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From Soultracks.com: It is with immense sorrow that we inform SoulTrackers that Al Goodman, one-third of Ray, Goodman & Brown as well as the Moments (“Love on a Two Way Street”), has died. Part of two of the most underrated soul groups of the past half century, Goodman provided the “bottom end” on hits such […]
Via: Baltimoresun.com National healthcare reform is expected to save the state $829 million over the next ten years and provide coverage to nearly 350,000 people. The plan will provide insurance to half of the state’s uninsured. Nearly 40 percent of Marylanders, about 700,000 people, are currently uninsured. That will fall to about 6.7 percent with […]
Via: WJZ-TV Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and Republican Robert Ehrlich are running side by side according to polls this week. O’Malley led with 45 percent to Ehrlich’s 42 percent, which has an error margin of 3.5 percentage points. 807 registered voters were polled between July 13 and July 21.
Via: WJZ-TV John Wagner, 34, and Lavelva Merritt, 24, were arrested in the stabbing death of 23-year-old Stephan Pitcairn. Pitcairn was returning from a weekend trip to New York when the two suspects robbed the victim of his wallet, duffel bag, iPod and money. Pitcairn was leaving Penn Station and was on the phone with […]
From NYDailyNews.com: BP may have sent its disgraced CEO packing to Russia, but the oil giant softened the blow, giving its bumbling executive $1.6 million for his troubles.
From TheGrio.com: Swimming pools across the country have been filled with children trying to escape the heat, but for two African-American brothers who grew up during the 1950s and 60s, that was never an option.
From WashingtonPost.com: The head of the Virginia Conference of the NAACP lashed out at Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) Monday, three days after Webb stirred controversy with an op-ed piece suggesting most government diversity programs should be abolished because they “marginalized” white Americans.
From Freep.com: The wife and father of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick have asked a federal judge to quash a request to depose them in the lawsuit involving a slain stripper who was said to have danced at a long-rumored party at the mayoral Manoogian Mansion.