An Annapolis man was shot in the thigh Thursday afternoon and was hospitalized with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening, according to Annapolis police. The man was found lying in the first block of Monument St. at about 1:30 p.m. and was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Annapolis police spokesman Ray Weaver said. The man was alert and was able to communicate with medical personnel, Weaver said. Annapolis police have made no arrests, and the investigation is ongoing, Weaver said.
A 5-year-old girl was shot in the head in Southwest Baltimore, according to city police.
The shooting occurred in the 300 block of S. Pulaski St., police said. The girl was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and remained in critical condition, according to police.
Police had blocked off several blocks east of the crime scene, and a heavily armed tactical unit was preparing to enter a home. Officers had detained “multiple persons of interest,” according to police.
JoAnn C. Woodson-Branche hit back today at accusations that she botched internal disciplinary cases and demanded that the Baltimore Police Department clear her name.
She said she came to the department to hold officers accountable, but said it quickly became apparent that the system was broken. Back-door deals were struck, recommendations for punishment were not followed and some who were poised for termination escaped punishment.
She had little autonomy, she said, with many of her decisions dictated by one of the department’s deputy commissioners.
Howard County police are considering criminal or civil charges after finding two dead cats in a freezer, along with 28 live cats and a guinea pig, in an Elkridge home Wednesday.
Officers responded to the home in the 8000 block of Keeton Road after being asked by a neighbor to check up on the residents living there. They had not been seen for several days and there was an odor coming from the house, the neighbor told police.
Police have identified a man stabbed to death this week at a West Baltimore intersection.
Gerrod Eric Finch, 21, a West Baltimore resident, was attacked Tuesday night at the intersection of Harlem and Wheeler avenues, police said. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and pronounced dead about midnight.
Police have questioned a female suspect and are pursuing several leads, a department spokesman said.
A judge dismissed on Thursday a lawsuit filed by Constellation Energy Group that challenges the authority of energy regulators to investigate its deal to sell half its nuclear power assets to a French utility.
Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Stuart R. Berger granted the state’s motion to throw out the suit, noting that the court does not have standing at this time to grant Constellation judicial review of a regulatory panel’s decision. That’s because Constellation is participating in the proceedings before state energy regulators, whose decision to investigate the deal is not final, according to the judge’s order.
The legal battle between state officials and the company stems from the Maryland Public Service Commission’s ruling last month that Constellation’s $4.5 billion deal with Electricite de France must be in the public interest to go forward, thereby initiating a regulatory review.
A two-alarm fire that burned through the roof of a three-story apartment complex Thursday afternoon in Elkridge damaged about 16 units, according to Howard County fire officials.
No one was injured in the fire, which was reported about 1 p.m. at Sherwood Crossing Apartments in the 6700 block of Old Waterloo Road and brought under control an hour later, according to authorities.
Carroll County’s commissioners will move forward with plans with Frederick County’s commissioners to build the first waste-to-energy trash incinerator that the United States has seen in more than 13 years.
Commissioners Dean Minnich and Michael Zimmer voted today to approve a resolution that accepts Frederick County’s invitation to build a 1,500-ton-per-day capacity trash incinerator at the Ballenger Creek/McKinney Industrial Center near the Monocacy River and Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick.
Olympic News, one of the biggest retail operations at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, must stop using its name after losing a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by the U.S. Olympic Committee, but the two parties are sparring over the timing of making changes to the name, signage and other promotional and advertising materials.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasanow ruled in May that the use of Olympic News is unauthorized and violates federal law that grants the Olympic Committee exclusive right to the word “Olympic” and symbols associated with the games. It was a decision that the Olympic Committee officials called a “solid victory” for the group and its athletes.
Cambridge police say a 44-year-old woman gave birth in a portable toilet at a park, then dropped the newborn girl into the waste-holding tank.
According to charging documents, a witness at Long Wharf Park called 911 Monday morning after Candy Vigneri asked for a cigarette, then said she had just had a baby and the baby was in the toilet.
A man and woman were found shot to death early Wednesday in a house on a quiet Annapolis street that was preparing for a neighborhood July 4th celebration, and police arrested a suspect late Wednesday night.
Elbert Gardner Jr., 56, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder. Police say he lived in the basement of the home where the two victims were found and that he confessed to both killings.
Police today identified the victims as Lei Tyree Johnson, 38, and Samuel Marshall Fowlkes, 49. They were found together shortly before 5:30 a.m. in a small, beige house on Goodrich Road in the Admiral Heights neighborhood, just west of the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Police said Johnson lived at the house, along with a juvenile who was assaulted during the incident.
Fowlkes lived in the 100 block of Obery Court in Annapolis, according to police.
Baltimore fire officials are blaming lightning for a two-alarm blaze overnight that damaged a city church and its steeple.
When firefighters arrived about 11 p.m. Wednesday at Bethel AME Church at the intersection of Lanvale Street and Druid Hill Avenue, they found fire and heavy smoke coming from the steeple. Department spokesman Chief Kevin Cartwright said it took firefighters about an hour to control the blaze that was contained to the steeple and bell tower of the church.
Three people were shot in a six-hour span beginning at about 7 p.m. Wednesday, Baltimore police told Sun reporter Brent Jones. Each victim was expected to survive.
A 17-year-old boy was treated at an area hospital for three graze wounds to his chest after a shooting about 1 a.m. in the 600 block of N. Lakewood Ave. in East Baltimore, police said. About an hour before that incident, an unidentified man was shot in the 3300 block of Winterbourne Road in West Baltimore.
Earlier Wednesday, a 28-year-old woman was shot in the left side of her chest in the 500 block of Brunswick St. in Southwest Baltimore. According to police, she was taken to an area hospital, treated for a graze wound and released.
The wife of an Annapolis alderman who is running for mayor appeared to say Wednesday in an e-mail that the abuse allegations she made against her husband in a 1986 court filing were “exaggerated” and “not true.”
Jana Shropshire, who is married to Alderman Samuel E. Shropshire, refused a telephone interview, and the authenticity of the e-mail could not be verified.
Samuel Shropshire, 61, denied on Tuesday the 23-year-old accusations. Shropshire, a Democrat, has been accused of groping a Naval Academy midshipman May 14 and has been charged with second-degree assault and a fourth-degree sex offense. He has called the accusation “a lie.”
