Friends Jessica Cowling and Ginny Schardt formed the Red Devils, a Baltimore-based nonprofit named for a potent, scarlet-red chemotherapy drug, that helps breast cancer patients and their families with a variety of services, including funding child care, coordinating rides to the doctor and helping to pay bi...

The Democratic governor had considered pardoning seven ex-convicts and started the process two weeks ago with public notification. He moved ahead with six of those cases; one remains pending.

Before the pardons issued Thursday, O'Malley had used his clemency powers only to release tw...

This year, the pressure is off. When s...

ELKRIDGE - Howard County Police have found 28 cats and a guinea pig in a home in Elkridge. Two dead cats were found in a freezer.

It happened Wednesday in the 8000 block of Keeton Road. Police were called to the home by a neighbor who had not seen the residents for several days. The neighbor also reported an odor.

An elderly woman living at the home was taken to a local hospital for observation...

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Drawings for Thursday, July 2:

• Pick 3: Midday — ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_04-32/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-18/REG BALTIMORE (AP) - Constellation Energy lost a round in its battle with Maryland regulators over its proposed deal to sell half its nuclear operations to France's EdF when a judge ruled yesterday it could not appeal the decision to review the agreement while the review was under way.

  The Maryland Public Service Commission is looking into whether the $4.5 billion deal is in the public interest. The PSC doesn't regulate Constellatio...

  ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-18/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-09/REG CAMBRIDGE (AP) - Cambridge police said a 44-year-old woman gave birth in a portable toilet at a park, then dropped the newborn girl into the waste holding tank.

  Charging documents state that a witness at Long Wharf Park called 911 Monday morning after Candy Vigneri asked for a cigarette, then said she had just had a baby and the baby was in the toilet.

  When police arrived, they found Vigneri holding the baby.

  Police say the ...

  ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-09/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-24/REG WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - How bad is the current recession? Here's one measure: the United States now has fewer jobs than it did nine years ago, even though the work force - the number of people either working or looking for work - has grown by 12.5 million people since then.

  It's the first time since the Great Depression that a recession has wiped out all the jobs created during the previous business cycle, according to Heidi Shi...

  ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-24/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-14/REG Girl, 5, shot in head in Baltimore

  BALTIMORE - Baltimore police said a 5-year-old girl has been shot in the head after rival groups fought in southwest Baltimore.

  Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld III said the incident occurred shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday. He said groups of young men were fighting in the street. After the fight broke up, one man chased the intended victim and opened fire. He missed the intended victim, ...

  ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-14/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-01/REG Drawings for Thursday, July 2:
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  Drawings for Wednesday, July 1:

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  • Pick 3: Midday —714, Evening — 497
  • Pick 4: M...
    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_03-01/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_02-35/REG BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted the controller of a Baltimore company on charges that he defrauded his employer of $1,177,274.

    Anthony Faggio Jr., 55, of Centreville is to be arraigned today on bank fraud charges.

    A three-count indictment returned Tuesday, says Faggio has worked since 1997 in the accounting department of D-S Pipe & Supply Co., becoming controller in 1999. Acording to the indictment, from...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_02-35/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_02-32/REG WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Signaling equipment that is supposed to detect stopped trains in Washington, D.C., failed periodically in the days leading up to a deadly Metro transit train crash, federal investigators said yesterday.

    Nine people were killed and more than 70 injured last week when a train slammed into another train stopped on the tracks near the Maryland state line.

    The findings by the National Transportation Safety Board...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_02-32/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-12/REG ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-12/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-10/REG ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-10/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-13/REG Patel was arrested at his home in Eldersburg Tuesday morning after a three-month undercover investigation. He was ordered detained pending a hearing Wednesd...
    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-13/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-39/REG WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Kenny Barnes' son was shot in the face and killed during a 2001 robbery, and he's upset that some in Congress want to eliminate Washington's strict gun control laws.

    He's particularly outraged by how lawmakers are going about it: by attaching an amendment to a bill that would grant the city a long-awaited vote in Congress.

    "This is absolute insanity. How in the world can you justify thi...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-39/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-14/REG Police make arrest in 2008 double slaying

    UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Prince George's County police have arrested a suspect in the slayings of two men in Landover last year. One man was the witness to a 2006 homicide.

    Twenty-year-old Rashadd Alexis was arrested Tuesday at his home. Police say he will be charged with first-degree murder in the deaths in October of 22-year-old Bobby Ennels and 22-year-old Anthony Cash III...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/07_01-14/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_30-38/REG Magistrate John Facciola scheduled another hearing on von Brunn's health f...
    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_30-38/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_30-37/REG ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_30-37/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_30-11/REG Four other daughters, ranging in ...
    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_30-11/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_30-12/REG Man struck and killed by Metro train

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Metro says a man who was struck and killed at the Forest Glen station was on the tracks intentionally.

    The transit agency says the man was hit by an eight-car red line train shortly after 4 p.m. Metro did not have any additional information about the man.

    Metro says trains are sharing a single track between Forest Glen and Silver Spring, and that passengers shoul...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_30-12/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_29-08/REG BALTIMORE (AP) - Attorneys for Baltimore will try to show a judge that what they call racially biased predatory lending practices by Wells Fargo have cost the city millions of dollars.

    The city will fight the bank's motion to dismiss the suit during a hearing in federal court on Monday.

    If U.S. District Judge Benson Legg allows the case to continue, Baltimore could gain access to Wells Fargo documents and subpoena employees, w...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_29-08/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-59/REG The Wherleys died in last week’s D.C. Metro train collision. They were returning from an orientation program for the Walter Reid Volunteer Program, according to D.C. National Guard of...
    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-59/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-04/REG McMartin created the lectern's inlaid seal with a mixture of some 10 woods, domestics and exotics. The cabinet, all Beggins'...
    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-04/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-03/REG "We all decided they wanted me to be sergeant," Morgan said. "The sergeant is the team leader who organizes everybody."

    The weeklong outreach program with mid...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-03/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-08/REG Meanwhile, ...
    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-08/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-52/REG Teen accused of sexually assaulting 2 children
    

    ROSEDALE, Md. (AP) — Baltimore County police say a 16-year-old boy has been charged with rape and sodomy.

    Police say Robby Poellot has been charged as an adult for allegedly raping a 6-year-old girl and sodomizing her 8-year-old brother at their baby-sitter's Rosedale home.

    Authorities say the children were being cared for by Poellot's mother. According to...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_28-52/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_27-01/REG WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - The Washington-area transit agency has temporarily reassigned the superintendent of the automatic control system that is supposed to prevent train crashes following this week's crash that killed nine people, officials said yesterday.

    The deadliest crash in Metrorail's 33-year history occurred Monday when a train plowed into another that was stopped. The moving train was operating in automatic mode, which ...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_27-01/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_26-16/REG EMMITSBURG (AP) - A towering sculpture in the Maryland mountains depicting three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag at ground zero was financed by investor fraud, federal regulators say.

    Now the 40-foot bronze statue unveiled in November 2007 at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, is for sale. A court-appointed receiver and the sculptor, Stanley J. Watts of Kearns, Utah, say they hope to raise at least $4...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_26-16/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_26-05/REG WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Metro officials said continuing inspections on the red line between Fort Totten and Takoma stations after Monday's fatal crash will continue to affect service.

    Trains will take turns sharing one track between the two stations during the afternoon and evening rush hours today.

    Red line trains will be restricted to a maximum speed of 35 mph all day and trains will pass through the accident zone at signifi...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_26-05/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_26-36/REG WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - The signaling system for the Washington-area transit agency failed to detect a test train stopped in the same place as one that was struck during a deadly crash this week, federal investigators said today.

    The National Transportation Safety Board's test results indicate the oncoming train involved in Monday's crash that killed nine could have lacked information that another train was stopped on the tracks...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_26-36/REG http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_26-03/REG  

    Lane closures are subject to change. Visit baybridge.com for current lane-closure and traffic-advisory information.

    TOLL DOLLARS AT WORK

    Westbound:

    • One lane on the westbound ...

    ]]> unknown@hometownannapolis.com (Unknown) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2009/06_26-03/REG