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Rape charges filed against three Naval Academy football players

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New Prince George’s County school board postpones charter vote

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Action was one of the first by reconfigured board including county executive’s hand-picked members.

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Edmund D. Pellegrino, preeminent bioethicist, dies at 92

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Dr. Pellegrino helped push society to confront essential quandaries of caring for the sick in the 21st century.

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Leggett takes ‘full responsibility’

Moco Exec says the transit center’s woes ‘happened on my watch.’

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Drumming helps seniors with dementia become more upbeat

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Music therapy eases anxiety, enhances communication for elderly in Annandale drumming circle.

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Going Out Guide

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Going Out Guide for Montgomery County, June 20-26

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Calvert school superintendent leaves a year before contract ends

Jack R. Smith is departing the Southern Maryland district after seven years in the top job.

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W. Reeves Tilley, Bureau of Standards official

W. Reeves Tilley, 93, retired as the Bureau of Standards’ chief of technical information, publications.

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Southern Maryland wellness calendar, June 20-27, 2013

Health and fitness events in the coming week in Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s counties.

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Southern Maryland crime report

Reports from the Maryland State Police and the Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s counties sheriff’s offices.

 

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Questions arise after a 19-year-old suspect is killed in Frederick raid

Daniel Vail was shot to death by Frederick County sheriff’s deputies as they served a search warrant

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Bulger probe disrupted by federal authorities, ex-police official says

A retired police official testified that U.S. authorities disrupted efforts to bust Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger.

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At Whitey Bulger trial, prosecutor describes a ‘hands-on killer’

The former FBI Most Wanted fugitive is accused of killing 19 people while running Boston’s Irish mob.

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Trial of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger begins in Boston

The Irish mob boss allegedly helped kill 19 people and ran the city’s underworld.

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19-year-old dies in raid

The family questions the use of lethal force by Frederick County deputies.

Bruising storm system races through D.C. area

The severe thunderstorm watch was canceled for the area Thursday morning, but intense storms hit in the afternoon.

Train derails near Baltimore

An explosion after a cargo train derailed rattled homes and damaged nearby buildings, officials and witnesses said.

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Crowds cheered after 12:01 a.m. when live tables opened at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover.

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Spring snow leads to slick morning commute

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Mother and one surviving daughter mourn the four victims of a house fire during a memorial service in Upper Marlboro.

Restricting and producing guns in Md.

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