Shooting victim dies

A man shot on June 20th has died.

Another marine killed in Baltimore

The man shot and killed in a city after-hours club was a marine about to deploy.

Southern district major forced to depart

Major Scott Bloodsworth is being forced to give up command of the Southern district

Lots of guns

Lots of guns getting seized by the cops.

Baltimore's new rape hotline is starting to get calls.

A fatal shooting in Essex and another outside of a bar on Baltimore Street.

A 21-year old man was murdered in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel County cops are looking for two suspects.

And just in case you thought we didn't have enough homicides, a 16-year old was shot dead in Reservoir Hill on Thursday morning. He was the fourth teenager to be murdered so far this year.

Mental health "experts" can't agree if Mary Koontz, on trial for murdering her husband, is sane.

An Ellicott City man convicted by the Federales of securities fraud will get a new trial.

Was anyone else surprised that the Baltimore Sun didn't have an article about the beheading verdict being upheld? From what I recall there was a real fear that their conviction might be overturned.

Court upholds verdict

Court of special appeals upholds a guilty verdict in the beheading of three children.

Rape victim tells ABC about BPD's lack of responsiveness.. police say they have no record of her case

"A 24-year-old woman who had been stripping at Norma Jean's Gentleman's Club in Baltimore was found guilty Tuesday of stabbing another stripper to death in November 2008."

It is what it isn't

Police are now reviewing all recent rape cases that were ruled unfounded, thanks to Justin Fenton's article on the BPD's penchant for finding woman who reports rapes unreliable.

Meanwhile, 3 officers who were suspended for trying to talk a rape victim out of reporting it are suspended again.

The city is doing its collective best to make sure no one gets punished to severely for allowing a sex offender to collect sick pay while in prison.

Good news for the circulator

Complaints that ridership is not meeting expectations are premature as the young men involved in a shooting last night put the Charm City circulator to good use.

How's that Hampden Methadone Clinic Going?

Insightful comment from "David" on the Feb. 10th Hampden Methadone Clinic post

.. and did you see the NYT column last week about Baltimore's two Wes Moores? (added the book to the librury, hope to read it soon)

Rape reporting

Baltimore City police classify the highest number of rape reports 'unfounded' in the country.

A little gun play at the Harbor

Musta cleared out the Cheesecake Factory pretty quick...

Skinny Suge Sentenced

Famed Stop Snitching creator Ronnie "Skinny Suge" Thomas receives 20 years in federal prison without parole.

Parole and probation crackdown

Parole and probation officers protest a new policy requiring three meet face to face meetings a week with parolees. Union says the policy is political because it affects counties key to the 2010 governor's race.

Death row moves

Maryland's death row inmates have been moved from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center (which used to be informally known as "Supermax") to the North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland. Executions (if we ever have one again) will still take place at the Metropolitan Transition Center.

The Sun has a few more details about the transfer.

Mass arrests

According to the ACLU, the officers sued for illegally arresting 13 residents didn't know the law.

Meanwhile, O'Malley says it's the policy was not his fault...there's only so much you can do when you're the mayor.

Bealefeld: we're trying to win the drug war

to which a city resident replies...I'm more afraid of the police than I am of the drug dealers...

Bad poetry

Tree Top Piru Bloods leader writes a poem about murder, gets 30 years in federal prison.

A Cherry Hill shooting victim dies and a decomposing body is found in an abandoned house in Pigtown.

Murderous couple is getting divorced. He's doing 38 years, she's doing life plus 20.

No pepperoni on your pizza

Former high-power lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been released from federal prison and is working at a kosher pizza restaurant on Reisterstown Road.

Illegal arrest settlement

BPD pays out another big settlement, this time for illegal arrests.

Too much cerveza

Illegal immigrant (with a Maryland driver's license) drives drunk, kills passenger.

Bloods gang leader Terrence "Squeaky" Richardson received two life sentences in federal court this morning. There is no parole in the federal system.