How safe are our college campuses?

The Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University usually is peaceful, but campus and city police watch for crime.Early on a quiet Sunday morning, Nov. 15, the administration building... More

Brazilian students outraged by … a mini-dress?

Geisy Arruda poses at home in the dress that she was expelled for wearing at Bandeirante University in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. [AP Photo]SAO PAULO... More

If you want privacy, you better stay home

London has thousands of cameras monitoring pedestrians, drivers, shoppers — anyone in view of the 360-degree-panning cameras.Last month, video surveillance cameras in certain... More

The good, the bad and the end of a girls reformatory

Girls work in the laundry early in the history of the Beloit Juvenile Correctional Facility. The reformatory... More

DNA frees some, convicts others

Edwin Chandler weeps after a judge in Louisville, Ky., vacated the charges that had kept Chandler... More

Baltimore pair sentenced in co-worker’s shooting

Prosecutors in Baltimore say a man and woman have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting a colleague, who is now paralyzed from the attack. Twenty-year-old Darryl Newsome and 24-year-old Keya Gardner were sentenced Tuesday. The two were convicted in May. On Oct. 24, 2007, Gardner and 21-year-old Sean Levy were arguing at the BWI Hilton. Witnesses said Gardner was overheard telling someone over the phone to “bring that thing.” Then, management forced both employees to leave... More

Fugitive Files show leads police to Md. fugitive

BEL AIR — Maryland State Police say a Harford County resident watching “Fugitive Files” on TV led police to a wanted man. Thirty-seven-year-old Sean Garrison was arrested at his Joppa home for allegedly assaulting a county woman and stealing her car Sept. 7. On Sept. 21, someone watching the TV show Maryland’s “Fugitive Files” saw Garrison’s profile and called police. State police then went to his Joppa home and arrested him on robbery, assault and motor vehicle... More

Felony fireplace theft

Del. man charged with stealing fireplace PRICES CORNER, Del. — Delaware State Police say a Prices Corner man has been charged with stealing a $1,000 copper fireplace and selling it for scrap. Senior Cpl. Jeff Whitmarsh says 34-year-old Clifford Blevins took the fireplace from the garage of a home where he was working as a handyman and later sold it for about $22. Blevins, who had been sought since June, was arrested Monday and charged with felony theft and three other offenses. Blevins was committed... More

She proved a woman could patrol a beat

By RIC DUGAN/The Herald-Mail BY MARLO BARNHART The Hagerstown Herald-Mail HAGERSTOWN — Margaret Kline doesn’t think of herself as a pioneer, despite the fact she was the first woman to work uniform patrol with the Hagerstown Police Department 35 years ago. “When I started in 1974,... More

Md. father pleads guilty to drowning 3 children

A man with a history of mental illness pleaded guilty Wednesday to drowning his three young children one by one in a Baltimore hotel bathtub during a custody dispute with his former wife, who said she still cries every day over the deaths. Mark A. Castillo, 43, told police and a fellow inmate that he wanted to... More

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