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Just hours before Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane told a group of Abingdon residents that crime overall is down in Harford County, a taxicab driver was stabbed and robbed in the Bel Air area. Bane was hosting one of his town hall meetings at the Abingdon library, about five miles south of where the cab driver was assaulted early Saturday morning, in the area of Crescent Knoll Drive and Fountain Green Road (Route 543). The assailant was still at large Tuesday afternoon, Monica Worrell, public information officer for the Harford County Sheriff's Office said.

Reports of shots fired brought police to a Glen Burnie neighborhood Wednesday evening. Two assailants had fired repeatedly at a 22-year-old man as he ran from the 400 block of Secluded Post Circle to a nearby park. Anne Arundel County officers arrived at about 10:40 p.m. and found the victim had been struck by a handgun. The victim told police two men confronted him as he exited his car, chased him and fired at him several times, but missed him. The suspects caught him at the park and struck him with the gun, police said.

A cashier at a High's store in Brooklyn Park thwarted a knife-wielding assailant's robbery attempt Sunday when she refused to give in to his demands, county police said.A man wearing a white bandanna over his face walked into the store in the 700 block of Church St. at 10:40 p.m., police said. He pointed a knife at the cashier and told her to give him all the money in the register.The cashier refused and called out to a fellow employee for help. The suspect drove away in a white car, police said.

Just hours before Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane told a group of Abingdon residents that crime overall is down in Harford County, a taxicab driver was stabbed and robbed in the Bel Air area. Bane was hosting one of his town hall meetings at the Abingdon library, about five miles south of where the cab driver was assaulted early Saturday morning, in the area of Crescent Knoll Drive and Fountain Green Road (Route 543). The assailant was still at large Tuesday afternoon, Monica Worrell, public information officer for the Harford County Sheriff's Office said.

An unidentified man tried to rob a restaurant in Millersville last night and was fatally stabbed during a struggle with an employee, Anne Arundel County police said.Police said the stabbing occurred in the Wendy's restaurant in the 8200 block of Veterans Highway shortly after 10 o'clock after an assailant with a knife forced two employees into the office, where the manager was counting the night's receipts.Gerald Albright, 39, of Glen Burnie, one of the employees, struggled with the assailant, drew a folding knife from a sheath he carried, and stabbed him in the chest, police said.

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge signaled his desire yesterday to re-examine conditions for presidential assailant John W. Hinckley Jr.'s visits to his parents' home near Williamsburg, Va., noting the advancing age of the elderly couple. The man who shot President Reagan and three others in 1981 - and was found not guilty by reason of insanity - has completed at least seven visits to his parents' home in Virginia, lawyers confirmed in court yesterday. While those visits were considered successful, Hinckley's father no longer serves as custodian of his son because of the elder Hinckley's fragile health, prosecutors said.

A 3-year-old Salisbury girl was shot in the abdomen yesterday after a relative answered a knock at the door of their residence, police in the Eastern Shore city reported.Lt. Gene Powell said the assailant knocked on the door of a first-floor apartment in the 400 block of Naylor St. about 4: 30 p.m. When a man answered, the assailant fired a .22 caliber firearm, and the bullet struck the girl in the abdomen and left her body, Powell said.He said the girl was taken by ambulance to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, where she was treated for a non-life threatening wound and held overnight for observation.

A man was shot and killed during an argument over a pen in a Severna Park doughnut shop early today, Anne Arundel County Police said.Police have not released the name of the victim, who was in his 20s, pending notification of his family, according to Officer Terry Crowe.Investigators said two men were inside the Dunkin Donuts store in the 600 block of Ritchie Highway around 3:15 a.m. when the victim asked the other man if he could borrow a pen, Officer Crowe said. After the man gave the victim the pen, the victim asked if he could buy it. The man refused.

Baltimore County police believe that a 64-year-old Randallstown woman attacked near her home Thursday night is the fourth victim of an assailant who already has raped one woman and sexually assaulted another in the area since early September.According to police, the woman who was attacked Thursday night had gone shopping in Pikesville and returned home about 11:15 p.m. After she unlocked her door, her assailant sneaked into her house and then attacked her as she returned with some groceries, police said.

Howard County police are investigating a shooting of a 20-year-old man Wednesday evening in Columbia. Officers called about 8:30 p.m. to a Sam's Mart store in the 5800 block of Stevens Forest Road found Marcus Lee suffering from a single gunshot wound. Lee, a Columbia resident, told police he was shot nearby on Stevens Forest Road near Whiteacre Road and had run to the store for help. He was taken to an area hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening, police said. A preliminary investigation has led officers to believe the victim and assailant are acquainted.

Howard County police are investigating a shooting of a 20-year-old man Wednesday evening in Columbia. Officers called about 8:30 p.m. to a Sam's Mart store in the 5800 block of Stevens Forest Road found Marcus Lee suffering from a single gunshot wound. Lee, a Columbia resident, told police he was shot nearby on Stevens Forest Road near Whiteacre Road and had run to the store for help. He was taken to an area hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening, police said. A preliminary investigation has led officers to believe the victim and assailant are acquainted.

A Baltimore man has been charged in Anne Arundel County with sexual assault in Linthicum last week, police said. Tamango Johnson, 38, of the 1800 block of Bolton St., has been charged with rape, assault, false imprisonment, impersonating a police officer and other sex offense charges, according to a statement Tuesday from the Anne Arundel County Police Department. On the evening of Dec. 27, a woman reported being sexually assaulted at the Microtel Inn and Suites, in the 1100 block of Winterson Road, by a man she arranged to meet in her hotel room, police said.

Anne Arundel detectives are investigating a sexual assault that occurred early Wednesday morning in the Glen Burnie area. After interviewing the adult female victim at Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie, officers canvassed the Mountain Ridge Drive area, where the woman said she last saw her assailant. They were unable to locate the suspect. Police have extra patrols in the area and are handing out fliers with a composite sketch of the assailant. The assault occurred at about 1:40 a.m., when the woman and the man were walking along the 300 block of Hospital Drive, police said.

Beech Avenue 3300 block, between 7 p.m. Nov. 14 and 9 a.m. Nov. 15. Garmin Nuvi GPS stolen from vehicle. Cloverhill Road 3900 block, between 9:30 p.m. Nov. 15 and 6:30 a.m. Nov. 16. Rear House of Delegates tag stolen from State Del. Maggie McIntosh's car. Cylburn Avenue 2500 block, between 9:50 and 10 p.m. Nov. 16. Stolen black, 2002 Suzuki wit Maryland tags 840M002 recovered after accident. Falls Road 3900 block at 11:12 p.m. Nov. 15. Man robbed by two assailaints, but chased and caught one and held him for police.

A city sheriff's deputy on his way to work Friday morning shot and wounded a man who authorities said jumped into his marked cruiser and attacked him with a knife at a busy intersection in Northeast Baltimore. The man was wounded in the left arm and taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was being treated. His condition was not available, but a spokeswoman for the Baltimore sheriff's office said he was conscious and talking to paramedics. Police identified the wounded man as Jontae L. Daughtry, 36, of the 1200 block of East Cold Spring Lane in New Northwood.

Mayoral challengers assailed incumbent Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in a vitriolic candidate forum Tuesday night, accusing her of burying Baltimoreans in burdensome taxes and funneling too much money to developers. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters, WYPR and The Baltimore Sun, and moderated by Sun columnist Dan Rodricks , the last forum before early voting begins in the Democratic mayoral primary proved to be the rowdiest gathering of the candidates. The forum marked the fifth and final time Rawlings-Blake is expected to share a stage with her challengers, who have participated in more than a dozen debates without her. Early voting in the Democratic primary begins Thursday and concludes on Sept.

Five people remained hospitalized yesterday after suffering gunshot wounds in three seemingly unrelated shootings in Baltimore Saturday night and yesterday, police reported.In the most recent incident, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the face by an unknown assailant in the 300 block of W. Baltimore St. about 3:20 a.m. yesterday. He was listed in fair condition at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Baltimore police said they knew of no motive or suspect.Hours earlier, a man and woman were shot as they fled from a gunman who had forced his way into their home in the 1600 block of N. Milton Ave. at 10:45 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Bandits, beware -- county residents are fighting back.In the fourth such incident in a week, an Odenton liquor store owner pulled a gun on the armed man who tried to rob him Tuesday and fired as the bandit ran away, county police said.Earlier this week, a pizza delivery man and a Baltimore woman each fought their attackers and kept their possessions safe. A gas station clerk wrestled with a gunman Saturday and sent the bandit running.Police are worried the table-turning scenes may be the beginning of a trend, and they are warning residents not to endanger their lives to save property.

An Exxon gas station attendant in Bel Air was shot during an armed robbery late Saturday night, according to Harford County police. At about 11 p.m., a suspect entered a gas station at 600 W. MacPhail Road with a black handgun and shot the attendant, police said. The suspect was last seen running away wearing a ski mask, long-sleeved shirt and shorts, and tennis shoes - all black, police said. The attendant was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore where his condition is unknown.

A man and woman were bound by three men who identified themselves as police officers after breaking into their South Baltimore home early Friday, a city police spokesman said. The couple was sleeping in their home in the 1600 block of Elkins Lane when, at about 3:45 a.m., they heard noises downstairs and found three men, who identified themselves as officers and implied they had a gun, said police spokesman Det. Jeremy Silbert. The men were not wearing anything that identified them as police, Silbert said.