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By Mary Johnson | October 11, 2009
Bay Theatre begins its eighth season with A. R. Gurney's 1995 comedy "Sylvia," about a middle-age man who brings home a stray dog to the empty nest he shares with his wife on Manhattan's Upper West Side. If instead of a year earlier, last season had closed with Edward Albee's 2002 play "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?" about another middle-age male in crisis who found an animal irresistible, Bay would have had an amazing segue between seasons. Noting the similarity of themes, playwright Gurney explains on his Web site, "Greg's affection for Sylvia costs him his job and almost his marriage.
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September 24, 2009
Attempted kidnapping reported by Jessup mother A woman told Anne Arundel County police that while she was waiting in her car Tuesday for the arrival of a school bus in Jessup, another woman picked up her 4-year-old son and tried to abduct him. Police said the youngster had been playing outside the car shortly before 12:30 p.m. in the 7800 block of Clark Road. A woman whom the boy did not know picked him up and began to walk away with him, according to police. The boy insisted on being put down, and the woman complied, police said.
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By Janene Holzberg | September 6, 2009
Joey, a 6-year-old Brittany spaniel, was having the time of his life. He sprinted around the emerald expanses of the 2.7-acre Worthington Park Off-Leash Area on a recent visit, tracing a circuitous path through the manicured yet somewhat lumpy lawn. When Genie the English shepherd romped over, Joey switched into an impossibly higher gear. In the meantime, three dozen owners relaxed on scattered benches and chairs, enjoying a few moments of social time before the sun slipped below the park's wooded perimeter.
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By Jill Rosen | August 21, 2009
After a harrowing brush with thieves who took her dog and truck in West Baltimore, a woman was reunited with her pup Thursday morning in what shelter workers are calling "an impossible reunion." In town on errands, Amy Gaffney of Easton says she got lost Tuesday night in West Baltimore. The 46-year-old rolled down her window around Fulton Street to ask directions of some young men. "The next thing I know, his arm is in my car and he unlocks the door. I was so stunned, I didn't know what was going on."
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By Janet Gilbert | August 16, 2009
When you work out of your home during the summer, you have to learn to tune out all sorts of sounds and activities that would be major distractions in a typical office setting. You might not think this would be too difficult, but picture yourself working away in a cubicle, only the person sharing it is practicing "Lady Madonna" over and over on the piano. It could be tricky to take your conference call. Better yet, what if one of your co-workers liked to stroll about, strumming a ukulele?
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By Jill Rosen | July 19, 2009
With the gray-green ocean waters lapping at the sand, the boardwalk that smells like french fries and caramel corn, the sunburned nights spent wearing flip-flops and sipping beer, the beaches of Maryland and Delaware are a summery siren call. But, not if you have a dog. In the height of the season, most of the quintessential beachiness - the popular resorts, Ocean City's boardwalk, the nightclubs, are, for the most part, off-limits to the four-legged kind. That's slowly changing. A recent survey by the Associated Press and Petside.
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By Peter Hermann | June 26, 2009
Two teenage twin brothers charged as juveniles with fatally burning a pit bull are being held without bail on new adult charges after police said they raided their Southwest Baltimore rowhouse and found guns and marijuana inside. Travers and Tremayne Johnson, 17, are each charged with possession of firearms, marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to police and prosecutors. Court documents say the two were suspects in the dog burning last month, and their father confirmed that they are charged as juveniles with animal cruelty in the case.
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By Jill Rosen | June 12, 2009
Veda "Pat" Allen was certainly shocked, even disgusted, by what happened to Phoenix, the pit bull puppy doused with gasoline and then set on fire in Southwest Baltimore last month. But the aftermath shocked her more, as people in the city and around the country shed tears, signed petitions, raged on blogs and raised more than $26,000 to find the dog's killers. When her 22-year-old son was shot in the head in 1992 in what city police said was a motiveless crime, she wonders, where were these people with their outrage, their tears, their checks?
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By Justin Fenton | June 9, 2009
Baltimore police said they have charged two teenagers with dousing a young pit bull with gasoline and setting it on fire in West Baltimore last month, a case that sparked furor over animal cruelty and generated more than $26,000 in donations to find the culprits. Police canceled a morning news conference Monday to discuss the arrests, which occurred over the weekend, saying detectives were consulting with prosecutors. No additional details were provided. "The case is still very much open and under investigation, and we are working with prosecutors to go over evidence and bring this case forward," said Anthony Guglielmi, chief spokesman for the Police Department.
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By Lorraine Mirabella | June 7, 2009
Ronan, an 18-month-old Belgian Malinois, bolted from his owner's grasp and charged across the open field toward a guy waving a stick and screaming, "Get that dog out of here." The dog lunged toward the man, bit into his arm and held on. "Good grip," said a man with a clipboard. As a judge for the Protection Sports Association, he made note of it as part of the dog's ability to take commands from his owner, ignore all distractions and hang on to a "decoy," a person outfitted in a thickly padded bite suit.