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The Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool has been canon, or adviser, to the Episcopal bishops of Maryland for the past eight years. ( Baltimore Sun photo by Kim Hairston / December 8 , 2009 )
The Maryland contractor who built a $12,000 fence around the property of D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray acknowledged Tuesday that he is not licensed to work in the District and did not seek a permit before performing the work. The admission is the latest in a series of embarrassing disclosures about work on Mr. Gray's home - much of it overseen by a politically connected developer - that ...
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer on Monday said Republicans have failed the test of leadership by refusing to come to the table on the big issues facing the country, offering a preview of a line of attack in next year's campaigns. The Maryland Democrat, in a speech to the Center for American Progress Action Fund, said Republicans are making all of Congress less effective by deadlocking on ...
A contract for artwork honoring Grass Valley's past as a mining and lumber hub is expected to come before the City Council today. Grass Valley artist Kurt Steger is proposing a sculpture reflecting Grass Valley's industry and people, which he envisions as a "gateway to the city," the sculptor said. It would be placed at the round-about at the intersection of East Main Street, Idaho-Maryland Road ...
Maryland Natural Resources Police charged two men last month with using a spotlight to hunt deer in Hanover. Police charged Thomas Ethan Allen, 40, of Hanover and Timothy Sean Harmon, 30, of Halethorpe with poaching on Nov. 22.
A lesbian priest was elected an Episcopal bishop Saturday at the Los Angeles diocese's annual convention in Riverside, putting her on track to become only the second openly lesbian or gay bishop in the centuries-old denomination's history.
An Ohio man has pleaded guilty in federal court to operating a sex-trafficking business out of a Millersville apartment, admitting he and three other men brought at least 12 young women to Maryland earlier this year to work as prostitutes.
Canon Mary D. Glasspool of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland was elected bishop on Saturday in a close race against a Los Angeles-area Hispanic cleric, making her the Episcopal Church's first openly lesbian bishop. It was not until the seventh ballot that Ms. Glasspool, 55, an Annapolis resident, captured the election for the second of two suffragan-bishop positions in the Episcopal Diocese of ...
Our current governor, in response to the recent election results [in Virginia and New Jersey], is quoted in The Gazette as blaming the voters for their decision at the ballot box: "People are apprehensive, they're anxious and they want this recession to be over with."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate cast its first votes on remaking the nation's health care system Thursday, approving an amendment to safeguard coverage of mammograms and preventive screening tests for women under a revamped system. The 61-39 vote on a provision by Democrat Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine was the first substantive ballot in an acrimonious debate ...
The Rev. Mary Glasspool, an Episcopal priest who commutes daily from Annapolis to her office at the Baltimore-based Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, may be on the verge of a much longer journey. If she's chosen this weekend in an election for two suffragan bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, she would be the second openly gay bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. The first is ...
