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  • Obama Turns Focus on Middle-Class Jobs

    U.S. President Barack Obama says he is focusing on ways to help the American middle class make economic gains, to bring them in line with the economic recovery of big business. Obama said in his weekly address Saturday that he has been visiting cities across the country that are doing "interesting and creative" things to "re-ignite the engine" of middle class economic growth and make sure ...

  • Police Search For Out-Of-Control Drivers Caught In Viral Video

    GLEN BURNIE, Md. (WJZ) — Out of control drivers at a popular car show at Marley Station Mall in Glen Burnie. Dozens of drivers were caught on tape doing burn outs and crossing ...

  • Orb Headed To New York May Race At Belmont

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  • 9 still hospitalized after trains crash

    Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured, some of them critically, authorities ...


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Movie Review

Six Days, Seven Nights

Ivan Reitman's "Six Days, Seven Nights" feels like a movie that might have been made fifty years ago, although those movies had fewer explosions, less infidelity, and no "tit" jokes. The film works moderately well as a variation of the old romantic fable of two people being stranded on a desert island together combined with the oft-used Hollywood plot device of antagonism - between - two - attract ... ...

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  • Obama to discuss al Qaeda drones Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech

    ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his wide-ranging counter-terrorism policy, from the controversial use of drones to efforts to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, ...

  • County councilman hasnt disclosed outside jobs for years

    Baltimore County councilman did not disclose his outside employment over the past several years, including his work with a painting and drywall company that has a $3.1 million contract at a new high school being built in his district. ...

  • Withholding tax refunds to clear warrants seen as success

    When Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman first suggested withholding state tax refunds from people who have open warrants nearly three years ago, critics said it was a foolish pursuit. "One of the criticisms I got was, 'How many criminals have jobs where they are going to get a tax refund?'" he recalled. He couldn't say. Now he ...

  • Baltimore charter school advocate is Casey Foundation fellow

    Bobbi Macdonald, of City Neighbors Foundation in Baltimore, is one of 16 leaders selected from across the country as Children and Family Fellows for The Annie E. Casey ...

  • Preakness continues to spin a positive even as Oxbow ends Triple Crown hopes

    Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, right, rides Oxbow to victory in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday. The fourth-largest crowd in Preakness history endured scattered rain, stricter security policies and watched Oxbow beat 15-1 odds to win the middle leg of horse racings Triple Crown. The announced attendance of 117,203 at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday helped the Maryland ...

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