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.

Bad area

The shooting one Wolfe just a few blocks from the weekend homicide on Washington.

Bealefeld speaks

The Commish returns from vacation

20 Years

.. for 3.5 pounds of hair-ron

Bad night for this guy

He was shot at twice in two separate incidents in one evening, hit once.