Bollinger

The state's second-highest court vacated the attempted second-degree murder conviction of a Taneytown carpenter serving 20 years in prison for trying to kill his former girlfriend when he sneaked into her house with a loaded gun.The Court of Special Appeals, in an opinion released yesterday, left intact the conviction for assault with intent to murder against William Richard Bollinger. The decision leaves Bollinger's sentence unchanged because he was serving simultaneous 20-year sentences, one for each crime.

100 Years Ago* As John Poisel and Jacob Bollinger were driving in a cart, toward Carrollton Station, near the milldam, on Wednesday morning, the 11:30 train came along and frightened their horse, which turned around and ran into the dam. Mr. Poisel, who was holding him by the bit, was dragged to the edge of the water, when he let go his hold. Mr. Bollinger was in the cart, and in his efforts to get out, his foot was caught between two of the spokes. The horse continued going further into the dam, until he reached the middle, when Mr. Bollinger got his foot loose and got out of the cart.

The first full day of deliberations in the murder trial of Mary C. Koontz was marked by two rounds of questions from the jury — including queries about whether she had purchased a return trip to Florida, who would pay for her psychiatric care if she were sent to an institution and a timeline of voice mails she left on her husband's answering machine. Koontz is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death June 19 last year of her estranged husband, Ronald G. Koontz, and with the attempted murder of her daughter, Kelsey Koontz, who was 16 at the time.

About 35 women marched in the plaza of the county Circuit Court yesterday to voice their outrage over Judge Thomas J. Bollinger's refusal to attend rape-sensitivity training sessions.The sessions were designed for Judge Bollinger following protests over his sympathetic statements and light sentence given to a 44-year-old man convicted of raping an 18-year-old employee.Several days before the training was scheduled to begin, Judge Bollinger said he wanted to resolve questions over the course's content and await the outcome of an inquiry by the state's Judicial Disabilities Commission.

DENTON -- Lisa Mae Friedel, a Caroline County high school student accused of shooting her parents to death in late March, apparently was no stranger to firearms.Police said yesterday that the .357-caliber Magnum handgun Ms. Friedel allegedly used was part of a gun collection owned by her stepfather Larry Kujawa, who had taught the 16-year-old how to shoot.The bodies of Mr. Kujawa, 46, and Ms. Friedel's mother, Laura Mae Kujawa, 47, were discovered March 31 in the bedroom of the family's modest rancher outside Harmony in rural southwestern Caroline County.

William Richard Bollinger doesn't deny sneaking into his former girlfriend's house, moments before she was shot in the chest with his gun Oct. 20, his lawyer said in court yesterday.But, Mr. Bollinger's lawyer told a Carroll County jury at the opening of his client's trial on attempted murder charges, the 50-year-old wanted to do nothing more than make the woman talk with him about their breakup two weeks earlier."This is not a Perry Mason 'whodunit,' " defense lawyer Mark VanBavel told the panel of nine men and three women.

On Thursday, June 24, 2004 SHEILA J. (nee Powder) beloved daughter of William E. and Frances Bollinger Powder; devoted wife of Jesse Price; beloved mother of Todd Price and devoted friend Annette Rife, Cami and Bruce Spiridonoff and Courtney Price; sister of Gregory Powder, Cathy Price and Kimberly Martinelli, three nieces and seven nephews; predeceased by grandparents Herbert and Elsie Bollinger; step-grandmother Mildred Bollinger and paternal grandparents William...

SYKESVILLE -- Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke sent a letter to Sykesville Mayor Lloyd R. Helt, apologizing for the arrest of a Carroll County school bus driver in Baltimore.Mayor Helt said he has sent a return letter to the mayor, inviting him to visit Sykesville Middle School and speak with the children who were involved in the incident.Schmoke hasn't received the letter, said his spokesman, Clint Coleman, but he said the Baltimore mayor would be interested in visiting the school.Baltimore police arrested Wenda Bollinger of Mount Airy on May 20 as she was dropping off school children for a field trip at the Maryland Science Center.

A 50-year-old Taneytown man was being held on $200,000 bail after he was charged Wednesday with the attempted first-degree murder of his former girlfriend.William Richard Bollinger, of the first block of E. Baltimore St., remained in the Carroll County Detention Center after a bail-review hearing yesterday.Other charges lodged by state police after the shooting of Faye Virginia Glass, 34, are assault with intent to murder, assault, battery, and breaking and entering at the victim's house in the 6300 block of Keysville Road.

A Taneytown carpenter convicted of trying to kill his former girlfriend when he sneaked into her house with a loaded gun last year was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison.William Richard Bollinger, 50, could have been sentenced to 50 years for convictions of attempted second-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and burglary. After setting aside the burglary conviction yesterday, Carroll Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. imposed concurrent 30-year terms for the remaining convictions.