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  • Baltimore Police To Overhaul Handling Of Animal Abuse Cases

    Meghan McCorkell has details on the new plan. Those changes are coming after an alarming report accused the police department of not taking animal abuse cases seriously. Another heartbreaking case of animal abuse. A dog was found in an abandoned building with chemical burns on her face. It’s the fourth case of abuse that’s come into BARCS this week alone. ';How can people be ...

  • Man Drowns Near Holiday Hill Marina

    EDGEWATER, Md. (WJZ) — A man has drowned near the Holiday Hill Marina. According to officials, the Anne Arundel County fire department responded to a call shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not been released. DNR and the Coast Guard have been ...

  • City patrol officer retires after nearly 40 years on the beat

    Baltimore police Officer Ron Starr says, he never really considered leaving the department's Southeastern District and moving up the chain of command. "I never wanted to," Starr said, a longtime foot patrol officer. "I'm not knocking what they do, because we need administrators, but when you put three stripes on, you're not out there working with street, and ...

  • Pitcher Kevin Gausman arrives to Orioles and the future is now

    Kevin Gausman that he was heading to the major leagues until the moment he boarded his connection flight to Baltimore on Wednesday morning. "Then, I just kinda was thinking, you know, 'Wow, I'm really here. It's crazy,'" Gausman said. "I wish I had hugged this guy or said thanks and stuff like that, but it didn't really hit me until [then]." After ...

  • BMore Green Alarming declines seen in frogs salamanders

    Some of springtime's more notable heralds appear to be fading away, as a new study finds frogs, toads and salamanders disappearing at an alarming rate across the United States. In what they say is the first analysis of its kind, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey and a couple of universities report that declines in environmentally sensitive amphibians are more widespread and more ...


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Summer Interlude (Sommarlek) [Blu-Ray]

Summer Interlude (Sommarlek) [Blu-Ray]

A fixture of the European art-house cinema of the 1950s, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman was one of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godards favorite filmmakers. In 1958, in response to a French retrospective of Bergmans films (which at the time numbered 19), Godard published a ... ...

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  • Drowning reported in Mayo

    Firefighters and water rescue crews responded to the Holiday Hill Marina in Mayo around 8:10 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a 911 call that a man had fallen overboard at the marina. The preliminary information is an unknown age male victim fell of a sailboat at the marina. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The U.S. Coast Guard and Natural Resources Police are on the ...

  • Woman Guilty Of Stabbing Boyfriend With Comb

    HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Hagerstown woman has pleaded guilty to stabbing her boyfriend in the back with a plastic rattail comb. Forty-nine-year-old Saundra Hewlett pleaded guilty Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court to reckless endangerment and received a suspended four-year sentence. As part of a plea agreement, first- and second-degree assault charges were dismissed. Assistant ...

  • Soreness in groin keeps Jones in DH role

    Email BALTIMORE -- Adam Jones, dealing with soreness in his groin, started at designated hitter for the second straight day on Wednesday. Jones, who went 0-for-4 on Tuesday, said that he isn't concerned and that he wants to be in the lineup and in center field. "He's not happy with me again; he wants to play center field," manager Buck Showalter said. "We're ...

  • Reimold to begin physical therapy on hamstring

    Email BALTIMORE -- Nolan Reimold (strained right hamstring) had two MRIs performed on Tuesday and is set to begin physical therapy, manager Buck Showalter said. Reimold will stay in Baltimore for his physical therapy rather than travel with the team to Toronto. "I'm hoping he can start taking some batting practice while we're gone, but not until he's 100 percent with his ...

  • Schoop diagnosed with stress fracture in back

    Email BALTIMORE -- Prospect Jonathan Schoop has a stress fracture in his lower back, general manager Dan Duquette said on Wednesday. Spine specialist Dr. Lee Riley diagnosed the stress fracture; Schoop will seek a second opinion from Dr. Robert Watkins in California. The club is hoping for better news from Watkins, given that Schoop would have to rest six to eight weeks with a stress fracture. ...

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