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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: Psychology, Mental Health, Anxiety, Autism, Teaching and Learning
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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: Justice System, Psychology, Punishment, Defendants, Prosecution
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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: Police Arrests, Conservation, Inner Harbor, Murder, Prosecution
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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: Safety of Citizens, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Prisons, 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: Mental Illness, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Prisons, Catonsville, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: Culture, Asthma, Discrimination, Media Industry, Autism
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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...
Tags: Justice System, Root Canal, Building Material, Murder, Prosecution
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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: Justice System, Annapolis, Criminals, First Aid, Abusive Behavior
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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: Annapolis, Justice System, Criminals, Personal Income, Laws
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16-year-old boy shot in Baltimore Sunday afternoon
A 16-year-old boy was shot in the face and hip in Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood Sunday afternoon, police said. The boy was in critical but stable condition at a hospital after the shooting, which happened about 3:30 p.m. in the 1600 block of N....
Tags: Shootings, Prosecution
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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: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Theft, Criminals, Bank Robbery, Firearms
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Third trial set to start in slashing of three children's throats
Policarpio Espinoza Perez and Adan Canela have been mentioned in the same breath since they were charged nine years ago in Baltimore with slashing the throats of three young relatives, ages 8, 9 and 10. They have sat side-by-side at two trials, but as...
Tags: Prisons, Mexico, Murder, Illegal Immigrants, Defendants
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