violet ripken

Harford County's Miracle League working to raise funds to build a baseball field for players with special needs across from Harford Community College.

By David Anderson

Feb 1, 2018

Five years after Vi Ripken was abducted from her home, Aberdeen police on Wednesday released a composite sketch of the man they say is responsible for kidnapping her.

By Sean Welsh

Aug 2, 2017

Fred Budnick feels like he's on vacation this week, and he suspects it may feel that way for a while. But after 37 years of service with the Aberdeen Police Department, the 59-year-old isn't on vacation – he's retired. His last day was last Friday.

By Erika Butler

May 11, 2017

Kelly Ripken and Cal Ripken divorced this morning in the Baltimore County Circuit Court. The couple was married for close to 30 years.

By Brittany Britto

Apr 28, 2016

Here's a look at some of the crime that's happened recently in the Baltimore metro area.

The 2015 Cal Ripken 12U/Major 70 World Series got off to a groovy start Friday evening at The Ripken Experience Aberdeen Powered by Under Armour youth baseball complex.

Three years after the queen of Aberdeen's baseball royal family was kidnapped at gunpoint and driven around the state, city police said they still hope the public can help track down Vi Ripken's mysterious assailant.

Year in Review Aug 2014

Children on Aberdeen's east side will have a new place to play, thanks to a gleaming new baseball field unveiled Monday by the Cal Ripken, Sr., Foundation.

Two years later, the mysterious kidnapping of one of Aberdeen's most prominent citizens is still a wide-open case.

The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation (CRSF) recently announced Mark Butler, President and CEO of Ollie's Bargain Outlet, as its Chairman of the Board of Directors.

The year just ended brought a number of significant milestones, most of them good, to the area covered by The Record, including a couple of noteworthy sports accomplishments, completion of a major highway project, the end of a couple of eras in our history, the celebration of another and possibly the beginning of another of historical proportions.

Christmas, along with a sharp chill, was in the air in Aberdeen Saturday as residents turned out for the city's annual Christmas Street Celebration.

Cal Ripken Jr.'s mother has been the victim of two violent crimes in a little over a year

A Havre de Grace man was arrested shortly after Violet Ripken, mother of Cal Ripken Jr., was able to fend off an attacker at an Aberdeen bank on Tuesday.

A man armed with a handgun confronted Cal Ripken's mother outside a bank in Aberdeen Tuesday afternoon and told her he wanted to steal her car, according to police.

Baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. will stand before the media on Thursday morning, flanked by local and federal law enforcement officials, and again call for the public's help in solving the bizarre abduction of his mother last summer.

Maybe the result will be learning the "why and everything else" of a particularly bizarre, and chilling, crime.

Walking around the Aberdeen IronBirds' stadium that bears her family's name, Vi Ripken says she feels protected in her hometown a year after her mysterious kidnapping and safe return, but everyday moments can be startling and leave her "thinking thoughts you shouldn't be thinking."

By Yvonne Wenger

Jul 24, 2013

One year after Violet Ripken was kidnapped at gunpoint from her Harford County home and driven around the Baltimore region for nearly 24 hours before being returned unharmed, police in her hometown of Aberdeen are still searching for the man responsible.

he Aberdeen Police Department's men and women recently won an award not for their crime-fighting or patrolling skills, but for the professional tailoring of their uniforms.

Port Deposit man sentenced to 7 years in prison for probation violation after false tip

The Record looks at the Top 10 News Stories of 2012

Vi Ripken, the mother of baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., was abducted from outside of her home. She was tied up and put in the back seat of her car and driven all around Central Maryland. She was later found with her hands bound but unharmed in her car parked a few houses away from her Aberdeen home.

The man police believe kidnapped Violet R. Ripken from her Aberdeen home stopped at a Middle River Walmart the day after the July abduction and may have had a brief encounter with the driver of a dark green minivan, Lt. Fred Budnick said Monday.

Harford County's top lawman says he's been wrestling with leading an agency of 290 sworn officers through tragedy unlike any the Sheriff's Office has endured in the last two centuries: the back-to-back deaths of active duty officers.

Six weeks after the mother of one of Baltimore's most famous baseball players was kidnapped and left bound on the side of the road in her Lincoln Town Car, the case remains a mystery to police.

Nearly a month has passed since Vi Ripken was kidnapped outside her Aberdeen home, and the July 24 incident has prompted the entire family to take extra security measures

Possibly it has taken a decade of the Great American Pastime being played by kids from around the world in Aberdeen to crystallize that the city is, despite the problems it shares with many other communities, a perfectly nice place to spend the other 51 weeks a year

More than two weeks have passed since Violet R. Ripken's peculiar abduction, but experts believe the photograph of the suspect shopping at a local Walmart makes an arrest inevitable.

Two weeks after Vi Ripken was abducted at gunpoint, fans of the Aberdeen IronBirds were glad to have her back to her routine Wednesday night — taking in a game at the stadium named for her famous baseball family.

Vi Ripken abduction

Cal Ripken Jr. speaks out about his mother's kidnapping July 24 and the mysterious circumstances that led to her return, without injury, about 24 hours later near her Aberdeen home.

Cal Ripken Jr., the Oriole's Hall of Famer, will meet with reporters at the B&O Warehouse at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in order to answer questions related to Violet Ripken's July 24 abduction on behalf of his famous family, according to John Maroon, a family spokesman.

The release Tuesday of a composite sketch and a video of the man who kidnapped Vi Ripken last week generated some new tips for police to investigate, as they had hoped

Each morning, we'll hook you up with some reading material to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday.

As the investigation into Violet R. Ripken's abduction stretched into an eighth day, police on Wednesday remained silent about their leads, a strategy Harford County State's Attorney Joseph Cassilly said could ensure the potential suspect doesn't destroy evidence or intimidate witnesses. Investigators in the small, 40-man Aberdeen police force must find a balance in publicly releasing details that will help solve the case, but not aid the man believed to have kidnapped the 74-year-old mother of

Police have received more than 50 tips as to the identity of the man who kidnapped Vi Ripken last week and are hoping to generate more with the release of a video of the suspect as well as a composite sketch

A team of law enforcement agencies continued Thursday to search for the man who abducted Violet R. Ripken, matriarch of Maryland's renowned baseball family.

The Baltimore County Police Department was asking for the public's help in finding Violet Roberta Ripken, the 74-year-old mother of former Orioles Cal Ripken Jr. and Billy Ripken.