Clarence Thomas

A ruling on racial progress

2013-02-28 00:00:00

I can only hope that the scourge of racism is finally purged from Stewartstown and Pinkham's Grant. These are two of 10 New Hampshire towns covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires local officials to get permission, or...

More of the same

2013-01-05 04:00:00

Everything that everyone loathes about Washington was present in the "fiscal cliff" bill just passed by Congress. It is 153 pages long; most members probably hadn't read all of it before voting on it; it was delivered in the middle of the night; it was...

Activist 'upset and disappointed' by City Hall ban

2013-01-24 16:47:17

Activist Kim Trueheart, a vocal critic of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration who was arrested and jailed Wednesday after trying to enter City Hall, said Thursday that she was dismayed that police officers would attempt to keep a citizen...

Comprehensive plan, more cooperation needed on school security, Harford board member says

2013-01-16 10:55:00

A Harford County Board of Education member says the school system needs to establish a more comprehensive policy to ensure the safety and security of students and staff in light of the Newtown, Conn., shootings last month. "While we have certain...

Dominion wins right to export liquefied natural gas

2013-01-04 15:54:35

A Calvert County judge brushed aside Friday a potential legal hurdle to exporting liquefied natural gas via the Chesapeake Bay, ruling that Dominion, the Richmond, Va.-based energy company, does not need the Sierra Club's permission to convert its LNG...

Eighteen arrested in suburban drug conspiracy

2013-01-15 16:20:13

Federal authorities announced Tuesday that they had cracked a large suburban Maryland drug organization, arresting 18 people and charging 15 of them with conspiracy to distribute more than a ton of marijuana. According to a federal grand jury indictment,...

Scrabble at the Bain Center

2013-01-10 12:11:00

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Bel Air's plan to allow food trucks will have its limits

2013-01-04 05:33:00

Bel Air town officials appear poised to welcome mobile food vendors inside the town limits, but the range where they will be able to operate will be very limited. If the Board of Town Commissioners approves an updated version of the ordinance regulating...

John Carroll wins wrestling's Battle of Bel Air X, bashes Bobcats, 58-12

2012-12-18 08:51:57

The John Carroll Patriots squared off with the visiting Bel Air Bobcats in the 10th annual Battle of Bel Air wrestling dual meet on Saturday night, and after 14 bouts, the hosts came away with a decisive 58-12 victory. For John Carroll, it was a...

Man convicted of hitting, killing JHU student asks for new trial

2012-12-14 00:00:00

Thomas Lee Meighan Jr., convicted last year of hitting and killing a Johns Hopkins University student with his car, asked a Baltimore circuit judge Thursday to let him take back his guilty plea and go to trial, arguing that he did not know about some...

Alleged violent drug ring focus of Baltimore court hearing

2013-01-04 18:38:42

Sitting in a federal courtroom Friday in a jail-issue jumpsuit, the diminutive Jean Brown stood accused of beating a member of an international drug ring, which she allegedly ran, so hard that one of his eyes was dislodged from its socket. Prosecutors...

Harford County police blotter: Shrimp stolen in Aberdeen

2013-01-03 14:57:00

The Harford County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Matthew Smothers, 42, of the 200 block of Mayberry Drive, was charged Thursday with second-degree assault. A door was stolen from a construction site Wednesday in the...

State Sen. Donne Trotter listens as his lawyer, Thomas Durkin, speaks with reporters outside the Cook County Criminal Court, in Chicago, after a hearing on charges of bringing a handgun into O'Hare International Airport.

2013-01-17 00:00:00

Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is a longtime conservative activist in Washington who has raised her profile as a frequent speaker at "tea party" rallies and conservative conferences.

2010-10-21 00:00:00

The confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991 brought about one of the era's most memorable sex scandals.

2010-10-20 11:38:58