NEWS
By Alli Harper | June 19, 2011
My dad spoke Kid — even Adult Kid. He knew that in challenging times, an "I'll be OK" from my brother or me really meant, "Stick with me. " Even when unsure of exactly what to do, he would just show up. I do not mean he would move in or plant on our couch — I mean that he would help us come up with a game plan, and then call every three hours even if just to say, "I love you. " In Kid, these calls translated into: "You are not alone. " He practiced the gospel of the "FUNdamentals," as he wrote the term he preached from our first lacrosse toss in the backyard and through his team dad years.
SPORTS
By Edward Lee and Edward Lee,Sun reporter | September 19, 2007
The football sliced through the air, remaining in a tight spiral until the ball struck its intended target - the crossbar. The resounding clang would have drawn groans from Ravens kicker Matt Stover, but it was a beautiful sound to cornerback Chris McAlister, who had launched the football. The cornerback's throwing a football at the goal posts on a practice field at the team's training facility in Owings Mills is part of a pre-practice contest during which several Ravens test their quarterback skills.
NEWS
By MARY ELLEN SLAYTER and MARY ELLEN SLAYTER,CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE | December 9, 2005
Maryland Agricultural Commission, meet the Agricultural Stewardship Commission. One group answers to the governor, the other to the Senate president and House speaker. Both plan to make recommendations for the 2006 legislative session on how to best preserve farming in Maryland, and not necessarily the same ones. Not that the agriculture community is complaining. "We're just delighted that we've got that much interest in farming now," said Lewis R. Riley, secretary of the state Department of Agriculture.
NEWS
By Frank D. Roylance and Frank D. Roylance,SUN STAFF | July 3, 2005
Not everyone is as excited as cometary scientists are about NASA's plans to blast a hole in a comet this weekend. Uncertainties about what will happen when Deep Impact's impactor plows into the comet's nucleus have stirred anxiety and anger in some circles about the space agency's eagerness to fool with Mother Nature. Writing in January in an online forum called "John P. Hoke's Asylum," a contributor identifying himself as Rob Razor said, "I just don't think it's a good idea to be placing bombs on comets."
NEWS
By Tricia Bishop and Tricia Bishop,SUN STAFF | November 27, 2003
The Howard County Council is poised to make official a longstanding practice to employ an easier standard for granting zoning changes to construct schools and other government buildings. Now, governmental agencies, such as the school system, do not have to meet the strict standards used by the county Board of Appeals when asking for construction variances for its buildings, as other entities do. They deal only with the County Council, which has a much more lenient criterion: that the variance be in the "public interest."
BUSINESS
By BLOOMBERG NEWS | August 7, 2003
MIAMI - Burger King Corp., the second-largest U.S. hamburger chain, said yesterday that it has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating Coca-Cola Co. for possible accounting fraud. Burger King will comply with the subpoena seeking records relating to a rigged marketing test for Frozen Coke in March 2000, said Rob Doughty, a spokesman for the Miami-based hamburger chain. Coca-Cola, the world's largest soft-drink maker, said last week that it had settled a dispute with Burger King, retaining the company as a customer.