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A suburban Baltimore pharmacist is accused of pocketing more than $300,000 from the illegal sale of prescription painkillers.

Federal prosecutors say Ketankumar Patel sold about 20,000 oxycodone pills to a single confidential informant between February 2008 and April.

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Prosecutors say Patel routinely filled bogus prescriptions at his Reisterstown pharmacy and even gave advice about how to forge prescriptions. He allegedly charged up to $1,800 in cash for 60 oxycodone tablets.

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A motorcycle driver was killed in a Tuesday afternoon crash in Glen Burnie, police said.

The crash occurred at about 2:20 p.m. at Interstate 97 and New Cut Road.

The crash forced the shutdown of I-97 as police investigated.

The driver’s name hasn’t been released, and further details weren’t immediately available.

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Harford County’s board of education and the Harford County Education Association, which represents about 3,000 teachers in the county, reached an agreement Monday which will take effect Wednesday, pending ratification by both sides. The teachers are not seeing pay increases in the deal.

According to a joint statement by the school system and the union, the contract brought few changes to the contract, maintaining health care and pay standards. The announcement comes following four months of negotiations.

“My fellow Board members and I are glad that we were able to reach an agreement with the Harford County Education Association,” the board’s President, Patrick Hess, said in the statement. “In light of tough economic times, we have reached an agreement which is best for all involved.”

So if they didn’t get a pay raise and just maintained the current health plan, wouldn’t the union members receive a de facto raise by cutting out their apparently worthless union membership fees?

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Janice Brant says it was just a big miss understanding.

She doesn’t have 200 cats in her house.

Just a few shy of 60.

‘If I had 200 cats I would be gone….I have approximately 57 adults.’ Brant says.

Brant says she had a falling out with a former housemate who she says called the Cecil County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

They’ve been at her house off and on since last Friday….and her house passed muster from county housing inspectors.

There are cats in the living room, on top of the fridge, in all the bedrooms, including a kitten room, and a shed and old RV with quarantined cats inside.

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An Anne Arundel County judge has barred the public from the trial of one of two teens charged in the death of a 14-year-old Crofton boy.

Judge Philip Caroom issued the ruling Monday allowing media at the trial asking that they not publish the names of the 14-year-old boy charged in the death of Christopher Jones and witnesses who are juveniles.

The ruling comes after Caroom learned of death threats against the teen charged as a juvenile with manslaughter and related counts. The teen will remain in custody until his trial this fall.

Sixteen-year-old Javel George faces the same charges in Jones’ death, but is being prosecuted as an adult.