News in Maryland
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On Saturday morning, two months after the fire that destroyed their Rosedale home, cars stuffed with donated furniture pulled up in front of a new apartment for Christina Means, her boyfriend, Clyde Randall Jr., and her son, Jarrell Burden, a first-grader at Shady Spring Elementary School. The school community had come together to support them. Above, Christina Means, in grey, hugs Wendy Carver, a Shady Spring Elementary School counselor.
As the funding controversy swirled around Susan G. Komen for the Cure this week, much of the criticism was directed at a Maryland native who serves as a senior policy adviser. Karen Handel, who grew up in Prince George's County, has been painted in the media as an architect of the decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood. Many critics cited her run for Georgia governor in 2010, in which she showcased her anti-abortion philosophy and promised to cut state grants to Planned Parenthood.
Some open-government advocates are concerned about proposal
It's late in the first half of a tournament game, more than 3,000 basketball fans have filled the auditorium, and as the Patterson High Clippers of Baltimore toss the ball inbounds and head up the court, a spectator leans over to speak to his young son.
A Sparks woman was killed early Saturday after her car struck a guard rail in Cockeysville.