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  • Glass Blowing An Art At Salisbury University

    BRICE STUMP The Daily Times SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — From a roaring furnace, a miniature volcano of sorts at Salisbury University, Riley Greenwood pulled a glob of molten glass at the end of a blow pipe. Yet he saw a finished vase, shining all smooth and hard. It was the same furnace from which his award-winning pieces came, all of which began as flowing, glowing balls of thick, ...

  • Afghan Refugee Can Stay In U.S. Despite Assault Case

    ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that an Afghan refugee granted asylum in 1999 can stay in the U.S. despite pleading guilty to second-degree assault on a Montgomery County police officer. The Daily Record of Baltimore reports the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reversed a final order of removal against Ali Sina Karimi. Karimi was arrested on suspicion of ...

  • Allegany County Looks To Revise Tattoo Rules

    CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s Allegany County is looking to update its regulations governing tattoo shops, making changes that would let the shops tattoo kids with the permission of their parents. The Cumberland Times-News reports county health officials are looking to make the changes, which would have to be adopted by county commissioners. The paper says kids sometimes get ...

  • Agencies aim to restore bays depleted oysters a creek at a time

    These oysters on the Robert Lee, an oyster planting vessel, are ready for seeding the new oyster bed built last summer by the Army Corps of ...

  • As contraband phones flood Baltimore jail blocking technology comes online

    Maryland corrections officials are taking advantage of new technology designed to block the use of contraband cellphones by inmates - a problem at the heart of recent indictments at the Baltimore City Detention Center. In a program being used at another prison facility in Baltimore, phones smuggled inside have been severed from the network and rendered inoperable, officials said. The new ...


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Movie Review

Hamlet (1948) [DVD]

Hamlet (1948) [DVD]

Many film versions of Shakespeare's plays had been brought to the screen before Laurence Olivier's adapted "Hamlet" in 1948. However, with the possible exception of Olivier's own patriotic screen version of "Henry V" in 1944, none had ever been so magnificently rendered. As Bosley Crowther gushed in "The New York Times" when it premiered in the U.S., "the filmed "Hamlet" of Laurence Olivier g ... ...

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  • Tornadoes tear through Kansas Oklahoma Iowa

    A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas, moving northeast at about 30 miles per hour, the National Weather Service ...

  • UMBC Student In Unknown Condition After Being Stabbed On Campus

    Springer and his dad were packing up his dorm room at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. He was among those alerted by text message about a stabbing on campus that occurred in his building, Erickson Hall. The crime is considered unusual. ';I never had any concern before and I still don’t. I think yesterday’s incident was an isolated event,'; said Nick’s ...

  • New Ad Campaign To Launch In Support Of Firearm Safety Act

    ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Governor O’Malley signs new gun control legislation into law this week, but the fight over firearms is not over yet. Now, gun control groups push to get the issue before ...

  • Severe Kansas tornado prompts stark National Weather Service warning

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dangerous, half mile-wide hurricane struck near Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, part of an extreme weather system moving through the central U.S. and stretching from north Texas to ...

  • Man charged with setting fire to womans apartment in Bel Air

    Deputy state fire marshals on Sunday arrested a Joppa man who they believe set two small fires in a woman's apartment after getting into an argument with her.The Office of the State Fire Marshal said Ryan Lawrence Spann, 28, argued with a woman living at 209 Foxhall Drive, an apartment complex in Bel Air, before the woman left. Deputies said Spann then set two fires in the apartment with ...

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