“Baltimore” on The Daily Caller

BALTIMORE (AP) — Every kid with a lacrosse stick envisions scoring the goal that wins the national championship. (more)

It didn’t take long, Miles Harrison said, for the familiar lacrosse stereotypes to resurface. Within a day after a University of Virginia lacrosse player was charged with murdering a female player, the Baltimore surgeon said somebody told him, “‘There are those lacrosse guys again.” (more)

Montgomery, Prince George’s and Baltimore counties may receive an additional $3 million to $6 million total this fall through a federal program that helps communities buy and redevelop foreclosed properties, according to estimates released Tuesday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. (more)

BALTIMORE — Schoolyard Dreams is heading to Pimlico for the Preakness one day earlier than expected. (more)

Expanding farmers markets and community gardens, asking street vendors to sell fruit and launching a marketing campaign to encourage better eating habits are some of the recommendations from a city panel formed to improve demand for and access to healthy foods.
Using contributions from private sources, the panel has also hired Baltimore’s first “food czar.”Baltimore City Food Policy Director Holly Freishtat will act as a consultant who will help direct city food policy. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Virginia lacrosse teams both anticipated playing for a national championship this month. They just never expected it to be like this. (more)

Terrifying? Good for public safety? A disincentive against doing bad things to yourself in public? From First Coast News: (more)

Since last summer, as part of a continuing investigation of illegal online gambling (“The Ghost Hand,” Feature, March 24), federal investigators in Maryland have seized more than $5 million from U.S. bank accounts tied to payment processors that allegedly transact business on behalf of offshore companies’ gambling web sites. (more)

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BALTIMORE — A former leader of Maryland’s ACORN chapter says the group shaken by a video scandal will no longer operate in the state. (more)

HADDONFIELD, N.J. – An American seized in Yemen in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida members had been a laborer at six U.S. nuclear power plants, and authorities are investigating whether he had access to sensitive information or materials that would be useful to terrorists. (more)

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Baltimore, MD – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake banned travel on city streets. It’s considered Phase 3 of the snow emergency plan. (more)

A new mayor is sworn in, palm on the Bible. Mere hours later, that hand is stuffed into a snow glove as a snowstorm bears down on Baltimore. It happened to Clarence H. Du Burns in 1987, and it is happening now to Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake who, fresh off her swearing-in, is getting a crash course in the politics of a snowstorm. (more)

WASHINGTON – A blizzard battered the Mid-Atlantic region Saturday, with emergency crews struggling to keep pace with the heavy, wet snow that has piled up on roadways, toppled trees and left thousands without electricity. (more)

WASHINGTON — One of the largest winter storms the Mid-Atlantic region has seen in decades swept into Washington and Baltimore on Friday, grounding flights, closing schools and government offices, and sending residents racing to stock up on groceries and rock salt before the snow accumulated to what are expected to be record-setting depths. (more)

I went to Massachusetts this weekend with a friend who wanted to get hypnotized to lose weight and quit smoking. (I will let you know how this works out, but I’m less than hopeful since in the days after he had three cigarettes, a 2.5 lb. lobster, and a fish-and-cheese sandwich. But my fingers are crossed.) Over the weekend, we went into a furniture store in Gloucester. Taped on the counter, the shop owner had a fake photograph of George W. Bush carrying a “Presidency for Dummies” book. I wanted to ask the woman if she knew her name and what year it was, but this seemed cruel. So instead I started singing a David Gray song really loudly as I walked through the store, driving out at least two customers who I think were considering buying something. (more)

If Republicans needed evidence that 2010 will hardly be the political cakewalk some expect, President Obama reminded them on Friday with an aggressive appearance before pointed questions from House GOP lawmakers. (more)

President Obama clashed with House Republicans Friday in a face-to-face meeting that was designed to improve bipartisan cooperation but quickly devolved into a series of accusations from both sides. (more)