Prisons

George Huguely murder trial evidence displayed

2012-05-15 16:17:32

George Huguely V sits in the corner of a narrow, white room, at the end of a long wooden table, looking every bit the college athlete who just rolled out of bed after a normal night out — but for the bloody scratches ringing his right ankle....

Baltimore's oldest black cemetery finally restored, with help of inmates

2012-05-14 16:23:00

Five years after burying his father, Samuel W. Moore could no longer find the grave. That was 1976, and Mount Auburn Cemetery, one of the oldest African-American burial grounds in the country, was overcome with stickerbushes, weeds and garbage —...

Baltimore officer sentenced to federal prison

2012-05-11 14:29:00

A 10th Baltimore police officer was sentenced to federal prison Friday for taking kickbacks from an auto repair company, the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office announced. Leonel Rodriguez, 32, of Essex, was sentenced to 30 months for extortion and...

Md. man gets life sentence for state trooper's death

2012-05-10 07:46:38

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — A man convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty Maryland state trooper will spend the rest of his life in prison. Cyril Cornelius Williams was sentenced Thursday morning in Prince George's County Circuit Court to life in...

Federal inmate who challenged Obama in W. Va. tried to get on Md. ballot

2012-05-10 11:12:00

Keith Russell Judd, better known as the federal inmate who scored 41 percent of the vote against President Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary, wanted to be on the ballot in Maryland, too. Without Judd in his path, Obama cruised to an 88 percent...

Polite bank robber sentenced to 10 years in federal prison

2012-05-10 11:45:00

A 32-year-old Crofton man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Thursday for armed bank robbery, after holding up the same two M&T banks a total of five times and making off with more than $30,000, sometimes wishing the tellers a “nice day&...

Brief filed in appeal of child rape case

2012-05-07 15:35:42

The Maryland attorney general's office argued in a lengthy legal brief, filed in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, that a convicted child rapist serving four life terms should not be offered a second chance to take a plea deal years after the fact,...

Man killed girlfriend, bound young son in Baltimore housing project, police say

2012-05-08 14:13:55

A boy who came home from school and found his mother dead was then bound with belts and duct tape by her alleged killer, whom police arrested last week. Edward Ford, 36, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 44-year-old Cheryl Thomas,...

Jury finds man guilty in East Baltimore killing

2012-05-05 03:40:00

A Circuit Court Jury on Friday found a 34-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a man in East Baltimore in the summer of 2010, according to the city State's Attorney's Office. Antonio Moore, of the 400 block of North Robinson...

Next city police commissioner faces challenging benchmark

2012-05-05 14:28:04

However Baltimore's plain-spoken police commissioner is remembered, when he departs on the first day of August, he will leave his successor a challenging target. The number 200. That is the standard by which Frederick H. Bealefeld III's successor will...

City's spending priorities are skewed

2012-05-09 11:55:00

Let's be honest and place Baltimore City's budgeting and spending problems into proper context. The lavish spending of public funds to fix up the offices of Jerome Oberlton, chief information officer for Baltimore City schools, is really nothing new....

Bail set at $350,000 for Edgewood man charged in armed robbery

2012-04-26 13:06:19

A 22-year-old Edgewood man was being held on $350,000 bail Thursday afternoon after being charged with four counts of armed robbery. Trenton Yaphet Thomas, of the 700 block of Monticello Circle, was charged Wednesday in connection with an incident...

man stands chained to a cage during a demonstration in the city of Ramallah, in the Israeli occupied West Bank, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails.

2012-05-14 00:00:00

Relatives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike celebrate in Gaza City after hearing that the prisoners have agreed a deal with Israel to end their fast in exchange for an easing of their conditions.

2012-05-14 00:00:00

Israeli policemen disperse Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists near Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners observing a hunger strike to demand better conditions in Israeli jails.

2012-05-13 00:00:00