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New York writer Twanna Hines hustled and scrapped to become Funky Brown Chick and she’s not about to let some Funky-come-lately take the elevator to her sex-blogging heights. Last week, Hines sued Yesha Callahan of Odenton, who blogs as Funky ...

The news that Southwest Airlines Co. wants to add flights at New York’s LaGuardia Airport got us thinking of the possibilities. Though the company hasn’t said where it’s going to fly to LaGuardia from, it doesn’t hurt to postulate a ...

Who knew that finding a customer could be so hard? Well, maybe car dealers these days already knew that. Today’s story about how Maryland car dealerships are struggling because of the economic downturn talks about how there’s fewer people buying ...

Rico Wright is not unlike a lot of people who brag about their accomplishments. But he might be the only one to receive 20 years in jail because of his boasting. Wright, 25, was sentenced on two counts of aggravated ...

I had a chance to catch up yesterday with John Maroon of Maroon PR, the agency representing Ripken Baseball. He just spent five days in Nicaragua with Cal Ripken Jr. and former O’s teammate Dennis Martinez, conducting baseball clinics for ...

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I must not watch enough TV, because I just noticed the other day that Saiontz, Kirk & Miles has tweaked its advertisements in a nod to the 21st century. At least one ad now says, “If you have a phone ...

Today’s paper has a story about a dispute over a 7-Eleven coming to the block just south of Baltimore’s famous Mt. Vernon Place. Since posting the story online, we’ve received at least one suggestion from a reader of an alternative commercial ...

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At least one Southerner will be pleased at last week’s announcement of the selection of Ronald Daniels as the new president of Johns Hopkins University. Posting on the Old Virginia Blog on Nov. 14, writer and Civil War preservationist Richard ...

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Point 1: Several years ago, while doing research on a story about a Maryland state junket to Israel, I registered for the Jerusalem Post’s Web site. I now receive the occasional email from the newspaper. Point 2: I don’t usually ...

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The Texas State Bar has filed a grievance against a criminal defense lawyer who made what I suspect my editors would prefer I call simply “an obscene gesture” while standing before a judge with a client. Following Adam Reposa’s display, ...