It's for real! Loopy septuagenarian Frank "Papa Bear" Conaway is running for mayor a 3rd time. Comment: "I can see lots of bear cubs getting no-bid contracts in Baltimore's future."

Enhancing skills to get an edge

Suspects and victim in the stabbing at Security Square Mall are students at the North American Trade School there. Wonder what they were studying?

TDR: Ken Harris case is to the jury

speaking of mental

What is going on with all of these teen suicides?
Is 50 cent behind this?

Mario Goes Mental!

R&B one-hit wonder Mario arrested after going crazy on his mama

Teardrop tattoo

Did accused killer Jerome Williams get a teardrop tattoo after councilman Harris was shot to death?

A-holes du jour

Closing arguments in Harris case ... and it's to the jury

Five indicted in Hopkins identity theft scheme

Smirking dude linked to 2007 murder by DNA

Officer Patrick Dotson got 10 years (all but 18 months suspended) for firing his handgun at a bar fight

New anti-perv laws take effect

Butterfingers Bureaucrats Bungle Bank Payments

TDR's Brendan Kearney uncovered a banking mistake that cost the city $600,000

Despicable them

Roommates Manuel Guttierez and Jaime Calderon charged in Cockeysville murder of Jose Ramirez

Soon the fill the next cell: store clerks who shamelessly flaunt flagrant violations of the no-plastic-bag law

Better late than never Dept. Washington Monthly's: Too Weird for The Wire: How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds

Anne Arundel guy gets church volunteerism as part of drunk-driving sentence

Hebrew Wooed Negro Vote

Data shows a lot of voters crossed racial lines in the State's Attorney's election, including white people who voted for Jessamy

Dropped charge in Harris case

Prosecutors want to drop the most serious murder charge in Harris case.

Life without parole for Bloods gang leader Timothy E. Rawlings Jr., who ordered a hit on an 18-year-old fellow gang member Steven Parrish because he thought was gay

and an uniD'd woman found stabbed to death in east Baltimore

Hangman's Noose, Favored Fan, White Flight Pattern

Someone really ought to run a "Red Line" tour

Serial killer?

Interesting details from William Brown's interview with police, a man who killed two women and nearly murdered another.

Wire Creator Wins MacArthur 'Genius' Award

poses mournfully in front of rowhouse

Quality reading

If you haven't read Antero Pietila's Not in My Neighborhood, you really must. Finally got my copy on Saturday and couldn't put it down all weekend. Full of fascinating facts, not just about how housing segregation and blockbusting, but crazy tidbits, like before 1904, Baltimore didn't have an underground sewage system, just massive cesspools. Also MLK Jr. apparently actively avoided Baltimore, for reasons unknown. And apparently Pennsylvania Ave used to be main street!

Charges dropped againt helmet cam man

Judge tossed wire tap charges against the motorcyclist who caught a State Trooper behaving oddly, then posted it on Youtube.

White supremacist Calvin E. Lockner received a 31-year prison sentence today for assaulting an elderly black fisherman at Fort Armistead.

Lots of shootings this weekend. The current tally is five wounded and one dead.

The family of Sarah Foxwell have asked that outgoing Wicomico County State's Attorney Davis Ruark stay on as lead prosecutor in Thomas Leggs's capital murder trial.

AAAAAAAiiieee!

"Piece of tongue key evidence against killer" at the Perkins hospital

Aieee!

Fill in the blank: the "Preppy burglar" looks a lot more ______ up close!

... and the weekends' shootings spawns more of the same-old discussion.

Slashing

Weird tire slashing spree in Frederick targets only "light colored" vehicles.