But if I were forced to choose a word to describe how I felt about what happened to Betty Potts and her husband Buddy, whose combined ages are 163, it would be this one: Fury.

This is what she wrote: “Want to know what we really want for Mother’s Day? We want to get away from you. All of you.”

COLLEGE PARK — The 2012 Preakness will feature Grammy Award-winning artists, all-you-can-drink beer, and a “party manimal” with a unicorn-man sidekick.

Prisons are fascinating places.

I like visiting them — not to stay very long, but to report on life behind bars. I’ve spent some time doing that in Maryland prisons. Not long ago, I reported on prison librarians and a prison news program which uses inmates as broadcasters.

Drivers who park in two spots.

You’ve seen them straddling two spaces at Costco, the movie theater, the coffee shop, any lot with easy-to-see white lines — two wheels in one spot, two wheels in the other. I’d hate to see my blood pressure level when spotting these cars. They drive me insane.

I have been asked some strange questions by my boss — “Do you want to write a story about your life as a slob?” — but I cannot think of a single request as bizarre as asking for a Facebook password.

Prince George’s police think the victim of a home invasion Monday in Adelphi might have slipped up when he called 911.

“He took my weed,” the man reported. “And took my rent money.”

Diane Sawyer’s people called. CNN called. Documentary producers. German TV crews. There were very few people who didn’t want to talk to Batman, to thank him, to hear the story one more time — how a Baltimore businessman man named Lenny B. Robinson (dressed as the Caped Crusader) was catapulted into fame after being pulled over in his Lamborghini Batmobile on his way to visit sick children in the hospital.

I had to watch the above video three times. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Maciah Thomas, a 15-year-old from Frederick, got a running start, performed a nice looking front flip, and then, while HE WAS AIRBORNE, launched a basketball from a distance I’ve never hit a shot at — and the ball landed in the net.

The ruling came in the case of Alonzo Jay King Jr., who was convicted of a 2003 rape after his DNA — which connected him to the rape — was collected in a 2009 assault arrest.

Fire officials told NBC 4 Washington on Tuesday that the carbon monoxide levels found in the home were 550 parts per million. That means the five dead had very little chance against the odorless gas — a level of 150 to 200 ppm is potentially lethal, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

One mile.

In 4-inch red high heels.

They walked — rather uncomfortably — as part of the third annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes gathering, according to the Star Democrat, which noted that “the women who joined in generally wore more sensible flats.”

This post has been updated with photos at bottom.

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