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A woman told Anne Arundel County police that a man tried to carjack her Thursday afternoon as she was getting out of her car in the Walmart parking lot in Laurel. About 1:20 p.m. in the 3500 block of Russett Green, a man came over to the woman's car, grabbed her around her neck and tried to take her keys, police said. She screamed and the man ran away, according to police. The woman suffered minor injuries, police said.

A 43-year-old man who police say was stabbed more than 20 times last month by his stepson during an argument over money died late last week from his injuries, according to police and court records. Police say George Stevenson was able to call for help, and responding officers found him bleeding profusely in the living room of his apartment in the 1400 block of Limit Ave., suffering from stab wounds to his arm, chest and back. Stevenson said he had been stabbed with an unknown object by his stepson, 16-year-old Galen Stevenson, who then fled on foot, police said.

A Severn man has been sentenced to life plus eight years for attempted first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Mark Anthony Jones, 40, tried to kill a former girlfriend in a drive-by shooting last April. A jury convicted Jones last month of attempted murder, stalking, violating a protective order and telephone misuse. Judge Stephen Waldron handed down the sentence Friday.

A Baltimore grand jury indicted a 29-year-old woman Monday on attempted murder and seven other charges in connection with the brutal stabbing of her 8-month-old daughter during a supervised visit at a city social services office in April. Kenisha Thomas, who is being held without bail in the incident, was scheduled for a preliminary hearing in district court Tuesday, but the indictment will move the felony case into circuit court. An arraignment on the new charges is set for July 17. According to police, Thomas smuggled a large kitchen knife into a Baltimore social services office April 24 and repeatedly stabbed the infant, named Pretty Diamond, in the head and neck as office staff fought back, with one man throwing a chair at her. The baby, who previously was removed from Thomas' care, survived.

A 32-year-old man convicted of trying to kill a police officer's husband had to be restrained by six officers during a hearing Monday sentencing him to life in prison plus 20 years, the Baltimore state's attorney's office said Thursday. Fernando Horton of the 400 block of Random Road shouted and struggled throughout the sentencing as victims spoke. A jury convicted him in January of attempted murder for shooting Asa Thomas, who's married to a Baltimore officer. Thomas had been visiting a family friend when he was shot through his driver's-side window, according to prosecutors, who said they believe the shooting was a "case of mistaken identity."

A man was shot in the buttocks during an attempted robbery early Wednesday morning in Northeast Baltimore, city police reported. Based on preliminary information, the man who was held up was shot at 3:39 a.m. in the 6800 block of Laurelton Avenue, in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood, police said. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment. Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

Police were looking Tuesday for an East Baltimore man they suspect of trying to kill another man during a robbery gone awry last month in Parkville. Brandon Michael Thornton, 27, is accused of attempted murder in the shooting of a 33-year-old Baltimore man on the night of Nov. 8 outside the Welcome Inn on Loch Bend Drive. A man told police that two men had tried to rob him in the parking lot and fired several shots at him, but missed. Police described Thornton as black, 6 feet tall and weighing about 200 pounds.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Department is seeking a 30-year-old former Westminster resident charged with attempted murder of a deputy during a shooting early Monday. Brian Joseph Hill, whose last known address was on Penhurst Avenue in Baltimore, attempted to shoot the deputy with a handgun during a traffic stop on Old Westminster Pike about 2:30 a.m., police said. The deputy, who had stopped Hill's Ford Explorer for suspended tags, returned fire. Hill accelerated and crashed into a resident's yard.

A 46-year-old West River man was charged with attempted second-degree murder after Annapolis police said he nearly ran down an officer on bicycle patrol. Annapolis police said that about 3:15 p.m. Thursday, two officers approached a car parked near Larkin Street and Lafayette Avenue, with the officer on the bicycle stopping in front of the car. The car had a driver and one passenger, police said. Police said the other officer tapped on the driver's-side window, and when the driver looked up and saw him, he said, "Oh, [expletive]

A 30-year-old parolee pleaded guilty yesterday to the attempted murder of a woman that he followed on her way to work in Havre de Grace and stabbed eight times. The March 1993 attack occurred a month after he was released from prison.At the time, James Eugene Barnes of the 100 block of Vancherie Court in Havre de Grace, was on parole after serving seven years for assault with intent to rape and related sexual offenses, court records showed.Harford County Circuit Judge William O. Carr agreed to abide by a plea arrangement that limited Barnes' maximum penalty to 30 years in prison.

Each week, The Baltimore Sun publishes a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player to get you more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is Maryland freshman defenseman Goran Murray, who shut out Johns Hopkins junior attackman Zach Palmer in the Terps ' 9-6 win April 6 and will attempt a similar performance in Saturday's NCAA tournament quarterfinal. How were you so effective against Palmer in the regular-season meeting? I just played the game, played our scheme.

Plug Ugly's Publick House is a strange name for a tavern. But Baltimore history buffs know the Plug Uglies were a thuggish street gang/political club that ran riot on Baltimore's streets in the 1850s. Don't worry. The newest resident of O'Donnell Square isn't a gangland. Bartenders with untucked shirts are about as rough as it gets, and the staff here, you may be sorry to know, seems to have been chosen for their gentle dispositions. At first glance, Plug Ugly's could pass for any number of its neighbors, but look closer: The wood-filled bar area and dining rooms have been generously furnished with salvaged material like church pews and antique lighting fixtures.

Harford County sheriff's deputies were called to investigate an attempted break-in Friday morning at a home near C. Milton Wright High School in Bel Air. An occupant of the home on Chester Way, in the Villages of Thomas Run, called 911 sometime around 10 a.m. after hearing glass breaking and observing subjects running away, sheriff's office spokesman Capt. Jim Eyler said. "Patrol officers responded and are handling it," Eyler said. "At this point, they aren't sure if anyone actually entered the home.

A Russian source recently brought an obscure but disturbing article to my attention. Published last month by a little-known online journal called the Oriental Review, the piece, "Active Endeavour And Drug Trafficking," proposed that not a single gram of heroin has been confiscated on the Mediterranean Sea since the inception of NATO's Operation Active Endeavour, a maritime operation launched a month after the Sept. 11 attacks with the mission of "monitoring shipping to help detect, deter and protect against terrorist activity.

Citing the "bravery of two" but noting the "valor of all" their colleagues, the state's governor and city's mayor lauded Thursday the workers who helped save an infant being stabbed at a social services office in East Baltimore. William Purnell Short III hit the suspect with a chair, forcing her to drop the infant, and Dana Hayes screamed for help, prompting a flurry of 911 calls that got police and paramedics quickly to the social services complex on Biddle Street on April 24. Short held the suspect — who police said bit him on the hands — until police arrived.

Four people pleaded guilty Monday for their role in the abduction and torture of a 19-year-old woman left for dead in a vacant home in East Baltimore in 2010, prosecutors said.  The woman was snatched from a motel in March 2010, and taken to the abandoned home where she was duct-taped, shot in the face, stabbed, and tossed into a dark basement flooded with a foot of water. It all stemmed from a drug dispute, police said. "They were taking turns torturing me," she told police at the time.  After multiple postponements, the trial was set to begin Monday.

A 61-year-old man who was shot by police and facing multiple attempted murder charges was found dead in his cell at the city jail over the weekend, corrections officials said. Phillip G. Holland was found dead on Saturday at about 10:30 a.m., said Mark Vernarelli, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Vernarelli said the cause of death appeared to be suicide by asphyxiation, and internal investigators were reviewing his death.

Travers Johnson, one of two brothers recently acquitted of animal cruelty in a Baltimore dog-burning case, pleaded guilty Monday in city Circuit Court to attempted second-degree murder and use of a handgun in a crime of violence. He was sentenced to 25 years, with all but eight years of the term suspended, and is expected to receive about 14 months' credit for time already served. The 20-year-old has been in custody since his arrest on the attempted-murder charges in December 2010.

Brian Matusz didn't dodge the details following the Orioles' 9-2 loss to the Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon. The Orioles' 25-year-old left-hander, saddled with the game's longest active losing streak as well as the shadows of a lost 2011 season, was openly honest in admitting his increasing frustration. He wanted to shut the door on what could have been the Orioles' first three-game sweep in Toronto since 2005. He wanted to beat a Blue Jays team he had pitched to an 18.56 ERA against.