Lipscomb takes deal; Court filings also implicate Paterakis
June 22, 2009
Ronald H. Lipscomb, the Baltimore developer at the heart of the years-long investigation into City Hall, has pleaded guilty to a campaign finance law violation. With the plea deal, Lipscomb avoided Monday’s scheduled trial on a more serious bribery count and became a crucial witness in the state prosecutor’s cases against Mayor Sheila A. Dixon, City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton — and, potentially, fellow developer John Paterakis. Appearing in court for the first time since he was indicted in... More
More than 100 kids sue over parents’ deportations
June 18, 2009
Ronald Soza celebrated his 10th birthday Wednesday with cake and a serenade by more than 100 other children and their parents. His own family: absent. His mother was recently deported back to Nicaragua. His father rarely ventures out in public in fear of a similar fate. Now Soza and the other children — all U.S. citizens whose parents face deportation — are demanding a say in the immigration debate. They are suing President Barack Obama, asking a court to halt the deportations of their parents... More
Detective: Teen’s death tied to gang rivalry
June 18, 2009
An Anne Arundel County detective says the death of a 14-year-old Crofton boy last month has been linked to gang rivalry and the boy most likely suffered a fatal blow from his attackers. More Read More →
Police charge Dixon’s chief of staff
June 17, 2009
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon’s chief of staff and another high-ranking city official have been have been charged with on assault in a domestic incident. More Read More →
Mistrial declared in Md. prison brutality case
June 17, 2009
A judge declared a mistrial after the jury deadlocked Tuesday in the case of a former state correctional officer accused of breaking the nose of a handcuffed inmate. The outcome was a setback for prosecutors and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the first trial stemming from the agency’s crackdown on alleged brutality at two western Maryland prisons last year. More Read More →
Hopkins’ Applied Physics Lab Web site attacked
June 17, 2009
Officials at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory have taken down their Web site to analyze their computer systems after a cyber attack. More Read More →
Horn honking is not free speech
June 17, 2009
Late risers can rest easy: No matter how much you bother your neighbors, they cannot wake you up on a Saturday morning by honking their car horns in front of your house. More Read More →
Vindicated by video
June 16, 2009
Do you worry about the sprouting of surveillance cameras wherever you go? Some are thankful for it – and not just those doing the watching. More
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Escaped emu is back home
June 16, 2009
An emu bought to keep a cow company escaped from its quarters and spent a day on the lam before being cornered by detention center inmates working on ball fields.
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Police: Woman pushed from car on Md. highway
June 15, 2009
Baltimore County police say a Woodlawn man accused of pushing his sister out of a moving car onto the Baltimore beltway has been arrested. More Read More →
