In Baltimore City
Man's wife and son are indicted in his beating death in '95
The wife and son of a Baltimore man who was fatally beaten more than seven years ago were indicted on murder charges yesterday by a city grand jury, the state's attorney's office announced.
Geralene Lincoln, 56, and Leroy Lincoln Jr., 26, were indicted on charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder Leroy Lincoln Sr., who was 51 when he was killed Feb. 27, 1995, in his apartment in the 3500 block of E. Northern Parkway. Geralene Lincoln was estranged from her husband at the time, prosecutors said.
The mother and son moved from Baltimore after the killing and were living in Wilkesboro, N.C., when they were arrested last month. A third defendant, John Ulrich, 26, of the 1300 block of Martin Ave., who prosecutors said was a friend of the son, also was indicted on first-degree murder and conspiracy charges. The three are being held without bail in Baltimore City Detention Center.
Judge temporarily denies gag order in boy's shooting
A Circuit Court judge temporarily denied last night a prosecutor's request for a gag order that would have prohibited lawyers from talking publicly about the case of Perry Spain, who awaits trial in a June shooting that left a 10-year-old neighborhood bystander wounded.
But Judge M. Brooke Murdock scheduled a hearing for Nov. 26 for arguments on the gag order requested by Assistant State's Attorney Roger L. Harris. The prosecutor said defense lawyer Warren A. Brown was endangering a witness in the case by talking about him to the news media. The request was prompted by the killing last week of a second witness to the shooting.
Brown said his client had nothing to do with the death of the witness, and that he did not release any information that would have endangered the surviving witness.
Man who won new trial gets life sentence in killing
Mohammad Biglari, who won a new trial in the decade-old murder of a Charles Village apartment building neighbor, was sentenced yesterday to life plus 15 years -- slightly less than the life plus 20 years imposed at his first trial in 1994.
Biglari, 58, had been granted a new trial in 1995 because of evidence issues, but it was delayed until this year because of mental competency as the defendant was under prison psychiatric care. In May, he was convicted by a jury in the 1991 slaying of Barbara Halsey, a hospital secretary and mother of two who lived in the 2800 block of N. Charles St.
Biglari bound, gagged, shot and stabbed Halsey after she filed a complaint against him for harassment and thwarted his advances.
Groundbreaking planned for 33rd St. construction
A groundbreaking ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday for Stadium Place, a senior housing village and YMCA recreational facility on the East 33rd Street site where Memorial Stadium stood for nearly 50 years.
Govans Ecumencial Development Corp., a church-based nonprofit group in North Baltimore, plans to build affordable housing for about 500 seniors, while YMCA of Central Maryland plans to construct the largest YMCA in the city. The cost of the two projects is estimated at $47 million.
An acre of the 30-acre site will be devoted to a Waverly community garden.
In Baltimore County
Police looking for girl, 17, who disappeared at library
TOWSON -- Baltimore County police are searching for a 17-year-old girl who disappeared from the Arbutus library Friday and was most recently sighted Sunday afternoon near Maryland and North avenues in Baltimore.
Rachel Ruth Diller of the 2400 block of Woodcroft Road in Parkville is white, 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, has brown eyes, brown shoulder-length hair and a scar on the left side of her face. When she left the library, she was wearing a blue and black jacket, blue jeans and gray Nike tennis shoes, police said.
Diller's family told police that she has a history of emotional and mental development problems and might have been in the company of a 34-year-old man possibly named Michael Edward Grenat. Anyone with information is asked to call county police at 410-887-0872.
Cultural diversity lecture set at Towson University
TOWSON -- Harold Hodgkinson of the Center for Demographic Policy, Institute for Education Leadership in Alexandria, Va., will speak at 6:30 tonight at Towson University as part of the Graduate Lecture Series.
Hodgkinson will focus on cultural diversity in the United States and its implications for education, immigration and an aging population. He has written 12 books and more than 200 articles, for which he has been honored by the American Education Press Association.
The lecture will take place in the Chesapeake Room of the University Union on Union Drive. It will be preceded by a reception at 6 p.m. The public is invited.
Foundation naturalist to discuss state of the bay
CHASE -- John Page Williams Jr., author and senior naturalist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, will present an illustrated lecture on "The State of the Bay" at 7:30 tonight at the Marshy Point Nature Center.
Williams has for 30 years developed educational programs and field trips to study the bay. His books include Chesapeake Almanac, Following the Bay Through the Seasons and Exploring the Chesapeake in Small Boats.
The center is on Dundee and Saltpeter creeks at 7130 Marshy Point Road. Information: 410-887-2817.