NEWS
By Gadi Dechter | December 19, 2007
The latest in a string of reports describing serious problems at Owings Mills' Rosewood Center may lead the state to close the long-troubled institution for the developmentally disabled, key lawmakers said yesterday. A report released this month by the state's Office of Health Care Quality detailed numerous findings of neglectful and potentially dangerous treatment of some of the facility's 165 mentally retarded residents and a general failure to comply with federal and state standards of appropriate care.
BUSINESS
By Robert Little | July 27, 1999
Preston Trucking Co. Inc., a 67-year-old regional hauler based on the Eastern Shore that employs about 5,000 people nationwide, abruptly announced yesterday that it will shut down and lay off all its employees, after lenders said they would no longer finance the company's operating losses.Employees were told yesterday that all of them will be laid off within three weeks, many of them immediately.Preston plans to deliver the cargo still in its system, then permanently close its doors."We had no warning; it's been a shock to everyone here," said Ed Oldenburg, a 10-year employee working at the company's yard off Ordnance Road in Glen Burnie.
NEWS
By Ellen Goodman | January 6, 1998
BOSTON -- I don't remember when the words first began to echo in the hollow aftermath of loss. But now it seems that every public or private death, every moment of mourning is followed by a call for ''healing,'' a cry for ''closure.''In November, driving home in my car just 24 hours after three Kentucky students were shot to death in a school prayer meeting, I heard a Paducah minister talk about ''healing.'' The three teen-agers had yet to be buried, and he said it was time to begin the healing process, as if there were an antibiotic to be applied at the first sign of pain among the survivors.
NEWS
November 17, 1998
AMERICA'S support for capital punishment slips significantly when people are asked whether a killer should, instead of death, receive a sentence of life without parole.People want justice to the extent that is possible, and the death penalty accomplishes nothing more for society than a certain life sentence does.Even proponents concede that capital punishment fails miserably as a deterrent to would-be killers. Only the executed person is really prevented from killing again. Life without parole is just as effective.
NEWS
September 25, 1998
The county liquor board has fined a popular Westminster restaurant for serving a bottle of beer to an underage police cadet in June.In a written decision issued this week, the Board of License Commissioners fined the owners of Johansson's $250. In issuing the fine, the board noted that David E. Johansson, the licensee, has had an exemplary record in policing his establishment on West Main Street.During an Aug. 11 hearing, Carrie Ann Wright, a 20-year-old police cadet, said she walked into Johansson's on June 19 and went to a downstairs pub, where she was served without being asked for proof of her age.According to testimony, a crowd at the door surrounded doormen who were checking ages of patrons.
FEATURES
By Arthur Hirsch | December 14, 1997
Closure? Yeah, right. Folks sitting in the family section at the TWA Flight 800 hearings in Baltimore hear the word all the time. On television, in newspapers, from reporters and sometimes friends and colleagues. One fellow said his doctor even asked him: Had he found this elusive thing, this thing we Americans call "closure"? The word comes up often when relatives of the 230 people killed in the crash meet. The word "closure" lands on their ears like fingernails scraping a blackboard."As far as I'm concerned, let's eliminate that from the American vocabulary," says Judy Teller, whose 39-year-old twin brother, Joseph Lychner, lost his wife and two daughters when the Boeing 747 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island on July 17, 1996.
FEATURES
By Elsa Klensch | October 9, 1997
I have always been fascinated by animals. I know it sounds a bit crazy, but my favorite pastime is to guess which animal a person resembles.My ex-husband hated it when I described people this way -- but that could be because he looked like a lizard. As for me, I've always believed that I look like a cat or maybe even a tiger.I am looking for a dress to wear to a benefit for a local pet shelter. My ex-husband still sits on the board, and he'll be there. I would love to find a dress that really accentuates my sexy feline qualities.
NEWS
By Jorge A. Goldstein | February 3, 1997
I WAS THREE YEARS OLD when Eva Peron died, and I can't say I remember too much of the event. I have a vague memory of rain and long lines of people around the Plaza del Congreso waiting to go in and catch a glimpse of her casket. Ah, and my father muttering under his breath something like: ''. . . about time!''What I do remember is three years later, in 1955, when Juan (''El Pocho'') Peron, his regime under attack on several fronts for corruption and scandal (he was accused, among other things, of being a pedophile)
NEWS
By Doug Struck | March 25, 1996
GAZA -- The Palestinians call this the "siege," evoking a medieval image of a desperate people cut off and surrounded, watching their supplies dwindle.The Israeli closure of the Gaza Strip has brought a modern update of that scene. Palestinians cannot get out, few supplies can come in, food is short, money is scarce. For lack of medical care, people have died.Israeli officials say it will not end soon."Israel will put constant pressure on Arafat until he sobers up and fights terror seriously," Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said last week, referring to Yasser Arafat, the president of the Palestinian authority.
NEWS
By Gilbert A. Lewthwaite | June 13, 1995
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers from across the nation, including Maryland, lined up yesterday to make last-minute appeals for the survival of military installations the Pentagon wants to close this year.After seeking reprieves for six threatened facilities in Maryland, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski said: "Now, may the force be with us."Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes, who opened the Maryland presentation to the commission on military base closures, said: "We think there is a strong case for each of these facilities."