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By Richard Irwin | August 14, 2009
Michael Phelps, who holds the Olympic record with 14 gold medals for swimming, was shaken but apparently uninjured Thursday night when the late-model Cadillac Escalade he was driving in Mid-Town Belvedere collided with another vehicle, seriously damaging Phelps' vehicle, the other car and a parked vehicle, police said. The female driver of the Honda Accord was taken to an area hospital as a precaution, police said. Shortly before 9 p.m., Phelps, 24, was driving the Cadillac east in the 100 block of E. Biddle St. when he entered the intersection at the 1100 block of N. Calvert St. and collided with a Honda Accord driven north in the 1100 block of N. Calvert St. by a woman.
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By Leonard Pitts Jr. | June 5, 2009
I am your scapegoat. I am your boogeyman. Brown-skinned, kinky-haired, black man, me. So I was not surprised last week when a white woman from suburban Philadelphia called police from her cell phone, claiming she had been locked in the trunk of a Cadillac by two black men. Nor was I shocked when police said Bonnie Sweeten was actually holed up in a luxury hotel at Walt Disney World and there never was a kidnapping, much less by two black men. I'm your...
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By Jim Puzzanghera and Ken Bensinger | December 3, 2008
WASHINGTON - In their quest for a financial lifeline from Washington, U.S. automakers filed detailed plans yesterday for reinventing themselves for a leaner, greener future, but what might do more to win over a skeptical Congress was another round of disastrous news from the nation's car dealers. New car and truck sales plunged 37 percent in November, the latest in a string of dismal sales reports stretching back more than a year. And evidence that the bottom is falling out of an industry with supplier and dealer networks that stretch across the country could bring the economic and political costs of a collapse home to uncertain members of the House and Senate.
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August 30, 2008
Robbery try at repair shop leaves man dead, police say 1 The owner of a Northwest Baltimore auto repair shop fatally shot a man during an attempted robbery of his business yesterday evening, city police said. Police spokesman Sterling Clifford said this was the second time that Joseph Goldman has shot someone trying to rob his business. Clifford said he did not know when the first incident occurred or whether the person died. Goldman declined to comment through a woman who answered his cell phone last night.
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By RICHARD IRWIN | June 18, 2008
Gunfire yesterday evening in the Brooklyn Homes section of Baltimore killed a female driver and wounded her male passenger and a woman sitting on a porch, police said. Names of the victims were not released and no arrests had been made, police said. Shortly before 6 p.m., a woman was driving a Toyota sedan in the 4100 block of Mariban Court and was being followed by a white Cadillac, said Sterling Clifford, a city police spokesman. Near the intersection of 10th Street, Clifford said, someone in the Cadillac fired several shots into the Toyota, striking the driver and passenger.
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October 27, 2007
Dino J. Bartoli, a retired railroader and former longtime Parkville resident, died in his sleep Sunday at his home in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 91. Mr. Bartoli was born and raised in Shickshinny, Pa. He was a graduate of Shickshinny High School, and as a young man played right field for minor league baseball teams in Shickshinny and Sunbury, Pa. "He won the 1938 batting title with a .361 average and once played against Hall-of-Famer Goose Goslin, among...
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By Heather A. Dinich | October 13, 2007
COLLEGE PARK -- Amidst the smoke and darkness from a corner in Comcast Center last night emerged a shiny, black, 1960 Cadillac convertible, overflowing with dapperly dressed members of the 2007-08 men's basketball team. Their exuberant entrance was as fitting and proper as their white suits, considering senior forward Bambale Osby's love for Cadillacs, of which he has four. Maryland Madness last night - at least from Osby's view in the front seat - in one word was "ex-cit-ing." The women's team came out in their little black dresses and shook their tambourines and more.
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By JEAN MARBELLA | September 4, 2007
He wore white Reeboks, she had on black Masai Barefoot Technology sandals. In the race for City Council president, the tightest citywide contest, maybe the winner should get a shoe endorsement deal as well. While every candidate was, or should have been, pounding the pavement during the long holiday weekend, Michael Sarbanes and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake probably had the most to gain. The Sun's latest poll shows the council presidency candidates locked in a too-close-to-call race, with Sarbanes attracting the support of 33 percent of voters and Rawlings-Blake just 3 percentage points behind.
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By Julie Scharper and Nick Shields | June 13, 2007
A man sought by police for killing his pregnant girlfriend and wounding another woman as they sat in a car on a Hillendale area shopping center parking lot Monday morning surrendered last night, police said. Police said David Lee Miller, 24, of the 1200 block of Halstead Road in Hillendale surrendered to police at the Towson precinct and was immediately taken to police headquarters, where he was interviewed by detectives. From headquarters, Miller was taken before a District Court commissioner in Towson and was denied bail.
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By PHOTOS BY DOUG KAPUSTIN | October 3, 2005
A throwback to the 1940s and '50s, the Cadillac Parade and Royal Theater Music Festival was revived for the ninth year Saturday. The original Cadillac Parade was a major event in the city's black community, in which Baltimoreans would ride along or watch as Cadillacs cruised down Pennsylvania Avenue. Before the 1960s, The Avenue was a center of commerce and night life, home to the Royal Theater, the Lucky Number Club and the exclusive Sphinx Club. Jazz greats including Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane performed here.