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10 Mar 2011 12:47

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U.S.: The Wire’s Snoop arrested in massive drug arrest

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
Remember Snoop (aka Felicia Pearson) from The Wire? She and 30 others got arrested in a massive Baltimore drug sting. She’s still totally one of the best parts of Season 4. (thanks Margaret Leist) source
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24 Feb 2011 13:20

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U.S.: A bad day for the Baltimore Police Department

  • Baltimore cops busted for kickbacks: Reports have come out that the Baltimore Police Department is charging seventeen officers, as well as a pair of brother auto mechanics, with running an extortion scheme through a towing company. Basically, the cops took bribes from the mechanics, proprietors of Rosedale’s Majestic Auto Repair shop, to steer accident tows and repair to their business instead of a city-authorized one. This scheme lasted two years, and now stands to cost those involved a maximum of twenty years in prison. source
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19 Jan 2011 15:33

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Politics: Baltimore Police Commissioner Bealefeld no fan of “The Wire”

  • Charm City’s Top Cop: Frederick H. Bealefeld, Commissioner of Baltimore Police, does not care for your “critically acclaimed television.” Why couldn’t McNulty be a hip, cool CSI type? source
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19 Sep 2010 21:02

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Music: Why not? Frank Zappa’s bust dedicated in Baltimore

Baltimore is the weirdest city on the planet. Between Edgar Allen Poe, Frank Zappa and Dan Deacon, it’s gonna be hard to take the weird outta that city. source
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10 Feb 2010 21:23

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U.S.: How much snow did D.C. and Baltimore get, anyway? (02/10/10)

  • 19.5″ snow total at BWI  airport near Baltimore
  • 14.0″ snow total at American University in the Upper Northwest part of the District
  • 10.5″ snow total at Reagan National Airport, just south of the District in Arlington
  • 9.3″ snow total at Dulles International Airport, west of the District in the ‘burbs source
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07 Feb 2010 09:35

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U.S.: Final totals: How much snow did D.C., Baltimore and Philly get?

  • 17.8″ snowfall total at Reagan National Airport, just outside of D.C. – the airport’s second-highest-ever total
  • 24.8″ snowfall total at Baltimore Washington International Airport, its highest total ever in a two-day span
  • 28.5″ snowfall total in Philadelphia, the second-highest total ever in the region; start shoveling source
  • Is more coming? Because Mother Nature hates us personally and wants ShortFormBlog to apparently shut down, she plans on bringing more snow to the Mid-Atlantic region later this week. This time it’s only reportedly going to be six inches, but come on, what did we do to you, Mom?
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06 Feb 2010 08:56

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U.S.: How much snow did D.C. and Baltimore get as of this morning?

  • 10″ of snow at the White House source
  • 18″ of snow in the city of Baltimore source
  • 20″+ of snow in Maryland and West Virginia source
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30 Jan 2010 00:35

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Politics: Fox News looking so hard at the I’s that it missed you

  • 43 number of uses of the word “I” in Barack Obama’s speech in Baltimore yesterday
  • 45 number of uses of the word “you” in the speech, which doesn’t seem so selfish
  • 43 number of uses of the word “we” in the speech – also not so selfish considering source
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14 Jul 2009 10:32

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U.S.: Phrase you don’t want to hear when flying: Football-sized hole

  • The cabin depressurized, but everyone’s OK. A Southwest Airlines plane headed from Nashville to Baltimore had to make an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia yesterday after a giant hole opened up above the cabin 34,000 feet in the air, causing the plane’s oxygen masks to come down. Despite how !#(&@*& scary that sounds, nobody was hurt. Whew. source
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25 Apr 2009 02:15

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U.S.: A murder-suicide in Maryland revolved around a bunch of cash

  • $27 million (or more) could be missing after an ex-lawyer’s death source
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