Country singer Miranda Lambert is not going to be one of those well-behaved women who rarely makes history. Before the curtain dropped at Baltimore’s 1st Mariner Arena on Thursday night, Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)” was pumping through the PA system alongside a video montage of famous fearless women. Read full article > >

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Miranda Lambert at 1st Mariner Arena: A spitfire with soul

A missed field goal in the final seconds of regulation denied Baltimore a shot at overtime, sending New England on with a 23-20 victory.

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BALTIMORE — How can this kid ever hope to make it? You have to start with the obvious: Aquille Carr is 5 feet 7, maybe a buck-forty-five soaking wet. It’s what you notice first about the junior point guard from Baltimore’s Patterson High, even before the impossible vertical leap and the sick crossovers and the radiant smile and the incessant trash talk. He isn’t small. He isn’t smallish. He’s tiny. Read full article > >

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Meet Aquille Carr, Baltimore’s “Crimestopper,” a YouTube sensation and, at 5-7, basketball’s next big thing

BALTIMORE — Few American colleges would mark a 15 percent graduation rate as a turning point. But at Coppin State University , 15 percent is two points better than last year’s rate — a first, tentative step out of the graduation gutter. Coppin, a historically black institution founded in 1900 at what was then called Baltimore’s Colored High School, has the lowest graduation rate of any traditional public college in Maryland. Read full article > >

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Coppin State University moves to improve its low graduation rate

A.Aubrey Bodine made Baltimore look like a Hollywood gal. Not a knockout, not a star . But a handsome girl from back East with excellent bones and good breeding, dressed up with professional help. Bodine’s black-and-white photographs from the 1920s through the 1960s show a Baltimore of clean streets, nice monuments, dignified and often solitary workers, few children, beautiful skies. The skin is scrubbed and the pores closed, and the pictures have a light that, you tell yourself, you’ve seen only a couple of times. Read full article > >

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A lifetime of pictures by Baltimore’s A. Aubrey Bodine goes on sale

Afternoon sunlight streamed through the front door of a Baltimore rowhouse where a gaunt man sat before an open suitcase filled with mementos of war and solitude. Bits of shrapnel. Ragged green flags with burn marks. An Italian-made lock that had secured the door of a one-man prison cell. Now, in his childhood home, Matthew VanDyke held each one up. Read full article > >

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Marylander proud he joined Libyan rebels’ army

Bigger than a tennis court, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spreads out in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, its gray wings pulled taut, its mirror tilted skyward. This full-size model outside the Maryland Science Center took 12 workers four days to assemble. The real Webb telescope, by contrast, will have clocked more than 30 years from conception to orbit, if it launches as scheduled in 2018. Read full article > >

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A video featuring Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo made its debut Friday, becoming the second in a Web campaign that seeks to build support for same-sex marriage legislation in Maryland. “I support marriage for gay and lesbian couples who want to make a lifetime commitment to each other,” Ayanbadejo says in the video sponsored by Marylanders for Marriage Equality. “It’s the right thing to do.” Read full article > >

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Ravens star Brendon Ayanbadejo appears in same-sex marriage campaign

Wilhemina Moore smiled as she scanned the crowd gathered in Washington Saturday. There were people clasping black-and-white photos of Martin Luther King Jr., and others wearing T-shirts with the words: “Keeping the dream alive.” One sign showed over the heads in the crowd: “Standing up for jobs!” Moore, 57, of Baltimore, said that’s why she was there. A very small percentage of people have most of the money in this country, she said. “We need to change that.” Read full article > >

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Marchers rally for jobs and justice

A D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced a Baltimore man to 36 months in prison Friday in connection with the 2009 death of his 7-week-old son. Prosecutors originally had charged Hiawatha A. Henry, 19, with first-degree murder in the death of his son, Hiawatha Jackson. Hiawatha Jackson died of severe bruises to the brain incurred Aug. 30, 2009, while his father was babysitting. Read full article > >

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An airline official says a Southwest Airlines flight headed for Baltimore was diverted to Nashville after what he described as “suspicious behavior” by a passenger. The flight originated in Albuquerque on Saturday morning and landed in Nashville at about 1:10 p.m. CDT. Southwest Airlines spokesman Chris Mainz told The Associated Press that the passenger’s behavior on the plane wasn’t disruptive, but he declined to elaborate. Read full article > >

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There was a bit of an awkward moment Thursday night in Baltimore after the Redskins ’ preseason game. John Beck was patting his faux mullet with a white towel, carefully explaining how he doesn’t root for Rex Grossman to self-destruct as much he roots for himself to outplay his only competition for the starting quarterback gig. “The best way I can explain it is, we know what each other has been through, you know what it’s like trying to be the guy to succeed,” Beck said. “But,” and he clearly enunciated the “but” part, “each of us want to be the guy.” Read full article > >

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John Beck, Rex Grossman get along fine, and their battle for Redskins QB job could be a long one

At least nine people died in accidents on area roadways Friday and Saturday, including four people whose cars caught fire during wrecks and a 3-month old who was inside an SUV that ran off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Prince George’s County and slammed into a tree. “A horrific crash scene” is how a rescue spokesman described the BW Parkway wreck. Several people inside the SUV were ejected, others remained trapped in the wreckage and three people were dead as of Saturday morning, according to the Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department. Read full article > >

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BALTIMORE — The Washington Nationals scored Friday night for the first time since Monday. Once they started, they could hardly be stopped in a 17-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles to open interleague play. It had been a rough week for the Nationals, what with being shut out in consecutive games, rained out once and having General Manager Mike Rizzo find himself in the middle of a league investigation over an incident with the umpires after a loss to the New York Mets on Thursday . But in recording their first victory by more than four runs this season, the Nationals did their best to put all that previous malaise behind them before an announced crowd of 24,442. They scored the most runs and hit the most home runs (six) in a game since the team moved to Washington, and they set a season high with 19 hits. Read full article > >

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Nationals vs. Orioles: Nats score most runs in a game since team’s move to Washington

Within days of completing his purchase of the Washington Wizards from the Pollin family, Ted Leonsis was in discussions with the NBA and its apparel partner, Adidas, expressing his desire to create a different look for his franchise. Leonsis had made it clear that the Wizards wanted to return to a red, white and blue color scheme more reflective of the nation’s capital, and one that Washington’s basketball team had worn from the time the Bullets moved from Baltimore to Washington in 1973 until the name changed in 1997 . Read full article > >

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Wizards went from plan to new uniform and logo quicker than most NBA teams