News 2008-07-27 Andanh.com

Life of 'K-Swift' remembered Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:37:00 -0400
Family, colleagues and fans turn out for two-hour ceremony at Morgan State honoring the life of 92Q DJ

Thousands of fans turned out for a two-hour, music-filled ceremony celebrating the life of Khia Edgerton at Morgan State University's auditorium today. 'K-Swift' was remembered as a recording artist, radio personality and leader of an underground music movement.

Spying vexes Maryland State Police chief Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Md. superintendent says intent of action was rational, but it went on too long

Superintendent says intent of action was rational, but it went on too long

Restored Sollers Point track honors trailblazing coach Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Restored Sollers Point track honors trailblazing coach

When Baltimore County school officials would not let the track team at the all-black Sollers Point High School in Dundalk run time trials at the all-white school up the road, their coach decided to make his own track.

Woman dies in city rowhouse fire, front porch collapses Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:42:00 -0400
A 34-year-old woman died in a fire early this morning that engulfed a Southwest Baltimore rowhouse, a city Fire Department spokesman said.

Planners see well-designed arena reviving west side Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
A well-designed venue would unify, reinvigorate downtown, backers say

Planners see well-designed arena reviving west side

Maryland residents exhaust solar, geothermal grants Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Incentives made available for year gone in month

Electricity prices were going up, environmentalism was in, and solar power companies were proliferating. But last year Maryland residents still didn't take the state up on all the financial incentives it offered for installing "green" power systems in their homes.

2 men fatally shot at city intersection, 1 injured Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The occupants of a black Jeep Cherokee were stuck in traffic yesterday waiting for a red light to turn green on Wabash Avenue when a small white sedan pulled up beside it. It was 9:45 a.m. at a busy Northwest Baltimore intersection.

Md. creating office to lure sporting events to area Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Youth tournaments, collegiate games among the targets

The state will soon announce the creation of a sports marketing office to try to lure more athletic events - everything from the Army-Navy football game to youth sports tournaments - to Maryland.

Fans find training camp a hit Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:35:15 -0400
Ray Lewis participates in a drill as the full Ravens squad takes to the field at McDaniel College in Westminster. It was the team's first such practice under its new coach, John Harbaugh. More than 6,000 fans, perhaps excited about the team's potential under Harbaugh, turned out to watch the practice. Photos: Ravens training camp at McDaniel College

Letter alleges unlawful hiring of illegal immigrants Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Arundel officials say company employs illegal immigrants

Anne Arundel County officials, who have threatened to cut ties with contractors that employ illegal immigrants, are looking into the possibility that the company that runs two county-owned golf courses is violating the policy.

City OKs contract with investigation subject Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Fire Dept. supplier tied to spending probe

A city panel has approved a $265,000 contract for Draeger Safety Inc. to supply breathing apparatus parts to the Baltimore Fire Department even as the comptroller's office investigates questionable spending practices involving the company and the fire agency.

U.S. trims state's funding for homeland security Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Homeland security cuts deeper than expected

The federal government is slicing more than $2.5 million from homeland security grants to Baltimore and Maryland this year - a deeper cut than state officials were told to expect.

Marylanders exhaust solar, geothermal grants Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Incentives made available for year gone in month

Electricity prices were going up, environmentalism was in, and solar power companies were proliferating. But last year Maryland residents still didn't take the state up on all the financial incentives it offered for installing "green" power systems in their homes.

Spying vexes Maryland State Police superintendent Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Md. superintendent says intent of action was rational, but it went on too long

The Maryland State Police superintendent said yesterday that he is "troubled" by methods his agency used to infiltrate and monitor peace activists and anti-death-penalty groups and called the operation an exercise in poor judgment. But one of the police officials in charge of the surveillance called the work "important and straightforward."

Chemical assault of man prompts alert at hospital Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
A person who threw chemicals on a fast-food restaurant patron in Mondawmin Mall last night forced the closure of the Johns Hopkins Hospital emergency room for nearly two hours while officials investigated the possible hazardous substance.

Domino fined $4,000 over '07 explosion at refinery Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
MOSHA notes buildup of sugar dust at refinery

The Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Domino Sugar $4,000 for allowing sugar dust to accumulate in its refinery, which is believed to have caused an explosion last year at the Key Highway plant in South Baltimore, according to a state report.

Brooklyn man charged in May fatal shooting in Annapolis Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Annapolis police have charged a Brooklyn man in a May homicide, police said yesterday.

Letter alleges unlawful hiring Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Arundel officials say company employs illegal immigrants

Anne Arundel County officials, who have threatened to cut ties with contractors that employ illegal immigrants, are looking into the possibility that the company that runs two county-owned golf courses is violating the policy.

Man charged in fatal shooting Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Annapolis police have charged a Brooklyn man in a May homicide, police said yesterday.

Jailed man charged in May Annapolis slaying Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:50:00 -0400
A man in jail in Prince George's County has been charged in a warrant in a May fatal shooting in Annapolis, police said.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation pays fine for illegal work Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Red-faced foundation found tenant violating bay laws it instigated

The bulldozing and tree-clearing occurred on environmentally sensitive soil about a hundred yards from the Chesapeake Bay - the kind of violation the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is accustomed to reporting.

Raw sewage spill shuts Furnace Creek Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Twenty-five thousand gallons of raw sewage spilled into a Glen Burnie waterway, prompting the Anne Arundel County Health Department to close Furnace Creek yesterday and urge people to stay away from it.

Sprinting past segregation Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Restored Sollers Point track honors trailblazing coach

When Baltimore County school officials would not let the track team at the all-black Sollers Point High School in Dundalk run time trials at the all-white school up the road, their coach decided to make his own track.

Forum set on plan for community Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The county Office of Planning will hold a community forum on the comprehensive community plan for the greater Hillendale area at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Halstead Academy, 1111 Halstead Road.

Ceremony to honor Guard members Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The Maryland Army National Guard will recognize more than 125 soldiers from its headquarters and 58th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in ceremonies at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Towson University's Stephens Hall Theatre.

CCBC awarded $2.6 million grant Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The National Science Foundation has awarded the Community College of Baltimore County a three-year, $2.6 million grant to continue operation of the Technology and Innovation in Manufacturing and Engineering Center.

Feeling kicked out, Blast owner considers own arena in county Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
With Baltimore possibly building a new arena on the site of his team's home, 1st Mariner Arena, Blast owner Ed Hale will be looking for a new place to play - or he might just build one himself in Baltimore County.

Fla. man gets 10 years for driving heroin through Md. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:04:00 -0400
He was stopped in Harford with nearly $4M worth of drugs, prosecutors say

He was stopped in Harford with nearly $4M worth of drugs, prosecutors say

Man accused of illegally using credit card Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:50:00 -0400
A Harford County man is being held on $100,000 bail on charges that he ran up the credit card of a New Jersey woman he had met on the Internet and persuaded her to give him her card number, according to Maryland State Police. Authorities said they suspect the man has victimized others in Maryland and other states.

FDA clears U.S. crop in outbreak Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Only peppers grown in Mexico implicated in salmonella cases

Only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico are implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, the government announced yesterday in clearing the U.S. crop.

Satellites gather clues to aurora Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Probes observe magnetic storms 1/3 of way to moon

NASA released findings yesterday that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors and dance across the sky.

Michael Strickland, 24 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Music promoter

Michael Christopher Strickland, a former football player at Polytechnic Institute, died July 15 after he was shot during an incident in Atlanta. He was 24.

Joan E. Sinclair Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Age 77 The security analyst was one of the first women in that job on Wall St.

Joan E. Sinclair, a retired security analyst and vice president of Adams Express Co., died Monday of coronary artery disease at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The Lutherville resident was 77.

Correction Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
An obituary for John Meredith Bond in Thursday's editions of The Sun and a correction published in yesterday's editions incorrectly listed services. A memorial gathering will be held at 3 p.m. Aug. 2 at Roland Park Place, 830 W. 40th St. The Sun regrets the errors.

Sheldon Greisman Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Age 80 The University of Maryland School of Medicine professor was known as 'the father of endotoxin research.'

D r. Sheldon Edward Greisman, a retired University of Maryland professor of medicine and physiology whose research focused on deadly sepsis infections, died of pneumonia July 19 at his Elkridge home. He was 80.

Deaths elsewhere Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
FRANK SCHWEIHS, 78

Currie got over $200,000 from Shoppers Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Papers show 5 years of payments from Shoppers

State Sen. Ulysses Currie, whose work for Shoppers Food Warehouse is being investigated by the FBI's public corruption squad, was paid more than $200,000 by the regional grocery chain over five years, according to documents unsealed yesterday.

StateStat gets an ear in Senate Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Gov. Martin O'Malley found a receptive, if tiny, audience on Capitol Hill yesterday for his presentation on Maryland's State Stat system.

Teenager hit by tractor-trailer dies Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
A teenager died at a hospital shortly after he was struck by a tractor-trailer while riding a dirt bike on a street in the Mount Winans community in Southwest Baltimore, authorities said.

U.S. soldiers killed Iraqi teen in cab Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
BAGHDAD The U.S. military said yesterday that bullets fired by American soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper during a gunbattle this week in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The military said Arkan Ali Taha was hit when soldiers came under heavy gunfire from a passing taxi and shot back. The boy was riding in the cab, and the driver was later taken into custody. The father said his son didn't know how to use weapons. He said the boy hired the cab to bring a set of keys to the newspaper.

McCain slams Obama Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Republican assails Democratic rival over Iraq policy

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for "the audacity of hopelessness" in his policies on Iraq, said yesterday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. troops been withdrawn as his rival advocated.

Woman dies in N.H. tornado Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Winds reached peak of 135 mph, damaged hundred of houses

A baby's cries led rescuers to the 3-month-old in the wreckage of a home flattened by a tornado that killed his grandmother and blew his grandfather into the yard, officials said yesterday.

Plain vanilla beats flash Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Money manager Price gains while streaky Legg Mason struggles

Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group's plain vanilla approach to investing led it to a $162.2 million quarterly profit, while its flashier crosstown peer, Legg Mason Inc., reported a $31.3 million loss as its star fund managers continued to struggle in a bear market, the companies reported yesterday.

Chrysler to quit leasing vehicles Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Economic conditions make buying cheaper

Economic conditions make buying cheaper

Upbeat economic data support moderate gain Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Wall Street ended a volatile week with a moderate gain yesterday after better-than-expected economic data placated a market pummeled a day earlier by concerns about housing and the financial sector.

FCC approves $3.6 billion merger of Sirius-XM Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The Federal Communications Commission approved the $3.6 billion merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. last evening. The commission voted 3-2 for the deal with the tie-breaking vote coming when the companies agreed to pay $19.7 million to the Treasury to settle FCC rule violations.

Baltimore-based FTI Consulting buys Kinesis Marketing Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Baltimore-based FTI Consulting Inc. said yesterday that it has acquired online communications firm Kinesis Marketing. FTI, a business advisory firm best known for helping struggling companies, did not disclose the price.

Netflix second-quarter profit increases 4% Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Netflix Inc.'s second-quarter profit rose 4 percent, to $26.6 million, or 42 cents per share, from $25.6 million, or 37 cents per share, in the corresponding period a year ago.

Britain records 0.2% economic growth Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Britain's economy grew 0.2 percent in the second quarter as the global credit crunch deepened.

Black & Decker net falls on housing woes Black & Decker profit falls 18% Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Profit down 18%; sales slip 3% as economy continues to pinch building industry

Towson-based Black & Decker Corp. said yesterday that net earnings fell 18 percent in the second quarter as a sharp downturn in home construction and remodeling continued to hurt sales.

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