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Baltimore County police are investigating a homicide in Cockeysville that took place early Wednesday. An unidentified man was killed in the 9800 block of Williamson Lane, off Cockeysville Road, police said. Police received a call for service about 4 a.m. for a man lying unconscious outside his home. The man had sustained several blows to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a police spokesman. Investigators are awaiting the results of an autopsy. Police say the man was originally from Mexico and had no local family.

A 19-year-old student from Baltimore Polytechnic High School told police he was beaten by two separate groups of juveniles from a rival school in downtown Baltimore on Thursday afternoon, an attack that comes amid a pitched debate over downtown safety. According to police, the student was walking in the 200 block of W. Fayette St., a block north of the First Mariner Arena, before 4:20 p.m. when he said he was attacked from behind by an unknown male. Nine other juveniles joined in as he tried to defend himself, and his phone was taken during the attack, he told police.  Moments later, police say, an MTA bus stopped in the block and a juvenile male wearing a Digital Harbor High School shirt "forced open the door and got off the bus," followed by 19 other juveniles wearing Digital Harbor shirts, who again assaulted the victim, police said.  Anthony Guglielmi, a city police spokesman, said the victim told the police he was attacked because of a rivalry between the two schools.

A fight over a pool game that began inside a South Baltimore bar left a man fatally beaten, according to police and the bar's owner, in one of three violent incidents over a three-hour span Wednesday night. Officers responded to a call just before midnight in the 3700 block of S. Hanover St. for a man lying in the bushes. When police arrived, they found the victim on the ground next to the Ravens House bar, bleeding from the head and with severe body trauma. Ravens House owner Zeke Conover said the man was struck in the head with a pool stick during an argument over a pool game inside the bar. He said the fight then moved outside.

The windows are wide open in the messy apartment, the afternoon sky darkening fast. Chrissy Polis can't stand the Essex neighborhood outside, where everyone knows who she is. But she doesn't know how to get out, or where she'd go if she did. "I just want to move because I want to see other things," she says. There was a time when it seemed people from all over the country were talking about the 24-year-old. Many wanted to help her; others condemned her. Polis became an unwitting symbol of the transgender community and the struggle for transgender rights when she stepped into a Rosedale McDonald's one April evening.

A medical examiner has determined that the man whose skeletal remains were found last weekend in Jessup was beaten to death, Howard County police said yesterday. Hunters discovered the remains Saturday in woods off Mission Road near Concord Drive by the CSX railroad tracks. The results of tests to determine the victim's identity will not be available for months, police said. Detectives believe the remains could be weeks or months old, said Pfc. Jennifer Reidy, a police spokeswoman.

A Baltimore man who was beaten Sunday morning by three men armed with a tire iron has been treated at Franklin Square Hospital and released, county police and hospital officials said.Timothy Adam Pazourek, 25, lives in Hamilton in Northeast Baltimore. He was beaten on the head, face and hands.About 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Officer Gary Kazor went to a shopping center in the 8400 block of Fort Smallwood Road to investigate a complaint of a fight in the parking lot. He found the victim near his car, police said.

A 31-year-old man who was beaten with a tree branch Tuesday morning in Northwest Baltimore has died of his injuries, and police added his name yesterday to the list of this year's homicides, bringing the total to 268. The victim was identified as Quentin Reddicks-Flowers of the 2400 block of Francis St. in West Baltimore. Police said two witnesses saw him get tackled, punched and beaten about 11:45 a.m. in the 4000 block of W. Rogers Ave. Officers found a bloody tree branch nearby. Police said Reddicks-Flowers died at Sinai Hospital at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday That same day, police detectives arrested Jermaine Cornish, 17, of the 5500 block of Gist Ave., and charged him with first-degree murder.

An Edgewater man was beaten on his head and face with wooden poles Friday night in apparent retaliation for an earlier attack, county police said yesterday.The victim, David M. Conway, 27, of the 1700 block of Ridgely Avenue in Edgewater was flown by helicopter to the Prince George's Hospital Center, where he was listed in good condition.Mr. Conway and two friends were assaulted by three men shortly before 11 p.m. Friday near Londontown and Grange roads in Edgewater. Witnesses said Mr. Conway was pulled to the middle of the street, where he was beaten.

LOS ANGELES -- Reginald Denny, the truck driver who was beaten severely in the first moments of the unrest in the city's South Central area, was able to talk yesterday for the first time since the incident, and doctors upgraded his condition to good.Doctors at Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in Inglewood, where Mr. Denny was taken by a group of onlookers after the beating Wednesday night, said his prognosis was improving. They said they still had not determined whether Mr. Denny had suffered permanent brain injuries.

Two men were shot and another beaten with a baseball bat yesterday in a melee outside a North Baltimore bar, police reported.The incident began outside Tower's Lounge in the 4700 block of York Road about 2 a.m. when a fight broke out among a group.During the fight, Antonio Aberhardt, 22, was struck with a baseball bat several times, said Sgt. Scott Rowe, a police spokesman.One of two men standing on a nearby porch opened fire on the crowd, wounding two men, Rowe said. Louis Washington, 65, was struck in the knee, and Darryl Powell, 19, in the chest by the shots, he said.

John Haus had a career-high six points for the Terps , but No. 7 Maryland lost, 13-11, to No. 12 Colgate on Saturday. The visiting Terrapins (9-5) led 9-7 with 2:08 remaining in the third quarter, but the Raiders (13-3) scored twice in the last 38seconds of the third to tie the game at 9. Colgate scored the first two goals of the fourth quarter to lead 11-9 with 12:28 to play. Michael Shakespeare trimmed the deficit to one with his first goal of the game with 9:43 to go, but Ryan Walsh scored an unassisted goal with 3:46 to play to give the Raiders a 12-10 lead.

Two weeks ago, Loyola was off to a 9-0 start that included a convincing 13-8 win against Duke in March, but conventional wisdom suggested that the Greyhounds' biggest test loomed when they had to embark on a three-game road trip that included contests against Eastern College Athletic Conference foes in No. 7 Denver, No. 19 Fairfield and Hobart. After rallying back for an 8-6 decision over the Stags on April 7, Loyola defeated the Pioneers, 12-9, this past Saturday. Not only did the Greyhounds (11-0)

A deeper look into this case and the law enforcement issues related to it appeared in Thursday's newspaper. Click here for that article.  There can, in fact, be a corrective mechanism when it comes to the mob mentality of the Internet.  This week, a video was posted online of a seemingly lost and disoriented man being swarmed by a group of young people, then sucker punched, robbed, and stripped naked of his clothing on...

Three teen-aged boys face robbery and assault charges in the beating Monday of a pizza shop worker in Brooklyn Park. Anne Arundel County Police charged two suspects, aged 15 and 16, as juveniles with robbery and second-degree assault. Shaquille Davon Johnson, 16, of the 800 block of Washburn Ave. in Baltimore, was charged as an adult with robbery, armed robbery and first-degree assault. The 31-year-old victim told police as many as 10 juveniles approached him as he was taking a break at about 3:30 p.m. behind the Seasons Pizza in the 5500 block of Ritchie Highway.

Yannick Crowder put Florida A&M ahead with a tip-in with 27.6 seconds to play and Avery Moore added two free throws with 8.6 seconds left as the Rattlers held off Coppin State, 74-72, in the opening round of theMid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament Tuesday at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C. Coppin State (14-16) took a 71-70 lead with 46.3 seconds to play when Logan Wiens drilled a 3-pointer. Crowder put the Rattlers (9-22) ahead to stay at 72-71 with a tip-in with 27.6 seconds left.

In previous years there were roster spots for veterans that were considered safe, but that's not the case headed into 2012. At least not after last year when the Ravens cut key veterans including tight end Todd Heap , receiver Derrick Mason , defensive tackle Kelly Gregg and running back Willis McGahee . McGahee was expected to get waived because teams don't pay back up running backs $6 million, but there aren't as many obvious...

Ollie Hines, a 95-year-old West Baltimore resident who was severely beaten by thieves in February, died early Thursday in his sleep at a Columbia nursing home.Baltimore police have ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of Mr. Hines' death, said police spokesman Sam Ringgold.If the autopsy reveals that Mr. Hines died from injuries sustained in the attack, the incident will be classified as a homicide. Robbery detectives have identified two suspects in the case, but have made no arrests, Mr. Ringgold said.

A counselor was severely beaten when two youths tried to escape yesterday from a Prince George's County juvenile detention facility, state police said.Sgt. Bill Dunston of the Forestville Barracks said that Courtney Holmes, 22, a counselor at Boys Village in Cheltenham, was escorting two youths from the bathroom to their beds about 3 a.m. when they attacked him.Dunston said one of the youths struck Holmes with a table leg while the other tried to strangle him with shoestrings.Other counselors came to Holmes' aid and subdued the youths, Dunston said.

The death of a man who was found beaten in a Southwest Baltimore alley in 2006 and died in May has been added to this year's homicide total, police said. Each year, several people die from injuries suffered in previous years, and their deaths are added to the current year's homicide total so authorities aren't constantly changing previous year's statistics. There's typically a lag time between when the death occurs and when police are notified by the medical examiner's office.  Joseph Curtis was found at about 2 a.m. on Sept.

Friends and family of Ellison McCall Jr., who was brutally beaten and set on fire after earlier intervening in a bar fight in Northeast Baltimore, held a vigil Sunday to celebrate his life and press for answers on the year anniversary of his death. "This was a good guy," said friend Floyd Benton Jr. "He had no enemies. " McCall, 30, was working as a bartender at the New Haven Lounge a year ago and got into an altercation with some patrons, friends told The Baltimore Sun at the time.