ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has created a committee to draft a legislative and congressional redistricting plan for the state. O’Malley announced the five-member Governor’s Redistricting Advisory Committee on July 4. He says the group will immediately develop a schedule of public hearings so that citizens can participate in the process. O’Malley […]
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Prince George’s Police Plan Holiday DUI Checkpoint
PALMER PARK, Md. (AP) — Police in Prince George’s County will be on the lookout this holiday weekend for drunken drivers. The police will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint on Friday from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. They say the checkpoint will be done in the central portion of the county to encourage a safe […]
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NFL Player Raheem Brock Charged in Eatery Dispute
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Longtime NFL defensive end Raheem Brock was arrested in his hometown of Philadelphia after a dispute at a restaurant. Police Lt. Raymond Evers says Brock ran out on a $27 bar tab at Copabanana on Thursday. Bartender Rob Harris tells WTXF-TV that Brock’s party was asked to leave after one of them […]
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NFL Looking into Players’ Casino Investment
DOTHAN, Ala. — The NFL is investigating the reported investment by at least 25 NFL players in an Alabama casino that has been shut down. League spokesman Greg Aiello confirms the investigation Friday, a day after Yahoo! Sports reported that wide receivers Terrell Owens, Santonio Holmes, Santana Moss and other players had invested some $20 […]
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D.C. Police Say Father Killed Girl Found in Trash
WASHINGTON (AP) — The father of a 17-year-old Maryland girl whose body was found in a trash barrel last year in Washington’s Columbia Heights neighborhood has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. D.C. police announced this weekend they had arrested 45-year-old Rodney J. McIntyre of southeast Washington in the killing. Police Chief Cathy Lanier […]
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President Obama and Family Tour Latin America
President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and daughters Sasha and Malia recently took a trip visiting several countries in Latin America, including El Salvador, Chile and Brazil, to promote various initiatives. Michelle Obama with students in San Salvador. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) President Obama with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha touring outside […]
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Amtrak celebrating 40th at DC’s Union Station
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amtrak is celebrating its 40th birthday with a year-long celebration that begins this week. Gladys Knight kicks off the festivities Thursday with a concert at New York City’s Beacon Theatre. She’ll also perform Saturday at Union Station in Washington. Amtrak is calling Saturday “National Train Day,” and the rail carrier is holding […]
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Norfolk Principal Apologizes for Mock Slave Auction
NORFOLK (AP) — A Norfolk school principal has apologized for a classroom activity last week in which a teacher staged a mock auction of Black and mixed-race students as part of a Civil War history lesson. The Virginian-Pilot reports that Sewells Point Elementary School Principal Mary B. Wrushen wrote the students’ parents this week to […]
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Rhee Says She Welcomes Erasure Probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee says she welcomes a probe by the District’s Inspector General into erasures on standardized tests during her tenure. USA Today reported last week that some high-scoring schools touted by Rhee had extraordinarily high numbers of erasures correcting wrong answers. Rhee said Monday in an appearance on […]
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Obama Re-election Launches with E-mail, Website
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign today. And he’s urging grass-roots supporters central to his first White House run to mobilize again to protect the change he’s brought over the past two years. The official start of his second White House bid comes amid three wars, a budget fight with […]
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Immediate End To ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Urged
San Francisco (AP) — Gay rights advocates on Monday filed a challenge to a request by the Obama administration to keep the repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in place while the Pentagon prepares for an end to the ban on allowing gays to serve openly in the military. In a brief filed in the […]
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Sudan Divides, a New Nation is Born
Election officials say the final results from last month’s vote in Southern Sudan show that more than 98 percent of the ballots were cast for independence. The results mean that Southern Sudan will become the world’s newest country in July. Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir said Monday he accepts the outcome of the vote. President Barack […]
