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7

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U.S. stimulus funds prompt quicker area school renovations

Fueled by federal stimulus dollars, school districts in Baltimore City and Baltimore County are speeding up construction projects that have been on hold for years for lack of funding, including the possible construction of the first new city school in a decade.

Place a homeless man called home

Andre K. Haney ran errands, washed cars and swept up leaves for the residents of a secluded block in the city's Harwood neighborhood. The residents - many of them elderly women who have lived in their homes for decades - gave him money and food, and brought him inside for holiday meals.

 
Mark Hughes, a reporter with The Independent, a national UK paper, visits Baltimore to examine if police officers, drug dealers, prosecutors and politicians were accurately portrayed in 'The Wire;' The Sun's Justin Fenton heads to London to compare crime trends between the two cities.

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Essex man, 42, gets life sentence in cocaine case

A 42-year-old Essex man was sentenced to life in prison Friday after he was convicted of dealing...

Three others plead guilty in theft of Cal Ripken's No. 8 sculpture

Three young men pleaded guilty Friday morning in Baltimore Circuit Court to stealing Cal Ripken Jr.'...

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London police commissioner talks about guns, youth gangs

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Mikulski asks attorney general to help dead fire cadet's family

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski asked Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to assist the family of a...

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Jessamy seeking to toughen little-used gang prosecution law

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Off-duty city officer shoots man who stabbed him at strip club

An off-duty Baltimore police officer shot a man who stabbed him during an altercation early Thursday...

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Strengthening its position as a global center in the fight against malaria, the Johns Hopkins...

At Hopkins, Steele says young voters at center of politics

The Republican National Committee chairman told a Johns Hopkins University student audience Thursday...

Western High principal gets national honor

Eleanor Matthews, principal of Western High School in Baltimore, was honored with a Terrel H. Bell...

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Putting Islamic texts online for all

Amy Landau, an Oxford-trained expert in Islamic art who is assistant curator of manuscripts for...

Claim denied in death of cadet

City Fire Department did not send paperwork to support benefit to her kids, U.S. says

City OKs $4,500 for police escort on mayor's vacation in Miami

The city's Board of Estimates approved $4,500 Wednesday for costs associated with sending two police...

Parents' response to swine flu vaccination effort in city lags

With a citywide schools vaccination program to combat swine flu...

Reporters' ride-along turns up a killing, search for a gunman

I got to see crime in Baltimore up close Tuesday night. A...

One of 4 accused of stealing Ripken's No. 8 pleads guilty

One of four young men charged with stealing Cal Ripken Jr.'s aluminum No. 8 sculpture from in...

Baltimore man convicted of 2 killings in Odenton

A Baltimore man who prosecutors say boasted to police about his toughness was convicted Wednesday of...

Police identify 2 men found fatally shot in vehicles

Baltimore police have identified two men found fatally shot in vehicles during a spate of violence...

Kingsley Blake Price, philosophy professor

Kingsley Blake Price, a retired philosophy professor who taught...

H. Lee Allers Jr., lawyer and veteran

H. Lee Allers Jr., a retired attorney who practiced for nearly 60 years, died of complications...

Port of Baltimore breaks cruise passenger record

With two months to go, the Port of Baltimore has surpassed its previous record for cruise...

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David Troy, center, with some of the more than 100 volunteers who have helped put together the...

City jury awards $2.5 million to siblings in lead-paint lawsuit

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Family, friends remember Hopkins victim of hit-and-run

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The 17-year-old twins accused of setting fire to a pit bull will be tried as adults, a judge decided...