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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.

When Tamika Morgan developed red irritated eyes in the fall of 2010, she wasted no time heading to an optometrist at a local retail store who gave her drops for pink eye. Her eyes got worse over the next few days so she went to a local hospital to see an ophthalmologist, but a specialist wasn't available. A weekend passed and she landed in the office of a retina expert at another hospital, and by then she couldn't read the big E on the vision chart. She was legally blind. Dr. Lisa Schocket, the retina specialist at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital's Eye Center, suspected Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, a rare disease that can turn a patient's hair and skin white in addition to hampering hearing and sight.

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 Dundalk woman who admitted to arranging her husband's murder two years ago was sentenced Monday to 60 years in prison. Prosecutors say Jaclyn Martin gave her brother money to buy the gun with which he shot Lee Martin outside his Dundalk bar early on May 22, 2010. Jaclyn Martin and her brother, Robert Garner, both pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the scheme. Garner had previously been sentenced to 60 years in prison. Prosecutors say Jaclyn Martin called her husband at the Hops Inn on Railway Avenue just before he stepped out of the bar. They say Garner, with the help of two others, ambushed and shot Lee Martin as he was walking to his house next to the bar. Brandon Roth, who drove the getaway car, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and was sentenced to 20 years with all but seven suspended.

A 39-year-old Baltimore woman was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison Friday for bank fraud and identity theft, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Phyllis Wilson used her positions working at four assisted living facilities in the Baltimore area to steal identifying information from residents and colleagues — including check books and social security numbers — then bought cell phones, clothes and technology services with it, according to prosecutors.

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]

A 66-year-old woman died Friday in what police called a "homicide by aggravated assault" after being found with head injuries at a West Baltimore home. A female relative was described as a "person of interest" in the case. Officers responding to a call from a home in the 1500 block of North Stricker Street at 7:50 p.m. Friday arrived to find Cecelia Mitchell suffering from head trauma, police Det. Jeremy Silbert said. Mitchell, whose address had not been determined, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Silbert said.

One Baltimore woman has found her urban oasis — in Chicago. Deborah Robertson, 57, is the winner of the 2011 HGTV Urban Oasis, a luxurious, furnished one-bedroom residence on the 35th floor of Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago. The home, designed by Vern Yip — a judge on HGTV Design Star, offers views of the city skyline and a contemporary look with eclectic furnishings. It has one and a half baths, a gourmet kitchen and floor-to-ceiling windows. Amenities for Trump residents include a spa, fitness center, indoor pool, restaurants and 24-hour concierge.

A Baltimore woman charged in the slaying of a popular Glen Burnie dentist will be tried with her 23-year-old cousin, an Anne Arundel Circuit Court judge ruled Friday, despite their attempts to sever the two cases. Circuit Court Judge Pamela L. North rejected a request by attorneys for Shontay Hickman, 36, and Dante Jeter for separate trials. Police believe Hickman plotted with Jeter to kill Dr. Albert Woonho Ro in 2006. Hickman had worked for Ro as an office manager and was suspected by his family of stealing more than $14,0000 from his practice.

A 21-year-old Baltimore woman pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to creating child pornography by videotaping sex acts she and her boyfriend performed on a girl, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office said. Tiffany Bolner, 21, faces a minimum sentence of 15 years for sexually abusing a minor she befriended in 2009. The girl would spend the night — and later, weekends — at the home that Bolner shared with co-defendant Jesse Aaron Davison, according to the statement of facts in her plea agreement.

Update: Mirlande Wilson told WRC-TV  in Washington Thursday that she has lost her ticket . If you've been following the bizarre story about the Baltimore woman who claims she may have won a piece of the Mega Millions record-breaking $656 million jackpot, you may have noticed the peculiar hat Mirlande Wilson wore to her news conference this week -- the one with “Sweet Swine Pork Rinds” stitched across the front. After Wilson's picture was broadcast by The Baltimore Sun and news organizations across the country, a reader from Chicago wrote in to suggest that Wilson and her cap were part of a political stunt designed to smear Mitt Romney, the GOP frontrunner for president.

The city's spending panel on Wednesday approved a $95,000 payout to a 90-year-old Baltimore woman who said she was roughed up by police. The sum was the result of a deal brokered between city lawyers and Venus Green, who alleged that her shoulder was separated during a scuffle with officers in her home on Poplar Grove Street in west Baltimore's Walbrook neighborhood in July 2009. According to documents the city's legal department filed with the Board of Estimates, three officers — Officer Kimberly Hanline, Det. Mark Spila and Sgt. Darryl T. Collins — entered Green's home against her objections while investigating a shooting at K&K Carryout, which is on Green's street.

Pink slime notwithstanding, sometimes the only fast food that will satisfy is a McDonald's hamburger. So, I said to myself, why not make a 25-mile round-trip drive from downtown to a McDonald's in Baltimore County to satisfy my craving. And where I might find, among the spent ketchup packs and straw papers, a lottery ticket worth $200 million and change. That's where a Baltimore woman told The New York Post she hid one of the three winning tickets to last week's $656 million Mega Millions drawing.

Gale Terera Roland, a Baltimore woman who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2010 shaking death of 10-month-old Micha Crane, was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week, with all but two years of the term suspended. Roland, 53, is to serve her time on home detention, according to the infant's mother, Danielle Crane, who said she was disappointed by the sentence. "I'm very frustrated," Crane said. "I think that the court system had no regards for my child's human life. " Mark Cheshire, a spokesman for the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office, called Micha's death "a terrible tragedy and an enormous loss.

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.

The sheriff's office is asking for the public's help in finding a man who may have information about a sexual assault in Belcamp Dec. 7. At about 11 p.m. Dec. 7, Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace for a report of a physical assault. The victim, a 30-year-old Baltimore woman who works in the Harford County area, reported being assaulted earlier the same day between 4:30 and 6 p.m. in the 4400 block of Mercedes Drive in Belcamp.

County police arrested a Baltimore woman Tuesday on shoplifting charges in the theft of pain relievers and deodorant worth $40 from a Giant food store in Glen Burnie.Lynette Robin Gray, 31, of the 1000 block of Radnor Ave. was charged with theft. She was being held on $4,014 bond at the county detention center.Louis Rittermeyer Jr., a security guard at the store in the 7300 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd. told police he saw a woman conceal two bottles of Advil and a container of Secret deodorant about 10: 45 a.m. and walk past the registers without paying.

One Baltimore woman has found her urban oasis — in Chicago. Deborah Robertson, 57, is the winner of the 2011 HGTV Urban Oasis, a luxurious, furnished one-bedroom residence on the 35th floor of Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago. The home, designed by Vern Yip — a judge on HGTV Design Star, offers views of the city skyline and a contemporary look with eclectic furnishings. It has one and a half baths, a gourmet kitchen and floor-to-ceiling windows. Amenities for Trump residents include a spa, fitness center, indoor pool, restaurants and 24-hour concierge.

A 39-year-old Baltimore woman was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison Friday for bank fraud and identity theft, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Phyllis Wilson used her positions working at four assisted living facilities in the Baltimore area to steal identifying information from residents and colleagues — including check books and social security numbers — then bought cell phones, clothes and technology services with it, according to prosecutors.