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By John M. Glionna | September 20, 2009
SANTA BARBARA, Philippines - -Looking down the main drag of this farm town, Police Chief Eric Noble marvels at the modern conveniences - byproducts of the fierce ties binding Philippine families. Sturdy houses with concrete foundations now replace the thatched huts of a generation ago. There are new cars, washing machines, children attending private schools and former sharecroppers who have purchased the farms where they once worked as lowly laborers. Such economic progress has come from remittances, the staggering $1 billion sent to families nationwide each month by Filipinos working overseas in an attempt to overcome extreme poverty and joblessness in their native land.
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By Brent Jones | August 1, 2009
Marialou Anobas doesn't use the word "lucky" to describe herself because, as she sees it, surviving a hotel bombing and winning the lottery in the same lifetime requires more than just good fortune. Instead, the registered nurse will simply say somebody has a plan for her life, and the winding road that led her from her native Philippines, to Saudi Arabia, to Kuwait, to the United States, to winning $250,000 in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing becomes more fulfilling every day. Anobas was one number away from claiming the $60 million jackpot.
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By Peter Hermann | July 18, 2009
Baltimore County police and federal immigration agents raided a Fells Point bar July 8 searching for four high-powered handguns that authorities said had been purchased by the club owner with the help of a foreign national visiting from the Philippines, according to reports filed Friday with the city's liquor board. The guns, which each cost about $1,200, are described in the reports as FN 5.7 mm pistols manufactured by FN Herstal in Belgium that fire military-style rounds at high velocity, capable of piercing ballistic body armor.
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By From Sun news services | July 12, 2009
Attorney general leaning toward torture inquiry WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric H. Holder is leaning toward appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate whether CIA personnel tortured terrorism suspects after Sept. 11, 2001, setting the stage for a conflict with Obama administration officials who would prefer that the issues remain in the past, according to sources familiar with his thinking. Naming a prosecutor to probe alleged abuses during the Bush era would run counter to President Barack Obama's oft-repeated desire to be "looking forward, not backward."
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May 17, 2009
Murray J. Adams, Jr., well known vintage car collector and a respected contributor/member of the Catonsville Community for the last 50 plus years, was married to Ms. Gloria Nuestro Uy in a civil ceremony in Towson, MD on 12/23/08, followed by a Dinner Reception. Murray is a graduate of St. Paul's School, Calvert Hall College, University of Baltimore, and New York Institute of Finance. Murray is a former Financial Controller of Baker Watts & Co., and CEO of his firm, American Senior Financial Services, now retired living in the High Fields section of Catonsville.
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By Marie Gullard | April 11, 2008
Taylor Hubbard's interesting background called for an equally interesting and unique place to call home. The son of American diplomats, he grew up in several parts of the world and spent a long time in the Philippines, where his father served as ambassador. Hubbard's collection of Asian furniture, arts and artifacts would travel with him from a Washington rental property to his first home in Baltimore. In February 2007, Hubbard, a freelance writer and editor, purchased a quaint, circa 1790 two-story brick rowhouse with a third-floor garret on Tyson Street in the city's Mount Vernon neighborhood.
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January 20, 2008
War messes with soldiers' minds. On Nov. 25, 1906, The Sun reported that a Warrenton, Va., man pleaded with a judge in Washington for leniency for his son, claiming that he was a victim of his three years' service in the Army fighting insurgents in the Philippines. On his return to the U.S., Harry Pattie had been sent to an "asylum" for three months; a week after his release, he was in court, charged with theft from a saloon on Pennsylvania Avenue. His father said the Philippine climate had affected his son's brain - and it's not hard to suppose that it was the climate of fear and brutality surrounding the guerrilla war there, rather than the climate of heat and humidity, that he was talking about.
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By New York Times News Service | January 19, 2008
Bobby Fischer, the iconoclastic genius who was one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, has died, a close family friend, Gardar Sverrisson, confirmed yesterday. He was 64 and died Thursday in a hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fischer died of kidney failure after a long illness, Sverrisson told the Associated Press. Mr. Sverrisson, who lived in the same apartment building in Reykjavik as Mr. Fischer, said: "He was a close family friend, and we all miss him very much." Mr. Fischer, the most powerful American player in history, had moved to Iceland in 2005.
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By Nick Madigan | October 31, 2007
Even as a teenager, breaking swimming records at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, Joey Curreri was leaving a mark as deep as his churning wake in the water. "He was, hands down, the most motivated individual I've ever encountered," said Brad Schertle, a fellow swimmer and longtime friend. "Joey was Michael Phelps before Michael Phelps was." The Pentagon announced yesterday that Staff Sgt. Joseph F. Curreri, a 27-year-old Green Beret in the Army's Special Forces, drowned last week while serving in the Philippines.
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By Paul Watson and Al Jacinto | January 18, 2007
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines -- A militant leader linked to al-Qaida and wanted in the beheading of a tourist from California has been killed in a jungle battle, the Philippine army announced yesterday. The military first reported that it had wounded Jainal Antel Sali Jr., also known as Abu Solaiman, on Tuesday when special forces raided an Abu Sayyaf militant group hide-out on Jolo Island, about 600 miles south of Manila. But Sali, also wanted in the kidnapping of two American missionaries, was later confirmed dead at a news conference in Manila at which the chief of the armed forces, Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, showed photographs of the corpse.