Wife of ex-Raven McCrary granted protective order
Posted in Maryland on Mar 9th, 2010
A Baltimore County judge has granted a temporary protective order to the wife of former Baltimore Raven Michael McCrary.
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Maryland prison escapes: How great was this?
Posted in Maryland on Mar 4th, 2010
By Peter Hermann | peter.hermann@baltsun.com
Who can forget “Tunnel Joe”?
Nearly 60 years ago, he was the first, and perhaps the only, inmate to successfully tunnel out of Baltimore’s Maryland Penitentiary. It took him 20 months, using a stick with a nail on one end, to dig a 26-foot deep, 70-foot-long muddy tube under East Eager Street.
Md. inmate leaves prison by impersonating cellmate
Posted in Maryland on Feb 26th, 2010
An inmate serving three life sentences for attempted murder convictions pretended to be a cellmate who was due for release and walked out of a Baltimore prison, corrections officials said Thursday night.
A manhunt was underway for Raymond Taylor, 26, of New York, who walked away from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center about 2 p.m. Thursday [...]
MTA chief on how agency can do better with snow
Posted in Maryland on Feb 23rd, 2010
Improved communication is at the top of Wells’ list
If Maryland Transit Administration chief Ralign Wells could do the last couple of weeks over again, he’d do a few things differently.
Blizzard warning for Baltimore and north-central Maryland
Posted in Maryland on Feb 10th, 2010
Mother Nature is having her way in Maryland Wednesday morning, as snow falls on top of freezing rain.
A blizzard warning has been issued for much of the Baltimore area and north-central Maryland as the Mid-Atlantic region is hit by the second big snowstorm in a week.
Bernard C. “Jack” Young, a veteran East Baltimore councilman, was elected president of the City Council by a unanimous vote Monday evening.
Md. woman gets 25 years for abusing her daughter
Posted in Maryland on Jan 8th, 2010
A Maryland woman accused of killing two of her adopted daughters and keeping their bodies in a freezer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for abusing a third daughter.
Thousands Volunteer to Hunt for Missing Maryland Girl Believed Kidnapped by Sex Offender
Posted in Maryland on Dec 25th, 2009
— Authorities are asking residents on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to search their own property for signs of a missing girl as thousands of volunteers fanned out but found no sign of her.
Police believe 11-year-old Sarah H. Foxwell was abducted by a registered sex offender.
Woman Tried To Cut Baby From Homeless Woman’s Stomach
Posted in Maryland on Dec 11th, 2009
A 29-year-old homeless woman has given birth to a baby girl after, police said, she was befriended by a Maryland woman who held her captive for several days and tried to cut the baby from her womb.
Md. Mom, 2 Daughters Hospitalized After Dog Attack
Posted in Maryland on Oct 15th, 2009
Montgomery County police say a Gaithersburg woman and her two teenage daughters were hospitalized after the family’s dog attacked them in their home.
Police spokeswoman Lucille Baur says the 35-year-old mother stabbed the pit bull with a kitchen knife after it bit her 15-year-old and 19-year-old daughters. The family told police the dog had been acting [...]
Man pleads guilty to drowning his children at city hotel
Posted in Maryland on Oct 14th, 2009
Mark Castillo, a Montgomery County man who was engaged in a custody dispute with his estranged wife, pleaded guilty Wednesday to drowning their three children at an Inner Harbor hotel last year.
Castillo’s case has been widely publicized since the crime was committed in late March 2008.
Former Raven Tony Fein dead
Posted in Maryland on Oct 7th, 2009
Tony Fein, who was a member of the Ravens during the preseason and was an Iraqi War veteran, died Tuesday morning in Port Orchard, Wash., according to his agent
Destinee Alicia Parker flu victim, 14, is remembered
Posted in Maryland on Oct 3rd, 2009
Destinee Alicia Parker died of swine flu at the University of Maryland Medical Center on Tuesday, and the next day, the 14-year-old’s father went back to the hospital.
James Parker wasn’t there to tie up loose ends, and he wasn’t there to identify his daughter’s body, mourners at the girl’s funeral learned Saturday.
Body Of Woman Missing Year Ago Found
Posted in Maryland on Oct 2nd, 2009
Baltimore County police have arrested a man in the fatal shooting of his girlfriend, who was reported missing nearly a year ago and whose body was found late last week in a wooded area in Woodlawn.
Tyrone Lamont Webb Jr., 29, of the 3900 block of W. Forest Park Ave. was arrested Wednesday based on information [...]
A 14-year-old Baltimore girl who was hospitalized last week with double pneumonia and swine flu died Tuesday afternoon, according to her aunt.
State health officials could not immediately confirm whether the death of Destinee Parker, an eighth-grader at Montebello Elementary/Middle School in Northeast Baltimore, was caused by the H1N1 virus. But the Maryland Department of Health [...]