Archive for: May 2008

WBFF reports that alcohol can’t be brought in by those sitting in the grandstands or suites at the Preakness next weekend - that those attendees must purchase alcohol at Pimlico. People in the infield will still be able to bring …

WBAL TV
The father of an inmate who was killed aboard a prison bus had to be escorted from a courtroom after he threw his cane at the man on trial for the murder.

Phillip Parker Sr. was led away by …

Examiner.com
The immigrant advocacy group CASA de Maryland says the new immigration enforcement program in Frederick County could cost the county $3.2 million per year.

CASA says the estimate takes into account increased police training, staffing, detention costs and the possibile …

News reports indicate that the Brunswick MARC line has been closed (as well as freight rail on those tracks) at Rockville that resulted in passengers being transferred to the DC Metro. A passenger was struck and killed on the …

WBAL TV
Howard County police arrested an 83-year-old man Monday night on charges that he tried to kill his wife at their Columbia home.

Calvin Ralph Payne was charged with attempted murder and assault after he allegedly struck his wife, Alma …

Baltimore Sun
A staff member at Calverton Elementary/Middle was putting in extra hours at the West Baltimore school Sunday afternoon when two 13-year-old boys broke into the building and one tried to rape her, police confirmed yesterday.

Realizing that her attacker …

WBAL.com
A female midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy has died after her roommates found her unconscious and not breathing in her bed.

The service academy says the first-year student was pronounced dead at Anne Arundel Medical Center a short time …

WBAL.com
Add one more Reginald F. Lewis High School teacher filing assault charges against students.

The teacher alleged that they pushed him. According to the Examiner the teacher might not be too popular.

He also filed a grievance with the teacher’s …

Plenty of pictures are online from this weekend’s Towsontown Spring Festival. Just click here for the photographs I took Sunday afternoon.

Baltimore Sun
They came. They bobbed - some awkwardly. They sang. “Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you.”

Then after three minutes and three seconds, the young fans of 1980s British …