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By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun | February 3, 2013
Janet Vance did not feel right around her sister's new boyfriend. And when her sister said he'd been threatening to hurt her, Vance said it was time to call the police. Instead, Lois Jean Vance Smyth promised to stop seeing him. A few months earlier Smyth, then 40, and Kenneth Brunetti had reconnected on Facebook. On May 29, 2011, he lured her to Leakin Park, shot her, left her for dead and stole her car and bank card. "He sat on my couch with my kids, watched my TV," Vance, 42, said, "and he killed my sister.
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By Jean Marbella, The Baltimore Sun | January 20, 2013
Baltimore has always had a past, and even at its lowest points, it looks hopefully to whatever the future has in store. It's the present that seems to elude the city. But if we cling to the past, with equal parts nostalgia and desperation, if we usually end our sports seasons with an always-next-year sigh, this has been a year of living in real time. Get used to it. We're going to the Super Bowl, and we're not done yet. If you love sports, and you love Baltimore, it's been, to quote both Ray Lewis and Michael Phelps , a ride.
FEATURES
By Zach Sparks, The Baltimore Sun | December 7, 2012
Whether she's sporting face paint, a mask or a bright purple wig, Jean Keister loves to prove her passion for the Ravens. "I try to wear something different to every single game," said Keister, who inherited her enthusiasm for football from her father. "I started off as a Colts fan, then they left Baltimore and I was not a fan of any team until we got the Ravens," said Keister, who is 46 and lives in Stevensville. "I pretty much stopped watching football during that time. " Her husband, John, is a Steelers fan, but Keister said that's no problem for her. "We got married before the Ravens were in town," Keister said.
FEATURES
By Rachel Gatulis and For The Baltimore Sun | October 25, 2012
I just came from celebrating the marriage of two of Andrew's good friends this past weekend. We had the best time, surrounded by great friends. The ceremony was tasteful and simple. The reception was at a prestigious (read: very fancy) country club and was absolutely beautiful. The invitation said "black tie. " To reiterate: the men were asked to wear their jackets if they left the reception room for any reason, so as to not offend the other members at the club. However, I was in the minority wearing a long dress.
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By Yvonne Wenger and Alison Knezevich, The Baltimore Sun | October 15, 2012
Two Baltimore County boys traded a Bersa .380-caliber gun for an Xbox 360 in a swap that ended when officers found a handful of bullets in jeans left in a school locker room, police said Friday. The exchange between the 12-year-old students at Deer Park Middle Magnet is the third gun-related incident in county schools since the academic year started in late August, including a shooting at Perry Hall High School that left one student seriously injured. The recent gun violence — and the extent to which Baltimore County students have had access to weapons — has unnerved many in the school community.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | August 23, 2012
Jean H. Reisenweber, a former secretary who was an active member of the Dulaney Valley Woman's Club, died Sunday from complications of dementia at Lorien Mays Chapel Health Center in Timonium. The longtime resident of Towson's Campus Hills neighborhood was 86. The daughter of an engineer and a volunteer, the former Dorothy Jean Hobson was born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park. After graduating from Western High School, she went to work as a secretary for the Maryland Casualty Co. She was married in 1948 to Daniel F. Reisenweber, a chemical engineer, who died in 2005.