Abusive Behavior

BWI airport becomes art gallery to celebrate human rights

2012-05-21 07:39:27

Some of the bravest people in the world can be found at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. The Dalai Lama. These and many other figures are featured in a photo exhibit organized to...

Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work

2012-05-21 07:43:00

Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians. But five weeks before his death, he privately instructed his lieutenants to refrain from killing any civilians....

Commencement is latest step on journey of rebirth for Eldersburg woman

2012-05-19 16:31:00

"Don't assume this is a two-hankie book. It is not. You will cry, but you will also laugh. You will experience not only anger, but also gratification. And in the end, you will be uplifted." — Eileen Rudnick, from her book, "The Glass Between Us"...

Cancer risk of eating meat wildly overstated

2012-05-20 05:00:00

It is irresponsible to claim, as the letter writer from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) does, that eating meat is equivalent to smoking cigarettes ("Unhealthful foods kill more Americans every year than tobacco," May 13). In...

Editorial: The good fight

2012-05-17 15:04:00

In this part of the country, the Ravens are white hot. All things NFL make people sit up and pay attention. For the most part, this area gets to see some of the best of the NFL – millionaire football players doing good things. That was the case...

'Glee' recap, Props/Nationals

2012-05-16 05:55:00

And the winner of the 2012 National Show Choir Championship is... New Directions...finally! I thought about teasing y'all with the Big Moment until the end of the recap, but if you're a diehard gleek, then you already know. Our glee kids get to take home...

Parkville pair face more than a dozen charges in sex 'slave' case

2012-05-15 16:49:10

A Parkville couple accused of treating a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina as their personal sex "slave" and filming and distributing videos online of their sexual interactions with her have each been indicted on more than a dozen state and federal sex...

Downtown mobs -- what police call routine others describe as scary

2012-05-15 05:25:00

There is a disconnect sometimes between what police see as normal and routine and what others view as scary. When Denise Kostka and her husband saw a mob forming outside her downtown hotel, she became frightened. She didn't see a lot of police, the young...

Grandparents take on role of a parent

2012-05-13 18:01:00

Ella Johnson thought she was done raising kids. Then one night her daughter, asleep in bed with her 1-year-old son, died of a heart condition, and Johnson suddenly found herself mothering a grieving grandchild who clung to the picture of his dead mother....

Aberdeen woman held without bail on child abuse charges

2012-05-10 13:35:24

An Aberdeen woman was ordered held without bail Thursday after being charged with child abuse in which one of her children was left with multiple skull fractures, a prosecutor said. Kayla Marie Barker, 23, who has addresses in the 400 block of Holly...

Public to view evidence in George Huguely trial

2012-05-14 13:00:00

Nearly three months after George Huguely V was convicted of second-degree murder in the beating death of his University of Virginia girlfriend, Cockeysville native Yeardley Love, the public will be able to get a look at some of the evidence shown to...

St. Patrick's Day violence exceeded initial reports, police dispatch tapes show

2012-05-12 12:07:00

As an unseasonably warm St. Patrick's Day drew to a close in Baltimore, teens by the hundreds swarmed downtown, keeping one step ahead of police while battling from corner to corner, mostly with fists, sometimes with knives. As authorities watched from a...

Accused of strangling a boy at his church. Charges: Aggravated Child Abuse Read More

2012-05-21 08:48:00

Accused of fling the boy his girlfriend's toddler 8-feet into the air, allowing the boy to land on his back � on the pavement. Charges: Child abuse and domestic battery. Read More

2012-05-19 00:00:00

Jesus E. Hernandez

2012-05-18 12:10:00