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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Oct. 4

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF

A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Friday:

Havre de Grace theater group marks ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’’s 40th anniversary.

It’s been four decades since the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” first opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1973, and the Tidewater Players are celebrating the anniversary with a revival set to run Friday and Saturday nights through Oct. 12 in Havre de Grace. Audience participation in the bizarre cult musical will be encouraged.

Read More at:  The Aegis

•  WOMAN WHO RAMMED WHITE HOUSE BARRICADE
SHOT DEAD BY D.C. POLICE

After attempting to ram through a barricade in front of the White House Thursday, a Stamford, Conn. woman driving a black Infiniti with a one-year-old child inside, led Washington, D.C. police on a chase toward the Capitol, where officers shot and killed her. A Secret Service agent and one officer were injured.

Read More at:  WJZ-TV (Ch. 13) | WBAL-TV (Ch. 11) | CNN

•  BELVEDERE SQUARE MERCHANTS EXTEND HOURS FOR SENATOR REOPENING

As the historic Art Deco Senator Theatre plans to reopen on Oct. 10 with a showing of John Waters’ 1988 film “Hairspray’, the merchants at Belvedere Square will begin staying open until 10 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights in hopes the reopening will increase business for the North Baltimore shopping area.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun

•  FORMER HOPKINS SURGEON CARSON CLAIMS IRS HARASSMENT

Former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson claims he was “targeted” by the Internal Revenue Service because of his outspoken political beliefs. In an interview with the Baltimore Sun’s Carrie Wells, however, Carson acknowledged that “there’s no way to know” if his vocal opposition to the Obama Administration caused the IRS to “harass” him or if his being audited was “a massive coincidence.”

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun

•  OBAMA CHALLENGES BOEHNER TO ‘CALL A VOTE’ TO END SHUTDOWN

As the government shutdown entered its fourth day, President Obama placed the blame for the impasse squarely on the shoulders of House Speaker John Boehner. In a speech at a construction company in Rockville, Obama said Boehner could easily end the crisis if he would agree to simply “call a vote.”

Read More at:  Yahoo! News | USA Today
 

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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday Oct. 3
 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF

A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Thursday:

The Apex, Baltimore’s last X-rated movie theater, will go to auc- tion next week, leaving Charm City residents without a public venue to view pornographic films — and making filmmaker John Waters, who called it ‘a wonderful place,’ unhappy. Waters says just driving by the East Baltimore ‘landmark’ always makes him feel ‘a little bit better.’ Perhaps it will go the way of other area adult-film theaters, like the Earle and Rex, and become a church?

•  X-RATED APEX THEATER UP FOR AUCTION

If you live in Baltimore and want to watch an X-rated film you’ll have to do it at home or at a friend’s: The city’s last X-rated movie theater — the Apex, located on South Broadway near the corner of East Lombard Street — has closed its doors and will be up for auction a week from tomorrow. After opening in 1942 the Apex began screening adult films in 1972.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun

•  NAVY-AIR FORCE, ARMY FOOTBALL GAMES TO BE PLAYED SAT. DESPITE SHUTDOWN

Despite the government shutdown and the cancellation of about 20 percent of classes at U.S service academies, the sold-out Navy-Air Force football game will be played as scheduled Saturday in Annapolis as will the Army-Boston College game in New England. The decision to play, without using money appropriated by Congress, was made by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel in consultation with leaders of the three service academies following nearly two days of uncertainty.

Read More at:  WJZ-TV (Channel 13) | Baltimore Sun

•  ALONSO HEADS LIST OF TOP CONTENDERS FOR NYC SCHOOLS CHIEF

After abruptly resigning following six years as Baltimore City Schools CEO in June — two years shy of his contract’s expiration — to take care of his elderly parents in New Jersey and teach part-time at Harvard, Andrés Alonso is reportedly at the top of a short list of strong contenders for the job of chancellor in New York City. Montgomery County schools chief Josh Starr rounds out the list of five top contenders.

Read More at:  Gotham Schools

•  HOWARD NAMED 8th BEST COUNTY IN U.S. TO WORK IN

Howard County was named No. 8 on a top-10 list of best counties in the United States to work in, based on jobs, high salaries, growth and short commutes. No other Maryland counties made the list.

Read More at:  Howard County Times

•  REMINGTON RESIDENTS FEARFUL OF WALMART EXPANSION

Remington residents fearful of Walmart’s expansion to their neighborhood as part of a proposed new design for the 25th Street Station project have sent a list of concerns to the Baltimore City Planning Department. Last week, Walmart reps presented a revised design for the $65 million project to the city’s Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel.

Read More at:  Maryland Daily Record
 

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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Oct. 2
 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF

A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.  Your weekday morning look (with links) at late- breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Wednesday:

Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons gave another million-dollar gift to University of Baltimore.

•  GO DADDY FOUNDER BOB PARSONS DONATES
$1 MILLION TO UB FOR VETERANS CENTER

The Go Daddy executive chairman, a University of Baltimore graduate, donated $1 million to the school to establish a veterans center on campus that will offer services to active-duty and former military personnel. Parsons, who a year ago gave UB $1 million to establish a professorship in digital communication, attended the Baltimore college on the G.I. Bill after returning from Vietnam.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun

•  GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN THREATENS SUSPENSION
OF SERVICE ACADEMY SPORTS

Army, Navy and Air Force football games — including Navy’s sold-out game against the Air Force in Annapolis next weekend — faced cancellation Tuesday as the Defense Department temporarily suspended sports competition at the service academies as a result of the budget impasse in Congress.

Read More at:  WJZ-TV (Channel 13)

•  MD. POLICE RAMP UP ENFORCEMENT AS TOUGHER CELLPHONE LAW BEGINS

If you were driving with a cellphone at your ear on Tuesday, you likely got pulled over by a cop in most jurisdictions around the state as Maryland police ramped up enforcement against the use of cellphones while driving. Use of a hand-held device while driving became a primary offense Tuesday.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun

•  FEDERAL JUDGE REFUSES TO BLOCK NEW GUN LAW IN MD.

Maryland’s new gun control law went into effect Tuesday as a federal judge in Baltimore refused to block its implementation, ruling that plaintiffs in two lawsuits failed to show the legislation would cause irreparable harm to prospective gun buyers and gun shops.

Read More at:  Maryland Daily Record

•  COMMUNITY FORUM WITH BCPS SUPERINTENDENT DANCE DRAWS SRO CROWD IN TOWSON

A standing-room-only audience turned out Tuesday for a community forum in Towson with Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent S. Dallas Dance. It was the fourth of a five-part series of community forums Dance is using to gather feedback on the school system.

Read More at:  Towson Times
 

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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday Oct. 1
 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF

A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Tuesday:

Gun control is once again on the Maryland agenda for Tuesday.

•  FEDERAL COURT URGED NOT TO SUSPEND TOUGH NEW MARYLAND GUN LAW

State officials accused gun dealers of waiting till the last minute to oppose implementation of Maryland’s sweeping new gun law after reaping profits from a months-long firearm-buying frenzy, arguing a lawsuit filed last week to keep the law from taking effect Tuesday — scheduled to be heard in U.S. District Court this morning — came too late and lacks merit.

Read More at:  WJZ-TV (Ch. 13) | Balto. Sun

•  TWO KILLINGS MONDAY IN BALTIMORE MAKE SEPTEMBER 2nd-DEADLIEST MONTH IN 2013

The killing of two men Monday in Baltimore — one in Violetville, not far from St. Agnes Hospital near Arbutus, and one in Northeast, in the Coldstream Homestead Montebello neighborhood — made September the second-deadliest month this year for homicides.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun | Voice of Baltimore

•  CONGRESS FAILS TO ACT TO AVOID SHUTDOWN

An estimated 800,000 federal workers faced furloughs Tuesday as Congress missed a midnight deadline for averting the first partial government shutdown since 1976. More than a million additional workers will be asked to work without pay.

Read More at:  Associated Press | New York Times

•  AT NEARLY $109K, HOWARD CO. RANKS 2nd IN NATION IN MEDIAN INCOME

If you and your family live in Howard County you’re among the most prosperous in the nation, according to results from a recently released survey, which showed that in 2012, at $108,844, Howard County’s median income was second only to Loudoun County, Va., which last year had a median income of $117,876.

Read More at:  Howard County Times

•  JACKSON TRIP TO CUBA ENDS WITHOUT GROSS MEETING

A native Baltimorean imprisoned in Cuba for nearly four years on charges of espionage failed to obtain a meeting with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who ended a four-day visit to Havana on Tuesday. Alan P. Gross, a USAID contractor, had hoped Jackson might intercede with the government of President Raul Castro on his behalf.

Read More at:  WBFF Fox45-TV | Voice of Baltimore

 
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday Sep. 30
 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF

A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Monday:

Jill Yesko, foreground, of City Lit Project, introduces three retired cops and one TV journalist at weekend Baltimore Book Festival in Mount Vernon. Seated, from left, are Stephen Tabeling, Stephen Janis, Dick Ellwood and Ken Lang. (VoB Photo/Taya M. Graham)

•  ‘MURDER’ IN MT. VERNON (AT BOOKFEST)

Three retired cops and one TV journalist joined in spirited discussion on crime and murder in Charm City at a weekend forum at the annual Baltimore Book Festival in Mount Vernon.

Read More at:  Voice of Baltimore

•  TEXTING WHILE DRIVING BECOMES PRIMARY OFFENSE IN MD.

Starting tomorrow, anyone behind the wheel talking on a cellphone — or texting — can expect to get pulled over by a cop. Beginning Tuesday, using anything other than a hands- free phone while driving becomes a primary offense in Maryland.

Read More at:  WJZ-TV Channel 13

•  CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE REOPENS AFTER SUNDAY AFTERNOON FIRE

The westbound span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge reopened Sunday night at 8 p.m. after being shut down by a fire that started in mid-afternoon underneath the bridge where construction is underway.

Read More at:  WBAL-TV Channel 11

•  SENATE INACTION ON OBAMACARE MOVES U.S. TO BRINK OF SHUTDOWN

With a temporary shutdown of the federal government appearing inevitable without a last-ditch compromise, the Senate appeared ready to decisively reject a House bill Monday afternoon that would delay the full effect of Obamacare as a condition for keeping the government running.

Read More at:  New York Times

•  MD. GUN CONTROL HEARING SET FOR TUESDAY IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT

A challenge to Maryland’s new gun control law will be heard Tuesday in U.S. District Court on the same day the measure containing some of the nation’s tightest firearm restrictions is scheduled to take effect.

Read More at:  Maryland Daily Record
 
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