A Howard County teenager died this week due to influenza, according to the Howard County Health Department.
“This tragic death is highly unusual. Most people who get the flu recover after a few days, but getting a flu shot and following common hygiene precautions can greatly reduce the risk of contracting the flu” says Howard County Health Officer Dr. Peter Beilenson.
Federal prosecutors say a Westminster woman has been indicted in a traveling teen sex scheme after she allegedly sold sex with a teenager in Maryland and Virginia.
Thirty-nine-year-old Deborah Frock was indicted on Wednesday. She allegedly accepted $500 from a Westminster man in 2006 to have sex with the 17-year-old girl after photographing her naked. In 2007, prosecutors say police found images of the naked girl having sex with the man.
Court documents allege Frock accepted $600 from another man in Purcellville, Va. to photograph the teen naked a
If they wanted to have a protest with some teeth they would have done what DC cabbies do on protest days and not worked.
Taxi drivers blocked several lanes of St. Paul Street and Baltimore Street downtown today to protest decreasing mileage rates that take effect Sunday due to a twice-yearly adjustment based on gas prices.
The new rates, decreasing from $2.20 to $1.65 per mile, come at a time when fares have declined at least 25 percent because of the economy, yet cost of living and other expenses have continued to increase, drivers said.
Joan Bauer, director of transportation for the state Public Service Commission, which regulates meter rates for Baltimore and Baltimore County, answered drivers’ questions about the change in the lobby of the William Donald Schaefer building today.
Two cab companies have petitioned the PSC to overturn the decrease. A hearing on the request will be held March 25, and a PSC spokeswoman said that the rate decrease would go into effect until then.
Michael Phelps has been dropped as the keynote speaker at two events in Canada next week, with the promoter citing the Olympic champion swimmer’s “widely publicized alleged use of marijuana.”
Power Within Inc. of Toronto, which organizes motivational speaking events, canceled Phelps’ appearances at events in Calgary and Vancouver, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported.
Power Within initially stood by the swimmer, but has now booked actor Martin Sheen as its keynote speaker for the Calgary event. The Vancouver event will feature Mehmet Oz, a regular on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
A wide-ranging investigation into an alleged suicide assistance ring led to charges against four people and raids in nine states as authorities looked into how many deaths might have been involved.
Four members of the Final Exit Network were charged Wednesday with helping a 58-year-old Georgia man end his life by inhaling helium. The group assigns those seeking to end their lives a guide who instructs them to purchase two new helium tanks and a hood, known as an “exit bag,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
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Maryland authorities arrested the organization’s medical director, Dr. Lawrence D. Egbert, 81, of Baltimore, and Nicholas Alec Sheridan, a Baltimore man who is a regional coordinator for the group.
The four were charged with assisted suicide, tampering with evidence and a violation of Georgia’s anti-racketeering act.
Their charges stem from the June 2008 death of John Celmer in an assisted suicide in Cumming, about 35 miles north of Atlanta, said GBI spokesman John Bankhead.
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