Archive for Maryland
Monday, September 17th, 2012
A deadly germ that has proved to be almost invincible due to its resistance to most antibiotics has been blamed for the death of a seventh person at Maryland’s National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. The death was reported on Friday in the Washington Post. The victim, a boy from Minnesota, died on September 7th, according ... read more »
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
An 8-month-old baby girl has been listed in stable condition after being stabbed in the chest and neck by her mother at a social services building in Baltimore. The Washington Post reports that police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the stabbing occurred just before 10 a.m. Tuesday at a Department of Social Services building. Department spokesman ... read more »
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
A Maryland woman learned the hard way that one should check age of consent laws before traveling across state lines to have sex with a teenager. Lisa Carroll, 39, met a 16-year-old Florida boy playing the online game War2 Glory, a multi-player interactive game set during World War II. But police say Carroll took the ... read more »
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
A Walmart in Baltimore, Maryland, had to be evacuated over the weekend after cops say two women fighting became creative with their choice of weapons. Police responding to a call on Saturday morning say when they arrived on the scene the women were fighting and throwing bleach and deodorant at each other. The combination of ... read more »
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
A 13-year-old girl was injured from an explosion when a firework was put on her birthday cake. Maryland State Deputy Chief Fire Marshal Allen Gosnell says that a firework was “inadvertently” placed among birthday candles, telling the Carroll County Times, “There was a birthday and there was cake. And afterward there was a low-level explosion ... read more »
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
A Hagerstown, Maryland, 12-year-old girl was benched during her basketball game on Saturday because the referee was troubled by her traditional Muslim headscarf. According to the Washington Post, Dr. Mohammad and Anina Haq said their daughter was asked to sit out during the first half of the game over “safety concerns” with her headscarf, causing ... read more »
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
A Maryland woman is facing murder charges after police found her two adopted children dead and in her freezer last fall. Why so long to press charges? [Renee] Bowman, who has been in the Calvert County jail since September, probably will be served with a copy of the charging documents this week, said John McCarthy, ... read more »
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Maryland fishermen made a gruesome discovery yesterday when the pulled a trash bag out of Lake Artemesia. Inside was the body of an infant girl. Now police are trying to track down the baby’s mother. Police hope someone comes forward to report a mother who may have been pregnant but no longer is, or someone ... read more »
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
A 5-year-old boy riding in a car sans booster seat became entangled in the seat belt and was almost strangled to death. The child’s mother, Yuko Harris, pulled onto the shoulder and called 911 after noticing that something was wrong in the back seat, where her son, DeAndre Harris, was sitting next to his 2-year-old ... read more »
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
A 9-year-old boy in Springdale, Maryland has been found after spending the night in the woods near his home. Why? Because he was afraid to be punished because he skipped a science project. His parents must really lay down the law! “I am never going to do that again,” said Basith Akinola Salami, as he ... read more »
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
A Maryland woman has admitted that the bodies found by police in a freezer in her home are the bodies of two of her adopted children. Renee Bowman, 43, said the bodies of her daughters, born in 1997 and 1999, had been in the freezer since February, said Lt. Bobby Jones of the Calvert County ... read more »
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Police in Baltimore, Maryland have found the body of a 3-year-old who they think was thrown over a bridge by his father. Maryland Transportation Authority Police said detectives “responded to the scene as part of their ongoing homicide investigation” into the death of Turner Jordan Nelson. The body had not been identified, police said. The ... read more »
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Seven years since Michael Shannon last saw his two sons, he’s still hopeful that one day they will be reunited. We hope he’s right. The boys, now 11 and 7, were kidnapped in August 2001 by their mother and Egyptian grandmother, who fled to Cairo after what was supposed to be a brief unsupervised visit. ... read more »
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
After a fight with her baby’s father, a Maryland mom allegedly tied a noose around her infant son’s neck with the intention of killing the boy and herself. Charging documents said police officers went to [Blanca Noehmi Juarez's] house April 16 while she was having a fight with her boyfriend, who is the 9-month-old boy’s ... read more »
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Two toddlers in Baltimore, Maryland were injured by stray bullets while playing in their front yard. Rescue workers said that a 2-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl were taken to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center for treatment. The boy was shot in the chest, and the the girl was shot in the lower right leg. The ... read more »
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