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Los Angeles -- Soap opera stars often complain they feel like the deprived stepchildren of their counterparts on evening sitcoms and dramas. The rivalry between daytime and prime-time shows is emphasized when it comes to handing out kudos.The television academy gives out Emmys in two separate ceremonies: one specifically saluting daytime programs and the other strictly honoring prime-time shows. For the past 17 years, theDaytime Emmy Awards have been shown during the day in late spring, while the 42-year-old Prime-time Emmy Awards have been presented in an evening broadcast in late summer, usually amid more fanfare and increased viewership.

A medic unit that had rushed to the scene of the midday shooting in Belair-Edison sat idling in the street. With the dead man's body under a sheet, there was no one to transport. Word was spreading about 49-year-old Kelvin Moyd's being shot. Relatives came running down Pelham Avenue, visibly upset and too frantic to cry. Two women burst through crime scene tape. One was bear-hugged by a male officer, who had other officers come to his aid as he struggled to keep her back. Then a man came down the street and a group of people swarmed him before he could confront an officer.

Hollywood -- While most people consider the Daytime Emmys a bubble fest, soaps and their glamorous stars aren't the only prize winners in the show.In fact, in this year's 22nd annual awards celebration, airing tonight on NBC, daytime programs other than soap operas lead the total nomination tally, 179 to 79.Ironically enough, some of the nominations in the "non-soap" categories of talk, game/audience participation, service, children's, animation and special-class...

Orioles manager Buck Showalter said Sunday he believed his team's toughest game of their six-game road trip would be Monday's series opener in Toronto. Monday's 1 p.m. game will be the team's third straight afternoon game - a rarity. And it's also unheard of  that you come into a new city and play the first game of the series during the day. Sometime uncommon can lead to uncomfortable. But truly the test is replacing the atmosphere and excitement of this weekend's three games at Yankee Stadium with the antisceptic north-of-the-border feel of the Rogers Center.

Four homes were burglarized in Harford County on Tuesday in a string of related daytime thefts that netted thieves nearly $10,000 in property, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's deputies said homes in the 4800, 4900 and 5300 blocks of Rocks Road in Pylesville and a home in the 1400 block of Philadelphia Road in Joppatowne were robbed between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday. The thieves broke into the homes by kicking in back doors or breaking windows. They primarily stole jewelry, money and computer equipment, according to Detective Sgt. Lee Dunbar, supervisor of the Sheriff's Office burglary/property unit.

Montel Williams, the nationally syndicated talk-show host who grew up in Baltimore, has some sibling competition.Older brother Herman Williams, 42, is now executive producer of "The Charles Perez Show," one of the new crop of daytime talk fests that arrived this fall. It airs from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays on WBFF-TV, Channel 45.The brothers are the sons of Herman Williams Jr., Baltimore's fire chief.The talk-show producer previously worked as a producer on 38-year-old Montel's program (4 p.m.-5 p.m. weekdays on WMAR-TV, Channel 2)

You might have missed it yesterday, amid the hum of fans and air conditioners. But yesterday's high temperature of 92 degrees at Baltimore-Washington International Airport ended a remarkable little streak of four straight days with identical daytime highs of 90. So maybe only weather geeks care. But the last time the airport has seen such a phenomenon was nearly eight years ago - an 83-degree stretch that ended Aug. 7, 1997. You can look it up. Steve Listemaa, of the National Weather Service's Sterling, Va. forecast office, found that four-day streaks have happened only 12 times since official record-keeping in Baltimore began in 1871.

James Ray Livesay, 78, who was president of the Daytime Broadcasters Association for 28 years, died Tuesday in Mattoon, Ill.

LOS ANGELES -- Gloria Monty, credited with building "General Hospital" into a national phenomenon a decade ago, reportedly will leave next week as executive producer of the ABC daytime soap opera.Since returning a year ago, Monty has failed to duplicate the extraordinary popularity the program achieved in the early 1980s, when it was No. 1 in the daytime ratings and landed the characters Luke and Laura -- Tony Geary and Genie Francis -- on the cover of Newsweek.Monty has a two-year contract with the network, but she is rumored to be leaving her position Monday.

Police arrested two Millersville men Thursday morning and charged them with breaking and entering after recovering several items that linked the men to at least seven robberies, officials said.Mark A. Anderson, 26, of the 8300 block of Norwood Drive, has been charged with two counts of theft and two counts of felony daytime breaking and entering.Christopher Michael Rush 19, of the 600 block of Cog Court, has been charged with three counts of felony daytime breaking and entering, police said.

WBAL radio will launch its new post-Ron-Smith lineup Monday, and it will feature more news and less daytime talk, according to Dave Hill, program director for WBAL and FM sister station 98 Rock. "Maryland's Morning News" will now run for five hours from 5 to 10 a.m., while the station's afternoon newscast anchored by Mary Beth Marsden will start at 2 and end at 6 p.m. It had been starting at 3 p.m. The only daytime talk show will be hosted by Clarence Mitchell IV, known to WBAL audience as C4, who will now start his four-hour program at 10 a.m. The station will offer an expanded 15 minute newscast at noon, and Mitchell will then continue to 2 p.m. Smith, who hosted talk shows on WBAL for 26 years, died this month of pancreatic cancer.

Charged with being all down-to-earth and accessible, the first thing doctors John Martin and Briana Walton did was lose the white coats. Then they got down to business. "I'm really very surprised that so many people came out," said a smiling Martin. "Absolutely," nodded a smiling Walton. And thus it went Tuesday evening at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, as the hospital unveiled its monthly "DocsTalk" gatherings. Determined to make these informal health-information sessions as entertaining and jargon-free as possible, the hospital has come up with an approach that's equal parts "Today Show" and "Dr. Oz," but without the TV cameras.

Around the Web is a weekday roundup of posts by Sun community network members and other Baltimore area bloggers and websites. To suggest a post, share it on our wall on Facebook, tweet a link to it using the #mdblogs hashtag or fill out this form. Thursday, October 20, 2011 Steve Charing OUTspoken: 'Occupy' must harness its good energy What needs to be done, what would be smart, is for the Occupy movement in the U.S. to follow the model of the right wing's protest counterpart, the Tea Party, and delve into electoral politics whereby these complaints could be effectively addressed by a government that's sympathetic to its causes.

WBAL-TV likes what it sees from the early returns on "Ellen" as its replacement at 4 p.m. for "Oprah. " Monday's premiere opened 64 percent higher than the premiere of the last season on "Oprah" in September 2010. Perhaps, most impressive is that "Ellen" was up 43 percent over Oprah in women 25 to 54 years of age, the kind of demographic the station can sell some ads on. The number of total viewers for "Ellen" was impressive. WBAL had 59,153 viewers, which almost doubled its nearest competitor, WBFF with 30,195.

Anderson's Cooper's syndicated daytime talk show opened strong Monday with the CNN host interviewing family and friends of singer Amy Winehose who died in July. He got the first interview with Mitch and Janis Winehouse, the singer's father and mother, and even made a little news with what they said -- that their daughter died of a siezure brought on by trying to detox from alcohol, not from a drug overdose. "She'd been clean for about three years," Mitch Winehouse said of his daughter's drug history.

Armed robbers held up a doctor's office and a delivery driver was critically wounded in a shooting in a shopping center parking lot Tuesday — two brazen daytime attacks that continued a trend of rising crime in Northeast Baltimore. The robbery occurred in the 5400 block of Belair Road at about 10:30 a.m., police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed. A gunman wearing a tan-and-white outfit with a tan bandana over his face entered the doctor's office and took undisclosed amounts of cash and cellphones from patients and staff, Guglielmi said.

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Six people were shot, one of them fatally, after a gunman opened fire Thursday afternoon on a group of people sitting on a porch in Southwest Baltimore. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the shooting a "cowardly act with grave and tragic consequences for the community," and she said police were doing "everything in their power" to track down the shooter. "This disregard for human life will not be tolerated," Rawlings-Blake said at news conference at police headquarters.

Three men were shot just off North Avenue in East Baltimore on Thursday afternoon, one of them fatally, and a fourth man shot and killed himself about half a mile away as police swarmed neighborhoods looking for suspects, according to city police. The triple shooting occurred about 1 p.m. in the 1900 block of N. Collington Ave., where a group of men had gathered outside a corner store. Detective Donny Moses, a city police spokesman, said the men were approached by two other men who opened fire on them.