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At least 2 hurt after bus, van collide in Caroline Co.
- At least two people are hospitalized after a tour bus and a van collided in Caroline County.WJZ-TV reports that the bus was traveling westbound on Route 317 in Denton when it was hit by the van. The driver of van was taken to Shock Trauma in Baltimore, and the bus driver was also taken to a hospital. Family sues over teen's death at reform school
- The family of a teenager who died after a confrontation with counselors at a now-closed private school for juvenile offenders in Carroll County has filed a $207 million federal lawsuit, attorneys said.The U.S. District Court civil suit filed Thursday in Baltimore seeks $1 million for every minute that 17-year-old Isaiah Simmons III was restrained at the Bowling Brook Preparatory School in January 2007, attorney Steven Heisler said. Regulators to issue order on electricity market rules
- A federal commission is siding with Maryland regulators in a complaint about wholesale electricity market rules.The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has found that the operator of the electricity grid covering Maryland and 13 other states was "unjust and unreasonable" to exempt some generators from price cap rules. Decision on NAACP president could come Fri. or Sat.
- The NAACP's board of directors is meeting Friday in Baltimore and may select a new president for the civil rights organization.NAACP spokesman Richard McIntire says the presidential search committee interviewed 20 people out of more than 200 initial applicants and has come up with three finalists. He would not say who those three people are. Police arrest suspect in slaying of father-to-be
- Baltimore County police have charged a Gwynn Oak teen in the stabbing death of a man who was gassing up his car to take his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth.Police say as 19-year-old Carlos Santay-Carrillo approached the attendant's booth at the gas station on Baltimore National Pike on Saturday, 17-year-old Daniel Thompson Jr. grabbed him and demanded money. Santay-Carrillo tried to fight Thompson off, but police say Thompson stabbed him several times, then ran. Hey, Big Brown's got new shoes on for Preakness
- Before anointing Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown the next coming of Secretariat, consider this: The colt enters Saturday's Preakness off a two-week turnaround, the shortest of his career; he's got problem front feet; and there are 12 horses with connections eager to show Big Brown can be beaten.None of those factors has dimmed trainer Rick Dutrow Jr.'s massive confidence one bit. Neighbors not surprised about teen accused in mom's death
- As word circulated through this Baltimore suburb that a 16-year-old boy had confessed to beating his mother to death with a baseball bat and trying to do the same to his father, neighbors and officials at the respected private school the boy attends reacted with shock and surprise.But the family that lives next door to Lewin C. Powell III had a markedly different response. Inmate talked of killing 2 months before prison bus murder
- A forensic psychiatrist testified for the defense Thursday that a Maryland prison inmate accused of strangling another aboard a prison bus had told him two months earlier that his demons would make him kill unless he got psychiatric treatment.Dr. Neil Blumberg said Kevin G. Johns, who had by then been convicted of one murder and was facing trial for another, "was absolutely convinced that if he didn't get help that he was going to do the same thing again. And I absolutely believed him." Family of teen killed at Bowling Brook files $207M suit
- The family of an East Baltimore teen who died after counselors restrained him at a Carroll County school for juvenile offenders filed a $207 million federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday against the state, the privately-run school and counselors there.Counselors at the state-licensed Bowling Brook Preparatory School in Keymar sat on Isaiah Simmons III and restrained him face-down for nearly three hours in January 2007. They did not call 911 until 41 minutes after the 17-year-old had stopped breathing. Foundation says roof collapse hurts production at coal mine
- A roof collapse is hurting production at one of Foundation Coal Holdings' underground mines.The Linthicum Heights, Md.-based company said Thursday the collapse will force it to curtail production at the Emerald Mine near Waynesburg, Pa., for at least two weeks. |
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