A 38-year-old cab driver and citizen journalist known as The Baltimore Spectator pleaded guilty to possession of a sawed-off shotgun today, receiving time served and three years probation in a closely-watched case that began last December with a live-tweeted standoff with a Baltimore SWAT team. Apollos Frank-James MacArthur, who has been held without bail...
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In the morning, it was all bluster. “Anyone trying to capture me, ur gonna have to kill me, before I kill you,” Frank James MacArthur, whose Twitter handle is @BaltoSpectator, tweeted at 8:21 a.m. on Dec. 1. “I’m a nice guy, but I’m a bad, bad man. Dangerous us, so don’t try.” Then: “Think...
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Local bail bondsman Mark Adams called this afternoon to relate a story he says he heard from Circuit Court Clerk Frank Conaway. In Adams’ telling, blogger Adam Meister went to the Conaway residence on Liberty Heights Avenue. Frank Conaway (Sr.) heard someone pounding on the door, grabbed his gun (supposedly the family lost two...
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While Occupy Wall Street (and Baltimore and about 300 other places) made headlines last week, more than two dozen anti-war activists made one of their regular appearances at the National Security Agency, trying again to meet with its commander to discuss the agency’s ongoing domestic spying operations and other alleged violations of U.S. law....
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On Nov. 13, 1981, the crew of space shuttle mission STS-2 awoke to the Muppets’ “Pigs in Space” comedy routine No. 1. On Nov. 18, 1995, it was “Do Wah Diddy Diddy”—”performed as a drill team chant cadence”—for the crew of mission STS-74. And now, for mission STS-134, space shuttle Endeavour’s final flight? It’s...
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This is big: NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery is launching today at 4:50 p.m. EST for its 39th and final flight, a trek to the International Space Station, which it has visited 35 times. It will be bringing with it the Permanent Multipurpose Module, which will provide storage space and an area to perhaps conduct...
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American astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock, who has been tweeting pictures from space, returned to Earth on Thanksgiving Day with fellow American Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin after a 163-day voyage in the International Space Station. Wheelock, who was the commander of the Space Station’s Expedition 25, was wildly successful in his Twitter...
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The Baltimore Sun has unveiled a new social-networking environment on its web site called the Social Sun. It features links to all the various Sun-related Twitter feeds you can subscribe to, and judging from the list, they’re a bunch of Twittering (Tweeting?) fools over on Calvert Street. You can even follow the Sun‘s human...
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We were excited when the Baltimore Police Department started Twittering. It seemed a bit weird that they leapt right over simple things, like press releases, to get the information out, but the police actually telling the public stuff is a step in the right direction, no matter what format it uses to share the...
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