Nik Wallenda, an acrobat set to walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls this summer, drew gasps after stumbling during walk 100 feet (30m) above Baltimore’s Inner Harbour.

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VIDEO: US highwire walker’s stumble

A 60-year-old man attempting to fly from Baltimore to Tampa, Florida, this weekend is facing charges for attempting to board a plane with a loaded gun, the Transportation Security Administration says.

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Faced with little public understanding of its modern mission, the U.S. Navy is reaching back 200 years to the War of 1812 in the hopes of bolstering its standing with the American people. This week it launches an ambitious, three-year commemoration to mark the bicentennial of the often overlooked war. Beginning Tuesday in New Orleans, and continuing through the summer in New York, Norfolk, Baltimore and Boston, tall ships and warships from around the world will parade through American ports. Read full article > >

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A winning ticket for the record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Baltimore County, the Maryland Lottery said Saturday.

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Music from central and Eastern Europe is popping up everywhere these days, much of it already in the standard repertoire. Besides the Kennedy Center’s ongoing festival, “Music of Budapest, Prague and Vienna,” concerts focused on these three cities have spread beyond the center. Such was the case Saturday, when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra played (to a full house) at the Strathmore concert hall. Apparently by sheer coincidence, the Czech conductor Jiri Belohlavek led the BSO in works by Dvorak and Janacek (Prague), Kodaly (Hungary) and Beethoven (yes, he was German but rose to stardom in Vienna). Belohlavek is chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Read full article > >

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A former Baltimore area resident held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was charged Tuesday by military prosecutors with war crimes, including murder, attempted murder, spying and providing material support for terrorism. Read full article > >

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Guantanamo detainee with Baltimore ties is charged with war crimes

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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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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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