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Editor: Your two stories in the editorials on Wednesday, June 22, are right on target. The first one about lessons unlearned never ceases to amaze me how the county government never listens or learns from past experiences. In reference to the reality check needed story, this one has also been proved over and over again. Can't believe it but you are right again! Thanks for pointing this out for all to see. Nothing gets accomplished when it is needed …only if it is politically correct or in a line to help the ones running for office.

An 18-year-old man was arrested and accused of making a false bomb threat on Thursday that targeted the Old Mill school campus in Millersville, Anne Arundel County police said. Matthew Permenter, 18, of Baltimore, was charged with disturbing school operations, threatening to detonate a destructive device and giving a false statement. It could not be immediately determined whether he had obtained a lawyer. Police spokesman Justin Mulcahy said police received a call from the school at around 8:46 a.m. A current student at the school had said a former student posted an item online that a bomb would be placed near the school and target a "Relay for Life" cancer walk event scheduled to take place on Friday evening.

I agree with the article in "GOP rallies against earmarks" (Nov. 17), and I urge the Maryland delegation in Washington to get behind this effort. I have always thought that if you had a favored project that was a good and important project, it should be presented on it's own, and in the light of day, for the other members to vote on. I don't understand how anyone can defend the earmark practice. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said "I am not going, personally, to back off of bringing stuff back to Neveda.

Loyal readers of this page are likely aware that we have not been great supporters of the tea party movement. Too often, we have found those anti-tax crusaders who call themselves tea party patriots are simply rebranded John Birch Society members of an earlier time with all the extremist anti-civil rights, anti-immigration, and anti-United Nations rhetoric that comes with it. But the latest disclosure - gleaned from a draft inspector general's report...

Update: Kohl's is the latest retailer to announce it is opening doors at midnight on Black Friday in Baltimore. And the retailer says it will remain open 24 hours on Friday. It also promises to award customers $15 cash for every $15 spent at Kohls.com or in the store from Nov. 23rd through the 27th. No limit on the cash amount you can earn, Kohl's says. Not sure how Kohl's employees' feel about 24 hour opening. But the petition against Target's early opening continues to gain supporters.

This is the fourth of six profiles on the players the Orioles might target with the No. 4 overall pick in  Monday night's amateur draft . Today:  Kyle Zimmer Name: Kyle Zimmer Position: Right-handed pitcher Age: 20 Height/Weight: 6-foot-4, 220 pounds Bats/Throws: R/R Hometown: La Jolla, Calif. School/Class: University of San Francisco/junior Skinny: Rose to prominence last year and stock keeps rising.  ... Was the Dons' ace in 2012, going 5-3 with a 2.85 ERA in 13 starts, striking out 104 batters while walking just 17 in 88 1/3 innings.

The online petition launched by Target employee Anthony Hardwick has collected more than 190,000 signatures asking Target not to make workers come in on Thanksgiving night. The Minnesota-based retailer is opening at midnight on Black Friday instead of 5 a.m. This change means workers will have to come in no later than 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving, petitioners say. Hardwick is a parking lot attendant in Omaha. Another Target employee delivered the 190,000- plus signatures in person to Target's corporate headquarters yesterday.

The 19-year-old man charged with fatally stabbing Dennis Lane allegedly told investigators that his girlfriend had instructed him to kill her father and his fiancee, specifying the number of times each was to be stabbed in the throat - 10 for him and 15 for her. Jason Anthony Bulmer charging documents In a conversation at school hours before the Ellicott City blogger and businessman was killed, Jason Anthony Bulmer said, 14-year-old Morgan...

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office said Monday that county residents have been hit with a series of suspicious telephone calls in which the caller claims that he's holding a family member captive until an amount - between several hundred and several thousand dollars - is paid because of "damages. " According to information from the Sheriff's Office, suspicious telephone calls are reported to have also been made to Baltimore County and Baltimore City residents. In Carroll County, a Hampstead man and a Mount Airy man each reported receiving a call where the male caller claimed to have been involved in a motor vehicle accident with a member of the victim's immediate family, with the caller citing the correct name of the family member, police said.

Little Leapers was unveiled to an excited crowd of children and caregivers along with program sponsors and library staff on March 27 at the Bel Air library. More than 80 people were in attendance, including 30 children, to see the new kits and have the opportunity to participate in several experiments put on by local scientists. Little Leapers is Harford County Public Library's newest early literacy initiative which consists of pre- and early-literacy kits that focus on fostering and developing pre- and early literacy skills through STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)

There were several notable performances from Maryland basketball recruiting targets during the first major weekend of the spring AAU season. InsideMDSports.com posted a free story on three Terps targets from Team Takeover who played at Nike's first EYBL session in Los Angeles: Obi Enechionyia , Dion Wiley and Martin Geben , the reigning Baltimore Catholic League Player of the Year from St. Maria Goretti .  On which schools...

A doctor might ask for a patient's family disease history, or exercise or smoking habits, but whether they have trouble getting food onto the table or paying energy bills is unlikely to appear on any clinic questionnaire. Those sorts of factors could have just as much, if not more, of an impact on a person's everyday health, argue the founders of a startup out of the Johns Hopkins University. Their company, Healthify, is giving clinics that serve largely low-income populations the means to gather and use that information.

Cellphones and the Internet have not only altered the way we communicate, they have changed the way we can injure one another. The telecommunications revolution has created the capability of causing far greater harm to children than the bullying many of us remember from when we were young. The omnipresent nature of the Internet means that there is no place for the child who is victimized to hide. Not even one's home is a safe haven when repeated, vicious attacks appear on Facebook and Twitter.

Shirley Gregory of Dundalk takes pride in her home, but unwelcome visitors have sometimes thwarted efforts to keep her yard tidy. When she and her husband had a brick patio laid, it wasn't long until the bricks were caving into the ground. Rats had burrowed in a nearby yard and dug tunnels into Gregory's property. "I was, like, shocked - that's what a rat did," said Gregory, president of the St. Helena Community Association. "Well, more than one rat. Quite a few rats. " Gregory was one of more than 100 people who turned out Saturday morning for a community cleanup.

The Orioles' team doctor, William H. Goldiner, tended to orange-clad ballplayers at the same time as he diagnosed thousands of blue-collar workers with asbestos-related illnesses whose cases were taken up by prominent lawyer and team owner Peter G. Angelos. Angelos' firm is seeking to revive thousands of dormant asbestos cases, but some of the underlying diagnoses are facing new scrutiny from defense lawyers. They say Goldiner's dual roles call the integrity of his work into question - a contention he says is "insulting and absolutely false.