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The Maryland Shakespeare Festival (MSF), which has a growing presence in the Frederick arts community, is adding Baltimore to its production schedule. MSF will perform William Shakespeare's "As You Like It" with a cast of professional actors, today through Saturday, July 2, and Wednesday, July 6, through Sunday, July 10, at Johns Hopkins' Evergreen Museum & Library Meadow, 4545 N. Charles Street in Baltimore. Tickets cost $20; $15 for military and seniors; $10 for students or a family package of four tickets for $55. Gates open at 6 p.m.; pre-show at 7:20 p.m.; main show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased through the Maryland Shakespeare Festival website at www.mdshkes.org/summer-tour.

In March, when the Baltimore school system was looking for a $42 million loan to bail it out of some poor financial decisions, we said that Maryland ought to put some tough conditions on any loan. We also said that state education officials, who should have been paying closer attention to Baltimore's descent into a flood of red ink, needed a shake-up of their own. They may get it sooner than they anticipated. Last week, Circuit Judge Joseph H.H. Kaplan issued a 70-page ruling, which said the state should increase its contribution to the Baltimore schools by $225 million in the next four years.

A 22-year-old Hancock woman who was flown to a Baltimore hospital Monday morning after her vehicle struck the back of a tractor-trailer on Interstate 70 has been released, a hospital spokesman said. Elizabeth Hinckle was released from the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Medical Center in Baltimore at about 5 p.m. Monday, the spokesman said. Maryland State Police troopers said Hinckle was driving a 2005 Kia east on I-70 at about 3:40 a.m. when her car struck the rear of a tractor-trailer near the 4-mile marker east of Hancock.

Hawks beat Baltimore BALTIMORE - The Hagerstown Community College women's basketball team used a total team effort to open up a big first-half lead and cruise to a 79-53 Maryland JuCo victory over Community College of Baltimore. The Hawks shot a season-best 46 percent from the floor, grabbed 49 team rebounds and recorded 25 team assists as 11 players scored for HCC. Robin Curley and Tiffany Tucker had 12 points apiece to lead HCC (6-5, 4-2 conference). "We had a hard-fought win on Monday in overtime," said coach Marlys Palmer.

A 19-year-old Williamsport woman was flown to a Baltimore hospital Thursday night after she was burned on her face, upper torso and leg when somebody threw alcohol on a campfire , the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said. The woman, whose name was not released, was flown to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center to be treated for second-degree burns to her face, right shoulder, right arm and left leg, according to a fire marshal's office news release. Authorities said the woman was burned when someone threw alcohol on a campfire at the KOA campgrounds at 11759 Snug Harbor Lane in Williamsport.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Baltimore 89, HCC 47 BALTIMORE -- Ciara Lucas had 28 points and Ashley Jones added 16, and Baltimore (2-0, 1-0 Maryland JuCo) held the Hawks without a single player in double digits. Laquita Jones led Hagerstown (4-3, 1-1) with nine points and 13 rebounds, while Miranda Payne added seven points and four assists. Baltimore 89, HCC 47 HAGERSTOWN (4-3, 1-1) Payne 2 3-4 7, Wishard 2 1-2 5, Baum 0 2-3 2, Wills 2 2-4 7, Caldwell 2 3-7 6, Ambush 1 3-4 5, Jones 3 0-0 9, Bare 2 0-0 4. Totals 14 15-24 47. BALTIMORE (2-0, 1-0)

Hagerstown Community College basketball coach Kenny Keyes won't exactly be bragging about the Hawks' season opener. About the only satisfying thing about the whole experience was the Hawks pulled out a 74-68 win over Baltimore Friday night in the first round of the Region XX Hall of Fame Tournament at the HCC athletic complex. "We had first-game jitters," Keyes said. "We made 21 turnovers, we missed 25 layups in the paint and we still came away with a win. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

By MARLO BARNHART Staff Writer A Baltimore-area woman who saw news reports about the theft of Jeff Hasenbuhler's motorized wheelchair decided to give her own wheelchair to the Hagerstown youth. "I have another chair, a manual one, so I thought this young man could use my motorized one," Mary Bond of Carney, Md., said Thursday afternoon. Bond, who has multiple sclerosis, said hearing that someone had taken the wheelchair of 16-year-old Hasenbuhler, who has cerebral palsy, touched her heart.

Mrs. Beck's third-grade class at Salem Avenue Elementary School visited the Science Center in Baltimore and took The Herald-Mail along. The students included Tiffany Kitchen, Nia Hart, Tion Smith, Jason Green, Caroline Eddy, Samantha Van Pelt, Jackie Bladen and David Webb III.

Kay Arlene Brown, 54, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., died Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Baltimore, Md. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Eackles-Spencer & Norton Funeral Home, Harpers Ferry.

Enjoying sips of teas such as ginger-peach and tasty treats like mango-curry chicken salad rounds and blackberry tarts, several Tri-State area mothers enjoyed a Mother's Day tea Sunday at Sereni-Tea Room in Funkstown. “Just a special event that I could bring her to ... where we could share a nice meal and ... just get out with our families and enjoy the day,” said Boonsboro resident Joanie Costlow. Ranota Marcotte said she opened the tearoom in October after her husband saw that the small cottage-type shop on Funkstown's East Baltimore Street was available for rent.

A Falling Waters, W.Va., man who was seriously injured in a crash involving multiple motorcycles on Interstate 70 Saturday afternoon in the Indian Springs area was still being treated at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore on Monday afternoon, a hospital spokeswoman said. Mark D. Stephens was listed in critical condition Monday afternoon at the hospital, the spokeswoman said. According to Maryland State Police, a 2008 Harley-Davidson operated by Matthew L. Adams, 42, of Martinsburg, W.Va., slowed down and was struck by Mark D. Stephens' motorcycle from behind.

William Riley Tuttle, “Poppy” 81, of Adamstown, Md., died Saturday, April 27, 2013, at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. Professional services have been provided by John T. Williams Funeral Home, Brunswick, Md.

Some Washington County lawmakers are calling for another look at the state prison system and how the prisons are run after federal charges were filed against 13 female corrections officers, seven inmates and five others with alleged gang ties last week at the Baltimore City Detention Center. The charges centered around an alleged plot to smuggle cellphones and drugs into the jail and other correctional facilities. Leaders in the Maryland General Assembly were moving to address the issue, with the House Judiciary Committee scheduled to hold a hearing May 8. Two local state lawmakers - Del. Neil C. Parrott, R-Washington, and Del. Michael J. Hough, R-Frederick/Washington - serve on that committee and Sen. Christopher B. Shank, R-Washington, is a member of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee in the Maryland General Assembly.

No doubt political apathy is on the rise. More people seem to be avoiding politics and not voting these days. Maybe we should send a committee out to Ohio to study the voting patterns of that state. Perhaps there's a fix. Although I didn't read this in Leonard Pitts' column, I did come across some news that suggested that some 19 people in Hamilton County, Ohio, cast more than one vote for their candidate of choice. One specific poll worker might have cast some six votes for President Obama.

A man with potentially life-threatening injuries was flown to a Baltimore shock trauma center Friday evening after a two-vehicle crash involving a box truck on Md. 67, a Maryland State Police trooper at the scene said. A state police helicopter en route to R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center lifted off from a grassy field next to the scene near the intersection of Rohrersville (Md. 67) and Appletown roads shortly before 5 p.m. The driver of the box truck was taken by ambulance to Meritus Medical Center with nonlife-threatening injuries, Trooper S. Bussard said.

“The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin' And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him As they rode him in custody down to the station And booked William Zanzinger for first degree murder - Bob Dylan   Sunday, the Washington County...

Robert Maynard Vaughn, 72, of Baltimore, Md., died Thursday, March 7, 2013, in Baltimore. The family will receive friends Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. at South Berkeley Chapel, Inwood, W.Va. The service will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at the funeral Home. Burial will be in Pleasant View Memory Gardens, Martinsburg, W.Va.

For one time, the Hagerstown Community College men's basketball team put a new twist on an old athletic belief. On Friday, it wasn't how the Hawks finished, it was how they started. HCC jumped out to a 16-2 lead in the first 8:25 of the game and kept Frederick at arm's length the rest of the way to score a 95-84 victory on Friday in the semifinals of the NJCAA Region XX tournament at the HCC athletic complex. It was a combination of imaginative defense and a gritty edge provided by guard Jerel Carter that got HCC (27-4)