Man convicted in slaying of Baltimore officer

A Baltimore man was convicted Friday in the shooting death of an off-duty city police officer during what prosecutors described as a robbery attempt. Jurors deliberated for about four hours Thursday afternoon and Friday morning before finding Brandon Grimes guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of Detective Troy L. Chesley. Grimes, 23, was also convicted of two handgun offenses. More  Read More →

Drunken-driving deaths fall in Md., nationally

A new report shows the number of traffic fatalities caused by drunken drivers fell last year in 32 states, including Maryland. More  Read More →

Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions

Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn’t expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too — to help convict him of killing four family members. Prosecutors in suburban Chicago analyzed data from the Garmin GPS device to pinpoint where Hanson had been on the morning after his parents were fatally shot and his sister and brother-in-law bludgeoned to death in 2005. He was convicted of the killings earlier... More

Blogger arrested for leaking songs

“Welcome to the courtroom, we set bail set at 10K,” probably was not a variation on “Welcome to the Jungle” Kevin Cogill had ever considered. More  Read More →

Man arrested after offering undercover cop two cents for sex

A Florida man has been arrested for soliciting prostitution after he offered an undercover sheriff’s deputy two cents to have sexual intercourse. More  Read More →

Angelos employees backing Biden

USA Today has a story about Joe Biden’s ties to lawyers who specialize in asbestos litigation and his votes on measures that would affect this area of the law. More  Read More →

DuBois High gets $3.6M for job programs

Baltimore’s W.E.B. DuBois High School is one of nine violence-plagued schools in the country to receive millions in federal funding for internships and other programs to improve students’ career prospects. More  Read More →

Teaching success instead of violence

Nzinga Oneferua-El, founder of the city’s Street Soldiers program, says about 80 percent of the students she works with know somebody who was murdered—typically a family member or close friend. More  Read More →

What do you think of the city’s stricter curfew?

1) I think they should keep it. There’s too much conflict going on. Kids have too much time on their hands. — Delroy Dixon, Baltimore More  Read More →

Watch it! Your boss might be a high-tech spy

For employers, technology has made snooping on employees as cheap and easy as pumping self-service gas used to be. Want examples? Employees accustomed to bosses monitoring their office phone conversations and e-mail now face the possibility of their instant messages coming under surveillance. Computers are making it possible for companies to... More

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