Howard police identify pedestrian who died
Howard County police released the identity Monday of the pedestrian struck and killed over the weekend while attempting to cross U.S. 29 near U.S. 40. Lowell Tusong Keys, 34, of Catonsville was struck about 1:22 a.m. Saturday in the slow lane of southbound U.S. 29 by a Toyota 4-Runner driven by Roland Ronald Ward of Ellicott City. Ward was not injured. The victim was wearing dark clothing, police said.
Don Markus
Fulbright picks Notre Dame senior
Cassandra Bales, a senior at the College of Notre Dame, has been named a Fulbright teaching assistant in Indonesia during the 2009-2010 academic year, the college announced last week. Bales, an Indiana native and international relations major, will teach conversational English to high school students and assist Indonesian teachers. She is one of 31 college students Fulbright is sending to teach English in Indonesia. The Fulbright program awards about 1,000 new grants to undergraduates each year.
Maryland law school appoints new dean
The University of Maryland School of Law has appointed a Temple University legal education leader and constitutional and tort law expert to serve as its next dean, school officials announced Monday. Phoebe Haddon will be the school's first black dean and the first black female dean to lead a top-tier law school, according to law school spokesman Ed Fishel. She replaces Dean Karen H. Rothenberg, who is returning to the faculty after a decade in the post. Haddon, who holds degrees from Yale Law School and Smith College, graduated from Duquesne University School of Law, where she was editor in chief of the Duquesne Law Review.
Liz F. Kay
Shooting victim dies at city hospital
A 20-year-old man was gunned down in West Baltimore on Sunday night and died of his wounds Monday morning, police said. The shooting happened about 11:20 p.m. in the 1700 block of McCulloh St. in the Madison Park neighborhood, police said. Officers found the victim, Marcus Nicholson of the 1800 block of E. Lafayette Ave., suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest. City paramedics took the man to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died at 3:35 a.m. Police had no suspects and knew of no motive for the attack.
Justin Fenton
Police make arrest in February homicide
