Trials

Gosnell's 'clinic of horrors'

2013-05-18 03:00:00

It was the pictures and riveting testimony that convinced a Philadelphia jury that abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was guilty of murdering three infants born alive following botched late-term abortions and also guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of...

Alleged BGF leader Tavon White will be moved to U.S. custody

2013-05-17 15:18:00

Tavon White, the alleged leader of the Black Guerrilla Family at the Baltimore City Detention Center, will await trial in federal custody out of state, his attorney said Friday. A federal judge ordered him moved from state custody Friday after a hearing...

Baltimore police officer charged with second-degree assault

2013-05-17 20:31:30

Baltimore police officer Robert W. Mitchell faces a second-degree assault charge after police and prosecutors accused him of overstepping his powers and beating a young man more than a year ago. The Baltimore state's attorney's office also charged...

Delegate urges Carroll residents to oppose rain tax, gun control measures

2013-05-17 10:12:00

Carroll County residents can expect to see the county's proposed "rain tax" structure within the next month-and-a-half, but Del. Justin Ready urged residents to support their local officials as they fight the new fee and regulations from the Firearm...

Digest: Terps' DeVaughn to take part in WUG trials this week

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Women's basketball Terps' DeVaughn to take part in WUG trials this week Maryland junior center Alicia DeVaughn will head to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., this week to take part in USA Basketball Women's World University...

New principal adds to wave of transition at Annapolis Area Christian School

2013-05-16 14:56:36

What started for Robert McCollum as a two-year leave of absence from a teaching job in Chicago has expanded into a five-year stint guiding 300 students in a Christian school in Bogota, Colombia. That enrollment was about a tenth of what McCollum was...

New buyer for development site in Remington

2013-05-16 20:34:00

Seawall Development Corp., a force in Remington as a builder of affordable teacher housing and a rehabber of abandoned row houses, has signed a contract to purchase an 11-acre site where an ill-fated shopping center with a Wal-Mart store was planned....

Claim: Woman arrested, camera destroyed after recording Baltimore police

2013-05-15 13:38:00

A Baltimore woman claims in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court that city police destroyed her camera and arrested her because she was recording officers who she observed beating someone else. The lawsuit, first reported last month by WBAL-TV when it...

Man who raped 13-year-old gets four life sentences

2013-05-15 18:11:28

A Baltimore judge sentenced a man convicted of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl in an East Baltimore vacant home to life in prison four times over plus an additional 25 years. Alvin Ray Wright Sr., 50, was convicted at trial in February on three rape...

For Naval Academy plebes, a grueling end to the year

2013-05-14 16:00:00

The wake-up call came at 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, but Midshipman Alberto Salabarria was ready well before then. Anticipating a grueling, thrilling, muddy day of Sea Trials at the Naval Academy, Salabarria and some of his classmates couldn't wait....

Slain blogger's daughter directed attack, boyfriend told police

2013-05-13 17:12:00

The 19-year-old man charged with fatally stabbing Dennis Lane allegedly told investigators that his girlfriend had instructed him to kill her father and his fiancee, specifying the number of times each was to be stabbed in the throat — 10 for him...

Katherine L. Vaughns

2013-05-15 13:17:00

Katherine L. Vaughns, a University of Maryland School of Law professor and secretary of the Center Stage board who immersed herself in the arts community, died of pancreatic cancer May 4 at a Sinai Hospital hospice unit. The Bolton Hill resident was 68....

Yale Galanter, O.J. Simpson's former defense attorney, reacts during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2013-05-17 11:31:24

O.J. Simpson enters the courtroom at an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2013-05-17 09:06:54

Michael J. Agrippine, charged with aggravated indecent assault of a 9-year-old boy at Union Terrace Elementary School in Allentown, arrives for his preliminary hearing before District Judge Ron Manescu Friday.

2013-05-17 00:00:00