john jay
- Two men accused of robbing a couple at gunpoint as they walked home from a Federal Hill restaurant last weekend have been freed from jail and cleared of all charges by prosecutors who acknowledge it was a case of false identification.
- Barry H. Landau pleads guilty in federal court to stealing historic documents from museums in several states including Maryland. Meanwhile, the Maryland Historic Society is having a news conference in which staffer who caught Landau is speaking for the first time.
- Baltimore has seen a string of recent robberies involving suspects who used fake badges and other props — anything to convey a position of police authority — to lull their victims into cooperating, if only for an extra few moments.
- Baltimore Police commanders at the scene of a fatal shooting outside a downtown nightclub in January failed to establish control of the dozens of officers there, including William H. Torbit Jr., who was fatally shot by fellow officers after escalating a confrontation with rowdy patrons
- Archbishop 's attempt to blame sexual abuse on society's sexual climate is flawed.
- Archbishop Edwin O'Brien of Baltimore discusses the recent report on the causes of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and outlines the steps it is taking to make sure it doesn't recur.