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Ellicott City man arrested after huffing pursuit

County police said Sean Brian Witt was blocking a roadway Tuesday morning in the Normandy Shopping Center in Ellicott City when others saw him sniffing an inhalant, known as huffing, police said. Witt, 37, of Ellicott City, was inhaling from a can and he refused to open his door or move his car, police said. As officers approached, he sped off, leading officers on a pursuit that ended on Furrow ...
Poll Congress approval rating just 16 percent

According to a new national poll, just 16 percent of Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job, with 83 percent of those questioned in a CNN/ORC International survey saying they disapprove. The poll was released ...
Spurs A Model Of Patience Success

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The Spurs have long been the NBA’s gold standard when it comes to drafting and development, preferring to roll up their sleeves and scour the globe to find the right players to slot into well-defined roles in San Antonio. They have more international players on their roster than any other team in the NBA, and even their American players don’t come straight from ...
Heat Need Big Game From James Again

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A little more than a year ago, the Miami Heat stood on the verge of elimination in the Eastern Conference Finals. The team’s heart and the ability of the Big Three were being questioned left and right ahead of Game 6 of the Conference Finals. Then LeBron James got "the look" and things were never the same for the Heat. James put the team on his ...
Baltimore County Police Investigate Shooting In Dundalk

At least a dozen police cars are on the scene at the 7800 block of Eastdale Road about five blocks west of Eastpoint Mall. Officers said one person was shot there. A medic was seen transferring someone to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical ...

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First-time director Glen Morgan certainly had Tim Burton on the mind when making Willard, a darkly comedic remake of the 1971 cult classic about a social misfit who befriends an army of rats and teaches them to do his bidding. Right from the gaudy opening credits sequence that features a musical score by Shirley Walker channeling Danny Elfman, Willard is right in the vein of Burtons ... ...

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Attorneys For Man Charged In Camden Yards Beating Says He Was Acting In Self-Defense

BALTIMORE (WJZ) –One day after the family of a man critically injured at an Orioles game wearing a Yankees cap speaks out, attorneys for one of the suspects says his client is ...
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After we get through Tuesday evening and early Tuesday night, things will begin to settle down, which will set the stage for much nicer and more comfortable weather on ...
Catonsville girl receives heart transplant

TeresaThis is six year old Teresa, who needs a heart transplant. Ann and Ed Bartlinski have adopted five special-needs girls from China. They also have 4 biological ...
Two shootings in one week for Edgewood

A 15-year-old Edgewood boy was charged with attempted murder in connection with Monday's shooting near the Edgewater Village Shopping Center and a second, unrelated, shooting was reported two days later just around the corner near the Edgewood Senior Center.The boy, who lives about four miles away from the shooting site, was originally charged as an adult with attempted second-degree ...
Erika Brannock returns home from hospital

Preceded by her laugh and followed by her big smile, Brannock made her way out of Kernan Hospital after two weeks of intense rehab. "It's just, it's like a weight has lifted and I can finally go back to a semi-normal life, or starting to figure out my new normal life. It's just really exciting," she said. Part of her new normal will include outpatient therapy two to ...

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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. ...