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Jack Brooks dies at 89; longtime Democratic Texas congressman
Jack Brooks hounded government bureaucrats, drafted articles of impeachment against President Nixon and was a strong supporter of civil rights in a congressional career that spanned four decades. But the Texas politician was perhaps best known for his...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, John F. Kennedy, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Richard Nixon
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Theater review: 'Art of Murder' from Thriller Theater
The program for "Art of Murder," the first production from Thriller Theater, is pocket-sized. The cast biographies are written in teeny-tiny type — but patrons are given a mini-magnifying glass to study the page a la Sherlock Holmes as if it were...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Murder, Liza Minnelli, Winter Park
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Maryland's crab outlook, like weather, iffy
Independence Day means steamed crabs for many Marylanders, but the outlook for celebrating the nation's birthday with a heaping tableful of locally caught crustaceans is as iffy as the weather of late.
Despite a bumper crop of crabs tallied in the...Tags: Jim Andrews, Consumer Goods Industries, Seafood, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Parkville
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A better way to ensure the bay's bounty
More crabs to catch and fewer rules by which to catch 'em. That'd be the Holy Grail for Chesapeake watermen. It's why top crabbers in Maryland, from Havre de Grace to Smith Island, have been traveling monthly, for the past 18 months, to long and...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Consumer Goods Industries, Havre de Grace, Seafood
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Flights no longer available out of Beaumont
KIAHFor all three of you who have ever flown in and out of Beaumont, you won't be able to anymore as of July 1. Colgan Air operates services at Jack Brooks Regional. But, Colgan Air is a sunsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines which filed for bankruptcy protection...Tags: Pinnacle Airlines Corp., George W. Bush, Financially Distressed Companies, United Air Lines, Bankruptcy
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Md. crab processors battle federal wage rule
Jack Brooks and other leaders of Maryland's seafood industry have faced the same problem for more than a decade: a shortage of seasonal foreign workers to pick out the morsels of crab meat that wind up on dinner plates across the country.
But this...Tags: Defense, Unemployment, Politics, Consumer Goods Industries, Laws
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Steaming and boiling face off in annual crab cook-off
Along most of America's coastline, crustaceans get boiled. Sometimes in plain old Yankee water. Sometimes in spicy Cajun stock. Whatever the liquid, there's a whole pot of it bubbling away. Whatever the seafood — Maine lobster, Carolina blue crab,...Tags: Referenda, Politics, Voting, Lemons, Kosher Salt
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Crabs plentiful for now, though still pricey
Crabs are plentiful so far this year in Maryland, but that doesn't mean there'll be enough to go around on Independence Day weekend, when nearly every patriotic Marylander, it seems, dreams of feasting on the state's official crustacean. Nor will they...Tags: Father's Day, Politics, Seafood, Annapolis, Harford County
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Religion: Speakers and Topics
Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren, Pastor Rachel Black's sermon topic will be Living Thanks at the 10 a.m. service Sunday. Mary Medas will be the worship leader. Sunday school is at 9 a.m. A Thanksgiving meal will follow worship. Benevola United...Tags: Bible, Religion and Belief, Reformed, Education, Wolf Gang (music group)
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Home beckons for crab pickers
sun reporterFISHING CREEK // Five months after coming to this marshy village on the Chesapeake Bay to take jobs picking crabs in a processing plant, Trinidad Tovar Tovar and a dozen other workers headed home to Mexico yesterday, their luggage bulging with trinkets,...Tags: Mexico, Interior Policy, Barbara A. Mikulski, Politics, Labor Legislation
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Crab industry gets back to business
Sun StaffHOOPERS ISLAND - Just a few months ago, Harry Phillips wouldn't have bet a nickel that his crab processing plant would still be in business - much less humming along, turning out mounds of creamy steamed crabmeat. In March, Maryland's Eastern Shore...Tags: Mexico, Barbara A. Mikulski, Politics, Laws, Labor Legislation
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Films from around the world at the Florida Film Festival
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON Saturday, March 29, 1:45 p.m.–3:40 p.m. at Regal Saturday, April 5, 4:30 p.m.–6:25 p.m. at Regal Albert Lamorisse's brilliant 1956 children's classic The Red Balloon serves as inspiration. A little boy and his baby...Tags: Comedy (genre), Florida Film Festival, PG-13 Rated Movies, Spain, Italy
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