Man convicted in slaying of Baltimore officer
August 29, 2008
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
August 29, 2008
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
August 28, 2008
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
August 28, 2008
“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
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Man arrested after offering undercover cop two cents for sex
August 28, 2008
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
August 27, 2008
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
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DuBois High gets $3.6M for job programs
August 27, 2008
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
August 27, 2008
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?
August 27, 2008
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
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Watch it! Your boss might be a high-tech spy
August 27, 2008
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
