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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 ...

  • 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 Police took into custody a student who had withdrawn from ...

  • 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 ...

  • Girl charged in fathers death struggled with mental health

    anxiety , unable because of a learning disorder to decipher the social cues, jokes and emotions of her peers.Her preferred environment, often accented by a Japanese anime soundtrack streaming through snug earplugs, featured a mix of fairies, mermaids and vampires, according to her mother. They were the protagonists of a digital realm where she said she was "practicing making friends" ...


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Movie Review

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

For the past few months, the trailer has promised us that, In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will Kill Bill. It turns out that wont be the case because, as is now widely known, Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantinos expansive, ambitious grindhouse homage, his first film in six years, has been split into two parts, Volume 1 and Volume 2, the latter of which wont bow in theaters until next ... ...

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  • Md. Brothers Charged In Multi-Million Dollar Cigarette Smuggling Ring

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Right now, two Maryland brothers are behind bars after police bust a multi-state cigarette smuggling ring. Those brothers reportedly made off with more than $55 million, and now police in New York say that cash may have been funneled to terror ...

  • Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

    Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...

  • Port observes Maritime Day holds inaugural Career Expo

    port of Baltimore often seems to be hiding in plain sight. So officials used the Saturday observance of National Maritime Day to throw open a pier at ...

  • Longshot Oxbow takes the Preakness dashing hopes of a Triple Crown

    Triple Crown . He’s won nine Triple Crown races, three in each leg. It was the sixth Preakness victory for 77-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, second ...

  • Woman killed in Arbutus home

    Baltimore County police found a dead woman and an unconscious man inside an Arbutus home Friday afternoon. Police responded to a home in the 4700 block of Belwood Green after receiving information that a man had killed someone in the home and intended to kill himself, according to a police statement Saturday. When officers entered the home they found Kathleen Washington, 45, dead, the ...

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