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 →

Where lawyers are easy to find

President Bush and many before him have called the United States a nation of laws. Maybe that’s why our capital has 13 times as many lawyers per capita as any state, and 29 times as many as Maryland. The U.S. has more than 1 million attorneys. Rank State (and D.C.) Lawyers per 10,000 residents 1 District of Columbia 276.7 2 New York 20.4 3 Delaware 18.0 4 Massachusetts 14.5 5 Connecticut 14.3 6 Illinois 14.0 7 Colorado 13.0 8 Georgia 12.0 9 Pennsylvania 11.9 10 Florida,... More

Was she stoned? Woman marries Berlin Wall

A farmer who married someone he met on the Internet has asked for the marriage to be annulled after finding out that his bride, Randy Victoria, is actually a man named Ralf. In happier news, a woman with a “bizarre fetish for inanimate objects” has been legally married to the Berlin Wall for 29 years. God is not mentioned anywhere in the U.S. Constitution. When asked why, Alexander Hamilton supposedly said, “We forgot.” The tradition of black judicial robes began in 1694, when all of England‘s... 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

Md. official: mistakes made in prison strip search

A prison strip search of nine employees conducted to root out contraband “caused stress and embarrassment to some very fine employees,” Maryland’s top corrections official wrote Wednesday, promising it won’t happen again. More  Read More →

Colorado elk — or at least his head — finds new home on the Shore

You won’t find elk on the Eastern Shore these days. Well, you can see one. Or at least part of one. But it’s not breathing. In April last year, the Maryland Natural Resources Police heard that Dennis A. Reid Jr. of Vienna had killed a bull elk in Colorado without having a permit. Investigators accused Daniel J. Mastronardi Sr. of Preston of tagging the elk with his permit during their hunting trip. Colorado authorities pressed charges. Reid pleaded guilty to illegal possession of wildlife. Mastronardi... More

Suspect in fatal house crash knows his way to the courthouse

A Parkton man arrested after police say he crashed the pickup truck that killed a woman sleeping in her own house has a long criminal record. Aubrey C. Miller Jr., 30, is charged with theft, burglary and car theft, according to Baltimore County police. He’s accused of stealing a pickup that ran into Mary Patricia Sullivan’s northern Baltimore County home.  No one has been charged in Sullivan’s death yet. “Once we have all the facts, we’ll make a decision,” said Scott Shellenberger, the... More

Ruppersberger’s son accused of breaking telemarketing law

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office says Cory Ruppersberger, the son of Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, violated its state’s Do Not Call law more than a half-million times while working out of an office in Baltimore. “This is the most extensive campaign of telemarketing calls to consumers on the Do Not Call list ever investigated by my office,” Attorney General Tom Corbett said in announcing that Pennsylvania is suing for up to $500 million in civil penalties. Cory Ruppersberger, 34, is... More

Another prisoner walks off through gap in court red tape

Oops. Another Baltimore-area prisoner was set loose because of a bookkeeping mistake. Thomas Lee had his prison sentence cut in half because he kept his promise to earn his GED. But according to Circuit Judge John C. Themelis, a courtroom clerk’s handwritten note instead set Lee free last month.  The city sheriff’s special operations team captured Lee three days later without a struggle. He had been serving a three-year sentence for assaulting a sheriff’s deputy.  Another prisoner who’d... More

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