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  • Injured crewman rescued from oil tanker

    The Coast Guard said one of its helicopters picked up the 47-year-old man Thursday from the Hellas Endurance, a 500-foot, Greek-flagged tanker. The tanker contacted the Coast Guard about 6:50 a.m. to report the man needed immediate medical attention. The Coast Guard sent a helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City in New Jersey. Fog created low visibility, so pilots used radar to ...

  • Audit reveals Md. schools misuse of funds

    An audit conducted by the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Education found misuse of federal stimulus and Title 1 funding by Baltimore City and Prince George's County schools. State education officials did not comment on the audit, but a city delegate and a Congressman vowed to hold those who made the spending decisions accountable for their actions. Two dinner ...

  • Obama U.S. will keep deploying drones

    Drone strikes are a necessary evil, but one that must be used with more temperance as the United States' security situation evolves, President Barack Obama said in a counterterrorism speech ...

  • Man Woman Taken Into Custody With Drugs Assault Weapons

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A man and a woman are behind bars, facing multiple weapons and narcotics charges. Fransico Milos and Lynnie Lewis were arrested Thursday at their home on Kenwood Avenue. That’s where police found assault rifles with over 7,500 rounds of ammunition. Additionally, more than 500 grams of suspected marijuana were seized as well. Milos has a criminal record. ...

  • Teen Daughter And Boyfriend Indicted In Murder Of Howard County Blogger

    ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (WJZ) — A 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend have been indicted and charged as adults in the killing of her father in his Ellicott City home. According to our media ...


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The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) [DVD]

The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) [DVD]

The Seventh Seal is, without doubt, the most iconic of Swedish master Ingmar Bergmans canon of masterpieces, and it is also quite possibly one of the most powerful and memorable examples of late 50s and early 60s European art cinema, a film that, in so many ways, encapsulates ... ...

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  • Baltimore Co. schools ranked among best

    More than half of Baltimore County's high schools are ranked among the nation's best. In effort to recognize the achievements of the 13 schools, district superintendent Dr. S. Dallas Dance and Baltimore County executive Kevin Kamenetz partnered to honor faculty, student and parent representatives on Thursday afternoon. The rankings of the schools came from national publications based ...

  • Former swim coach sentenced for child sex abuse

    Former coach Rick Curl was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison and five years' probation for child sexual abuse of one of his former swimmers in the 1980s. Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Marielsa A. Bernard said Curl, 63, has tried during the last 27 years to rehabilitate himself, but she couldn't get out of her mind the image of the victim as a young girl whose Olympic ...

  • Daughter boyfriend indicted in Ellicott City bloggers killing

    Morgan Arnold poses next to a Scooby-Doo display during a 2012 trip to California with her mother, Cindi Arnold. Morgan, 14, now stands accused of orchestrating a plot with her boyfriend, Jason Bulmer, to kill her father, Dennis Lane, in Ellicott ...

  • Howard County Council approves budget higher than Ulmans request

    Howard County Council on Thursday adopted a $923.5 million annual general fund spending plan that increases allocations for schools and police while not raising income or property taxes. The council voted 4-1 to approve the budget, roughly $2.7 million higher than the proposal made a month ago ...

  • NOAA predicts possibly extremely active hurricane season

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official said Thursday, with expectations of as many as half a dozen major hurricanes. NOAA expects 13 to 20 named tropical cyclones, 7 to 11 of them reaching hurricane status with maximum winds 74 mph or higher. Of those hurricanes, three to six could become major hurricanes of at least Category 3, with winds of at least 111 mph. The forecast ...

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