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		<title>Alleged BGF leader Tavon White wins transfer out of Maryland prison</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/alleged-bgf-leader-tavon-white-wins-transfer-out-of-maryland-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After complaining in court about the conditions of his confinement in Maryland’s prison system, Tavon White, the lead defendant in the high-profile racketeering case against alleged members of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang, today was granted his request to be transferred to federal custody by U.S. District judge Ellen Hollander. The reasons cited by the judge were the lack of opposition from prosecutors in White’s pending state and federal cases and “the allegations of corruption among the Division of Correction’s staff in at least one of its correctional institutions,” according to court documents.]]></description>
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		<title>Feds sue to keep $61,000 in cash seized from home of former deputy mayor and state delegate Salima Siler Marriott</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/feds-sue-to-keep-61000-in-cash-seized-from-home-of-former-deputy-mayor-and-state-delegate-salima-siler-marriott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before Christmas 2007, Baltimore deputy mayor for community and economic development Salima Siler Marriott (D), a former long-time state delegate, had to deal with the news that her son, Patrice Marriott, then 40 years old, had been indicted in federal court for being a felon in possession of a firearm. It was no doubt embarrassing, but it wasn’t the first time – as the charge indicated. Her son had a long record of felony drug arrests, including in other states, and while many of the charges had been dropped over the years, sometimes they stuck. Now Salima Marriott is out of public office, but her son is still causing her problems – including a police raid last November on her Park Heights house on Homer Ave., where Patrice Marriott also lived. Weeks earlier, according to court records, Patrice Marriott had been stopped by police while driving a car in the 2200 block of North Eutaw St., and the cops had found him in possession of about 160 grams of cocaine and nearly $1,800 in cash. He was arrested, but the investigation continued – including the execution of a search warrant on the Marriott home on Nov. 21. The raid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARC train to begin weekend service!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/marc-train-to-begin-weekend-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hallelujah! After virtually universal agreement (by the people we talk to, anyway) that the MARC train should run from Baltimore&#8217;s Penn Station to D.C.&#8217;s Union Station on weekends (which has been promised since at least 2008), it will finally be so, according to a report in the Baltimore Business Journal. The additional service was approved as part of The Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act, signed by Governor O&#8217;Malley today. The act includes $4.4 billion in transportation infrastructure spending, including $100 million to improve MARC service, partially paid for with a 4-cent increase in the state&#8217;s gas tax, starting July 1st. No date has been set for the weekend service to begin. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Misfortune mounts on ill-fated &#8220;party&#8221; ride</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/misfortune-mounts-on-ill-fated-party-ride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not like it really needs saying, but: Don’t take pills and drive, especially if you’re traveling with heroin and lots of cash and don’t have a job. To drive the point home, consider the case of 49-year-old Sandra Diane Rust and 50-year-old Samuel Cornelius Rust, III, a married couple from Pennsylvania. They were driving a 2006 Chevrolet Aveo on the Baltimore Beltway&#8217;s outer loop last Nov. 2, when Sandra crashed it into an empty SUV parked on the shoulder near the exit for Route 40. When Maryland State Police responded and noted that Sandra’s “speech was slow and slurred and she had bloodshot and glassy eyes,” according to court records, she denied she’d been drinking – though she admitted “that she took her prescribed Oxycodone, but could not remember how many she took or how long ago before the collision she took them.” The couple was taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma for treatment, where Samuel died from his injuries. Matters turned even worse for Sandra after the Maryland State Police arrived at Shock Trauma to Mirandize her on suspicion of driving under the influence, court records say. A trooper asked Sandra for her drivers license, and she said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New J. Paul&#8217;s menu: Bourbon mojitos and ribeye egg rolls</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/new-j-pauls-menu-bourbon-mojitos-and-ribeye-egg-rolls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[J. Paul’s, in a spot that may as well be a corner table on the Inner Harbor, recently launched a menu that continues in its seafood-heavy tradition, adding a few twists. As in, a Mojito made with bourbon and brown sugar. Kind of a Maryland club take on Brazilian decadence. Heavy noshers can start with a bucket of shellfish ($36) and gnaw their way through snow crab, mussels, shrimp and corn, sopping up the lemony brine with chewy baguette, or take the red meat route, with Philly rolls ($10), a twist on egg rolls – these stuffed with ribeye steak and caramelized onion, swimming in a peppery cheese-whizzy sauce. Newcomers also include the salmon ($22, pictured)  – grilled to a nice crusty finish and served on mashed potatoes slathered in a citrusy butter sauce. There’s a good excuse to dine by the water while doing good on May 30: The summer patio party, $25 includes rail drinks, wine and cans of Natty Boh, plus some filling appetizers – with proceeds going to Boys Hope Girls Hope of Baltimore. Information at j-pauls.capitalrestaurants.com]]></description>
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		<title>Judge schedules two-month jury trial in BGF racketeering case, starting June 2014</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/judge-schedules-two-month-jury-trial-in-bgf-racketeering-case-starting-june-2014/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland U.S. District judge Ellen Hollander today issued a scheduling and discovery order in the Black Guerrilla Family prison-gang racketeering case that has caused a national sensation since the indictment was unsealed on Apr. 23, exposing anew Maryland’s longstanding problem of correctional corruption. The two-month jury trial, scheduled to start on June 9, 2014, will be preceded by many months of sharing evidence and arguing motions between the 25 defendants’ attorneys and federal prosecutors Robert Harding and Ayn Ducao. Hollander urged defense attorneys for the 13 indicted correctional officers “to form one group, and counsel for the inmates to form another group, and to collaborate with regard to the submission of joint motions,” so as to “avoid unnecessary duplication of motions.”]]></description>
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		<title>The BGF’s Tavon White complains about conditions in new facility</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/the-bgfs-tavon-white-complains-about-conditions-in-new-facility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tavon White (pictured), the alleged Black Guerrilla Family leader charged in a racketeering indictment stemming from correctional corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, is currently being held at North Branch Correctional Facility (NBCI) in Cumberland – and he’s not happy about his conditions of confinement there, according to a motion for a hearing filed this morning by his attorney, Gary Proctor. Saying White’s “continued confinement within the Maryland Department of Corrections needs to be reconsidered,” Proctor’s motion points out that White’s belongings had yet to make it to NBCI, leaving him with only “a jump suit, one pair of underwear, shower sandals, [and] a sheet for the bed.” Letters from White to Proctor “have yet to arrive” at Proctor’s address, and White was only “allowed to make one call to counsel on arrival, but none since.” What’s more, Proctor says his visit with White was limited to “less than an hour” and was “non-contact” – though Proctor had been assured previously he’d be able to visit him face to face – so going through documents “is nigh on impossible when talking through glass, with no means to pass documents through to one another.” Proctor asserts that, given his experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Lunch: Mike Isabella to debut Skinny Dipper oysters at Preakness</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/naked-lunch-mike-isabella-to-debut-skinny-dipper-oysters-at-preakness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Skinny Dipper oyster is certainly upping the ante when it comes to suggestive foods. The alluring bivalve with the even more alluring moniker will be making its debut on Preakness day (May 18) at Preakness Village for a VIP slurping session. The Skinny Dipper will be proffered at Chef Mike Isabella’s raw bar at Preakness Village near the finish line. For those who won’t be hoofing it to the track that day, Ryleigh’s Oyster House in Federal Hill (36 E. Cross St.) will host a buck-a-shuck launch. The Skinny Dipper is the poster girl, so to speak, for the nascent True Chesapeake Oyster Co., which has recently begun farming the creatures from St. Jerome’s Creek in St. Mary’s County. Look for True Chesapeake’s other offerings on local menus this summer. We’re told the Skinny Dipper is plump and sweet, with just a hint of salt.]]></description>
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		<title>Longtime liquor license official to retire following critical audit</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/longtime-liquor-license-official-to-retire-following-critical-audit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Ericson Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Daniels (pictured), the executive secretary of the Board of Liquor License Inspectors and a fixture for decades, has announced his retirement, effective July 1 in the wake of a critical state audit of the agency. “OMG&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;is it Christmas? Today? Pinch me, seriously!!!” Beth Hawks, a west-side small business owner, wrote in an email on Thursday, May 9. “I can hardly contain my JOY!!” Daniels confirmed his retirement to City Paper on May 13. “Frankly this has nothing to do with the audit,” he says. “Everybody would probably like for it to look like that but truth is there is a major philosophical difference between me and the agency and the mayor and her designs on all things liquor.” Daniels says he did not read the Maryland Daily Record story saying he had resigned. (Dated May 10, it is behind a pay wall). The state audit, released early last month, found inspectors not doing inspections, inspectors inspecting closed establishments and not noting they are closed, failure to confirm criminal background checks and a host of other problems (“Audit Slams Liquor Board,” Mobtown Beat, April 10). “I’m tired of all the BS,” Daniels continued. “I’ll be 66 in July and eligible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Bill O’Reilly call MD corrections boss Maynard &#8220;a moron&#8221; over BGF scandal</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/watch-bill-oreilly-call-md-corrections-boss-maynard-a-moron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News show The O’Reilly Factor yesterday aired a new segment about Maryland’s correctional corruption scandal (watch it below), with correspondent Jesse Watters interviewing an anonymous former Baltimore City Detention Center detainee who described a free-for-all party scene for inmates and confronting Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services secretary Gary Maynard. O’Malley, while fielding Watters’ questions about the 2010 Correctional Officers’ Bill of Rights law that curtailed Maryland government’s disciplinary powers over prison staffers, claimed “there have been 89 people terminated from the corrections service even before these 13” correctional officers were indicted in April for racketeering with the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang and asserted, as he has before, that “we initiated this investigation.” When Watters asked Maynard whether he should lose his job over the scandal, Maynard said “we opened up this problem” and “I know I’m the man to fix” it. Watters invited him to come on the show, and Maynard retorted, “I don’t watch his program” – to which Watters suggested, “Maybe you should,” and Maynard, sounding very much a cornered school boy, retorted, “Well, maybe you should.” “Is that guy as dumb as he sounds?” host Bill O’Reilly asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X-Content: 10 years ago in City Paper: May 14, 2003</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/x-content-10-years-ago-in-city-paper-may-14-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Chalkley’s feature profiles expatriate Iraqis in Baltimore. In Mobtown Beat, David Morley airs concerns about drug-treatment providers in Hollins Market; Van Smith covers the election season’s first candidate forum; and Alejandro Danois remembers Sam Lacy. The Nose sorts through Baltimore’s ongoing police-prosecutor spats. Michael Yockel’s Charmed Life gives props to The Sun’s crime-blotter scribe, Dick Irwin. Uli Loskot’s How’s it Going? gets answers from Aaron White, Yolanda Clifton, and Virginia Hendriksen. The Mail has letters from Denise Preis, Marc-Oliver Wright, Allen Smith, Christopher Murphy, Regina Boyce, Michelle Strunge, and Natalie Salabes. The columns are: Brian Morton’s Political Animal, on the death of hypocrisy; Eddie Matz’ Shirts and Skins, on the mercurial Orioles; Afefe Tyehimba’s Third Eye, on dancing with Fluid Movement; and Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on getting the squeeze and goth anxiety. Scocca &#38; MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to. Emily Flake’s Lulu Eightball discovers bodily wonders. Art is Brennen Jensen, profiling Baltimore-based movie-scenester Vince Peranio, whose career is being spotlighted by Trash to Treasure, an exhibit at the Patterson Center for the Arts. In Stage, Anna Ditkoff puts the spotlight on the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival; David Morley describes the latter-day politics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State offers online open source data trove (O’Malley style)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/state-offers-online-open-source-data-trove-omalley-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Ericson Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maryland state government quietly announced its brand-new online open source data trove last Wednesday. Gov. Martin O’Malley (last seen burying his head in the sand over corruption in state prisons) called the portal “a movement away from ideological, hierarchical, bureaucratic governing and toward information-age governing that is fundamentally entrepreneurial, collaborative, relentlessly interactive and performance driven.” O’Malley talks a mighty good game on the stump. As always, watch what he does. The State Integrity Project was recently unimpressed with Maryland’s access to public records, giving the state an F on that score while ranking us 40th among states in terms of corruption risk. That was just a survey, though. People were asked if data was available and if the access to the information was “effective.” The best way to see what’s available and its potential effectiveness is to visit the new site for a test drive. This we did. We give it an F too. Like many O’Malley initiatives, it looks impressive at first glance. There are more than 200 “data sets” available through the website, and you can list them in order by several different criteria, including “relevance” “most accessed” “alphabetical” and “most recently updated.” Sounds good, right? Here’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explore the many ways to celebrate American Craft Beer Week</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/explore-the-many-ways-to-celebrate-american-craft-beer-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenn Ladd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week marks the celebration of a made-up marketing gimmick, but one that&#8217;s a little easier to swallow than many: American Craft Beer Week, from May 13-19. High-end beer-drinking opportunities abound. Old standby Max&#8217;s Taphouse highlights a different style of beer every day this week. Today, May 13, it&#8217;s mouth-puckering sours, including Allagash&#8217;s oak tank-aged FV 13 in bottles as well as The Bruery&#8217;s tart and wheaty Hottenroth Berliner Weisse on draft; many others available. Tuesday features a lengthy list of hoppy brews. Look for Ballast Point Sculpin IPA on nitro, Elysian&#8217;s Superfuzz Blood Orange Pale Ale on draft, and Lagunitas Hop Stoopid on cask. Wednesday is dedicated to Belgians and Belgian-styles (saisons, quads, etc.). Thursday showcases the bar&#8217;s barrel-aged stash, with lots of bourbon and oak represented. There are stouts aplenty in Friday&#8217;s dark ales selection. Max&#8217;s breaks out the experimental offerings on Saturday, with Stillwater&#8217;s brettanomyces-fermented malt liquor, Forty Faave, and Berlin, Maryland&#8217;s Burley Oak brewery&#8217;s Rude Boy red ale with added marshmallows, parsnips, and tangelos on cask. Sunday is a bit of a mishmash, with a wheats/wits/ales/lagers roundup. The sister joint to Pratt Street Ale House in Columbia, The Ale House hosts a beer dinner tonight, featuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alleged BGF drug supplier pleads guilty in separate Eastern Shore case</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/alleged-bgf-drug-supplier-pleads-guilty-in-separate-eastern-shore-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was building its blockbuster 2009/2010 racketeering case against the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang – the one that had many of the same elements, including correctional corruption, as the current FBI-investigated racketeering case against the BGF – agents identified Austin Roberts (pictured), who goes by the nickname “Yellow,” as one of the gang’s main drug suppliers. Today, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Roberts, 37, has pleaded guilty in a separate, Eastern Shore drug conspiracy, and confirmed that the defendant is the same as the man targeted in the BGF case investigated by the DEA. According to court documents in the 2009/2010 BGF case, Roberts was one of three “key lieutenants on the streets for drug-trafficking activities” on behalf of lead BGF defendant Eric Brown, who, while an inmate at the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore, was “in command of day-to-day operations in the State of Maryland” for the BGF. The other two were Rainbow Williams, who was indicted with Brown, and Gregory Fitzgerald, who was arrested on cocaine-conspiracy charges in January 2009, before the DEA’s first BGF indictments were handed down in April 2009. Fitzgerald beat those charges, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Navy’s disastrous 2011 liberation of a Taiwanese fishing ship from Somali pirates lands in Maryland federal court</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/u-s-navys-disastrous-2011-liberation-of-a-taiwanese-fishing-from-somali-pirates-lands-in-maryland-federal-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though Somali piracy on the high seas is on the wane, it’s been making for news and entertainment recently, with a World Bank report on its $18-billion-a-year cost to the global economy and the impending release of a new Tom Hanks movie, Captain Phillips, that retells one of the problem’s more chilling episodes. While the economic costs are attributed to the pirates’ lawless conduct, the U.S.-led response has also entailed tragic losses – including the life of Taiwanese fishing-ship captain Wu Lai-Yu and the sinking of his 90-foot-long ship, the Jih Chun Tsai 68 (pictured), in May 2011. Though a ransom deal had been struck and the pirates were expected to release the ship and crew soon, the U.S. Navy’s USS Stephen W. Groves moved to liberate it in the Indian Ocean. During the operation, which was subsequently excoriated for numerous violations of protocol in a Navy investigation, Lai-Yu was shot in the head and killed, and after it was over, the Navy inexplicably sank the still-viable ship. Protests in Taipei ensued. Lai-Yu’s widow, Wu Tien Li-Shou, yesterday sued the U.S. government in Maryland federal court, demanding $9 million for claims of wrongful death and willful destruction. Li-Shou’s attorney, Timothy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN steals City Paper&#8217;s story—and headline</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/cnn-steals-city-papers-story-and-headline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We say CNN ripped us off. You be the judge. On May 1, City Paper published this story, with the headline &#8220;Robocop: Retired city policeman takes refuge among droids,&#8221; about former city police officer Mark Haygood (pictured) who now makes robots out of old toys and alarm clocks and the like. On May 10, the House of Blitzer ran this story, with the headline &#8220;The Real Robocop: Ex-policeman builds robot from household goods,&#8221; about, well, the same thing. Now, Lord knows, we don&#8217;t own the rights to Mark Haygood&#8217;s story, but a mention and a link would have been nice. And as for the headline, well, we&#8217;ll just say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Thanks Wolf! UPDATE: It&#8217;s been called to our attention that the Afro had a story about Haygood that was published two weeks before ours (although our writer, Edward Ericson, Jr., heard about him independently and was unaware of the Afro story). So, maybe CNN ripped them off. For what it&#8217;s worth, we still had the headline first! &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>More Baltimore BGF racketeering defendants plead not guilty</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/more-baltimore-bgf-racketeering-defendants-plead-not-guilty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of this morning, six of the 25 defendants have entered not-guilty pleas in the federal racketeering case unsealed April 23 against Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang conspirators who, with the help of corrupt correctional officers (COs), allegedly  gained operational control of the Baltimore City Detention Center, which is run by Maryland’s embattled correctional agency. Inmate and lead defendant Tavon White (pictured) pleaded not guilty, as did CO Tiffany Linder, on April 29. Since then, inmates Steven Loney and Jermaine McFadden entered not-guilty pleas on May 6, and inmates Jamar Anderson and Kenneth Parham followed suit yesterday. Details about the allegations against these and the other 19 defendants, including excerpts of conversations many of them had on wiretapped phones, can be found here.]]></description>
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		<title>O’Malley wants to re-assess Correctional Officers’ Bill of Rights in light of FBI corruption probe</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/omalley-wants-to-re-assess-correctional-officers-bill-of-rights-in-light-of-fbi-corruption-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The office of Maryland governor Martin O’Malley (D) today issued a statement detailing a seven-point plan to “enhance security and root out corruption” in Maryland’s correctional facilities, in light of last month’s Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang racketeering indictment that charged 13 Maryland correctional officers (COs) with participating in the gang’s alleged criminal enterprise. The points are an array of rather obvious steps, including cracking down on cellphones in prison and enhancing correctional security procedures. One point, though, is likely to cause an interesting debate among the state’s movers and shakers, including the public-employees union, AFSCME Maryland (led by president Patrick Moran, pictured standing), that represents COs: “reviewing the procedures of the Correctional Officers’ Bill of Rights (COBR) with an open mind to any amendments that would improve discipline while ensuring due process.” As City Paper reported this week, the FBI views COBR as “corruption-enabling reform that itself was a product of corruption.” Maryland’s COBR, which AFSCME Maryland easily escorted through the legislative process in 2010 and which affords greater protections to COs accused of misconduct, was criticized by the FBI in court documents in the BGF case as being “ineffective as a deterrent” to CO corruption. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psst: Fleet Street Kitchen and Ten Ten Bistro offer secret menus Friday night</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/psst-fleet-street-kitchen-and-ten-ten-bistro-offer-secret-menus-friday-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fleet Street Kitchen and Ten Ten Bistro are trying to capture the clandestine vibe of a secret supper with their seasonal chefs menus this Friday night only. Both of the Bagby Group restaurants (both helmed by new chefs) will offer special prix fixe, three-course menus ($45 at FSK, $35 at Ten Ten) highlighting ingredients like ramps foraged from the woods near the owner’s farm, as well as pork loin from the happy pigs raised there. But the menu is only for those in the know, and won’t be offered to just anyone. You have to ask. We got an early peek at the secret menus. Check &#8216;em out: Fleet Street Kitchen Farmer’s Bounty Prix Fixe &#8211; $45 Ten Ten Farmer’s Bounty Prix Fixe &#8211; $35]]></description>
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		<title>Kibby&#8217;s still the king of shrimp salad; Taylor&#8217;s 5000 shut down</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/kibbys-still-the-king-of-shrimp-salad-taylors-5000-shut-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baynard Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our annual quest to find the coldest beer in Baltimore, we went down to Curtis Bay in hopes of a soft shell crab sandwich and some cold beer at Taylor&#8217;s 5000, but discovered that &#8220;this establishment is ordered closed/ no sales by the board of liquors license commissions.&#8221; Disappointed, starving, and thirsty, we stumbled into Kibby’s (3450 Wilkens Ave, [410] 644-8716, kibbysrestaurant.net).  It was mid-afternoon and the bar was already filling up with regulars, each of whom had an iced bucket of beers on the bar. Our coldest beer rules require draft, and we had to get back to work, so we didn&#8217;t partake of the buckets&#8211;even after we got stuck inside for a round of coffee (brought out in carafes covered with foil) due to a sudden hail storm (&#8220;That&#8217;s why they call it Halethorpe,&#8221; my drinking buddy quipped). But the draft Buds were cold (See Sizzlin&#8217; Summer next week to find out how cold) and the food was delicious. Kibby&#8217;s has been around since 1934 and they have always been famous for their shrimp salad (it won &#8220;Best Shrimp Salad&#8221; in 2006 and &#8220;Best Jumbo Jumbo Shrimp Salad&#8221; in 2007, all but retiring the category). Today&#8217;s heaping mass [...]]]></description>
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