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The Jewish Roots of Old Bay Seasoning
Old Bay is more than just your favorite spice — it’s a story of the discrimination that Jewish immigrants faced, their perseverance against such hate, and their contribution to the American identity and kitchen.
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Urban forests are dying. Baltimore shows us how to bring them back.
Walk through Baltimore’s neighborhoods, and look up. The fan-shaped ginkgo leaves and ruby-red pearls dangling from cherry branches are the literal fruits of how Gene DeSantis has spent the predominant part of his life. On Saturdays, the slight, cap-wearing 57-year-old plants trees. By his count, 15,223 of them over the past 40 years.
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'Everybody feels free here': Baltimore's nightclub for disabled adults fosters love, friendship and inclusion
By the time the doors open 15 minutes early that Saturday night, dozens are lined up to get inside. Women wear wedges and bodysuits that hug their curves. Men sport collared shirts and their favorite sneakers. Some have caregivers guiding them; others need wheelchairs. Many wear the signature T-shirts stamped with the logo, Club 1111.
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Raymond Anthony Lewis Jr. (Happy Birthday!) OC
Raymond Anthony Lewis Jr. is a former American football linebacker who played all of his 17-year professional career for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He previously played college football for the University of Miami, and earned All-America honours. Lewis was drafted by the Ravens in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and upon his retirement following the 2012 season, was the last remaining active player from the team’s inaugural season. Lewis played middle linebacker his entire career, and is considered to be one of the greatest ever to play the position. He was a 13-time Pro Bowler, a 10-time All-Pro, ...
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Clarence Shipley exonerated of murder after 27 years in prison
A Baltimore City man is free after serving 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. "I'm going to do God's work, whatever God allows me to do. That's what I want to do," Clarence Shipley said after being released. In 1992, Shipley was convicted of first-degree murder of Kevin Smith. His conviction has been tossed out and the charges dropped after Shipley served 27 years in prison.
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Shooting reported at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis
A shooting has occurred at the Capital Gazette in Anne Arundel County, a paper that is owned by The Baltimore Sun, according to reports from Gazette staff.
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Baltimore man gets 35 years for joining Somali terror group
Maalik Alim Jones, 33, was sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty to terror conspiracy charges. Prosecutors say he went to Somalia to join al-Shabab.
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It's not just homicides that have increased in Baltimore — commercial robberies are up 88 percent
Jalina Thompson hardly noticed the two customers who walked into her Metro PCS store in Northeast Baltimore in January with their hoods pulled tight. Temperatures in the city had been frigid for days. Then one of the men placed a gun on the counter and demanded cash. “This is real,” he said. “I need you to move fast.”
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Baltimore police guilty of robbing citizens
A federal jury has found two Baltimore police officers guilty for their role in a sprawling police corruption case that involved robbing city residents. Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor were convicted of racketeering and robbery charges and cleared of others. They were part of an elite unit tasked with seizing illegal firearms. But instead the squad went rogue, stealing cash and guns and reselling drugs.
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Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
In April 2016, a 13-year-old boy was shot by officers of the Baltimore Police Department. The boy ran when faced with the police, so they gave chase. During the chase, the police spotted the boy holding a gun, and when he turned, they shot the teenager. The youngster wasn’t critically injured, and it seemed like an open-and-shut case of a justifiable use of force.
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Why Baltimore Doesn’t Heat Its Schools
In postindustrial Baltimore, low-income residents are treated as expendable — and public services are slashed accordingly. By Lester Spence.
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Bloomfield Man Killed By Police Was Aspiring Rapper 'Gangstalicious'
The Bloomfield man shot and killed by New Britain police last week was an aspiring rapper who called himself “Gangstalicious” and had built a substantial following on YouTube, an attorney who knew him said Sunday. Hartford attorney Wesley Spears said he was shocked to learn how 20-year-old Zoe Dowdell had died. Dowdell was behind the wheel of a car suspected in multiple carjackings and robberies when he struck police vehicles and drove toward officers in an attempt to flee as they tried to stop him, police have said.
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The thought police: five works of philosophy that every cop should read
Police officers in Baltimore have been making novel use of their notebooks. Anything Plato has said may be taken down and used, not as evidence against him, but in the classroom, where detective Ed Gillespie has made the ancient Greek philosopher part of the force’s annual in-service training. Gillespie gets his students to discuss cases of police misconduct in terms of Plato’s tripartite model of the soul, which holds that our behaviour is governed, at times, by either the intellect, the “spirit” or the “appetites”.
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Bloomberg donates $5 million to Baltimore police for new cameras, technology
Bloomberg Philanthropies is donating $5 million to help the Baltimore Police Department enhance crime-fighting technology — including buying more surveillance cameras, gun-shot detection software and license plate readers. The grant money will go to purchase 60 new Citiwatch surveillance cameras, 25 new mobile license plate readers and gunshot detection software to cover 10 miles of East and West Baltimore, city officials said.
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Slain Baltimore detective was to testify in indicted officers case
Slain Baltimore homicide detective Sean Suiter was scheduled to testify before a federal grand jury in the case against a squad of indicted officers, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis confirmed Wednesday evening. The new information brings together two cases that have sent shockwaves through city law enforcement and the city as a whole: the indictment of eight members of an elite gun task force who are accused of shaking down citizens for years and conspiring with drug dealers, and the first killing of an on-duty officer by a suspect in 10 years.
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Eighth Baltimore Police officer arrested, indicted on federal racketeering charges
Baltimore Police Sergeant Thomas Allers has been arrested on federal racketeering charges. He is the eighth Baltimore City police officer charged in a scandal involving the department's Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF). According to the federal indictment, Allers stole money from victims, swore out false affidavits and submitted false incident reports. The 49-year-old joined BPD in 1996. He was tabbed to head the GTTF, a specialized unit created to investigate gun crimes, in July 2013.
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Oldest Christopher Columbus monument in the US vandalized in Baltimore amid monument controversy
A Christopher Columbus monument in Baltimore was vandalized overnight on Monday by protesters rallying against “hate-filled monuments,” the Baltimore Brew reported. Protesters smashed a hole in the monument, rendering its inscription, “Sacred to the Memory of Chris. Columbus Oct. XII MDCC VIIIC,” unreadable, the Brew reported. The destroyed monument was accompanied by signs reading “Racism: Tear it Down” and “The future is racial and economic justice.”
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Baltimore Quietly Removes Four Confederate Monuments
Mayor Catherine Pugh said the statues “needed to come down”
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Baltimore police officials disturbed by body camera video, sources say
Within the Baltimore Police Department, officials have called newly released body camera footage that appears to show officers placing drugs in a car especially disturbing, CBS News homeland security and justice correspondent Jeff Pegues reports.
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Off-duty Baltimore County police officer fatally shoots shoplifting suspect in Catonsville
A man suspected of shoplifting was shot to death by an off-duty Baltimore County police officer as he attempted to flee outside a grocery store in Catonsville before dawn Tuesday, authorities said. The man, whose name was not released, had been attempting to steal detergent from the Giant Food at U.S. 40 and Rolling Road about 4 a.m. when the officer, who was working as security, confronted him in the parking lot, Baltimore County police said.
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