Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Lawmakers from Baltimore City and Montgomery County call for stricter gun laws.
In the aftermath of the shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut last week, leaders from Baltimore City and Montgomery County are calling for stricter gun laws in the state of Maryland. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Sen. Brian Frosh and Sen. Jamie Raskin were among those who attended a press conference at the Episcopal Ecumenical Council Center in Baltimore on Wednesday to announce support for legislation aimed at curbing access to firearms. "[This] legislation is intended to address the epidemic of gun violence that has swept the country. The mass killings that we’ve experienced in theaters, in places of worship and most recently and most horribly in an elementary school," Frosh said. "We have a public health crisis that stems …
Monday, December 17, 2012
Counties across the state took measures to deal with the Newtown, CT school shooting.
Communities across Maryland have been reeling in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Some residents said they feared dropping their children off at school while others demanded action from legislators. Hyattsville Elementary School's new principal, Julia Burton, addressed her students Monday before Prince George's County schools observed a minute of silence to honor the victims of Friday's school shooting in Newtown, CT. "Take care of yourself. Take care of each other. And take care of the place," she told students. In Wheaton, parents reacted to the tragic news and talked about school safety in Montgomery County. Frances Frost, a contributor to the Local Voices section on Wheaton Patch, wrote in an email: "As a mom of 4…
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
DNA evidence that solved two cold rape cases in Anne Arundel County solved another case in Montgomery County Monday.
Montgomery County Police solved a 25-year-old rape case Monday with the matching of a DNA sample to a serial rapist convicted in Anne Arundel County. The DNA matched a sample in a national database called Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). According to a press release from the police department, CODIS’ mission is to provide support to federal, state and local laboratories. The sample came from William Joseph Trice, who was convicted in 2010 for raping an Annapolis woman in 1988. New York State Police helped make the initial arrest. In 2005, Anne Arundel County Police received information that a DNA profile from two of their cold cases matched a CODIS search. But police officials were still in a bind, there wasn’t a specific DNA profile …
Frank
7:52 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Even B.O. actually had some enlightened comments. His comments on the recent gun control threads were quite a relief from his usual "diaper blowout" robot-posts. more ›