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Mitchell remembered as pioneer, fighter for justice
In the midst of one of many tributes to former state Sen. Clarence M. Mitchell III at his memorial service in an Upton church Sunday night, hundreds of family members, friends and fellow politicians broke out into an impromptu singing of the hymn "Lift...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Maryland General Assembly, Justice and Rights, Religion and Belief, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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10 years after Dawson deaths, community urged to speak out against crime
Ten years ago, a woman who wanted her children to live in a drug-free environment, and who called police on those who would have it otherwise, was killed when a man tied to the local drug trade kicked in the front door of her home in Oliver and set it...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Home Improvement
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Former Md. Sen. Clarence Mitchell III has died
Clarence M. Mitchell III, who helped steer a sweeping desegregation measure through the General Assembly, died Thursday of cancer at Seasons Hospice at the Northwest Hospital Center. He was 72. Mr. Mitchell became the nation's youngest black legislator...
Tags: Lawyers, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil and Public Service, Peter G. Angelos
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Cummings launches probe on voter registration challenges
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings is requesting that a group whose affiliates have challenged the legitimately of thousands of voter registrations, including some in Maryland, turn over documents to demonstrate how it determines which registrations to target. In a...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Politics, Democratic Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections
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U.S. Justice Department tours Baltimore jail on Wednesday
Department of Justice officials toured the Baltimore City Detention Center on Wednesday amid complaints about conditions for juveniles held at the facility, officials confirmed. Agency officials would not comment on what they observed during the tour....
Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, U.S. Department of Justice, Prisons
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Afro-American newspaper honors paperboys and girls in anniversary celebration
For Marian Anderson Bell, selling copies of the Afro-American newspaper on Baltimore streets as a 12-year-old papergirl in 1945 felt like freedom. Now 79 years old, Bell reminisced Saturday about stashing away the pennies she earned to buy school...
Tags: Marian Anderson, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, World War II (1939-1945), NAACP
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Ann McAllister Hughes
Ann McAllister Hughes, an artist who taught art in Baltimore's public schools and had chaired the art department at Forest Park High School, died July 27 of pulmonary failure at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The longtime Randallstown resident was 83.
The...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Lawyers, Howard University, Politics, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Wells Fargo agrees to pay $175M settlement in pricing discrimination suit
About 1,000 Baltimore-area residents are expected to receive thousands of dollars each under a landmark $175 million settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Wells Fargo over accusations of discriminatory lending practices.
Under the terms...Tags: National Government, George Nilson, Housing and Urban Planning, Litigation and Regulation, Politics
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George K. McKinney, U.S. marshal
George K. McKinney, who was the first African-American to be appointed U.S. marshal for the District of Maryland, and whose career in federal service spanned more than four decades, died June 17 of leukemia at his Northwest Baltimore home. He was 77.
"It...Tags: Religion and Belief, National Security Agency, Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Specialization, Health
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Cosby stumps for Rolley in Baltimore
Comedian Bill Cosby joked with seniors, marched through Mondawmin Mall and dropped by Northeast Baltimore homes Wednesday to stump for mayoral candidate Otis Rolley. "So how many of you know anything about this young man?" Cosby asked a crowd of about...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Catherine E. Pugh, Entertainment, Television
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Drug company deals eyed in probe of shortage
Congressional lawmakers investigating the shortage of lifesaving drugs used to treat cancer and other illnesses are looking into three companies in North Carolina and Maryland that they believe set up "fake pharmacies" to access the drugs that they then...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Hospitals and Clinics, Cancer, Crime, Law and Justice, Elkton
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Cummings looks into prescription drug shortages
University of Maryland women's basketball coach Brenda Frese said she was heartbroken that a chemotherapy drug used to treat her 3-year-old son, Tyler, for leukemia was in short supply and possibly unavailable.
When she discovered that some companies...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Brenda Frese, Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Cancer
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