VoB SELECTS:  INVESTIGATIVE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WEB   TEXAS GOVERNOR ENDORSES FORMER SPEAKER  GINGRICH Terms him a ‘conservative visionary’ NEWT’S NOT PERFECT, BUT WHO IS?   UPDATE (Sat., Jan. 21st @ 8:30 PM): GINGRICH WINS SO. CAROLINA PRIMARY IN MAJOR UPSET; defeats former front- runner Romney by wide margin, 41-26 percent in early […]

  BLAKE’S TOP SPOKESMAN DOESN’T KNOW ‘HIS FRONT FROM HIS BACK,’  SAYS JACK Also couldn’t get a job outside government   By Alan Z. Forman   Is the very public spat between Bernard C. “Jack” Young and the top aide to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake a sign the formerly combative City Council president has returned to […]

  MEMORIAL SERVICE DRAWS 300 FOR ECCENTRIC RESTAURATEUR   By Anthony C. Hayes   As tens of thousands of Ravens football fans cheered the city’s team at chilly M&T Bank Stadium Sunday afternoon, a smaller but no less enthusiastic crowd of about 300 friends, former employees and family members huddled in the warmth of the […]

  USAF VEHICLE STRUCK BY INSURGENT BOMB Attack on NATO forces  occurred in Shir Ghazi   A U.S. airman from Westminster was one of three Air Force servicemen killed in action Thursday in Afghanistan when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Helmand Province, the Pentagon announced this weekend. Airman 1st Class Matthew R. […]

  BYSTANDER INTERRUPTS ROBBERY, TACKLES ASSAILANT BUT FAILS TO SUBDUE HIM FOR POLICE 2nd BASEBALL BAT ATTACK IN WEEK   By Kevin E. Dayhoff   A baseball bat was the weapon of choice as a High’s Dairy Store employee in Carroll County was assaulted for the second time this week by a man who robbed […]