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  • Yankees top Os in extras

    After the Yankees beat the Orioles 6-4 in 10 innings Monday night to extend Baltimore's losing streak to six games, it became apparent why New York leads the division and Baltimore is mired in its longest skid in nearly a year. Both showed their hitting prowess. Both played solid defense. The difference was that the Orioles got another poor performance from the back end of their bullpen, ...

  • Maryland Live casino starts work on poker room

    The casino in Anne Arundel County announced Tuesday that the poker room will be 14,800 square feet. The casino said it's scheduled to open late this summer. Maryland Live! says it will be one of the largest poker rooms in the mid-Atlantic region. It will have more than 50 tables and a dedicated area for tournament play. The casino said adding the card game will create more than 200 new ...

  • Carroll Community College to arm safety officers

    The school and the county sheriff's office signed a memorandum of understanding formalizing responsibilities for the two forces on Monday after the college's Board of Trustees last week voted to approve arming officers at its Westminster campus about 30 miles southeast of Baltimore. "It is our belief that having armed Special Police Officers will better protect the college ...

  • Creative Can Food Sculptures Illustrate Md. Food Bank’s Yearlong Hunger Fight

    HALETHORPE, Md. (WJZ) — The Maryland Food Bank says over 175,000 Marylanders don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Now, ...

  • Update From Oklahoma City

    Baltimore-native Ron Benton, who works at 96-9 BOB-FM in Oklahoma City, joined The Vinny & Rob Show this afternoon to discuss the devastation of last night’s killer tornado. Benton feels right at home in OKC, ‘They’re just the nicest people. If you can help then we’d really appreciate it.’ To help, text ‘Red Cross’ to 90999. Listen to entire ...


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Back to the Future Part III [Blu-Ray]

Back to the Future Part III [Blu-Ray]

Back to the Future Part III, which was shot simultaneously with Part II and released less than a year later, avoids many of the previous sequels narrative and logical pitfalls and reengages more successfully with the simple, direct pleasures tha ... ...

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  • Glenn Younes MLB Replay O’s and Rays

    (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) The Orioles vs. Rays game Sunday was a perfect example of why replay needs to be fixed… The call was the correct one, a Tampa home run that hit the black painted part of the foul pole.. BUT the way they got there was a total joke. It’s like getting lost for an hour, ending up where you wanted only because you ran out of wrong roads to take. Nearly ...

  • Senate panel peels back Apples offshore taxes

    1 of 7. Apple CEO Tim Cook (C), CFO Peter Oppenheimer (L) and Apple Head of tax operations Philip Bullock appear before a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, ...

  • St. Margaret Middle student on house arrest for alleged threats

    The boy had allegedly been making verbal threats about causing bodily harm to other students for a couple of weeks, Thomas said. Police determined "he did not have the means to carry out" the alleged threats, he said. The boy was charged with disturbing school operations and making threatening remarks. He received 30 days of house arrest, Thomas said. Police increased patrols around ...

  • Local gamers share their curiosity about Xbox changes

    Xbox 360 . The announcement at Microsoft's Redmond campus followed significant speculation about the new device, which is expected to include a built-in version of the formerly detached Kinect module. Don Mattrick, president of the interactive entertainment business, debuted the box at 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, with the Microsoft team showing off a "hub"-style device that relies ...

  • Gay Matters Peace Corps opens door for same-sex couples

    The U.S. Peace Corps will begin accepting applications from same-sex couples who wish to serve overseas together for the first time next month, the agency announced Tuesday. The move follows a broader shift by the Obama administration toward publicly supporting gay rights and denouncing LGBT discrimination globally through U.S. diplomatic efforts, including at the State Department and the ...

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