Clearance

I went to Express .com looking for some new polos and they just happen to be having a 40% off clearance items sale. Plus, they have $15 off $30 and $30 off $75 promo codes for regular non-clearance items. Think I can pull off a fedora ?

Much has changed in America since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was first approved, and we can't blame those living in the 16 states that must get approval from the Justice Department or a federal court in order to revise their election laws for feeling the weight of history. The Deep South of the 21 s t century is not the same as the days of poll taxes, literacy tests and assassinated civil rights leaders. But how different is it today from seven years ago? That's when Congress last renewed one of this country's most important pieces of civil rights legislation - including the section that places this burden of proof on states with long histories of suppressing minority voters.

On October 16, 2003 ROBERT CLEARANCE MOTT; beloved husband of the late Doris H. Mott (nee Hush); devoted father of Jeanne M. Mott and Robert C. Mott; loving grandfather of Andrea Mott, Artemas Mott and Titus Mott. He is also survived by five great grandchildren. The family will receive friends at the Sterling-Ashton-Schwab Funeral Home, Inc., 736 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville (half mile west of beltway exit 14) on Sunday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in the Grace Chapel of St. Ignatius Church, 740 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202 on Monday at 12:10 P.M. Entombment in Crest Lawn Memorial Gardens.

Baltimore County police reported 23 homicides in 2012 with all but three cases solved. The county's average homicide clearance rate was 89.8 percent from 2007 through 2011, above the national average of about 65 percent, according to a statement from the department. In 2012, 12 victims were killed in domestic-related incidents, while three were killed by acquaintances, three were killed in non-random, drug-related incidents, the statement said. In five cases, police had not found a clear relationship between the victim and the suspect.

KEYW Holding Corp. is making good on an ambitious plan to grow, organically and through acquisitions, into a company that can respond quickly to the needs of its federal defense clients. The Hanover-based company said today it completed the acquisition of Poole & Associates Inc., of Annapolis Junction, for $126 million in cash and stock. The acquisition was announced Sept. 10. It has bought several companies since its founding in 2008, and going public in 2010. The company also is returning to the public market to raise more capital.

Joining the ranks of retailers with stores devoted to selling excess inventory at bargain-basement prices, R.H. Macy & Co. has announced it will open five clearance stores in outlet malls or free-standing locations around the country.A company spokesman said yesterday that Macy's had based its decision on the success of its six warehouse clearance centers. But unlike those clearance centers, which are typically near Macy's regular stores, the new close-out stores will be in outlet malls, which have been gaining popularity among shoppers.

Shop 'til you drop all weekend long! When:Saturday, August 6, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday, August 7, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Maryland State Fairgrounds Exhibition Hall This event features an array of retailers selling their merchandise at low discount prices to the public! This is a two-day discount blowout sales event where national and local retailers will sell their seasonal, clearance and/or discount merchandise at super-low prices over one weekend. Features: More than 20 retailers with the best discounted merchandise in Baltimore A Kids' Corner Food concessions Fun for the whole family!

Prozac -- now in its 10th year on the market and the most popular anti-depressant in the United States -- has never been approved for children. No anti-depressant has ever been formally cleared for children or adolescents.But that could be about to change. Eli Lilly recently submitted data on the drug to the Food and Drug Administration in an effort to have it approved for children. The agency has asked for more information.Companies making similar new anti-depressants, most of which regulate mood by adjusting the brain chemical serotonin, are gathering information and conducting pediatric studies in hopes getting federal approval for use of their drugs in children.

The Hamburgers clothing store chain, one of Baltimore's oldest and best-known businesses, is moving to close some of its 12 stores and plans to hold a clearance sale to raise cash.The decision comes two months after the chain's parent company warned that it would close the 142-year-old chain if it could not be sold.No buyer has surfaced, and analysts say it is unlikely that a savior would suddenly appear, given the depressed state of the industry."We have had preliminary discussions with third parties and landlords to transfer, assign or sell leases," says Jack Kaminski, president of the company, which began as an 8-by-8-foot tailor's shack near where the Inner Harbor now flourishes.

More than a month after two women were stabbed to death in their homes in different parts of Baltimore County, police are reporting no developments in either case -- only that they are continuing to examine the victims' backgrounds in search of fresh leads.These two stabbings are among 13 slayings in the county that remain unsolved from last year -- more than a third of the 34 homicides reported."Our detectives dealt with some real tough cases last year," said Maj. Allan J. Webster, the county police commander for criminal investigation.

A Baltimore school staff member was injured Monday during an altercation with a woman who pulled out a knife when she was informed she couldn't visit a student, according to city school officials. The school system lauded the rapid actions of school employees who stopped the unsupervised visitor, at a time when school systems across the country are being especially vigilant after a mass shooting at a Connecticut school Friday in which 20 children and six school employees were killed.

KEYW Holding Corp. is making good on an ambitious plan to grow, organically and through acquisitions, into a company that can respond quickly to the needs of its federal defense clients. The Hanover-based company said today it completed the acquisition of Poole & Associates Inc., of Annapolis Junction, for $126 million in cash and stock. The acquisition was announced Sept. 10. It has bought several companies since its founding in 2008, and going public in 2010. The company also is returning to the public market to raise more capital.

Angela Holland seems to know just about everyone in her North Baltimore neighborhood. She jokes with a guy hanging out of the window of an apartment high-rise. She consoles the deli counter man at the East 25th Street corner store, who's distraught about losing his mother two years ago. Without saying a word, she slips a few quarters to a man sitting on a stoop, who in turn hands her a cigarette. These folks know her. And some of the people in this neighborhood, she suspects, also know who killed her son, 22-year-old Jerry Isaac.

In D.C., Chief Cathy L. Lanier is getting some heat for what the Washington Post reports is a "statistical mishmash" regarding the Metropolitan Police Department's sparkling homicide clearance rate of 94 percent of its 108 killings. As it turns out, many of the closed cases are from previous years: In Baltimore, this revelation is not new or surprising, but it's worth reminding the public how the process works. First, here's some snippets from the Post article: A 94 percent closure rate would mean that detectives solved 102 of them.

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I went to Express .com looking for some new polos and they just happen to be having a 40% off clearance items sale. Plus, they have $15 off $30 and $30 off $75 promo codes for regular non-clearance items. Think I can pull off a fedora ?

WASHINGTON -- Democratic fund-raiser John Huang won a top-secret security clearance for a job at the Commerce Department with only a minimal check into his work as an international banker in Hong Kong a decade ago, congressional investigators said yesterday.Huang, a key figure in a mounting controversy over foreign contributions to the Democratic Party, also got an "interim" security clearance while he was still employed by the Indonesia-based Lippo Group six months before actually starting work at Commerce, according to a document made public yesterday.

Baltimore County police said yesterday that the number of crimes solved in the county is significantly higher than national averages in all the major crime categories but one.County police solved 70 percent of all violent crimes for the first nine months compared with the national average of 45 percent, spokesman E. Jay Miller said yesterday. Clearance of property crimes, harder to solve, averaged 22 percent, slightly higher than the national clearance rate of 18 percent, Mr. Miller said.

Nothing is so heartening to job-seekers nowadays as word that thousands of openings are headed their way. That's the siren call of BRAC — the military base realignment and closure effort that's relocating jobs to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County, Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County and other installations in Maryland. About 12,000 jobs are moving to the two Baltimore-area bases between August and next summer, along with thousands more off-base contractor jobs. And they are coming as unemployment is still near generational highs.

A fter a surreal week of high emotion and comic abuse of NBC on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," the 46-year-old host is gone for good from the network's airwaves after only seven months in Johnny Carson's old chair. But the story of this misguided adventure in prime-time and late-night programming by NBC's top brass is far from over. The narrative of O'Brien being pushed out of the job he prepared himself for over five years to make room for Jay Leno, who failed miserably in prime time, demands some discussion about what happens next to the redhead.