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Each year at the conclusion of the Maryland General Assembly’s 90-day session, a list of the session’s “best-sellers” – the bills most inquired about by the general public – is published by the Legislative Services Department. This session’s best-sellers include two measures which add a new term to our health and tax laws: “domestic partners.” The term refers to any two people who are not related by marriage or blood, who affirm they are in a “relationship of mutual interdependence,” and who demonstrate their interdependence by jointly renting a car, leasing an apartment, or opening a checking account. Same-sex couples can claim the designation; so can unmarried opposite-sex couples.

Pets may give their owners health benefits

Although she has an attractive and spacious apartment in a relatively secluded part of White Marsh, 76-year-old Mary Winkle found herself feeling increasingly lonely, despite occasional visits from her daughter and friends.

Nearly 100, Rosedale parishioner describes key to longevity

Joseph Kaminski is only a few days away from turning 100, but he has no plans of giving up his day job. Just as he has for the last 28 years, the longtime parishioner of the Church of the Annunciation in Rosedale will continue working four hours every weekday as a bindery technician with the Baltimore County Public Schools. It keeps him young, he said.

Hurricane survivor calls Baltimore home

Henri Breaux is a welcome addition to Baltimore. A 95-year-old resident of St. Martin’s Home for the Aged in Catonsville, Mr. Breaux’s handsome smile and zest for life enable him to make new friends easily wherever he goes.

Walsh secures state title

The baseball team from Bishop Walsh School, Cumberland, put it all together May 24 in Potomac, defeating The Heights 13-0 to capture its third state title in the school’s history.

John Carroll rallies for Gauthier

Fifty members of The John Carroll School community came together last month in celebration and hope for Tess Gauthier, a faculty member and coach who is taking on her greatest battle yet: breast cancer.

Mother Lange sainthood cause on track

As the Vatican considers the testimony of a woman who says she was cured of a life-threatening condition through the intercession of a 19th century Baltimore nun, similar testimonies from around the world are making their way to the motherhouse of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Arbutus.

Shrine of the Sacred Heart celebrates 140 years

Parishes are the bedrocks of the Catholic community, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said June 1 as he celebrated the 140th anniversary of The Shrine of the Sacred Heart, Mount Washington.

Cecils, Mount St. Joe, Xaverian brothers share three centuries of history

The saga began in the mid 1880s, when a teenage boy from Southern Maryland boarded a steamboat in St. Mary’s City, ventured up the Chesapeake Bay, disembarked in Baltimore and made his way a few miles west, to Irvington and a fledgling school.

Cardinal George expresses regret at priest’s ‘partisan’ remarks

CHICAGO – Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago expressed deep regret at Father Michael Pfleger’s “partisan” remarks about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton and said the priest had assured him he would “not enter into campaigning” or “publicly mention any candidate by name.”

Shroud of Turin to be displayed to public in 2010

VATICAN CITY – The Shroud of Turin, revered by many as the burial cloth of Christ, will be displayed to the public for the first time in a decade in 2010.

Review’s Chic Davis wins CPA’s St. Francis de Sales Award