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  • Four-state tornado outbreak kills 1

    One tornado touched down near Wellston, Oklahoma, taking out power lines and damaging several homes, according to video from CNN affiliate KFOR. The affiliate's helicopter pilot estimated the funnel cloud to be about a half-mile ...

  • Same-Sex Couples To Marry In Mass Wedding Next Month

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Same-sex couples from all over the country will flock to Baltimore next month for a historic event. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will preside over a mass wedding at this year’s Baltimore Pride Celebration in Mount Vernon. In November, Maryland became one of the first states to have same-sex marriage approved by voters in a referendum. The mass wedding is ...

  • WEATHER BLOG Unsettled Weather This Week

    Humidity & warmth will combine with ';troughiness'; aloft to contribute to our cloud clover as well as the chance for a shower or thundershower over the next couple of days. We aren’t looking at a washout, but any afternoon thunderstorms/thundershowers that move through will be slow-moving and could bring a few downpours. The good news… temperatures will be soaring ...

  • At least one reported dead as tornadoes hammer Oklahoma Kansas and Iowa

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tornado half a mile wide struck near Oklahoma City on Sunday, part of a massive storm front that hammered the central United States. News reports said at least one person had ...

  • 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, ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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