Recently added articles from The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD):
Frost family draws ire of conservatives.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Matthew Hay Brown Oct. 10--When Halsey and Bonnie Frost agreed to go public with how the State Children's Health Insurance Program helped them after a car crash left two of their children comatose, the Baltimore couple expected to hear from critics of government-funded ...
Couple on honeymoon killed in Mont. plane crash.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Sumathi Reddy Oct. 10--The couple, in their 50s, married in a quaint ceremony in Tulsa, Okla., on Sept. 29 before honeymooning at a friend's cabin in Montana. On Sunday, they set out in the husband's twin-engine Cessna 310, planning to fly home to Baltimore ...
Md. mission adds to data on Jupiter.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Frank D. Roylance Oct. 10--Like Columbus cruising the Canary Islands en route to the New World, the Maryland-run New Horizons spacecraft got a close look at Jupiter last February on its way to a 2015 first date with the dwarf planet Pluto. Data from the ...
Thompson takes center stage.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: David Nitkin Oct. 10--As quips ricocheted around him, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson largely stayed away from the one-liners during his first presidential debate yesterday, sticking to the low-key style that has drawn derision during his month on the campaign trail ....
Tennis attempts to smash gambling.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Sandra McKee Oct. 10--Hall of Fame player Pam Shriver did not mince words last night when asked about the four major organizations in professional tennis uniting to keep the sport free from gambling influences. "They have to do this," Shriver said. "In the ...
Baking tips that take the cake: Bookmark.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Joannah Hill Oct. 10-->>>Southern Cakes By Nancie McDermott Chronicle Books Potter / 2007 / $19.95 Life is sweet in the South. The iced tea is thick and syrupy, pecan pie oozes onto the plate -- and there's nothing like a big slice of ...
Online gamble bets fans will pay for album.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Rashod D. Ollison Oct. 10--The consensus seems to be that it's a risky move but a brilliant one nonetheless. Radiohead, the multiplatinum British rock band, bucks conventional "record" industry wisdom today by releasing its new album, In Rainbows, exclusively on the ...
Greene Turtle creeps outward: Md. chain plans regional, perhaps national growth.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Andrea K. Walker Oct. 10--A backgammon table and a dart board: Those were the closest sports-related activities the Greene Turtle Sports Bar and Grille offered customers when it opened more than 30 years ago with a single location in Ocean City. The original ...
Md. to help Howard find uninsured kids: Income tax records to be used to identify needy families.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Larry Carson Oct. 10--State Comptroller Peter Franchot has agreed to cull state income tax records to identify Howard County families who might qualify for health care assistance and then send them letters offering help, county officials said yesterday. "Who ...
Teachers call for ouster of Alonso: With contract talks at impasse, union pickets school board.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Sara Neufeld Oct. 10--Rallying on the sidewalk outside city school system headquarters last night, Baltimore teachers and their supporters called for the ouster of schools chief Andres Alonso and the school board. About 150 people protested before and during a ...
Argument ruled out in Navy doctor's case.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Bradley Olson Oct. 10--WASHINGTON -- A military judge declined yesterday to allow prosecutors to argue that a Navy doctor accused of secretly taping midshipmen having sex in his Annapolis home deliberately altered his handwriting to keep a key piece of evidence from ...
BRIEF: Woman rescued from house fire.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Brent Jones Oct. 10--Rocky Scott was selling newspapers at Greenmount and North avenues yesterday when a cloud of smoke rose from a nearby three-story rowhouse. Scott, a vendor for The Sun, and three other men went into the burning house in the 400 block of ...
Improved pensions OK'd for Carroll sheriff's deputies.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Laura McCandlish Oct. 10--Hoping to improve recruiting and retention, the Carroll County commissioners approved yesterday a plan to improve pension benefits for sheriff's deputies, who are thought to have one of the smallest compensation packages among Maryland law ...
Bill on pit bulls attacked: Gardina says he'll move ahead, despite likely failure.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Josh Mitchell Oct. 10--A Baltimore County Council member said yesterday that his effort to require pit bull owners to muzzle their dogs in public and cage them at home was likely to fail, as dozens of people urged council members to defeat the proposal. But ...
5 in car, pedestrian injured in accident: Vehicle strikes man, goes past stop sign, hits tree, police say.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Nicole Fuller and Gina Davis Oct. 10--A 16-year-old driver and her four passengers were injured, one critically, after she struck a pedestrian, narrowly missed another and crashed her car into a tree while speeding down a neighborhood street in northern Anne Arundel ...
Dogfighting case called weak: Investigators were 'caught up' in emotion in wake of Michael Vick publicity, lawyer says.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Justin Fenton Oct. 10--The attorney representing a Severna Park man accused of holding dogfights at his home said yesterday that investigators had slapped together a weak case after becoming "emotionally caught up" in the outcry that followed the Michael Vick case. ...
Ulman wants to create environmental office: Administration is proposing a Cabinet-level position and an advisory panel as recommended by citizens group.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Larry Carson Oct. 10--The administration of County Executive Ken Ulman is moving to create a Cabinet-level environmental office and a companion advisory panel as recommended recently by a citizens commission, but the County Council's lone Republican member questioned at ...
EDITORIAL: President general.(Editorial)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf got himself elected president in a country where polls show Osama bin Laden is more popular than he is. Of course, the electorate in last week's balloting was confined to members of the national and regional legislatures. And, oh yes, opposition groups ...
BRIEF: Accident closes lanes on I-795: One person taken to Shock Trauma after two-car crash.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--A two-car accident closed all lanes this morning on Interstate 795 shortly after 6 a.m., according to Maryland State Police officials. The accident, between exits 7 and 9, occurred in the southbound lanes and took nearly an hour to clear. One man involved in the ...
The Baltimore Sun Rob Kasper column: Squash becomes welcome invader.(Column)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Rob Kasper Oct. 10--It sat in the kitchen for days, looming over me as I ate. It seemed to be asking, when am I going to be invited to a meal? It was the butternut squash that came to dinner, forcibly. I had not planted it in my garden; instead the ...