Ebony Paige wasn’t sure what Bill Cosby would talk about yesterday in Park Heights, but she figured the speech would be poignant and funny, something worth bringing her two daughters and goddaughter to hear.
What Cosby delivered to the hundreds who gathered in the 4500 block of Park Heights Ave. was a 40-minute plea for attendees [...]

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when radio personality Bob Lopez died in May 2005, after 27 years on 98 Rock, his bosses knew finding someone to fill his shoes wouldn’t be easy.
“We had lost a guy who had been on the air almost since the birth of the radio station,” said Dave Hill, at the time three years into his [...]

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The thousands of fans who filed into Morgan State University’s auditorium for Khia Edgerton’s funeral today could recite the DJ’s accomplishments: recording artist, radio personality, leader of an underground music movement.
But during the two-hour music-filled ceremony, those fans learned how Edgerton rose from spinning records in her family’s Randallstown basement to become “K-Swift,” leader of [...]

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Willie Parker, who suffers from several health problems, only served about a quarter of his sentence for robbery with a deadly weapon before escaping in 1965. He was tracked down in February as part of a Maryland effort to clear outstanding warrants.
Parker, who has been living in North Carolina, was unexpectedly [...]

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