Trick-or-treating mom loses suit against ‘witch’
June 30, 2008
Score this one for the witch. It took a Baltimore County jury just a few minutes last month to decide that a woman dressed as a witch had not caused a trick-or-treating mom to fall and fracture her elbow. More Read More →
Update: Tribune drops fees for smokers
May 28, 2008
Tribune Company, which owns The Sun and its new daily tabloid, b, has ended its policy of charging an extra $100 a month for smokers who were covered by its health insurance plans. Employees who had paid the fee since it was enacted in January will be reimbursed, according to a report in b. Tribune will continue to offer smoking cessation programs. Read More →
Nun asks mercy, not jail, for her attacker
May 28, 2008
Three years after a mugger’s shove broke five of her ribs, gashed her face, permanently disabled her right arm and left her unable to live on her own, a nun asked the court not to send her apologetic attacker to prison. Sister Muriel Curran, 78, appeared in Baltimore County Circuit Court to speak of forgiveness and a second chance for Charles R. Dodson. The 22-year-old had pleaded guilty, sparing her from having to testify against him, according to an account in The Sun. More Read More →
Judge wipes out defamation claim against rapper who claims woman raped him
May 28, 2008
It’s not every day that you hear a rapper claim to have been raped by a woman, but DMX did in a magazine article. And the woman, who bore his child, sued him for saying it. More Read More →
Baltimore County teacher accused of sex abuse
May 28, 2008
A Towson physical education teacher has been charged with sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl at his Parkville home where his wife watched after the girl, police said. Timothy Allen Rhodes, 42, was arrested and charged with sex abuse of a minor, second-degree child abuse, second-degree assault and third-degree sex offense, police told The Sun. The girl and her mother contacted police after the girl told her mother she was being abused and that she wanted to change schools. According to the allegations,... More
Welder awarded $3 million for Beth Steel accident
May 28, 2008
A Baltimore County jury has awarded a Rosedale man more than $3 million after finding a cleaning firm liable for a dump truck accident that crushed his left leg at Bethlehem Steel in 1999. James Morris, 58, was awarded more than $2.2 million in economic damages and $952,000 in non-economic damages, which would be capped at $560,000 under Maryland law, according to his attorney, Francis C. Lanasa. The jury found Keibler-Thompson Co., of Export, Pa., liable for the accident at the Sparrows Point plant.... More
Men get probation for not stopping attack
May 28, 2008
Two men received probation for doing nothing to stop an unprovoked attack two years ago on a longtime Baltimore journalist. Carl Schoettler, now 75, suffered severe head injuries in the beating, including permanent memory loss that forced him to retire from his job as a feature writer for The Sun. Schoettler had been involved in a minor car accident in February 2006 with Gregory G. Kulla near Baltimore City Hall. They were arguing about who was at fault when Phillip G. Carter, then 18, punched Schoettler... More
Court rejects victim’s demand for stricter sentence
May 28, 2008
A crime victim had a right to be heard in appellate proceedings, but her words have no legal effect, Maryland’s highest court has decided. The Court of Appeals said a convicted batterer was entitled to the lighter sentence he received on a motion for reconsideration of his sentence, not the original 15-year term that had been reinstated after his victim complained that she had not been notified of the reconsideration hearing. “The victims’ rights provisions in Maryland law still lack adult... More
Baltimorean who fleeced Katrina victims gets 15 years
May 28, 2008
A Baltimore man was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for a scheme that bilked more than 900 investors out of $8 million. According to The Examiner, federal prosecutors say the sentence is one of the longest imposed for white-collar crime in Maryland history. More Read More →
Baltimore police to replace blue-light cameras
May 28, 2008
Baltimore police are eager to begin replacing the early generation of blue-light cameras with more sophisticated closed-circuit units, The Sun reported. More Read More →
