October 4

Back form the relative peace and tranquility of Oakland CA. Thanks, tip-linkers, for helping out. Indeed, crime is way down... almost everywhere but here. Are we seriously a city with a singular, unstoppable "culture of violence"? And if so... whose fault is it?

An arrest has ben made in the murder of Nachin Pak, a restaurant worker in Cherry Hill.

Frank Thodos got 15 years for distributing child porn.

In Owings Mills, robbery appears to be the motive for the murders Howard Thacker Jr. and his 17-year-old nephew, Dontay.

In Halethorpe, Shawn James Sullivan, 31, was arrested for shooting Matthew Stumpf, 30, and John Gilchrest, 32.

I effing hate these stories... a dad mistakenly broiled his one-year-old to death when he forgot to take him to the babysitter's and left him in a car in Hunt Valley, instead.

In Hamilton a family was robbed. Also missing is a Bassett-hound-looking dog named Max.