Just a week into the year, Mayor Sheila Dixon announces she is resigning as part of a plea deal ... Police reverse course on a decision to stop releasing the names of officers who shoot citizens ... A Marine is fatally stabbed at a Northeast Baltimore party, marking a stretch in which more American servicemembers were killed in Baltimore than in combat in Iraq... A man was robbed and forced at gunpoint into his own trunk in Guilford
February:
A man serving three life sentences
and flees to West Virginia ... A 65-year-old reading teacher at the Cheltenham Youth Facility
, student later is charged ... Security guard
in front of Bank of America building
March:
The Sun catches up with the
, who was shot in the head by an errant bullet ... Several people arrested, including victim's wife, in
William "Ray" Porter ...
in killing of child who wouldn't say "Amen" before meals ..
April:
Continuing investigation of Black Guerrilla Family ensnares man working with youth; a profile of the East Baltimore Safe Streets gang intervention program ... Police briefly suspend Comstat program ... The Sun profiles Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld ... 72-year-old Charles Bowman killed at Waverly carryout for $13 ... Teen convicted in shooting of Raven Wyatt
May:
An appellate decision in case of Baltimore police commander who leaked document to media protects whistle-blowers ... Yeardley Love, a lacrosse player at University of Virginia, killed in Charlottesville .. A second contract killing arrest in Baltimore County involving a wife allegedly paying someone to kill her husband
June:
City sees deadliest stretch since 2007, with 10 homicides in four days ... Off-duty officer Gahiji Tshamba charged with killing unarmed Marine outside club; revelations about his past infractions ... City tries out Safe Surrender program to clear outstanding warrants ... City settles lawsuit with NAACP, ACLU over "mass arrests," agrees to hire outside auditor ... Sun investigation finds city leads country in number of "unfounded" rapes; mayor pledges audit
July:
Johns Hopkins researcher Stephen Pitcairn is fatally stabbed while walking home from Union Station; church caretaker Milton Hill shot in robbery of scooter. Killings draw hundreds of mourners in a call to action .... Police face shortage of officers, mayor vows to hire 450 new officers ...
August:
A series of attacks on Latinos prompts concern, among the incidents is a fatal shooting of man by 14-year-old girl who was laughed at when she tried to rob him ... A yard sign causes a big stir .... Man arrested for faking seizures to get out of dinner tabs ... Man found dead after apparently falling down garbage chute of downtown apartment building ... Officer featured in infamous Inner Harbor skateboarding video is fired; police union outraged
September:
A doctor is shot at Johns Hopkins Hospital by a man who kills his mother and himself ... Gregg Bernstein defeats Pat Jessamy in the primary to become Baltimore State's Attorney ... Harford judge affirms the right to tape police at traffic stops after motorcyclist charged with wiretapping ... Mental patient accused of killing fellow patient at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center ... After 44 years, Sun police reporter Dick Irwin retires
October:
Three city officers killed in a stretch of three weeks, including an off-duty officer hit in the head with a concrete block in Canton parking space argument ... Three men sentenced in killing of former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris ... Dennis Tetso convicted in killing of wife, who went to Motley Crue concert and whose body has never been found
November:
St. Joseph's Medical Center settles $22 million kickback claim with U.S. ... Tensions sparked in Northwest Baltimore after member of Jewish citizens patrol group arrested for assaulting black teenager
December:
Review of city rape statistics finds more than half of "unfounded" claims were misclassified ... A fire that investigators believe was intentionally set torches the city's red light district ... A Woodlawn man is charged in a plot to blow up a military recruiting center ... A 30-year-old man is killed in an intentionally set fire ... A Daily Record report reveals that it may have been city, not plaintiff, who pushed for secrecy in $200,000 lawsuit settlement in wrongful arrest ...