ...

  • Humidity highs around 80 Monday with storm chances | VIDEO

    Increasing humidity and highs around 80 degrees are forecast in the Baltimore area Monday, with a chance of showers or thunderstorms in the afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. A warm front moved over the area overnight, with lows in the mid- to upper 60s. Some drizzle and fog was expected to be possible in the early morning hours. Temperatures were expected to rise into the ...

  • Baltimore bank profits soar on real estate rebound

    The profit picture is getting brighter for banks in the Baltimore area, and a rebounding real estate market is the main reason, the Baltimore Business Journal reports in its current issue. Of the 47 banks headquartered here, 39 turned a profit in 2012, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That was a huge swing from 2009. That year, just 26 of the 53 banks based in Greater Baltimore ...

  • Tornadoes slam several states 300 homes hit

    But the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...

  • New Enterprise Associates sees huge payday from Tableau Software IPO

    Chevy Chase-based New Enterprise Associates stands to reap a fortune from Tableau Software Inc.'s newly public stock, the Washington Business Journal reported. NEA is the single biggest venture backer of the Seattle-based data analytics company (NYSE: DATA). NEA sold 1 million shares of Tableau stock in the offering, and is holding on to another 18.5 million shares, or about 37 percent of ...


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Spellbound [DVD]

Spellbound [DVD]

Despite getting good reviews and several Oscar nominations when it was first released in 1945, in the long run, Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, the second of four films he would make with powerful independent producer David O. Selznick, has gotten a pretty bad rap. Consider that, in the lengthy, book-length interviews Franois Truffaut conducted with Hitchcock, the section on Spellbound ...

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  • Lockheed Martin attempts to win international cybersecurity business

    Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin has a strategy in place to win new work internationally and in growing sectors such as cybersecurity, the defense contractor's new chief of information systems and global solutions told the Washington Post. In a wide-ranging interview with the Post, Sondra L. Barbour, who took over the challenged unit late last month, told the business editors, "The ...

  • Port observes National Maritime Day inaugurates Career Expo

    The Port of Baltimore took advantage of National Maritime Day Saturday to hold a Career Expo at the Canton Marine Terminal, the Baltimore Sun reported. Businesses and agencies ranging from security firms to tugboat operators were invited to attend. "It's the first time we've done this," said former Rep. Helen Delich Bentley, for whom the port is named. "It gives people a ...

  • Rawlings-Blake to officiate at mass wedding of same-sex couples

    Same-sex couples from all over the country are expected to converge on Baltimore next month as Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake presides over a mass wedding at this year's Baltimore Pride Celebration to be held in Mount Vernon and Druid Hill Park, the Baltimore Sun reported. The mass wedding will take place at 2:30 p.m. June 16 in the park. In a November referendum Maryland became one of the ...

  • Baltimore Co. councilman fails to disclose outside jobs

    Terming his failure to disclose outside employment with an least three different companies over the past several years "an oversight," Baltimore County Councilman John Olszewski Sr., a Dundalk Democrat, filed amended disclosure forms going back to 2009, the Baltimore Sun reported. County officials are required to report any outside jobs on annual reports so the public can examine whether ...

  • Ripken awarded honorary degree as University of Md. graduates 7700

    Cal Ripken Jr.'s 17 years of unbroken play by never missing a game was likened by University of Maryland Provost Mary Ann Rankin to not missing a day of school from kindergarten through college, as the Orioles legend was granted an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree Sunday at College Park, the Baltimore Sun reported. Ripken spoke about the value of making the most of talent and ...

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