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  • Frances Street in Annapolis, Md., is blocked off as officials probe a suspicious package at a state office building Thursday. A similar package was sent to Hanover, Md. (Associated Press)

    2 Md. employees hurt by mailed packages

    Two packages mailed to Maryland state office buildings — one of which was addressed to Gov. Martin O'Malley — detonated Thursday, emitting smoke, a foul odor and sparking a sprawling multiagency investigation aimed at identifying the culprit.


  • Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert Ehrlich announces former Maryland Secretary of State Mary Kane as his pick for his running mate Thursday, July 1, 2010, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    Ehrlich touts flush tax in Baltimore visit

    Former Gov. Robert Ehrlich talked up his political strategy at a campaign stop Wednesday.


  • BOOK REVIEW: History of the famously flawed bell

    What do Fred Astaire, the hamburger, Gypsy Rose Lee and the Liberty Bell have in common? According to Yale University Press, they're all American icons and, as such, the focal points for a series of short books "about American history and culture through the lens of a single iconic individual, event, object, or cultural phenomenon."


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  • Carjacking killer convicted 5 years later

    BALTIMORE — A young man who escaped trial in state court was convicted in federal court yesterday of killing an Annapolis businessman during a carjacking.


  • Carjacking suspect in federal court

    BALTIMORE — A federal prosecutor told jurors yesterday that a man accused in a fatal carjacking confessed to pointing out the Annapolis victim as a target for theft, but a defense attorney said the confession resulted from police scare tactics "right out of Hollywood."


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