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Fire bombs hit 10 Baltimore locations.

BALTIMORE (WMAR) - A smoke-stained window is at the front of Hunting Hills Apartments in Southwest Baltimore. Police say it is the latest incident in a string of fire bombs to hit the city. Neighbors are just finding out. "I wouldn't doubt it for a quick second that it wasn't targeted to somebody," said Stewart Adams, who lives in the complex. Police say this one happened ...
PHOTOS Police Search For Md. Bank Robbery Suspect

BOWIE, Md. (WUSA9) -- Prince George's County Police released these photos of a suspect captured on surveillance during a bank robbery. Police say the suspect entered the Sun Trust Bank, on the 12400 block of Fairwood Parkway in Bowie, at about 2:10 p.m. on Wednesday. He approached a bank teller and passed a note demanding money, police said. The suspect fled the scene after the ...
Glenn Younes Rants About Adam “Pacman” Jones

Then he spoke about the NFL allowing Pacman Jones to speak at the rookie symposium. He explained what the rookie symposium is before talking about Pacman Jones, ';The rookie symposium is a 3-4 day event to help, guide, train, educate and enlighten these new employees to the NFL known as ...
New Tiger Arena At Towson University A ‘Slam Dunk’ For Globetrotter Fans

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — A new center of activity for Towson University. Its brand new Tiger Arena officially opens, with a performance by the Harlem ...
Gateway’s Jeter helps Pennsylvania down Maryland in Big 33

But before he dons the Owls' cherry red and white colors, he put on the blue and gold of Team Pennsylvania for Saturday's Big 33 game against Maryland at Hersheypark ...

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National Treasure

The fact that National Treasure, a passably enjoyable adventure romp, becomes steadily more ludicrous as it goes on is actually part of its ill-gotten pleasure, because if you can get through the first couple of unbelievable plot twists and puzzle decipherings, then every ... ...

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Hopkins epidemiologist tracing outbreak of SARS-like disease

Saudi Arabia that's spreading.She and two colleagues pored over hospital records, tracking the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, just as they did with a SARS outbreak in Toronto nearly a decade earlier.The researchers "were looking for any crossover to explain how one person gave it to another," Perl said. They traced a web of infection linking a man and his son ...
Pressure on neck killed Randallstown teen witness in Laboard trial says

An off-duty Baltimore County police officer killed 17-year-old Christopher Brown by putting pressure on his neck, an assistant medical examiner said Wednesday as the state wrapped up its manslaughter case against James D. Laboard.Testimony on the third day of Laboard's trial largely focused on how Brown died last June in an altercation with the officer ...
City police search for arsonists throwing flammable bottles

Baltimore police are looking for arsonists responsible for throwing about a dozen crude incendiary devices at buildings since late April. One of the homes hit by the devices - made from bottles and jugs - belonged to a Muslim family in North Baltimore. A preliminary investigation suggested that the incident was hate-related, Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. But investigators ...
Person critically injured in eastern Balto. Co. car crash

A person was critically injured in a car crash near Gunpowder Falls State Park and was being taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Wednesday evening, ...
Academy 3 midshipmen charged with sexual assault

The U.S. Naval Academy has charged three midshipmen - all current or former football players - with sexually assaulting a female student at an off-campus house in Annapolis more than a year ago. The ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Wheels of U.S. justice turning against Manning

The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team.

The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that detail the crimes, torture and killing that Manning revealed, because they are classified, have been barred from discussion in court, effectively removing the fundamental issue of war crimes from the trial. Manning is forbidden by the court to challenge the government's unverified assertion that he harmed national security. Lead defense attorney David E. Coombs said during pretrial proceedings that the judge's refusal to permit information on the lack of actual damage from the leaks would "eliminate a viable defense, and cut defense off at the knees." And this is what has happened.

Manning is also barred from presenting to the court his motives for giving the website WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables, war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq, and videos. The issues of his motives and potentially harming national security can be raised only at the time of sentencing, but by then it will be too late. ...