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Annapolis renames street for George and Marion Phelps
George and the late Marion Phelps are being recognized Wednesday when officials rename Middle Street in the Parole neighborhood of Annapolis for them at a 4 p.m. ceremony. George Phelps was the first African-American sheriff's deputy in Anne Arundel...Tags: Annapolis, United States Naval Academy
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The Doctor is right for Stanley Cup Finals
The Orange County RegisterIs there a more perfect match in sports broadcasting than Mike "Doc" Emrick and the Stanley Cup playoffs? No one's better at capturing the frenzied drama of postseason hockey. No one comes up with more ways to elegantly describe shots, passes, checks and...Tags: Football, New York Yankees, Entertainment, Television, Soccer
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Barbara Ingram grad opens one-woman exhibit at Washington County Arts Council
Artist Erin Mettille opened her one-woman exhibit and hosted an opening reception at the Washington County Arts Council May 30. Mettille’s art was chosen from multiple submissions to be the “look” of the 18th annual Western Maryland...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Arts
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Do not take food from the needy
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceCongress should not cut federal nutritional assistance. I know. I myself have received needed assistance. In 2009, in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, millions of Americans made a discovery they had apparently given...Tags: Kanye West, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Malcolm X, Justice System
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Judge reluctantly sends guard to prison for killing aspiring rapper
Calling it perhaps the most distressing case of his career, a Lehigh County judge on Tuesday reluctantly sentenced a security guard to state prison for gunning down a rapper who the judge said "glorified drug use and violence." Judge Robert L. Steinberg...
Tags: Laws, Shootings, Justice System, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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Unitarian teens tour civil rights battlefields
The luggage kept cascading out the back of the two Dodge Grand Caravans as 10 teenagers from Orlando's University Unitarian Universalist Society prepared Monday for a five-day tour of civil-rights memorials and museums. Once everything was secured,...
Tags: Minority Groups, Travel, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Human Interest, Justice and Rights
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Cynthia Rohlf named interim Newport News city manager
NEWPORT NEWS — The City Council on Tuesday named Assistant City Manager Cynthia D. Rohlf to be interim city manager, beginning June 1. Rohlf succeeds City Manager Neil Morgan, who retires on May 31. Rohlf's salary as interim city manager...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), University of Pittsburgh, Denbigh, Local Elections
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A.J. Duffy, still-feisty former teachers union chief, retires
The lineup of must-see videos for the high school class on public speaking was notable: Hitler, Martin Luther King Jr., Mussolini, President Obama — and A.J. Duffy, the former president of the L.A. teachers union and also the instructor. The...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Academic Progress, Heroin, Teaching and Learning, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez
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Harold Jackson: Congress should address looming physician shortage
The Philadelphia InquirerThat the Affordable Care Act will open the doors to consistent health care for more people is a good thing, but it will also make a predicted nationwide shortage of doctors even worse unless steps are taken to increase the number of physicians. Of...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Africa, High Blood Pressure, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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L.A. County holds clinics on hepatitis A linked to Costco berries
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is holding clinics over the weekend for consumers who may have been exposed to hepatitis through frozen berries sold at Costco. At least 30 cases of hepatitis A nationwide may be linked to Townsend...Tags: Hepatitis, Health, Hepatitis A , Viral Diseases and Infections, Hospitals and Clinics
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The Rev. Dr. Alfred A. Vaughn, Methodist pastor
The Rev. Dr. Alfred A. Vaughn, who had pastored United Methodist churches for nearly 40 years, died May 21 of heart disease at his Cedonia home. He was 90. "He was clear, insightful and persuasive but not loud. He was gentle. That is the way he was as...
Tags: Sprague, Dwayne Johnson, Cherry Hill, Methodist, New York City
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Slaying of Baltimore civil rights protester still unsolved
Everyone begged William Lewis Moore not to go to Mississippi. His pastor told him he would get killed walking around in a sandwich board sign protesting segregation. His family worried about where he would sleep and eat. Even fellow civil rights...
Tags: Radio, Shootings, Justice System, Northwood, Police Investigations
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