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Police have identified a suspect in the Thursday stabbing murder of a Baltimore woman who was found dead in her home. Police are searching for Michael Wesley in connection with the homicide, which they have called "domestic-related. " Online court records show Wesley has previously been charged with assault but not convicted. A lawyer who represented him in one of those cases did not immediately respond to requests for comment. On Thursday, police found Rachel Curtis, 31, unresponsive with multiple stab wounds in her Lakeland neighborhood home in the 2600 block of Wegworth Lane.

A mortgage lender based in Utah has agreed to pay a Baltimore woman $13,000 for denying her a loan because she was pregnant and on maternity leave, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Tuesday. Primary Residential Mortgage Inc., based in Salt Lake City, also agreed to adopt a parental leave policy, to ensure its employees are complying with family status provisions of the Fair Housing Act, which prevents lending discrimination based on other applicant traits including sex, race and religion.

An elderly woman who was severely injured by her 14-year-old grandson in an attack with a hammer in March has died from her injuries, police said Thursday.  Shirley Garrett, 67, died over the weekend at Union Memorial Hospital, according to police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. She was repeatedly struck in the head with a hammer on March 31 by her grandson Hassanhii Garrett, who told police that he had become angry at her while getting ready for school.  He called 911, and police responding to the home in the 800 block of E. 34th St. found her face-down on the floor in a pool of blood.  The boy, who had no previous contacts with the juvenile justice system, was charged as an adult with attempted murder, but the case was remanded to juvenile court in August.

A U.S. Marshals task force in North Carolina arrested a Baltimore man Friday in the fatal stabbing of a 31-year-old woman in the Lakeland neighborhood. Along with Winston Salem, N.C., police, task force officers found Michael Gerald Wesley, 34, at a bus stop in Winston Salem through tips and surveillance. When they moved to make an arrest, authorities said he tried to evade capture by hiding his face and ducking into a business. As he was heading for a back door in a business, U.S. Marshals Service officials said, deputy U.S. Marshals detained him without incident.

An 81-year-old Baltimore woman died Sunday afternoon after being involved in a car accident in Anne Arundel County, police said. Catherine Mary Guthrie, of the 1700 block of South Hanover Street in South Baltimore, was pronounced dead at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after the 2006 Pontiac G6 she was a passenger in struck a tree in Pasadena about 1:15 p.m., police said. An initial investigation showed the vehicle, being driven by Gloria Ann Guthrie, 47, of the same South Baltimore address, was traveling east in the 7400 block of Fort Smallwood Road when it "left the roadway for unknown reasons," police said.

A 54-year-old Baltimore woman was charged with hitting a pedestrian on Ritchie Highway in Brooklyn Park Thursday and driving away, Anne Arundel County police said Saturday.. Robin L. Sears, of the 1600 block of Ceddox Street, hit Michael J. Diegel, 57, of Severn, with her gold 2001 Chevrolet Venture van at 12:37 a.m. Thursday, police said. Diegel, of the 1200 block of Thomson Avenue, is in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma. Officers found Diegel laying on a northbound lane of Ritchie Highway near Camrose Avenue.

A 35-year-old Baltimore woman died Friday after running a red light on Telegraph Road in Jessup and crashing through a six-foot chain link fence after losing control of her vehicle, police said. Christina Marie Tobash, of the 3700 block of Piedmont Ave., was ejected from the 2002 Ford Explorer she was driving after she swerved to avoid vehicles stopped at red light on Telegraph Road at Annapolis Road at 2:54 p.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Tobash was driving north on Telegraph Road when she approached vehicles stopped at the traffic signal.

The skeletal remains of a murder victim found in Carroll County have been identified as a woman from Baltimore who went missing 14 years ago, police said. An autopsy has identified Toni Dee Vogel as the victim found on March 24, 2009 in Westminster, Maryland State Police said Wednesday in a statement. The cause of death has not been released because the homicide investigation is ongoing, police said. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner conducted the autopsy. Over two years ago, police were called to the 900 block of Baltimore Boulevard, where a person walking through a wooded ravine saw a skull in a pile of construction rubble.

A woman was fatally shot in the face during a domestic dispute with her boyfriend at her West Baltimore home on Sunday, shortly after the Super Bowl began, according to Baltimore Police. Police responded to the 1600 block of McKean Avenue in the city's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood about 7 p.m. for a report of a shooting and found Rockelle Harper, whose age police could not immediately provide, badly wounded, said Detective Vernon Davis. Harper was pronounced dead shortly after.

D'Lana Simmons was found "not criminally responsible" on Tuesday for the beating death of her 66-year-old aunt last year, using the steering wheel locking device known as "The Club" as a murder weapon. "This was a clear case of somebody who was psychotic," Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Gale E. Rasin said, reading from a doctor's report on Simmons' mental status. Simmons struck her aunt, Cecelia Mitchell, approximately 56 times on the evening of Sept. 17, then called 911 for help "stating that she had hurt her aunt and that [the woman]

Police have identified a suspect in the Thursday stabbing murder of a Baltimore woman who was found dead in her home. Police are searching for Michael Wesley in connection with the homicide, which they have called "domestic-related. " Online court records show Wesley has previously been charged with assault but not convicted. A lawyer who represented him in one of those cases did not immediately respond to requests for comment. On Thursday, police found Rachel Curtis, 31, unresponsive with multiple stab wounds in her Lakeland neighborhood home in the 2600 block of Wegworth Lane.

Janice Jackson remembers being a 20-something flirting with the young men who worked at the Baltimore rehabilitation center where she visited her brother as he was recovering from a car accident that left him paralyzed. Three years later, they would be the same attendants responsible for bathing her after she was hit by a car and paralyzed. The men hadn't done anything wrong, said Jackson, now 53, but she felt humiliated by a loss of dignity. That experience, Jackson said, revealed her life's purpose and led her to the White House on Friday, where President Barack Obama recognized her with the nation's second-highest civilian honor, the Citizens Medal, for the network she built to help hundreds of disabled women in Maryland feel empowered, beautiful and capable of dreaming.

A woman was fatally shot in the face during a domestic dispute with her boyfriend at her West Baltimore home on Sunday, shortly after the Super Bowl began, according to Baltimore Police. Police responded to the 1600 block of McKean Avenue in the city's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood about 7 p.m. for a report of a shooting and found Rockelle Harper, whose age police could not immediately provide, badly wounded, said Detective Vernon Davis. Harper was pronounced dead shortly after.

A 22-year-old Baltimore woman who called 911 and said she found her boyfriend fatally shot in an alley this summer has been charged in his murder, according to court records. Asia La'trice Cutler was charged on Dec. 14 with first-degree murder and related charges in the Aug. 30 killing of boyfriend Donte Harris, 21. Police have also charged 21-year-old Shanda Cure and 24-year-old Willie Brockington with accessory after the fact, records show. Charging documents contain few details about the case.

Bombs falling on Arab neighborhoods ... Homes demolished ... Civilians killed or wounded ... Soldiers shooting at anything that moves. That may sound like a description of the past week's violence between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza. But in fact, it comes from the letters and diary of a Baltimore teacher who volunteered to spend a year at a Quaker school in British-ruled Palestine in 1938-1939, only to find herself in the middle of a war between Arab terrorists and the British army.

A 54-year-old Baltimore woman was charged with hitting a pedestrian on Ritchie Highway in Brooklyn Park Thursday and driving away, Anne Arundel County police said Saturday.. Robin L. Sears, of the 1600 block of Ceddox Street, hit Michael J. Diegel, 57, of Severn, with her gold 2001 Chevrolet Venture van at 12:37 a.m. Thursday, police said. Diegel, of the 1200 block of Thomson Avenue, is in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma. Officers found Diegel laying on a northbound lane of Ritchie Highway near Camrose Avenue.

Janice Jackson remembers being a 20-something flirting with the young men who worked at the Baltimore rehabilitation center where she visited her brother as he was recovering from a car accident that left him paralyzed. Three years later, they would be the same attendants responsible for bathing her after she was hit by a car and paralyzed. The men hadn't done anything wrong, said Jackson, now 53, but she felt humiliated by a loss of dignity. That experience, Jackson said, revealed her life's purpose and led her to the White House on Friday, where President Barack Obama recognized her with the nation's second-highest civilian honor, the Citizens Medal, for the network she built to help hundreds of disabled women in Maryland feel empowered, beautiful and capable of dreaming.

A mortgage lender based in Utah has agreed to pay a Baltimore woman $13,000 for denying her a loan because she was pregnant and on maternity leave, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Tuesday. Primary Residential Mortgage Inc., based in Salt Lake City, also agreed to adopt a parental leave policy, to ensure its employees are complying with family status provisions of the Fair Housing Act, which prevents lending discrimination based on other applicant traits including sex, race and religion.

A 35-year-old Baltimore woman died Friday after running a red light on Telegraph Road in Jessup and crashing through a six-foot chain link fence after losing control of her vehicle, police said. Christina Marie Tobash, of the 3700 block of Piedmont Ave., was ejected from the 2002 Ford Explorer she was driving after she swerved to avoid vehicles stopped at red light on Telegraph Road at Annapolis Road at 2:54 p.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Tobash was driving north on Telegraph Road when she approached vehicles stopped at the traffic signal.

A Baltimore woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with a scheme to steal more than $400,000 in Maryland unemployment benefits, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office said. Shekia Denise Edwards, 25, was one of three charged in the incident. Co-conspirators Kevin Bernard Smith and Sheila Denis Willis, also of Baltimore, had earlier pleaded guilty. According to their plea agreements, the women filed false unemployment insurance claims using Social Security numbers and other information belonging to Marylanders unconnected with the scheme.