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By Jonathan Pitts | July 23, 2009
He was the youngest of five boys, his father a high school coach, and by the time he was big and strong enough to run on a field or dribble on a hardwood floor, Terry Hasseltine was taking naturally to two positions that augured his future career: soccer midfielder and basketball point guard. For the uninitiated in the sporting world, those are athletes who aim to keep a clear vision of the field, control the ball as much as possible and get it to the scorers who can do the most damage.
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January 6, 2008
Thank you for Cassandra Fortin's story of Dec. 30, 2007, on the History Channel documentary of John Wilkes Booth and the assassination of President Lincoln. The program will do a lot to bring attention to one of Maryland's many unique historic and heritage areas. I would like to mention that the Maryland Office of Tourism Development has produced a map guide titled "John Wilkes Booth: Escape of an Assassin, War on the Chesapeake" that your readers can use to follow in his footsteps. Sites on the map guide include Ford's Theatre, Surratt House Museum and Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum.
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By Jacques Kelly | February 23, 2007
William W. Cahill Jr., a retired trial attorney who was a founder of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, died of heart disease Tuesday at his Timonium home. He was 79. Born in St. Louis and raised in Baltimore's Govans, he was a 1944 graduate of Towson Catholic High School. Mr. Cahill earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola College, where he played baseball and football. He received a law degree from Georgetown Law School, where he later taught trial skills. Admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1950, Mr. Cahill was a Maryland Court of Appeals clerk for a year before joining the Baltimore firm Weinberg & Green.
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By Sandy Alexander | March 20, 2005
Howard County Tourism Inc.'s visitor information center has been on the back of the post office building in historic Ellicott City for almost a decade. But it took new paint, shutters, flags and signs to get many county residents to notice it for the first time. "Since [the redecoration] happened, a number of people have said ` ... I never knew you were here,'" said Ed Lilley, visitor center manager. In fact, the office saw a 50 percent increase in customers from 2003 to 2004, said Executive Director Rachelina Bonacci.
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By Peter Jensen | January 29, 2005
RIINGG. The office phone sprang to life. At first the woman's voice was pained and frantic. Then she got angry. And she wasn't shy about who knew. You have to help me. It's unbelievable. I'm gonna scream. Writing newspaper editorials, it's a job where you hear a lot of things. Not so nice things. Women in distress, that's par for the course. But this one was different. She'd been getting letters, threatening ones. And she'd been forking over money. Quarterly. Been doing it for years.
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By Ivan Penn | July 17, 2004
For decades, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office was regarded by many as the premier office in the country at the tricky and complicated business of prosecuting public corruption. In the late 1960s, '70s, '80s and into the '90s, the office brought down a vice president, a U.S. senator, three congressmen, a speaker of the House of Delegates, a governor, two county executives, a state senator, a city council president, a city councilman, lobbyists, contractors, builders, ministers and others.
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By Stephanie Hanes | August 7, 2003
Pete and Marie Dorso say the trouble started soon after Elton D. Smith moved next door to their stone Randallstown home. The couple - a black woman and an Italian-American man - said their new neighbor called them racist names, told them he wanted them to move and let his car idle under their window until fumes seeped into their home. "It's stunning, but things like this still happen," said Pete Dorso, 47, who with his wife recently won a judgment against the neighbor from the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings.
NEWS
April 2, 2001
Jim Bell named head coach of men's soccer at HCC Jim Bell has been appointed head men's soccer coach at Howard Community College. He will replace coach Armando Guiterrez. Bell, who served as assistant coach at Prince George's Community College for seven years, works for the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission in College Park. He is a program specialist. Stephen C. Smith Jr. promoted at contractors Stephen C. Smith Jr. of the Central Maryland Office of Encompass Services Corp.
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By June Arney | January 19, 2001
A strategic plan that maps out the next five years for Maryland's tourism industry warns that inadequate funding hampers the state's ability to compete and that limited understanding of the value of tourism prevents the sector from receiving more support from elected officials, the business community and the public. "Poor communications hinder coordination and cooperation at all levels of the industry, up and down the chain of command," says the 41-page report created by the consulting team of Economics Research Associates, a national research group, and Means and Partners, based in Montgomery County.
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July 4, 1999
Building more roads takes social toll, but won't ease congestionThe Sun's editorial "Shortchanging transportation" (June 15) rightly urges state leaders to take action on transportation funding.But first we should ask whether we are we spending our transportation funds wisely. Throwing huge sums into road construction is a bankrupt solution that will waste taxpayer dollars.According to national and regional transportation studies, we cannot build our way out of congestion in the Washington or Baltimore regions.