NEWS
Lionel Foster | December 20, 2012
Twenty years from now, I will tell people I was present at the creation. One evening last fall, my colleague Jason Toraldo walked into my office and asked if I could troubleshoot a problem he was having on Facebook. He had recently put up a page for a small business he owned and wanted to connect it to his personal account. I'm reasonably tech savvy, but I wasn't prepared for what I saw. A nervous pig dressed like a middle-aged man, in slacks and an argyle sweater, was entangled in a pine tree and a string of colorful lights.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun | May 7, 2014
Sometimes, late at night, Glennae Williams is startled awake by a crash. "Are you ok, Ma?" she calls to her mother. Her mother, DaVeeda White, has fallen again. She gets up to use the bathroom and her legs collapse, just as they have been collapsing since Glennae was a little girl. "I'm on the floor," White calls back. She knows her daughter will come. These are not the kinds of nights one associates with the last exhausted, exuberant, anxious weeks of college. Williams stays up late cramming for finals and fretting about grades, then rushes off to work in the morning.
EXPLORE
August 30, 2011
Abell Avenue 3300 block, between 6:30 and 8 p.m. Aug. 25. Burgundy, 1990 Lexus LS400 with Maryland tags 6FMM35 stolen. S. Edgecombe Circle 2900 block, between 2:45 p.m. Aug. 22 and 12:59 a.m. Aug. 23. Gold, 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee with Maryland tags 61147M6 stolen. St. Paul Street 3600 block, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Aug. 22. Garmin GPS, GPS stand stolen from vehicle. Tudor Arms Avenue 3900 block, between 12:01 and 8 a.m. Aug. 25. Stereo, iPod stolen from vehicle.
NEWS
By KEVIN HUNT and KEVIN HUNT,khunt@courant.com | September 16, 2008
So, rock star, you've got your own little recording studio and you're laying down some hot tracks while admiring how great you sound on tricked-out studio monitors. Big deal. Anyone can bring home those studio monitors - in our world, they're known as powered loudspeakers - and create an instant sound system with an iPod, computer or even a television. Here are two reasons the nonmusician might like pro-type studio monitors in your home: Imagine tossing your favorite stereo system in a trash compactor and out pop two bookshelf speakers, each with an amplifier, volume control, on-off switch and power cord, ready to play.
NEWS
By Melissa Harris and Melissa Harris,SUN REPORTER | May 11, 2007
Josephine Hill came home from the hospital in the spring of 2004 unable to climb the stairs to her bedroom. At the recommendation of her doctors, her husband, Ian T. Hill, converted the living room into a bedroom, kept a baby monitor at her side and acquired a hospital bed to keep her more comfortable. The bed, Ian Hill believes, is what killed her. Hill and his three children are suing Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, the company that provided the electric bed, for $10 million. They allege that the bed's motor ignited in August 2004 and caused a fire that fatally burned Josephine Hill, 65, and destroyed their Ellicott City home.
NEWS
July 7, 1993
Task force to deal with Columbia Association's outdoor poolsThe Columbia Council has created a task force to analyze issues surrounding the operation of the Columbia Association's 21 outdoor pools, as well as the future of the association's pool system.Roy Lyons, newly elected council representative for the Village of Long Reach, will head the committee. The task force will meet later this summer and will make a report and recommendations to the Columbia Council in November.Columbia residents interested in participating on the task force should apply in writing by July 15 to Pam Mack, director of community relations, at the Columbia Association, 10221 Wincopin Circle, Suite 100, Columbia 21044.