Policy, discretion guide media sources probes
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters’ telephone records four years earlier. The extraordinary call was an admission that [...] |
Famous sculptor will add to Md. sculpture park
BY: The Carroll County Times Antonio Tobias “Toby” Mendez, the sculptor who created the statues of Cal Ripken Jr. and other Orioles players at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, will be sculpting a bronze relief for the Westminster branch of the Carroll County Public Library. Mendez will join two other artists in the Mary Lou Dewey Sculpture Park, located just [...] |
NAACP board honors Evers’ memory in Miss. capital
BY: Associated Press ![]() NAACP leaders from around the country are honoring the memory of the group’s former Mississippi leader, Medgar Evers, nearly 50 years after he was assassinated outside his Jackson home. NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous and board chairwoman Roslyn Brock helped Evers’ widow lay a wreath of yellow and white flowers Thursday at the modest one-story [...] |
Baltimore liquor board exec resigns
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WBAL Radio News honored by peers
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O’Malley to head for Middle East
BY: Associated Press ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is scheduled to make a trade mission to Israel and Jordan. O’Malley’s office announced the trip on Wednesday. The governor is set to leave Saturday. It’s O’Malley’s third trip to Israel. He went once when he was mayor of Baltimore and in 2008 as governor. It’s the governor’s first [...] |
Frederick Running Festival to go on as planned
BY: Associated Press FREDERICK — Organizers of the Frederick Running Festival say they expect the event to go on as planned in the wake of the deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon. The festival is scheduled for May 4 and 5 at the Frederick Fairgrounds. It will include a half-marathon, a team relay and a children’s race. Organizers [...] |
Baltimore area teacher injured at Boston marathon
BY: Associated Press A Baltimore area pre-school teacher is among the more than 170 who were injured in explosions at the Boston Marathon. A chaplain at the Trinity Episcopal Children’s Center in Towson says 29-year-old Erika Brannock suffered two broken legs in the explosions Monday near the finish line of the race. Chaplain Kathleen Capcara says the children’s [...] |
WBAL’s Ron Smith to be honored for journalism
BY: Associated Press WBAL’s Ron Smith is being posthumously inducted into the Maryland DC Delaware Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. Smith, the longtime radio station host best known as the “Voice of Reason,” died in 2011 of pancreatic cancer. He’ll be honored April 22 at the annual convention of the MDCD Broadcasters Association in Ellicott City. The association [...] |
Autopsy results expected soon in cruise ship death
BY: Associated Press Autopsy results are expected to be released soon in the death of a woman aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. FBI Baltimore field office spokesman Rich Wolf says the cause of death remains unexplained. He says no one is in custody or suspected in the death and that everyone interviewed has been cooperative. The 64-year-old [...] |






