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Zoo teams up with state to promote college savings plans
May 29 has been dubbed 529 College Savings Day -- get it 5/29 and 529, as in the part of the tax code that allows the savings plan? -- and the College Savings Plans of Maryland (CSPM) is teaming up with the Maryland Zoo to promote awareness of the plans. ...
Tags: Education, Tuition Planning Services, Colleges and Universities
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A 'Passport' to the world of Druid Hill Park
A Roland Park resident has created a "passport" to Druid Hill Park. Janet Felsten, founder and director of the nonprofit group Baltimore Green Map, introduced the green-colored passport April 19 at a Baltimore Green Week kickoff party in the...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Druid Hill, Human Interest, Personal Data Collection
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Camel rides return to Maryland Zoo
Two Arabian camels who spend their summers in Baltimore are taking on passengers for short daytime trips past their penguin and elephant neighbors at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore for the next few months. The one-humped animals, also known as...
Tags: Labor Day
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Camels have returned to The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, visitors can ride for a fee
BALTIMORE (AP) — Camels have returned to The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. Beginning Saturday, zoo visitors can take a ride on one of two visiting camels, Pam or Mocha. The camel rides will be available daily from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. They cost $7... -
Billboard companies object to proposed city tax
Area billboard companies are speaking out against a proposed tax introduced this week by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. In a hearing before the City Council's taxation committee Thursday, the global billboard firm Clear Channel Outdoor offered to give...
Tags: Clear Channel Communications Inc., Economy, Business and Finance, Television Industry, Budgets and Budgeting, Mary Pat Clarke
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Endangered lemur couple gives birth at Maryland Zoo
An endangered lemur species native only to the island of Madagascar has grown its global population by one with the birth last month of Maximilian — the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore's newest Coquerel's sifaka. The species (pronounced CAHK-ker-rells...
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ALERT ERROR Del. accidentally sends out radioactive alert SMYRNA, Del. (AP) — Delaware Emergency Management officials say nearly 200 homes were mistakenly called to warn residents about a fictitious radioactive shipping accident during a drill....Tags: Politics, Baltimore Orioles, Government, Solar Energy, Maicer Izturis
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Male Coquerel's sifaka born at Maryland Zoo; the lemurs are endangered
BALTIMORE (AP) — A male Coquerel's sifaka, an endangered lemur native only to the island of Madagascar, has been born at the Maryland Zoo. Little Maximilian was born to Anastasia and Gratian on March 30. Zoo officials say the baby is healthy and is... -
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The nation's drug czar says the legalization of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado won't change his office's mission of fighting the nation's drug problem. Gil Kerlikowske (kur-lih-KOW'-skee) released the Obama...Tags: Gil Kerlikowske, Washington Nationals, Punishment
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Samson the elephant improves, is taken off meds
The young male elephant that fell ill with a deadly virus at the Maryland Zoo has been taken off medication and is expected to make a full recovery, zoo officials said Wednesday. "We know from other elephant experts that he will have up and down days, as...
Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry
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Young elephant continues to recover from deadly virus at Maryland Zoo
Samson, the young male elephant who was diagnosed with a deadly virus at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore late last month, has continued to recover in recent days and has "turned a very positive corner" in his treatment, according to zoo officials. "His...
Tags: Druid Hill, Viral Diseases and Infections, Symptoms, Zoology
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Severna Park Marine dies in Nevada military training accident
He was the teenager who wasn't embarrassed to hug his mom at Severna Park High School while other students looked on, who pitched on the Falcons' 2009 state championship baseball team, and who matured into a Marine with a swallow tattoo on his right arm....
Tags: Taylor Swift, University of Maryland, College Park, United States Naval Academy, Camp Lejeune (military base), U.S. Army
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