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January 23, 2009
Man gets 35 years for killing corrections officer A Northeast Baltimore man was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in prison for killing a corrections officer in an armed robbery in May 2007. Brandon Wall, 22, of the 2000 block of Hillenwood Road, had pleaded guilty to felony first-degree murder for killing Lt. Perry Brooks, 48, as he sat in his 2004 Nissan Altima in the rear driveway of his home, one block away from where Wall lived. The killing was not related to Brooks' work in the Central Booking and Intake Center.
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By Rita St. Clair | November 8, 2008
We're building a modern-style home that will include a fireplace. It's not the standard kind that's placed against a wall but will instead be situated between the living room and dining room and visible from both. What sort of mantel would be appropriate with such a fireplace? The type of fireplace you're describing is seldom accompanied by any mantel at all. In keeping with its minimalist styling, there are usually no decorative or framing elements around the firebox. Slate, marble and tile are the materials typically used on the surrounding wall.
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June 1, 2008
On May 25, 2008 MR. WALL passed away. A private service will be held at Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | December 6, 2007
Margaret Jane Wall, a registered nurse who had been assistant director of nursing at Union Memorial Hospital for two decades, died Sunday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Baldwin resident was 77. Margaret Jane Shelton was born and raised in Moores Springs, N.C., and graduated in 1947 from Nancy Reynolds High School, where she was a star player on the girls basketball team. She earned her nursing degree in 1951 from the old City Memorial Hospital, now known as Forsyth Medical Center, in Winston-Salem, N.C. After she married Hugh B. Wall Sr., a Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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By Patrick Granfield | November 13, 2007
In the fall of 1972, Baltimore natives Jack Bergman, Ralph Robinson and Ricky Rucker served together aboard the USS Newport News. As they traveled through the Gulf of Tonkin, their ship's second gun turret malfunctioned. Hundreds of pounds of gunpowder ignited, killing 20 crew members and injuring dozens more. Neither Mr. Bergman, Mr. Robinson, nor Mr. Rucker had reached his 21st birthday before they were burned to death that October morning. They became Baltimore's 395th, 396th and 397th sons to die in Vietnam.
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November 2, 2007
Allowing anyone to leave artwork on the wall of the Wall Art Gallery in Ogden, Utah, looked like a great idea on paper. It just didn't look so good on the wall. In an effort to tap the city's grass-roots creative spirit, the gallery let local artists use its outdoor facade as a canvas for freewheeling self-expression. Now the wall will be whitewashed. Some are crying censorship. Most people simply see it as "taking out the trash." Art in public places should have artistic merit. - Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
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By Glenn Hurowitz | May 22, 2007
The biggest - and least talked about - loser in the immigration "grand bargain" announced last week is the planet. The deal amounts to an environmental double-whammy: If enacted, it would cause damage through those provisions meant to increase the number of immigrants in this country and through those designed to keep immigrants out. The legislation requires the construction of 370 miles of border fencing before any liberalizing of immigration is...
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By ROB KASPER | February 10, 2007
Frigid winter weekends keep you in the house, where you end up staring at the same old walls. Then you notice that the paint on those walls is chipped. And then you decide to "touch them up." Before you can say "home improvement," there goes your weekend, and your sanity. Last weekend, I got sucked into two such projects, touching up painted walls in the kitchen and an upstairs hallway. One wall was a satiny light brown, the other a dark shade of blue. As a painter, I was one for two. The success story, the light-brown wall - I think the official color is Antique White - is gorgeous.
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By ELAINE MARKOUTSAS | June 4, 2006
There are no wallflowers among the hippest cover-ups today. Walls are taking on patterns that are big, bold, color-crazy and modern, although sometimes rooted in traditional design. Some trend-spotters say this signals a return to more lavish, over-the-top and possibly even cluttered interiors. It may be a reaction to of-the-moment minimalism that seems to pervade design magazines and retail catalogs. What's different about this renewed craving to put up paper, something we haven't seen a rush to do since the 1980s, is that even some diehard modernists dig it. The pattern may be startling.
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May 4, 2006
The stock market has always been a rough ride for investors. For every boom to thrill us there is a bust to send us scrambling for the exits. Yet today, perhaps more than ever, average Main Street Americans are riding the Wall Street whirlwind without much of a safety net. Between our 401(k) and IRA retirement funds, our 529 plans and brokerage accounts, there are bonds and indexes to ponder, hedges and commodities to analyze. What's needed is a clear-headed adviser to give some reason to this chaos.