NEWS
By Elisabeth Hoffman | July 29, 2007
Confession: My son is in the gun phase. At least, I hope it's a phase. At 12, he has a collection of 20 or so. Most are Airsoft guns that shoot pea-sized plastic pellets; a few are BB guns. In addition, he has an arsenal of water-blasting guns. He also wants one that shoots little marshmallows. Another confession: I bought many of these guns, helped him buy others and let him use my credit card to buy yet more. So, I am enabling my son's gun habit. I protested the Vietnam War, and a sign in front of our house says, "Another Family for Peace."
NEWS
By Amy Oakes | November 25, 1999
Saddled with a 31-year-old project she inherited when she took office, Anne Arundel County Executive Janet S. Owens has promised residents living near the East-West Boulevard project that she will consider abandoning the third and final phase of the construction.Owens met with residents of the Lake Waterford, Brittingham and Pasadena neighborhoods Tuesday night in Pasadena to hear their opinions and concerns about the project, which would connect Veterans Highway to Route 2. Nearly two-thirds of the project has been completed.
BUSINESS
By Sean Somerville | September 17, 1999
Comsat Corp. shares climbed 27 percent yesterday after the Department of Justice said it would not oppose Lockheed Martin Corp.'s plans to acquire the satellite service company for $2.5 billion.The move clears the way for Lockheed to buy 49 percent of Comsat's shares by a deadline tomorrow, completing the first phase in a two-phase transaction. Lockheed's purchase of the rest of the company will require require congressional action, because law prevents one company from owning more than 50 percent of government-created Comsat.
SPORTS
By John Eisenberg | April 25, 1999
Some numbers to ponder while waiting for the Orioles to pull out of this "slump":They have lost 24 of their last 30 games and 35 of their last 49 dating to last season.They're five games under .500 since sweeping the Braves 277 games ago in June 1997.Yes, that's a period that has included two front office regimes, numerous personnel moves and several blueprints, but still, the pattern is impossible to miss.You can keep calling their 4-13 start a slump or a phase or whatever, but the reality is the Orioles aren't a winning ballclub and haven't been for some time.
NEWS
By Lisa Respers | October 20, 1999
County and state officials will join Randallstown residents tomorrow to celebrate completion of the first phase of a $1.1 million Liberty Road streetscape project -- one of several efforts to improve the appearance of older Baltimore County communities.Ella White Campbell, executive director of the Liberty Road Community Council, said improvements to the facade of Liberty Court Shopping Center and the streets around it give a boost to the neighborhood."Liberty Road sets the tone for the community," Campbell said.
NEWS
By Ellen Goodman | August 7, 1998
BOSTON -- Ever since it was discovered that Russell Weston Jr., the man charged with the Capitol murders, had a cabin in Rimini, Mont., we have been subject to yet another round of stories, titled loosely: There's something about Montana.What is it about the "last best place" that breeds, attracts or harbors the Freemen, the Kehoes, the Unabomber and the Westons? Psycho- and socio-babblers have all weighed in with theories about the isolation, the altitude, the power of myth.But I have come up with a much simpler and more logical explanation.
BUSINESS
By Lorraine Mirabella | June 25, 1998
Shoppers at Maryland's newest factory outlet center, opening this August in Hagerstown, will find dozens of familiar, nationally known brands, among them Gap, Polo Ralph Lauren, Jones New York, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew and Nike.The developer, Baltimore-based Prime Retail Inc., plans to announce leases with about 45 merchants today during a preview tour of the village-style Prime Outlets at Hagerstown, which is under construction. The center, at the northwest corner of Interstate 70 and Route 65 in Washington County, will open Aug. 7.The 218,000-square-foot first phase will house about 60 stores, an enclosed food court, a playground and a customer-service center, all designed around landscaped pedestrian walkways and courtyards.
NEWS
By Candus Thomson | February 21, 1998
The judge in Ruthann Aron's murder-for-hire trial has reversed a decision and will allow the jury to hear at the same time evidence about the alleged crime and whether she was sane.In December, Montgomery County Circuit Judge Paul A. McGuckian granted prosecutors' request for a two-phase trial that would first determine Aron's guilt or innocence on murder-solicitation charges, then, if she was found guilty, determine whether she was responsible for her actions.Aron's lawyers said it would be nearly impossible to defend their client if they had to hold back evidence about her mental condition before her arrest in June.
FEATURES
By Lyle Denniston | October 18, 1998
"Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary," by Juan Williams. Times Books (Random House). 404 pages. $27.50.No one - not even Martin Luther King Jr. - is more a folk hero to African-Americans than Baltimore's own, Thurgood Marshall. And justly so: It was Marshall who fashioned the legal strategy that finally began the dismantling of racial segregation in American life.And it was Marshall, civil rights lawyer, federal judge, government advocate, and the first of his race to become a Supreme Court justice, who bequeathed a potential life of equality to even the poorest in the most neglected and pathetic ghetto.
NEWS
By From staff reports | July 22, 1998
LUTHERVILLE -- Two accidents that occurred at nearly the same time yesterday afternoon clogged southbound Interstate 83 and parts of Interstate 695 near Towson.The accidents -- a car fire and a separate, two-car crash -- took place within minutes of each other beginning at 1: 25 p.m., said State Highway Administration spokesman David Buck.No lanes were closed in the Beltway accident, while all lanes in I-83 were closed temporarily, said Maryland State Police Sgt. Robert Lipsky. There were no injuries in either accident, Lipsky said.