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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Garcia Os will have to contend with CC in opener

    The Orioles were supposed to miss CC Sabathia during their three-game series against the Yankees, which starts on Monday night at Camden Yards. The weather had other plans. Sunday's rainout at Yankee Stadium pushed back Sabathia's start and thrust him right into Baltimore's path. The big lefty will get the ball against former teammate Freddy Garcia in the series opener. The ...


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21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street

The artistic bankruptcy of mining old television shows for big-budget movies is so firmly entrenched at this point that one of the best jokes in 21 Jump Streetyes, another movie mined from an old television showdirectly references it. Were reviving a cancelled undercover polic ... ...

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  • Anne Arundel preserves a diamond in the rough

    The cinder block dugouts are decrepit and the backstop is ragged at the old baseball diamond in Galesville, but giants once ran the bases in this southern Anne Arundel County town. Not just giants but Elite Giants, as in the old Negro Leagues team of the 1930s and 1940s. They and other legendary clubs from era of segregated baseball – such as the Homestead Grays and Newark Eagles – ...

  • Os cant solve Moore to back Tillmans quality start

    TB@BAL: Jones lines RBI single to tie game in fourth BALTIMORE -- Orioles Magic? Not exactly. At least, not lately. A Baltimore club unable to fire on all cylinders finally got a quality start Sunday afternoon -- its second in nine games -- at the same time the team's surging offense went cold against Rays lefty Matt Moore. A night removed from watching All-Star closer Jim Johnson ...

  • Mayor to preside over mass wedding at GLBT Pride event

    Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will preside over a mass wedding of same-sex couples at this year's Baltimore Pride Celebration, with the event drawing interest from couples as far away as Atlanta, according to organizers.In November, Maryland became one of the first states to have same-sex marriage approved by voters in a referendum."After doing so much work on this — on the ballot ...

  • Orioles fall to Rays 3-1 extending losing streak to five games

    Adam Jones, James LoneyTampa Bay Rays first baseman James Loney, center, dives to tag first base before Orioles center fielder Adam Jones reached the base in the second inning at Camden ...

  • MLB Tampa Bay 3 Baltimore 1

    Tampa Bay Rays beat Baltimore 3-1 to complete a three-game sweep. Moore surrendered five hits, walked only one and struck out three en route to his major-best eighth victory. The left-hander lowered his ERA to 2.29 with the 106-pitch ...

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