Saturday, May 18, 2013
Patch brings you some of the week's more unusual headlines from around Maryland.
Naked Shooting Suspect on PCP Climbs Fire Truck (Graphic Video) After he finally came down from the truck, police used a Taser on the man, who is suspected of shooting someone earlier in the day. Burglar Hides in Target until after Closing, Smashes Displays A masked man stole electronics and wheeled them out the back door of the Pikesville store on Reisterstown Road. Student Robbed of Marijuana in Franklin High Bathroom A student told police he was robbed of his marijuana after an uninvolved student witnessed the incident. Man Pleads Guilty to Depraved Heart Murder in Gaithersburg Hit-and-Run Death Police said the Damascus resident ran one man down with his car, targeted another. Report: Quince Orchard Students Won't Lose AP Exam Credit …
Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner, finished fourth.
Oxbow, a 15-1 longshot, went nearly wire-to-wire to win the 138th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday giving trainer D. Wayne Lukas the all-time lead in Triple Crown race victories with 14. The bay colt, ridden by 50-year old Gary Stevens and owned by Calumet Farm, took the lead early from Goldencents and won the $1 million Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown by 1 ¾ lengths holding off Itsmyluckyday and Mylute in 1:57.54. Oxbow also ended hopes for a Triple Crown winner for another year. Orb, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, never got started from his No. 1 post position and finished a disappointing fourth. "I get paid to spoil dreams," Lukas said after the race. "You can’t mail it in, it’s a different surface, a different …
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Patch provides key info and live coverage of Preakness Saturday.
Today, the eyes of the sports world turn to Maryland—Pimlico to be exact. The 138th Preakness Stakes highlights Preakness Saturday in Baltimore, as Orb seeks the second leg of the Triple Crown toward the end of a day featuring one of the city's biggest parties of the year: InfieldFest. We have the rundown on events, traffic plans and more. And we'll be updating things as they happen via the live chat included with this post. Want to chime in on the live chat? Post right here, or include the hashtag #Preakness when you're on Twitter today. We'll also pull in photos from Instagram with the #Preakness hashtag in an article to appear on the site Saturday morning. Some key articles you might need to read before Preakness: See all of our …
Did you buy a powerball ticket?
It's the largest Powerball jackpot in history: $600 million, according to a Maryland Lottery spokesperson. And it's the second-largest of all the multi-state lotteries; the larget being last year's Mega Millions jackpot, which hit $656 million, according to a statement from Maryland Lottery spokesperson Erica Palmisano. One of those Mega Millions winners was in Maryland. The jackpot has "rolled," 13 times - that is, there hasn't been a winning number in the past 13 drawings. Until today, the highest Powerball jackpot had been $587 million in November 2012, according to Palmisano. Powerball has been in Maryland since 2010, according to Palmisano; there have been two Maryland winners since then. The drawing is scheduled for Saturday at 10:…
See what bargains you can find at the following yard sales, moving sales, estate sales and flea markets in Elkridge and throughout Howard County this weekend.
Each week, Patch puts together a list of local sales coming up over the weekend. Are you having a yard sale? Make sure you go to Events at the top of the page and click "Add an Event" to list your yard sale in the Patch for free. Check back weekly for additional bargain opportunities. Multi-Family Yard Sale Community Yard Sale Elkridge Auto Auctions Multi-Family Yard Sale Treover Community Yard Sale Animal Advocates Annual Yard Sale Community Yard Sale Huge Yard Sale Multi-Family Yard Sale Moving Sale Multi-Family Yard Sale Check back next week for additional sales.
Here's the story of Marlene Konkoly, who found creative ways to spend less and save more so she can retire at 50. This story is the first in our series about Extreme Savers.
Americans may be living longer, but our retirement plans aren’t keeping up, which means people are living longer with smaller bank accounts. But Marlene Konkoly will retire at age 50. How did she do it? She contributes a whopping 45 percent of the gross annual income she earns as a procurement officer for an automotive finance company to her retirement—all while owning a home and remaining debt-free. Konkoly is actually well ahead of the retirement savings curve compared to many of her fellow Americans. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, fewer than half of Americans even know how much money they would need to retire. And nearly a third of employees who had access to a defined contribution plan such as a 401(k) did not participate …
In fact, the Marchex Institute says Maryland may have raised cursing to an art form. $#@!& yeah!
What's so great about being nice? Nice never got anybody anywhere, right? In that case, Marylanders are going places. According to a finding from the Marchex Institute: We curse and act impolitely on consumer telephone calls. Whether that says anything about Marylanders as a people is between you and your robocaller, but it's statistically true, according to the institute - only Ohio had more cursing-per-calls measured on more than 600,000 phone conversations from the past 12 months. Virginia, our neighbor to the south, on the other hand, was fifth for most courteous. Marchex released the findings just in time for National Etiquette Week. The Institute monitored calls placed by consumers to businesses across 30 industries, including …
The newly launched site offers tips, info and digital know-how for small business owners.
Patch has launched a new site to educate and empower small businesses with the digital tools, social media strategies and marketing know-how needed to ensure long-term growth. Small Business Patch readers will have access to exclusive interviews with well-known founders and CEOs and small business industry experts who share their experiences, advice and tips for success. One of the latest articles features an exclusive interview with successful real estate entrepreneur, Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group. In this Q&A, Corcoran discusses the how to take advantage of the size of a small businesses, and why making big “mistakes” made all the difference in her success. Click here to read about the tactics Corcoran used to grow …
Here's the weekend's forecast courtesy of the National Weather Service.
It could go either way this weekend: soggy or sunny. Or maybe we’ll have a bit of both types of weather. According to the National Weather Service, today will be sunny and warm, with temperatures in the high-70s, dropping to the high-50s at night. Saturday there is a slight chance of rain. Otherwise expect cloudy skies with highs in the low-70s. There’s still a small chance of rain Saturday night, when temperatures drop to the high-50s. Showers are likely Sunday, after 2 p.m. Otherwise skies will be cloudy and temperatures will rise to the low-70s. Showers are expected to continue into the night, mostly before 8 p.m. and temperatures will drop to the low-60s. There’s a 40 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms Monday afternoon when …
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12:21 am on Sunday, May 19, 2013
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