Sen. Thomas "Mac" Middleton, a Southern Maryland Democrat, said it's important that parents know about the traffic offenses committed by their children and that the possibility of a losing a license would be a strong deterrent for teen drivers.
Laura Smitherman
Prince George's
: Upper Marlboro
Correctional officer faces charges
Prince George's County authorities say a correctional officer has been arrested on charges of giving cell phones to inmates.
Public Safety Director Vernon Herron said police arrested Pierre Salisman, 22, when he arrived for work at the county's Department of Corrections. He has been charged with three counts of delivering communications devices and three counts of conspiracy to deliver communications devices to inmates.
The county says Salisman has been suspended without pay.
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Frederick County
: Frederick
Commission acts on Taney statue
The city of Frederick's Historic Preservation Commission is poised to take action aimed at quieting calls for removal of a racially charged statue in front of City Hall.
The panel was scheduled to vote last night to install a plaque explaining the role of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney in the slavery debate of the mid-1800s.
Taney lived in Frederick. He wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that African slaves and their descendants were not U.S. citizens.
The decision also stated that the framers of the Constitution regarded blacks as "beings of an inferior order" with no rights under the law.
Some local civil rights leaders demanded last year that the city remove the bronze bust of Taney, which was dedicated in 1931.
The plaque is a compromise that protest leaders have accepted.
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Woman admits poisoning child
A Frederick woman accused of poisoning her young daughter to evoke sympathy for herself has pleaded guilty to first-degree child abuse.
Wendi Scott, 33, will be sentenced May 8 for withdrawing blood from her 4-year-old daughter Cristina to mimic symptoms of leukemia, Assistant State's Attorney Lindell Angel said yesterday. In return for her guilty plea, prosecutors dropped 14 other charges against Scott.
Prosecutors alleged that Scott also intravenously gave Cristina magnesium and withheld iron medication from her. Angel said the woman's actions were consistent with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which one feigns or induces illness in another to draw attention to oneself.
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