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January 20, 2013

TV actor Robert Chew of ‘The Wire’ dies in Baltimore

BALTIMORE – Robert Chew, who played Proposition Joe on the HBO series “The Wire,” has died. He was 52. His sister, Clarice Chew, said he suffered a heart attack and died at his Baltimore home Thursday. Robert Chew grew up in Baltimore and studied music at Morgan State University for two years. His sister said […]
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January 20, 2013

Obama invokes King’s commitment to service

President Obama calls upon Americans to 'be a drum major for looking out for other people.'
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January 20, 2013

Algerian military ends standoff with dozens of hostages killed

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. is asking what happened to any American hostages.
Published
January 19, 2013

Earl Weaver, 82, Baltimore Orioles’ Hall of Fame manager

BALTIMORE – Loved in Baltimore long after he ended his Hall of Fame career, Earl Weaver remained an Oriole to the end. The notoriously peppery Hall of Fame manager died at age 82 on a Caribbean cruise associated with the Orioles, his marketing agent said Saturday. The Duke of Earl, as he was affectionately known […]
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January 19, 2013

Revealing body scanners going away

The airport scanners that produce a naked image will be gone by June due to privacy concerns.

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Published
January 19, 2013

The lies we tell

Experts say Lance Armstrong may not be as different from the rest of us as we'd like to believe.
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January 19, 2013

Focused on transportation, megacities poised to alter path of climate change

WASHINGTON – There’s an unexpected method governments can use to reduce poverty, improve public health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, top world leaders said Friday. Their idea: Make transportation in the world’s megacities more available and sustainable to reduce congestion and benefit populations — and economies — that are projected to boom in the coming […]
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January 19, 2013

Former Alabama student Hood dies at 70

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – One of the first black students who enrolled at the University of Alabama a half century ago in defiance of racial segregation died Thursday. James Hood of Gadsden was 70. Then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace made his infamous “stand in the schoolhouse door” in a failed effort to prevent Hood and Vivian Malone […]
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January 19, 2013

Nine kids die of flu, bringing toll to 29

But 90 percent of all flu deaths are people 65 and older, as the elderly continue to bear the brunt.
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January 19, 2013

Federal judge halts IRS’ new tax-preparer rules

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – A federal judge on Friday barred the IRS from imposing a series of new regulations, including a competency exam, on hundreds of thousands of tax preparers. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington ruled against the IRS in favor of three tax preparers who filed suit last year with the help […]