Anti-Wall Streeters inspire Halloween costumes
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 25, 2011
Tags: costumes, halloween, new york, occupy baltimore, occupy wall street, wall street
NEW YORK — Dressed as protesters, complete with toy megaphone, Mitch Robinson and his wife unrolled a sleeping bag and “occupied” their friends’ Halloween party. Unlike the real-life Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, they had a detailed, numbered list of demands for their hosts.
Among them: Equal time on the karaoke machine, more meat on the grill [...]
Young woman’s body found at bottom of trash chute
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 17, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, body, death, missing, murder, park charles
Baltimore police say the body of a woman has been found in a trash container in a downtown apartment building.
Officers say body of a woman believed to be in her 20s was found about 8 a.m. Sunday in the Park Charles in the 200 block of N. Charles St.
Detective Kevin Brown says there are no [...]
Man, woman dead in murder-suicide in Bethesda
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 10, 2011
Tags: bethesda, Martin O'Toole, maryland, murder, suicide
Montgomery County police say a man and woman were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide inside the man’s Bethesda apartment.
Police say a relative had been unable to contact 38-year-old Martin O’Toole and when to his apartment Saturday morning. There, the relative found the bodies of O’Toole and a woman identified as Hong Trang Tracy Vu. [...]
Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s art, belongings to be sold
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 2, 2011
Tags: art, assisted suicide, auction, belongings, charity, doctor, Dr. Jack Kevorkian
DETROIT — Paintings, writings and the iconic blue sweater of the audacious assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian are going up for auction, his attorney and close friend said Friday.
Lawyer Mayer Morganroth said the late pathologist’s artwork and items will be sold in late October at the New York Institute of Technology. Scheduled for auction are [...]
Maryland drummer seeks new record to break
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 23, 2011
Tags: Clifford Marshall Van Buren, drummer, endurance drumming, guinness book of world records, maryland, music, musician, record
MIDDLETOWN — In the basement of Clifford Marshall Van Buren’s Middletown home, which serves as his private recording studio, are three drum sets, a keyboard and analog and digital synthesizers to mix music, some weight benches and a pool table.
But billiard balls and pool cues have been replaced by nearly every copy of the Guinness [...]
WTC steel beam to be placed at Hagerstown park
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 2, 2011
Tags: emergency services tribute garden, hagerstown, hagerstown city park, steel beam, washington county citizens corps, world trade center
HAGERSTOWN — A steel beam that had been part of the World Trade Center in New York will be placed at a Hagerstown city park this month.
The beam will be dedicated on Sept. 13 at the Emergency Services Tribute Garden of Hagerstown City Park during a Sept. 11 tribute ceremony.
Members [...]
Ex-Washington Post journalist says he’s an illegal immigrant
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: June 22, 2011
Tags: dream act, illegal immigrant, jose antonio vargas, journalist, phillippines, pulitzer prize, washington post
WASHINGTON — A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the Virginia Tech massacre for the Washington Post went public Wednesday with a secret he says he has been keeping for nearly two decades: He is an illegal immigrant.
Jose Antonio Vargas, whose mother sent him from the Philippines to live with his grandparents in California when [...]
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