"Keep your head up, yo"

Turns out the victim in the Rosedale Panera parking lot was the alleged perp's stepfather. The 15-year-old, Timothy Criner, will be charged as an adult with first-degree attempted murder, though the stabbing may be justified as Panera's soups taste like re-heated spooge filtered through a whore's bedsheets, and anyone who would feed them to a child deserves a slow, painful death.

Life for Jerome Williams and Charles Y. McGaney in the Harris case, 65 years for Gary Collins.

The Ink on last week's four murders

Religious leaders protest at Clyde's Sport Shop, and Clyde is not pleased.

CP: "Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore--and causing providers headaches."

The Testo case has gone to the jury

Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services defends its actions in the Willie Featherstone case

Helen Holton talks ethics at Loyola U. HALLELUJAH!

Media blabber: Tribune Exec Me-so-Randy Michaels* poised to resign.
*this link is probably NSFW.. depending on where you W

Don't miss: Larnell Butler's letter to the CP on the Jessamy/Bernstein race

Punching cops is bad for your health

Jerome Ira Stal became the eleventh person to plead guilty in a federal investigation of pawn shops that were used for money laundering.

Melvin J. Yates claims that Howard County cops gave him a beat-down after he struggled with them during an altercation in April.

A 15-year old allegedly stabbed a man in the parking lot of a Panera (yuck) in Rosedale.

The feds convicted a Singaporean man of trying to smuggle weapons to the Tamil Tigers. Good thing for him he wasn't busted back home in Singapore!

Ken Harris's killers will be sentenced tomorrow. No word about the SA's office seeking life w/o parole, which is odd since from what I recall they were convicted of first-degree felony murder.

Testo testo-fies

"I never laid a hand on her"

Piece by Hermann about murder victim Louis Scott mulls over the eternal Baltimore question: with so many murders, how does a reporter decide who to write about?

Shady?

The city seems to be in no hurry to release details on how millions in Pimilico's racing impact fees has been spent.

Shocker: Alleged Cop Killer Had Rap Sheet

Sian Ricardo James, accused of killing city detective Brian Stevenson over an (illegal) parking place, then going to Power Plant Live, is due in court in December to face assault, false imprisonment and rape charges. He's also a fan of "Family Guy" and "Two and a Half Men."

City officer killed over parking space

Detective Brian Stevenson, 38, was killed in Canton after he got into an argument over a parking space and was hit in the head with an object

also a Dundalk man is charged with raping a girl he met on MySpace

motion to dismiss denied in Testo case

Patient deaths prompt questions at Perkins

Murder suspect arrested after he shot himself in the leg

Hampden robbery suspect nabbed

Police ID Oakenshawe murder victim as Travis Lane, 19. ("Fun" fact: Northwood used to be a segregated shopping center and was the site of a sit-in by Morgan students in 1960)

"Low crime, high anxiety in Roland Park"

Police officer critically injured

A city police detective was critically injured during a fight while celebrating his birthday.

Because you were not effing depressed enough already

Father charged with choking 6-month-old infant to death

AG Eric Holder vows to enforce federal drug laws if CA voters legalize the pot.

Three murder convictions

Marquise Evans, James Wesley Spriggs, and Craig Bobian were all recently convicted of first-degree murder in separate cases. Evans got life plus 20 years, Spriggs got life and Bobian will be sentenced on December 1.

BTW, I see lots of life sentences but hardly ever hear about someone getting life w/o parole in the City. Is the SA's office reluctant to go for LWOP?

City taxpayer question of the day

Q: Why does a city pension board trustee fly to Miami for three days at taxpayer expense to meet with representatives of an investment firm that has offices in Philly?

A: Because city taxpayers are footing the bill, and since you don't have to tell where you stayed on their dime, you can pick a swank hotel and live it up.
B: Because the pension fund is $300 million in the red and you need a break from the stress
C: Because you paid this firm millions for worthless investment advice and now they owe you dinner by the pool
D: All of the above

Wife swapping

Not much neighborly love in Finksburg, after two men end up dead in an apparent murder suicide.

Drunken frat boy runs newspaper into ditch

Another Tribune Exec (and not the tittays guy, Randy Michaels) has apologized for sending out a memo about "sluts" (hey, that video's a classic!)
Now titties guy has suspended slut guy, and the site Jezebel has more on a former employee's harassment claims, including "saying she had been bitten on the neck by Mr. Michaels and that he walked through the office wearing a sexual device around his neck."

.. and now all afternoon we're going to be wondering what the hell kind of device that might be

Sluts n' Mullets

Eight murders this week, says the CP

The trial of mulleted murder suspect Dennis Testo continues, and TDR's Danny Jacobs has more on "no body" cases

Police are ISO suspect in Hampden store robberies

Clerical error almost cost inmate 14 extra years on his sentence

Oh, great: "Willie Featherstone is a sexual predator, but he keeps getting out of prison."

Rilly? Portfolio.com says Baltimore's income growth is 3rd-highest in the nation.

ps. what's better than this blog? This blog en francais!

NY is considering a crisis-pregnancy-center-signage bill similar to Baltimore's

eine kleine Nachtwunde

A guy stabs two at Oktoberfest

Four or five murders this weekend: adult male and Park Heights and Shirley; Daryll Hood, 22, 4700 block of Shamrock Avenue; Travis Lane, 29, found dead on the 3500 block of Calvert Street; Dennis Waddell, 1600 block of Warwick Avenue; James Ingram, 3000 block of Presbury Street; and a suspiciously dead guy in a vacant in the 800 block of North Fremont Avenue.

UM professor to review Baltimore police arrests

Smoochy lesbians ejected from Ravens game (ps. happy coming out day to our more closeted readers!)

Media blabber

Tribune CEO accused of offering a waitress $100 to flash her tittays to "senior colleagues"

East Oliver update

The drug dealers have moved from the park and are not camped out in front of a funereal home.

Left to die

A shooting victim was left to die in an alley in Oakenshawe.

Senior slain

78-year-old retired bus driver Sterling Palmer was stabbed to death in his home in the 2600 block of Edison highway

Don't check your email

with a laptop stolen from a dorm room...