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Annapolitans fear more job cuts
Parking enforcement officers who issue tickets like this one on a car at City Dock would likely be replaced by contract workers in Mayor Joshua J. Cohen's effort to shrink the projected $8 million budget deficit for fiscal 2011. Thirty-three employees have been laid off; 52 more jobs would be lost in his proposed budget.


$300,000 textbooks called 'a mistake'
Officials admit failing to follow rules

Officials admit failing to follow rules in $300,000 purchase


Balto. Co. water main repaired after break
Service restored to residents, businesses affected since incident early Saturday


Baltimore Co. police investigate killing of man in Cockeysville
Man was found unconscious outside of home

Baltimore County police are investigating a homicide in Cockeysville that took place early Wednesday.


Animal cruelty charges against dog day care worker dropped
Veterinarians disagree with police that pit bulls used for fights in criminal case

Back in January, friends and police portrayed Nicole Marie Caruso alternately as a dog groomer and a dogfighter, an animal rights activist and a drug dealer, a beloved worker with loyal clients and a thief who pilfered piles of animal meds from her employer.


Maryland jobless rate edges up to 7.5 percent in January
Rate is highest for state since spring 1983

Maryland's unemployment rate rose to 7.5 percent in January as job cuts continued unabated, the Labor Department said Wednesday.


St. Joseph tells 169 more they may have had unneeded surgery
Number of patients in stent case reaches 538; hospital could be fined millions

St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, facing lawsuits and a pair of federal investigations related to its cardiac care business, has informed another 169 heart patients that they received expensive and potentially dangerous treatments they might not have needed.


Metro-area home sales continue rise in Feb., but prices down
But prices dropped almost 4 percent from year earlier

Home sales in the Baltimore metro area continued to rise last month -- and prices continued to drop.


Council panel holds hearing on how to reduce trash in harbor


Archdiocese discourages talk of independent Gibbons School
Archdiocese still expects to close high school, but graduates cling to hope bishop raised

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is discouraging talk of turning the Cardinal Gibbons School over to supporters to run as an independent school, but the Gibbons community is not giving up hope.


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