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A cabal of corrupt corrections officers and members of the Black Guerrilla Family gang enjoyed nearly free rein inside the Baltimore City Detention Center, federal authorities allege, smuggling drugs and cellphones into the jail and having sexual relationships that left four guards pregnant. An indictment unsealed Tuesday names 25 people - including 13 women working as corrections officers - who face racketeering and drug charges. Twenty of the accused also face money-laundering charges.

Salisbury transfer Eric Law picked up a rebound on the edge of the crease and scored with 13.4 seconds left to cap a historic comeback and give No. 4 seed Denver a 12-11 win over fifth-seeded North Carolina in the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament quarterfinals at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon. The game, played before an announced 7,749, was the first men's lacrosse quarterfinal held at a venue not on the East Coast. Denver, the first team in men's quarterfinal history to win after trailing by five goals or more, will face No. 1 seed Syracuse in the semifinals Saturday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

The fifth annual Ecoball is scheduled for March 22. The event is the major fundraiser for Baltimore Green Works, which produces Ecofest and the Sustainability Speaker Series. The Ecoball will again include a cooking competition, inspired by "Top Chef," in which students from Stratford University's culinary program will use locally grown and sourced ingredients to prepare appetizers, entrees and desserts. The evening also includes a silent auction and dancing. Guests are encouraged to re-use or reinvent their gala attire by shopping consignment shops or creating their own evening wear.

Ohio State's Greg Dutton did not get to watch the entirety of Cornell's 16-8 upset of sixth-seeded Maryland in a NCAA tournament first-round game last Sunday. But the junior goalkeeper watched the film, and fifth-year senior attackman Rob Pannell's four-goal, three-assist performance was no less impressive a day or two after the fact. “Rob Pannell is a great player, and he's been a great player there for four years,” said Dutton, a Timonium native and Calvert Hall graduate. “He's probably one of the best players to ever play Division I lacrosse.

Details surrounding this year's Virgin Mobile FreeFest at Merriweather Post Pavilion are slowly trickling out. It was announced today that this year's FreeFest will take place Saturday, Oct. 6. It will be Merriweather's fourth year hosting the free all-day event.  No word yet on which acts will play the bill, but this year, the festival is getting fans involved in the announcement process. Twitter fans will be eligible to be part of the line-up announcement by submitting guesses to @virginmlive as to which acts will appear in this year's event.

How can you score a date with Mila Kunis?  Many interested men have been wondering the answer to this very question and now a U.S. Marine has shown us the simple steps we need to take.  1) Make a YouTube video nonchalantly asking Kunis for a date.  2) Be a Marine.  Sgt. Scott Moore, of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, did just that and now he's taking Kunis out.  Here's how Fox described Kunis' response :  And when FOX411 asked Kunis about the invitation over the weekend, her “Benefits” co-star,  Justin Timberlake , assured Moore he was going to make it happen.

Baltimore's annual Summer Restaurant Week kicks off its sixth run on Friday, Aug. 5 and will run through Aug.14. During the 10-day event, participating restaurants will offer 3-course fixed-price dinner menus for $35.11 per person, not including liquor, tax or gratuity. Select restaurants will also offer a three-course lunch menu for $20.11. A few restaurants are already offering special deals and discounts for their customers. Examples include $10 gift cards from City Café to be used during future visits and complimentary house wine or house cocktail on the customer's next visit at the Mt. Washington Tavern.  A Summer Restaurant week kick-off event on Wednesday, Aug.3, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Harborplace Amphitheater, will have celebrity judges and the general public critiquing appetizers submitted by participating restaurants.

There are times when it's pretty clear when it's a date: One person asks, one person drives, there's a fancy dinner, maybe even some flowers. But there are times things get murky, confusing and -- worst of all -- casual. The paranoia sets in. And the question plays on loop through your head: What exactly was that afternoon in the coffee shop, that day at the museum, that night at movies? Then, you get the advice that's amazingly simple, yet all together infuriating: You just know. "I think people can pretty much tell," says 18-year-old Martique Smith.

Houston -- A reference in one of my columns to the evolution of language once produced a letter from a subscriber who professed himself shocked that I should believe English had evolved from some Germanic language, when ''everybody knew'' that prior to May 17, 2248 B.C. everyone on Earth spoke Hebrew. God had punished a sinful humanity, which had been trying to reach Heaven by building a ziggurat tower of Babel, by confusing their tongues, creating on the spot all the language now spoken.

I CAN REMEMBER when people actually talked about reducing the debt. There were two things wrong with that concept: It was too easy to understand, and we couldn't do it.So we began to talk about reducing the deficit. Reducing, that is, the annual amount by which the debt increases.This gave us some breathing room -- as did the Reagan administration's courageous adherence to the principle that it is evil for the government (as opposed to Republican candidates or individual members of the Department of Housing and Urban Development)

I suspect my children will want to see me throw myself on my husband's funeral pyre, the better to tie up all the loose ends. But I am certain they would not want me out there and available again. And frankly, the idea of revisiting all that teenage dating angst does seem like an awful lot of work. Just in time for Mother's Day, there is a new book, written by two women who watched their own mothers search for love again in widowhood, called "From Granny Panties to Thongs: The Mourning After.

I hope you have child-care plans lined up because Baltimore County Public Schools said today that the last day of classes will be Friday, June 14, instead of Tuesday, June 18. More information here: http://www.bcps.org/news/articles/article3220.html

Wedding date: Feb. 23, 2013 Her story: Kimberly Carlins, 32, grew up in Ocean Pines. She is a government contractor for URS Corp. in Germantown. Her father, Leo, is a repairman for Sears, and her mother, Renee, is a secretary for a nonprofit organization. His story: Sigmund Young, 32, grew up in Bethesda. He is an engineer at Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington Yard in the District of Columbia. His father, Charles, is a physician, and his mother, Sue, is her husband's office manager.

The tryout dates for the 2013 Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic underclass tournament have been set, Under Armour, Inc., and Corrigan Sports Enterprises, Inc., announced Wednesday. Players who will graduate in 2014, 2015 or 2016 are eligible to participate in the open tryouts, which will be held around the country in May and June. The Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic underclass tournament is scheduled for July 5-7 at Towson University, with boys and girls teams from 10 different regions -- Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Long Island, upstate New York, Midwest, New England, New Jersey, Philadelphia, South, and West.

Annapolis is swimming in wine bars these days. The choices include the deeply cool Red Red Wine on Main Street, Justin Moore's food-forward Vin 909 over in Eastport and the accessibly cozy Grapes Wine Bar on Forest Drive. Crush Kitchen and Winehouse got there first, though, back in 2010, when it opened on West Street as Crush Winehouse. Crush is a big, inviting space, loud and lively, with a smartly arranged layout of banquettes, four-tops and high tables.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday released the closure dates for 149 air traffic control towers - including five in Maryland - affected by federal budget cuts. Martin State Airport in Baltimore County, Frederick Municipal Airport and Easton/Newnam Field in Easton will close on April 21. Hagerstown Regional Airport and Salisbury- Ocean City Wicomico Airport will close on May 5. In a memo to affected airports, the FAA outlined two options for the operator: Continue as a non-towered airport, relying on pilots to communicate takeoffs and landings on a common frequency, or provide and pay for tower services.

Bars and restaurants throughout Carroll County will soon serve words of caution about date rape along with beverages. Following the lead of a program established in Florida, land of the spring break drinking party, an advocacy group for rape victims is distributing tens of thousands of cocktail napkins imprinted with a message. "Who Else is Watching Your Drink?" it says in red letters. "Watch out for date-rape drugs!" "A beverage napkin is a different way to reach all kinds of people of all different ages," said Jo Ann Hare, executive director of the Rape Crisis Intervention Service of Carroll County.

The National Aquarium's new $12.5 million "Blacktip Reef" exhibit, a replica of an Indo-Pacific coral reef that replaces the "Wings in the Water" exhibit, will open July 10, officials announced Monday. Once it is completed, visitors will be able to view the 260,000-gallon self-contained ecosystem through a 27-foot viewing window, as well as from platforms above the water. Visitors also will be able to observe diver demonstrations and feedings. "You're sort of transferred into their world," Jack Cover, the aquarium's general curator, said.