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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 ...

  • Obama speaks about fatherless childhood at stop in Baltimore

    President Barack Obama has spoken of the importance of fathers to their sons on Friday after a young man he met at a community center in Baltimore mentioned wanting to provide for his sons. Obama, at the Center for Urban Families, which serves fathers and their families, said that one of the biggest challenges he faced growing up was growing without a father. According to Politico, a man ...

  • Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million

    That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...

  • WEATHER BLOG Cloudy End To The Weekend

    The forecast for the rest of the weekend is not ideal, though we are definitely not looking at a washout. Our main problem is a relatively humid air-mass in place thanks to southeast flow allowing Atlantic moisture to penetrate inland. Thus, we will see clouds dominate the sky tonight and to end the weekend tomorrow. Sure, there will be a few breaks of sunshine from time to time, but the overall ...

  • Oxbow Beats 15-1 Odds Wins Preakness Stakes

    BALTIMORE (AP) — Oxbow put D. Wayne Lukas in the record books again with an upset of Orb in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving the Hall of Fame trainer his 14th win in a Triple Crown race. Kentucky Derby winner Orb was unable to find his rhythm after breaking from the rail, and never challenged in finishing fourth. The loss ended any chance of a Triple try at the Belmont Stakes in ...


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Movie Review

The Grudge

The Grudge

Director Takashi Shimizu is so good at generating scenes of escalating dread and tension punctuated by sharp, nerve-rattling, jump-in-your-seat jolts that it's hard to begrudge him the fact that his English-language debut The Grudge is composed of almost nothing but such scenes, making it ... ...

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  • Os coast after big inning fall as Rays rally in ninth

    TB@BAL: Jones jacks a two-run shot to deep left field BALTIMORE -- Making his first appearance since snapping a franchise-record 35 consecutive save opportunities on Tuesday night, Jim Johnson didn't rebound. Instead, the Orioles All-Star closer -- who last season set a single-season club record and led the Majors with 51 saves, suffered his second consecutive blown save. He had three ...

  • Orioles give up six runs in top of ninth inning in 10-6 loss to Tampa Bay Rays

    Orioles have to buck this recent trend of short, uneven starts from their rotation. Eventually that catches up with a club, even one with a great bullpen and a lineup that can hammer opponents. Case in point: Saturday's 10-6 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays that extended the Orioles' losing streak to a season-worst four games. The Orioles (23-19) bashed Rays starter Roberto Hernandez and ...

  • UMBC student stabbed on campus

    Campus police were called to Erickson Hall on Center Road for a knife attack at about 6 a.m., when one student was found stabbed. The student was taken to Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. Police took into custody a student who had withdrawn from ...

  • Joyce Rays rally past Orioles in 9th for 10-6 win

    Matt Joyce hit a go-ahead two-run double in a six-run ninth-inning rally, lifting the Tampa Bay Rays to a 10-6 victory over the Orioles on Saturday, ending Baltimore's franchise-record streak of 109 straight wins when leading after seven ...

  • Two boys shot in Southwest Baltimore

    Two young men were shot early Saturday in the Washington Village/Pigtown neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore, police said. About 12:40 a.m. police responded to the 1200 block of Glyndon Ave. following the report of a shooting, according to a police statement Saturday. Officers found two juveniles at the scene suffering from gunshot wounds, the statement said. Both were outside when they were ...

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