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ALL-STAR GAME Rising star Jones stays down-to-earth

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

23-year-old keeps his selection in perspective, says it's 'pretty cool' to represent Baltimore

Center fielder Adam Jones, 23, is the youngest Orioles position player to be named an All-Star since Cal Ripken Jr., who was 22 years old when he was chosen in 1983. "It's like an initiation to stardom for me," Jones said this week. "I guess in everybody else's view this is the first of many, the start of many. I am just looking at this as my first. Hopefully, I'll get a lot of them. But I am going to try and relish my first one."

Commuter ferry planned for Canton

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:17:00 -0400

City to use $1.59M in federal stimulus money to expand water taxi service that now connects Fells Point, Locust Point

Body of aide to D.C. councilman found in Inner Harbor, police say

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:11:00 -0400

Baltimore police said the body of a Washington, D.C., councilman's aide was found Tuesday morning in the Inner Harbor.

Woman critically injured in overnight shooting in Fells Point

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:03:00 -0400

Woman critically injured in separate Fells Point incident

Baltimore police on Tuesday were investigating three shootings, one of which was fatal.

City trash crews begin new, longer routes, mixed results

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:22:00 -0400

Trash crews rolled out this morning for the first day of a new city program that officials hope will make Baltimore's streets and alleys a little cleaner and greener.

Southwest inspects 200 planes after emergency landing

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:51:00 -0400

Football-sized hole in fuselage causes loss of cabin pressure, but no injuries; passenger describes 'great burst of wind'

All Southwest Airlines flights are operating as scheduled Tuesday after a football-sized hole in the fuselage of a plane headed to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport forced an emergency landing a day earlier in West Virginia, a spokeswoman said. The company inspected nearly 200 of its Boeing 737-300s overnight as a precaution.

School, parish grew apart before Towson Catholic High's closing

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:59:00 -0400

Students, parents, alumni still trying to save Towson Catholic; rally set for this evening

The decision to close Towson Catholic High School and the resulting outcry from students, parents and alumni has revealed a long-brewing disconnect between the school and the parish that has been its home since 1922.

Top-shelf stores trickle out of Harbor retail hub for tourists

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Harbor retail area sees slow bleed of tenants

The Harborplace & The Gallery shopping complex at Baltimore's Inner Harbor has been losing some of its highest-profile tenants as the recession has driven retailers to close underperforming stores to deal with a drop in consumer spending. The Gallery mall's shuttered J. Crew store (left of entrance), which now is an empty space, was for a time filled with display materials for the mall's Banana Republic store.

Suggs optimistic on reaching long-term deal with Ravens

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:07:00 -0400

Ravens LB says he's optimistic new deal can be reached by Wednesday deadline

As Wednesday's deadline approaches, linebacker Terrell Suggs remains optimistic that a long-term deal can be reached with the Ravens.