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Girl charged in father's death struggled with mental health
Morgan Lane Arnold, an emotionally frail 14-year-old freshman, navigated the hallways of her Howard County high school each day filled with anxiety, unable because of a learning disorder to decipher the social cues, jokes and emotions of her peers. Her...
Tags: Ellicott City, Psychology, Autism, True Blood (tv program), Social Media
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Mismanagement and failed leadership led to the debacle at Baltimore's jail
The first words of Elvis Presley's classic hit, "Jailhouse Rock," were: "The warden threw a party at the county jail." In Maryland, the entire prison system is having a party thrown by gangs and official mismanagement ("Assembly leaders to be briefed on...
Tags: Regional Authority, Government, Prosecution, Executive Branch, Maryland General Assembly
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Parkville man charged in fatal stabbing of mother, wounding of sister
The call came into the Baltimore County emergency dispatch center just after midnight. An unidentified woman asked police respond to a home in Parkville. She didn't say why. When officers arrived in the first minutes of Sunday, they found 26-year-old...
Tags: Prosecution, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Parkville, Trials, Prisons
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Sanitized society puts hygiene hypothesis to the test
Is the American body politic suffering from an autoimmune disease? The "hygiene hypothesis" is the scientific theory that the rise in asthma and other autoimmune maladies stems from the fact that babies are born into environments that are too clean. Our...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Autism, Discrimination, Civil Rights, Racism
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In Texas, black means future danger
If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it'll be because he is black. Well, mainly it will be because in 1995, he shot his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend, Kenneth Butler, to death at Gardner's Houston home, and also wounded his own...
Tags: Psychology, Punishment, Justice System, Lawyers, Criminals
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In Watch Center, an urgent search for man in danger
On a recent Friday night in the Baltimore Police Department's high-tech Watch Center, an urgent but vague tip came in — a murder witness was in danger. The tipster had overheard a conversation but knew only the nickname of the witness and had a...
Tags: Conservation, Black Guerrilla Family, Google Inc., Baltimore Police Department, Inner Harbor
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Suspect in fatal City Hall crash released without charges
A car hurtled off the highway, fatally struck a pedestrian and overturned in front of City Hall and scores of downtown witnesses. A day later, police said the driver had walked free without charges. Despite anger and outrage from those who knew Matt...
Tags: Ellicott City, Laws, Justice System, Howard County, Baltimore Police Department
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Rockefeller impostor found guilty of first-degree murder in L.A.
A German native who consorted for years with New England's social elite by pretending to be a Rockefeller was convicted Wednesday in Los Angeles of first-degree murder, capping a nearly three-decade-old mystery involving a missing couple and a body buried...
Tags: Prosecution, Murder, Kidnapping, Clark Rockefeller, San Marino
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Two Benson Post Office robberies connected, police say
The robber of the Benson post office on Connolly Road Saturday is believed to be the same man who robbed that post office in December 2012, police investigators say.. An attempted robbery that also occurred Saturday, at the Sovereign Bank branch just...
Tags: Criminals, Prosecution, Theft, Firearms, Bank Robbery
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Robert Jarrett Jr. convicted of second-degree murder of wife
Robert Jarrett Jr. was convicted Tuesday of murdering his wife, following a trial in which prosecutors described him as a "cold-blooded killer" who allowed his sons to walk over her body buried beneath their backyard shed for two decades. Howard County...
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State's Attorney event honors those who stand for victims' rights
The words "victims" and "celebration" don't often go hand in hand, but this week the Historic Courtroom of the Circuit Court Building in Annapolis hosted a Victims' Rights Week Celebration honoring residents and criminal justice professionals who work...Tags: First Aid, Crime Victims, Criminals, Prosecution, Child Abuse
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Insecure justice in Maryland
While the nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of a poor person's constitutional right to a lawyer, Maryland legislators' support for House Bill 153 in the recently concluded General Assembly session threatened to return to the days when an accused...
Tags: Personal Income, Criminals, Prosecution, Defendants, Justice System
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