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City police officer settles lawsuit over shootings
A Baltimore police sergeant who claimed he was never treated for post-traumatic stress disorder after he fatally shot a man in 2005 has settled a lawsuit against the city, in a deal that allows him to retire with his pension, according to court...
Tags: George Nilson, Lawyers, Interior Policy, Baltimore County, Employment Opportunities
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Friday Buffet: Adam Sessler leaves 'X-Play' and 'Tetris' makes a comeback?
News Roundup •••• Adam Sessler, host of G4TV’s gaming flagship “X-Play,” has left the network and the long-running show. Sessler was a fixture on the network’s previous incarnations, ZDTV and TechTV, having co-...
Tags: Gaming, PlayStation 3, Gaming Industry, Journalism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Former Mid sues Naval Academy over rapes
A former midshipman who says she was raped twice while at the Naval Academy has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force officials to improve their response to sexual assaults at the service academies. In a complaint filed Friday, the woman, now 22, says...Tags: The Pentagon, U.S. Military, United States Naval Academy, Sex Crimes, Bullying
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Supreme Court decisions renew interest in petition fighting convicted child rapist's release
Nearly 100 people have added their names to an online peititon seeking to keep a convicted child rapist behind bars since Wednesday, when two U.S. Supreme Court decisions appeared to bolster the man's appeal arguments and the likelihood he could be...Tags: Criminals, Lawyers, Punishment, Judges, Sex Crimes
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Medical marijuana laws make a farce of medicine
Despite the fact that marijuana remains a controlled substance that is illegal in the United States under federal law, 16 states and the District of Columbia have legalized "medical marijuana." Del. Cheryl Glenn's HB15, the "Maryland Medical Marijuana...Tags: Schizophrenia, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Drug Administration, Chemicals
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At Fort Meade, tryouts for Warrior Games show 'ability over disability'
When it happened, he didn't feel a thing. Within 30 seconds, "all the pain in the world" coursed through his body. And U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Curtis Winston recalls thinking, among many other things, that he'd never play sports again.
Wilson, a former high...Tags: Afghanistan, Armed Conflicts, Amputation, Fort Meade (military base), Army National Guard
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Treating the wounds of military sexual trauma
Machele Fredericks had to face her attacker every day.
She was in the Air Force. He was a fellow service member on the base. And he said that if she told anyone what he'd done, he'd kill her.
"You didn't hear much of people getting raped in the military...Tags: Recreational Substance Use, Hospitals and Clinics, Minority Groups, Women's Health, Substance Abuse
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Sympathy for an accused murderer: What war will do to you
I am ashamed to admit that my heart aches for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, and I feel almost nothing for the families of the Afghan men, women and children he is accused of killing. It is alarming, almost horrifying, to realize that I feel this wave of...
Tags: Robert Bales, Barack Obama
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Elaine Karp-Gelernter, psychologist
Elaine Karp-Gelernter, a retired Veterans Affairs psychologist who was also a textile artist, died of complications from pneumonia March 20 at Sinai Hospital. The Mount Washington resident was 78.
She was the daughter of Polish immigrants who ran a...Tags: Philosophy, Hospitals and Clinics, Psychology, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park
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America can't afford to wage wars all over the globe forever
It seems the Army is investigating charges that soldiers were denied a diagnosis ofpost-traumatic stress disorderin order to save money ("Chief of Army medical center suspended in PTSD probe," Feb. 22). Trillions of tax dollars have been wasted on...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Substance Abuse, Armed Forces, Pakistan
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Sol Goodman, auto executive
Sol Goodman, a retired auto leasing and sales executive who wrote poetry that spoke of the joys of living in Baltimore, died of kidney failure Feb. 18 at Sunrise Senior Living in Pikesville. The longtime Mount Vernon resident was 88.
Born in Baltimore...Tags: Concerts, Arts, Libraries, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Sunrise Assisted Living Incorporated
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Police sergeant who killed man sues department
The gun battle raged in three different spots near the old Murphy Homes high-rise in West Baltimore, ending on a cold February day with the death of a 20-year-old man in a hail of gunfire from four city police officers.
Four years later, one of the...Tags: Lawyers, George Nilson, Hospitals and Clinics, Murder, Pigtown
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