City police identify victim of fatal shooting
Yesterday, police identified a 22-year-old man who was fatally shot Sunday night in East Baltimore as Wayne Robinson of the 400 block of Hornel St. Southeastern District police responded to a report of shots fired in the 3400 block of E. Baltimore St. about 9:30 p.m. and found Robinson suffering from gunshot wounds. He died a short time later at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police knew of no motive in the shooting, and no arrest had been made. Robinson's killing was one of three that occurred over the weekend, in addition to a police-involved shooting in which a man later died. Forty-two people have been killed this year in Baltimore, compared with 34 at this time last year.
Justin Fenton
Power plant waste storage to be reviewed
Prompted by a huge coal ash spill in Tennessee last year, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday it would review the safety of ponds and lakes where the power plant waste is stored and develop new regulations for managing it. EPA issued letters to electric utilities nationwide that store ash in "surface impoundments," or dams. There are no such ash impoundments in Maryland, though Allegheny Energy pipes 35,000 tons of ash from a Montgomery County plant to lagoons in West Virginia. The EPA is seeking information from the company about the disposal of that ash, and also about the handling of 230,000 tons of ash produced by a Mirant plant in Montgomery County. It was not clear whether the EPA rules would cover the disposal of ash in landfills or its use in coal mine reclamation. Maryland regulates those activities, but scientific and environmental groups have called for nationwide standards.
Timothy B. Wheeler
Shot in '97, died in '08; case is ruled homicide
A man shot in 1997 when he was 13 years old died in August of complications from his injuries. Last week, police ruled the death a homicide. Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman, said Roger Dennis was shot by another juvenile as he rode his bicycle in the 300 block of W. North Ave. Records show that Dennis died Aug. 8, 2008, at age 25, and Harris said a determination was made that Dennis' death should be considered a homicide. The death counts against this year's homicide total because the department considers the date that a cause of death was determined.
Justin Fenton
Man, 36, is charged in Arundel assault case
