Jared

In his senior year of high school, Jared Rhine took his first full time job at a restaurant - the family-run Italian restaurant Rillo's in Carlisle, Pa. He started as a busboy, did food preparation and washed dishes before eventually moving to the back of the house as a cook. "I loved it so much; I've never looked back. " Now, the Butchers Hill resident, 31, is going into his sixth month as executive chef at Mount Vernon's City Cafe. Rhine has been busy preparing some new items on his menu for Baltimore Restaurant week (Friday through Aug. 5)

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Following his reclassification last year, Norristown (Pa.) Westtown School wing Jared Nickens has seen his recruitment take off, and is in the narrowing stages of deciding where he will play his college ball. Nickens, who scored 13 points during the underclassmen game at the Mary Kline Classic earlier this month, provided some insight into taking the extra year.

The Annapolis city council passed Monday a $95.6 million operating budget and $10 million capital budget for next year, with a slight increase in the property tax rate and funding for projects that include a bulkhead replacement at City Dock. Mayor Josh Cohen, a Democrat, said the budget will improve government services while limiting the impact on taxpayers. "I think it's a good budget. I think it's a responsible budget," he said. Alderman Fred Paone, a Republican who voted against the measure, criticized the budget as unfixable.

The significance of his commitment to Maryland wasn't lost on Jared Cohen . The McDonogh offensive lineman is the first Terps pledge in the 2014 class - a group that will never play in the Atlantic Coast Conference.   “It feels really cool,” said Cohen, who committed to Maryland on Monday. “I haven't really been able to be a part of something like that in my lifetime. I really hope that it turns out to be a really good legacy of the first person to commit … [to] the first [Maryland]

Former disgruntled Ravens left offensive tackle Jared Gaither may have worn out his welcome in San Diego as well. During his stay in Baltimore, Gaither was often criticized for his work ethic, especially during the offseason. Apparently, the pattern for the former Maryland standout continues. A San Diego columnist gave him the much-deserved nickname of "The Big Lazy. "

It has become as familiar to us as the candlelight vigils at the crime scene. The modest house in a quiet neighborhood. The curtains drawn, the media camped out in the street. The neighbor's description of a family that kept to itself. And then the statement. The family is stunned. This is not the child they knew and loved. They are grieving, for that child as well as his victims. They apologize and offer prayers. Soon enough, the rest of this story will play out — again — for us. The child was troubled, and the family should have seen it. They should have seen the diary or the essays or the drawings or the website or the videos.

Jared Gaither, 21, is set to make his second career start at left offensive tackle Sunday against the Buffalo Bills. But the football phenom was a two-sport star who still yearns to play basketball. You were a Division I recruit in basketball who had orally committed to South Carolina before deciding to concentrate on football. Do you miss basketball? Yeah. We have guys like Chad [Steele, the team's director of media relations who was a power forward at Winthrop] who think they can play basketball.

Jared Block Account executive The Asset Store, Baltimore Salary --$85,000 a year Age --29 Years on the job --Eight months How he got started --Previously Block worked as a real estate auctioneer in Florida. The Baltimore native wanted to move back to the area so he hired an employment agency, which found him the job at the Asset Store, an online liquidator of furniture and equipment from hotels, offices, restaurants and medical facilities. Block said he was intrigued by the offer.

For Jared R. Beads, the Westport marathon runner known as the "human running machine," taking a daily 26-mile run was as much a part of his normal routine as eating breakfast, going to work and spending time with his family.Mr. Beads, in "The Guinness Book of Records" for five years for having the longest nonstop run, died Saturday at Frederick Villas Nursing Center in Catonsville of complications from a stroke suffered several years ago. He was 68.The familiar runner, who seemed to be all over the city at once in his running prime, was known not only for his unconventional approach to the sport but for his persistence as well.

When Jared Hess was growing up in the small rural town of Preston, Idaho, he and his five younger brothers loved watching movies in which the uncool kids triumphed, shedding their outsider status and gaining acceptance by dint of some special skill or virtue. His film Napoleon Dynamite, which opened in Baltimore Thursday, chronicles a geeky title character who also finds redemption, but does so by ordinary means. "I guess the Napoleon character is the `underdog' that I'd never seen before but always wanted to see onscreen," says the 24 year-old Hess, who first came up with the idea for Napoleon as a film student at Brigham Young University.