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The Awana Club at Prince of Peace Baptist Church in Fallston recently presented five of the highest awards given in the Awana organization. Citation awards are presented only to high school seniors and adults. For each recipient, this represents 10 years of work and includes the memorization of 800 to 1,000 verses as well as many hours of study and service activities.

The Awana Club at Prince of Peace Baptist Church in Fallston recently presented five of the highest awards given in the Awana organization. Citation awards are presented only to high school seniors and adults. For each recipient, this represents 10 years of work and includes the memorization of 800 to 1,000 verses as well as many hours of study and service activities.

Gotten a speed camera ticket in the Baltimore area? We want to hear from you. The Sun recently published an investigation of Baltimore City's speed camera program , and we'd like to talk to people who've received tickets in the Baltimore region - whether in the city, surrounding counties or state highway work zones. Contact reporter Scott Calvert at scalvert@baltsun.com . 

Baltimore officials announced Tuesday that they have suspended the city's troubled speed camera program amid fresh reports of erroneous tickets, this time involving a new multimillion-dollar camera network. The Baltimore Sun found that a recently installed camera on The Alameda has wrongly issued tickets, citing motorists for exceeding a 25 mph limit when the posted limit is 30 mph. The development is a setback for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's goal of achieving a "zero error" program, announced after The Sun documented widespread problems with the city's automated enforcement system last year.

Glen Burnie resident Doris Jenkins received a Governor's Citation from the State of Maryland yesterday at a ceremony at the Recreation Pier in Fells Point.The citation stated: "On behalf of the citizensof the state in recognition of your impressive contributions as a gifted athlete and manager, which has earned you a special place in Maryland softball history as demonstrated by your 23 seasons as a softball fast-pitch hurler as well as your 22 years of coaching local teams, gaining induction into the Maryland Softball Hall of Fame and in honor of this distinction, to confer upon you this Governor's citation."

Gov. Martin O'Malley said Tuesday that state law bars speed camera contractors from being paid based on the number of citations issued or paid - a so-called bounty system approach used by Baltimore City, Baltimore County and elsewhere in Maryland. "The law says you're not supposed to charge by volume. I don't think we should charge by volume," O'Malley said. "If any county is, they need to change their program. " In brief comments, O'Malley weighed in for the first time on criticism of speed cameras since The Baltimore Sun published an investigation of the devices, focusing on the city's network of 83 radar-equipped cameras.

Patricia M. Kasuda of Glen Burnie, North Arundel Hospital's directorof Community Services, was awarded a Governor's Citation for her volunteer work on the county Drug and Alcohol Advisory Council.The citation recognizes her commitment to the residents of the county in addressing the problem of substance abuse.Employed by North Arundel for the past 17 years, Kasuda helped establish the Chemical Dependency Unit and other support services for chemically dependent people. In 1988, she was promoted to the positionof direAtor, and serves as liaison between the hospital and its outpatient services, located in the hospital's professional center.

A 19-year-old Naval Academy midshipman was cited for underage drinking at downtown Annapolis bar during an enforcement sweep last week, police said Tuesday. Sara James Markwith, a Washington state resident attending the military college, left her seat at the Acme Bar & Grill when police and other city inspectors entered the bar in the 100 block of Main St., police said. Maj. Scott Baker said officers "had to coax her out of the bathroom. " She gave police an incorrect birthdate, and she became argumentative with officers, but later told police she slipped in through a back door when someone else was returning inside.

The bureau of Carroll County government responsible for maintaining county-owned vehicles has been charged with violating a state law requiring annual inspections and repairs for large trucks, according to the Maryland State Police. Responding to an anonymous tip, an inspector from the State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Section issued a citation Dec. 3 charging that county fleet vehicles were not being inspected as required by law, said Sgt. Thornnie Rouse, a state police spokesman.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. -- On the same track where the legendary Citation made his final public appearance nearly a half-century ago, a modestly bred horse, born in a barn in Maryland, joined him yesterday on history's mantel.Cigar, the Maryland-bred who became horse of the world, gunned his engines around the final turn, reached into his heart down the stretch, and won the $1.05 million Citation Challenge at Arlington International Racecourse.The win, Cigar's 16th in a row, matched Citation's remarkable streak set from 1948 to 1950.

Below is a list of the 10 locations where the most citations from the school zone speed cameras were issued. The citations shown were issued between November 2011 through December 2012. School(s) Location Citations Hours Centennial HS/ES and Burleigh Manor MS Centennial Lane (Ellicott City) 4,378 463.68 Long Reach HS Old Dobbin Road (Columbia) 3,695 322.76 Hollifield Station ES Rogers Avenue (Ellicott City) 2,937 250.9 MD School for the Deaf Old Montgomery Road (Columbia)

How many speed camera tickets has Baltimore City issued so far this year? How many red-light camera tickets? City officials won't say. Five weeks ago, Khalil Zaied, deputy chief of operations in the mayor's office, told members of the City Council that the lucrative automated camera enforcement network had started coming back online. More than a month had passed since the system went offline, the result of a troubled transition from one contractor to another. "What we have is now 10 speed cameras out on locations," he said Feb. 4. "We have approximately 15 of the red-light cameras on board right now also.

A Circuit Court judge has ruled that Baltimore County's contract with its speed camera vendor is illegal, because it pays the company a cut of each citation issued — a ruling that could help others challenge their citations in court. While Judge Susan Souder's ruling dismissed only a single speed camera ticket, the opinion is believed to be the first time a judge has ruled against the legality of the so-called "bounty system," one of the most controversial elements of the law. The ruling could help other motorists fight speed camera tickets, even though it has no direct effect on other cases, said John A. Lynch Jr., a professor and associate dean at the University of Baltimore School of Law. "It's not binding precedent," he said.

Anne Arundel County government hasn't supported the installation of speed cameras, but beginning Friday one slice of the county will have them anyway. Annapolis is set to launch its own enforcement program, even while state legislators consider overhauling Maryland's speed camera law in the wake of troubles with the Baltimore program. The Annapolis program, approved by the City Council in November 2011, allows for three speed cameras that, by law, must operate within school zones.

Baltimore's speed and red light camera system has experienced a near-complete shutdown during what city officials are calling a problematic transition to a new contractor, records show, and the new vendor says it could take four months to get its system running. City officials acknowledged Tuesday that Baltimore's network of 83 speed cameras - which issued about 2,300 tickets each weekday last year - has yet to issue any in 2013. And records posted on a city website indicate that red light cameras have issued just 17 tickets, all in the first two days of the year.

The days of getting a free pass at Maryland's toll plazas might soon come to an end for scofflaws who have been cheating without fear of penalty. The General Assembly will be asked to toughen the toll evasion law to include a $50 citation — and the possible suspension of vehicle registration. "That's the biggest hammer we could possibly have," said Harold Bartlett, executive director of the Maryland Transportation Authority, the agency that runs toll bridges, tunnels and roads.

The track was ankle-deep mud. The regular jockey, Albert Snider, recently had been lost at sea during a fishing trip.Despite these ominous signs, no one believed for a second that Citation would lose the Chesapeake Trial Stakes at Havre de Grace on April 12, 1948.Only four races into his 3-year-old season, Citation already was being heralded as perhaps the greatest horse in decades. Racing fans just assumed he would win the Kentucky Derby and maybe even become the country's eighth winner of the Triple Crown.

Maryland Terrapins men's basketball player Pe'Shon Howard was arrested early Sunday and given a criminal citation for disorderly conduct, a university police spokesman confirmed. A campus officer was flagged down for a fight at the Shanghai Café in the 7400 block of Baltimore Avenue in College Park at about 2:25 a.m., according to Capt. Marc Limansky. Inside, people were holding one man back, and police took him outside and sat him down. Limansky said Howard, 21, was shouting at the man and taunting him and was told to stop.

Here's a recipe for systematically fact-checking the accuracy of speed camera tickets, at least in Baltimore City where the time stamps on citation photos go to the thousandth of a second: Take a random sample of tickets. Use the two time-stamped photos on each one to physically measure the distance traveled so as to calculate the vehicle's actual speed. Then compare that to the alleged speed listed on the ticket. Repeat. The Sun has employed this method to document erroneous readings at seven city speed cameras.

A "perfect storm of errors" caused the city of Baltimore to issue a speed camera citation to a stationary vehicle, the Police Department's chief spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi acknowledged that Officer Christopher Izquierdo should not have validated the citation, which alleged that a Mazda wagon was going 38 mph even though a video clip from the camera and two time-stamped photos given as evidence clearly show the car stopped at a red light. State law requires every citation to be approved by a sworn law enforcement officer, and in the city that is the final step before a ticket is mailed out to the vehicle's owner.