Celeste A. Rainone, 53, of Shrewsbury, Pa., agreed to withdraw her appeal of the previous convictions for animal cruelty and animal mutilation as part of a plea agreement reached by her attorney and prosecutors.
As a result, Rainone must serve three years of probation in the prior case. The terms of her probation required her to surrender her grooming license. She had served more than 60 days of a 90-day jail sentence.
Rainone was convicted yesterday of injuring a Maltese that returned from the groomer limping and with urine, feces and blood in his fur.
Jennifer McMenamin
Planning Board
Tomorrow's meeting has been canceled
The Baltimore County Planning Board has canceled its meeting for tomorrow. The next scheduled meeting is March 20. The board's hearing on 2nd District zoning requests will be held as scheduled at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Pikesville Senior High School.
Information: 410-887-3495.
Harford County
: Bel Air
Vandals hit home, shopping center
For the fourth consecutive weekend, vandals in Harford County have set fires and detonated firebombs, authorities said. An aerosol can was tossed at a ground transformer at Marketplace Shopping Center in Bel Air on Saturday evening, authorities said. The same night, vandals set ornamental grass on fire on the front lawn of a home on Camelot Drive.
Mary Gail Hare
Baltimore
: Barclay
Man who died called hit-and-run victim
A man found fatally injured in the middle of a Barclay intersection Sunday was the victim of a hit-and-run driver, police said yesterday. An autopsy Monday indicated that the massive upper-left torso injuries suffered by Don Holman, 40, of the 500 block of Edgewood St., were the result of being hit by a vehicle, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman.
Anyone with information about the vehicle is asked to call Traffic Officer Richard McCarthy at 410-396-2606.
Richard Irwin
