Clearance

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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.

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.

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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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

THE PROBLEM : Tree branches obscure a maximum-vehicle-height sign at a bridge in a Baltimore park. THE BACKSTORY: St. Lo Drive curves through Clifton Park from Harford Road, past the golf course and the Lake Clifton high school campus. Unfortunately, more than one truck driver beguiled by the scenery - or perhaps watching for errant golf balls - has distractedly driven a tall vehicle into a railroad bridge while traveling south toward St. Lo's intersection with Sinclair Lane. "I've seen two different drivers in misery for not knowing that bridge was too low for their truck," said Albert Blakeney, who called Watchdog in July.

Online option at imaging center Anne Arundel Diagnostics, the radiology and diagnostic imaging provider of Anne Arundel Health System Inc., allows patients to make requests for appointments online at its new Web site, www.AnneArundelDiagnostics.com. The site includes a form for patients to provide basic information, such as the kind of examination needed, the physician's name and the most convenient location for the appointment. Information is secure and protected, and can be viewed only by the customer service representative fielding the request.

Everything must go! From desks to Dictaphones, TVs to tea trays and Weed Eaters to whiffle bats, Gov. Martin O'Malley wants to sell it all. All the jetsam of state government is sitting in a warehouse in Jessup, a 60,000-square-foot collection of the mundane and bizarre that has been up for sale to the public for decades. But as part of its search for inefficiencies in state government, the O'Malley administration figured out that to warehouse the stuff costs as much as - and some years, more than - the state gets from selling it. Not to mention that the warehouse and its 9.3 acres of land are assessed at $2.4 million, cash the state could use as it tries to close a $1.5 billion budget shortfall.

An administrative judge has ruled that Westinghouse Electric Co. did not violate an agreement to lay off workers by seniority when it let go some senior employees and retained younger ones in similar jobs.The younger workers, the company said, had different qualifications because they had special security clearences -- to work on what company insiders call "dark world" jobs. But a union representing salaried workers claimed a clearence was not enough of a reason to keep a younger worker over a more-senior one.The decision, by Judge James L. Rose, was released Wednesday.

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.

Anne Arundel 2 women allege rape at man's trail Two women testified in a military hearing on Thursday that they were raped this year by former Navy football player Kenny Ray Morrison, who prosecutors allege drugged them before sexually assaulting them. Speaking quietly, one accuser said she awoke in a Washington hotel room Feb. 4 after a night of heavy drinking to see Morrison standing over her. She said that Morrison - a virtual stranger - picked her up from the bed and moved her to an adjacent bed. The woman, now a senior at the U.S. Naval Academy, said she tried to resist him while he removed her clothes and raped her. She testified that Morrison sexually assaulted her two more times after that.

The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed at Tipton Airport, killing him and his passenger, failed to get flight clearance before takeoff, according to a preliminary investigation report. An employee of the airport in western Anne Arundel County told the pilot, Daniel L. Eberhardt, 57, of Downers Grove, Ill., after he filed his flight plan Oct. 19 that he needed a special code before heading into restricted airspace on his trip home, the National Transportation Safety Board said in the report released this week.