Additional Charges

More Army trainers -- most likely drill instructors -- are expected to be charged with sexual wrongdoing in the scandal that is enveloping an Aberdeen Proving Ground school and now includes at least 17 victims, Army officials said yesterday.Two more drill sergeants will face charges, a top Army official said, in a growing investigation that so far has led to disciplinary action against four drill sergeants and one captain.Charges already filed range from improper relationships with a subordinate to obstruction of justice and rape -- though it was not clear how many alleged rapes were included among the complaints.

A Baltimore County police officer has been charged with malfeasance in office after detectives said he repeatedly engaged in and recorded sexual acts while on duty, including at least one video sent to a 16-year-old girl. Aaron Z. Pross, 29, of Newark, Del., who was assigned to the Pikesville Precinct, is being investigated by his agency and could face additional charges. Detectives said he took more than 120 images and 20 videos engaging in sexual acts with himself and an adult woman while he was working.

A transgender woman beaten at a Baltimore County McDonald's spoke out on Saturday, saying that the attack was "definitely a hate crime" and that she's been afraid to go out in public ever since. "They said, 'That's a dude, that's a dude and she's in the female bathroom,' " said Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, who said she stopped at the Rosedale restaurant to use the restroom. "They spit in my face. " A worker at the restaurant taped Monday's attack and created a graphic video that went viral last week.

After Black Guerrilla Family leader Naim King was killed on Halloween 2007, prosecutors say, fellow gang member David Hunter swore to avenge his death. He waited more than three years, prosecutors say. Finally, they say, in June 2011, he found Henry D. Mills and shot him in the back of the head. Two months later, a grand jury indicted Hunter on murder and handgun charges, but prosecutors continued to gather evidence in hopes that they could show that the killing was part of a larger battle taking place in the city streets.

Baltimore County police are investigating a homicide after a victim in a Lansdowne double shooting died days later. James Townsend, 33, of the 2900 block of Bero Road, died Wednesday after suffering medical complications after he and a second man were shot April 27 outside Townsend's home by two suspects wearing masks, police said. The medical examiner ruled Townsend's death a homicide Thursday. The other male victim was treated and released from Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said.

The suspect in the slaying of an 11-year-old Salisbury girl found dead Christmas Day was indicted Monday on charges of kidnapping, child abduction and burglary, according to online court records. Thomas J. Leggs Jr. will face additional charges, authorities have said. A medical examiner has determined that Sarah Haley Foxwell's death was a homicide. Her body was found Christmas Day. Leggs, 30, has convictions for sex offenses in Maryland and Delaware. - Associated Press

After a fatal accident in July at the All Good Festival in West Virginia, Walther Productions, the festival's Maryland-based promoter, has moved the jam band music festival to Ohio, the company has said. The accident, which left a 20-year-old woman dead and two others injured, has resulted in three lawsuits , as first reported by The Baltimore Sun, accusing the company,  as well as several of the festival's vendors, like a security company, of negligence. Earlier this month, Walther Productions moved to dismiss the lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Harford County investigators have interviewed 15 children in the case of an Edgewood truck driver charged with sexual abuse, an assistant state's attorney said yesterday. David Kanelopoulus, 43, of the 1000 block of E. Spring Meadow Drive was arrested last week and charged with three counts each of second-degree sex offense and child abuse. He is being held without bond at Harford County Detention Center. M. Teresa Garland, assistant state's attorney with the Harford County Child Advocacy Center, said "six solid victims" had been confirmed, all girls ranging from 9 to 12 years old. No additional charges have been filed, she said.

In a decision that could have implications for how show and sports tickets are sold in Baltimore, the state's highest court ruled Friday that service fees charged by Ticketmaster amount to scalping — setting up the possibility that people who attended some events might ultimately be eligible for refunds. The ruling, which stems from a class action lawsuit brought in federal court in 2011, relies on an obscure 1948 Baltimore ordinance rushed through the City Council to curb scalping of Navy football tickets.

An Annapolis couple was arrested after an early morning argument led to a shot being fired into a wall of their apartment Monday, police said. No one was injured by the gunshot. Suzanne Alane Ruppert, 45, and Allan Douglas Hess III, 43, assaulted each other during an argument about 12:25 a.m. in their apartment in the 1900 block of Town Center Blvd., police said. Ruppert retrieved a handgun, fired a shot that hit a wall and ran to another part of the apartment, according to police.