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The newly launched foodtrader.org, touted as Maryland's online farmers' market, is helping area growers connect with customers who want to buy locally-grown and made products, such as those offered at the ...

Workers removed scaffolding from the old American Brewery's towers, revealing a 19th century exuberance of restored copper, slate, brick and brownstone.

The death last week of a 2-year-old boy found in a family pool in Golden Beach brought new tragedy to his relatives, who have endured the loss of other kinfolk who were killed by gunfire or disappeared.

O'Malley Bob, Mount Washington: [Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley] proclaims a drop of 40 percent in violent crime and progress in [the] school system, yet the murder rate [is] still quite high and it seems ...

Linda S. Woolf doesn't go around thinking of herself as a "female managing partner." The head of Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann LLP said she doesn't go out of her way to talk about being a female law firm ...

Baltimore attorney and Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos has pledged a $5 million matching grant for a new law center at the University of Baltimore that could transform the midtown architectural landscape.

The blue crabs are digging out and heading into the warmer waters of St. Mary's tidal tributaries, just in time for the 23rd St.

For the Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Department, their piece of what later evolved into a complex investigation into illegal gambling machines began with some thefts at a local high school.

"There was obviously money in these machines"

Baltimore County police served 40 search warrants all over the county, seizing more than 100 illegal video gaming machines in the past week. via Baltimore Examiner

Middle school open houses for next school year's incoming sixth-graders and their parents start at 6 p.m. Margaret Brent Monday, May 12 Esperanza Tuesday, May 13 Leonardtown Monday, May 19 Spring Ridge ... via The Enterprise

"Those properties are at risk of being converted to market rates, bulldozed or of losing their subsidies."

May 6, 2008 12:00 AM by G.M. Corrigan , The Examiner Greater Baltimore AHC Director Andrew Vincent stands with project managers Sakinah Linder, left, and Allison Pendell Jones, in their office in Baltimore. via Baltimore Examiner

"So much of the public money in public education is going toward core functions. To offer innovative options for students, very often private funding becomes the way to do that."

A dozen foundations have donated $3.3 million for six privately operated, combined middle-high schools to open this fall in Baltimore . via Baltimore Examiner

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has received a line of credit from PNC Bank to meet its cash flow needs for the next two months. via WMDT-TV Salisbury

Submitted photo This photo shows the Leonardtown wharf area about 1900. Submitted illustration The St. via The Enterprise

"Rejection, to some extent, is part of the territory"

Big money is on the line for six Baltimore -area artists - ' $25,000, to be exact. via Baltimore Examiner

"I adore them. But my hope is fading."

Number 7 Poverty and Learning Pages 32-36 The Myth of the "Culture of Poverty" Paul Gorski Instead of accepting myths that harm low-income students, we need to eradicate the systemwide inequities that stand in ... via ASCD

They drain lottery revenues and jeopardize passage of November's slot machine referendum, but charitable organizations told a Senate committee on Wednesday that electronic gaming machines are pivotal to their ... via The Independent

"They get assigned to my most experienced lawyers, who will work as many hours as it takes to put the case on, and don't get any more money."

The death penalty has cost Maryland taxpayers at least $186 million more in prosecuting and defending capital murder cases over two decades than would have been spent without the threat of execution, according to a study to be released today.

In addition, because most death sentences in Maryland are overturned and eventually reduced to life without parole, state residents are often saddled with the high cost of a capital case and the bill for housing a convicted killer for life, the study found. Read more

"Marylanders will have an opportunity in November to have their voices heard on legalized gambling in our state"

Lawmakers who want to ban video bingo and other electronic gaming devices made their case before a Senate committee on Wednesday, but charitable organizations said the targeted machines are a big help to them. via WRC Washington DC Channel 4

"The ultimate solution to this problem requires an outright and explicit ban on these machines."

Comptroller Peter Franchot , who has long opposed the expansion of gambling in Maryland, called on lawmakers today to approve legislation that would ban video gambling machines by next year. via The Baltimore Sun