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“The Dark Knight” has had some great nights and days. As a matter of fact, the newest film about Batman set all kinds of box office records during its opening weekend. So, this is a film that certainly did not need reviews to help it along. Here we go anyway.

The entertaining Broadway production of “Mamma Mia!” is now on the big screen. Donna (Meryl Streep) is looking forward to her daughter Sophie’s wedding. Little does Donna know that Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has invited three of her mom’s past lovers to the wedding in Greece.

Behind the smiling faces, wooded landscapes, sparkling water and nature hikes of the summer camp experience, large and small nonprofits are helping hundreds of disadvantaged youth enjoy enriching getaways despite the sluggish economy.

Back in the late 1970s, Darryl Dawkins reigned as the “Chocolate Thunder” for dunking basketballs so hard that backboards were known to explode.

Butterflies danced around the summer phlox and an occasional bee buzzed through. All was peaceful in the garden. “People always stop and say how beautiful it is,” Betty Fanshaw said the other day about the recently refreshed gardens around the Reisterstown library.

With my Federal Communications Commission issued discount cards in hand, I recently visited the Radio Shack in Randallstown to pick up the two signal converter boxes I’ll need for my old analog televisions when the nationwide switch to digital broadcasting hits in February.

The Reisterstown Express 8U baseball team capped an improbable season, obtaining a bid to play in the North Atlantic Regional (Roberto Clemente Division) Tournament of the American Amateur Baseball Congress in Wolcott, Conn., July 17-20.

The Liberty Road Volunteer Fire Co. is getting $9,720 in federal funding to purchase new fire hoses.

“Ask the Plant and Pest Professor” is compiled from questions sent to the Web site of the Home and Garden Information Center, part of Maryland Cooperative Extension, an educational outreach of the University of Maryland.

State police covert surveillance of peace groups in Maryland shows just how far backward this country has gone in recent years and is reminiscent of the government-sponsored activities that led to Watergate and the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

The beach offers a palette of fun: surf, sand – and dolphins. Surf at the ocean is incomparable. What surpasses a fast boogie board ride all the way from the curl of a wave to the scrape of the beach?

Fifty-five years ago this month, the Korean War ended after great sacrifice. Waged for three years on the Korean peninsula, the war involved 5.7 million Americans, with 36,000 soldiers making the ultimate sacrifice.

Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations of Maryland: The organization recently hosted its 92nd annual convention with 28 organizations, 110 delegates and a total of 334 men and women at this year’s convention.

Three northwest corridor online students of University of Phoenix graduated over the weekend along with more than 3,000 others, including 75 from Maryland. Some grads traveled to Arizona to attended ceremonies at University of Phoenix stadium.

Marvin Ellis Eddy, 61, of Westminster, died Sunday, July 20, 2008, at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster. Born April 21, 1947, in Glen Burnie, he was the son of the late Marvin Roy and Inez Marie Hupp Eddy. He was the husband of Sandra Lynn Sheckels Eddy for more than 40 years.

A jazz series is scheduled each Saturday in August from 8-10 p.m. on the 27th floor observation level of the World Trade Center , 401 E. Pratt Street in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

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Baltimore County police in the Franklin and Woodlawn precincts recently recorded the following reported incidents, among others, in the Owings Mills, greater Randallstown and greater Reisterstown communities.

A flight from Baltimore to the Olympic Games in Beijing, China, is more than 6,800 miles, at least 15 hours long, and can set you back well over $2,000.