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Last week we learned that adult children of divorce will almost always revert to childish behaviors. Case in point, Briana, the daughter previously known as The Most Reasonable Person in Orange County, dissolved into a impertinent, recalcitrant, petulant brat upon meeting her mother's boyfriend. This week Briana grows up and fights like a big girl … but we'll get there soon enough. Elsewhere in the O.C., there are tiaras to be worn and bling to be bought as Alexis goes all out for her little princesses, and Slade decides to declare Gretchen his queen.

For nearly a decade, Michael Maurice Johnson dated the half-sister of Phylicia Barnes. He went along on family trips, and played basketball with their brother. He was like family, and considered Phylicia a "little sister," relatives say. He was also the last person to see the girl alive in late December 2010. Now Baltimore prosecutors have charged him in the murder of the promising North Carolina teenager, whose nude body was found floating in the Susquehanna River one year ago this month.

I hope everyone has taken a few moments to collect themselves after that spectacular finale. Midway through, I was a bit worried as the episode was beginning to seem more like a series finale than a season finale. However, the last 15 minutes provided everything a good finale should: suspense, murder, a love triangle (quadrangle!), a drug overdose, break-ups (bonus points for calling off an engagement), a conniving friend, heart break, a parent finding their child unconscious, unplanned pregnancy, a declaration of “never speak to me again” followed by a quick hang up, an engagement, a serious accident (plane instead of car, way to go big!

Stedman Graham is one self-help author who practices what he preaches almost every day of his life. If he didn't, he would likely be lost in one of the largest and most overwhelming shadows in American life. Graham, known to millions as "Oprah Winfrey's boyfriend," was in town last week promoting his 11th book, "Identity: Your Passport to Success," a guide to creating your own identity rather than letting others define and limit who and what you can imagine yourself being.

Baltimore police were asking for the public's help in locating a 29-year-old man accused of abducting two children from his girlfriend's home Friday morning in South Baltimore. About 1 p.m., police said, they received a call from a woman in the 2400 block of Dorton Ct., in the Westport area, who said her boyfriend, Kwame Oseitutu, had abducted the couple's 3-year-old daughter, Akeelah, and the woman's 5-year-old girl, Emani, following a domestic dispute earlier in the day. Police said Oseitutu has threatened to harm the 5-year-old girl, and homicide detectives are investigating.

A Hanover woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend was arrested Sunday and charged with attempted second-degree murder, reckless endangerment and assault, according to Anne Arundel County police. Officers first spoke to the boyfriend of Jenna Russell, 25, of the 1400 block of Misty Lake Court about 9 a.m. Sunday, when he went to Baltimore Washington Medical Center for treatment of stab wounds, police said. The 21-year-old Severn resident initially told police that he had been stabbed in the upper torso at a party Saturday night, and he was taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center for further treatment.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge John G. Turnbull II put himself Monday in the shoes of a defendant charged with beating up a young man he had found hiding almost naked in his daughter's bedroom closet. "I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing," Turnbull said. "In some houses he would have been shot." Arlen Turpin, 53, was accused of administering such a severe pistol-whipping to Andrew Taylor, 19 - who admitted to having conducted a "risky" sexual relationship with Turpin's 16-year-old daughter - that he fractured his skull.

A 15-year-old boy is charged with attempted first-degree murder after police said the teen stabbed his mother's boyfriend outside a Rosedale Panera Bread on Monday afternoon. Baltimore County Police said that Timothy Edward Criner, 15, of the 3900 block of Fleetwood Ave. in Baltimore stabbed 44-year-old Michael Rector of Baltimore, who was dating Criner's mother. Officers were called at about 1:15 p.m. to a parking lot near a Panera Bread in the 6400 block of Petrie Way, where they found Rector suffering from a serious laceration to his neck.

A 38-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing his former girlfriend's new boyfriend in a Southwest Baltimore rowhouse, and a judge sentenced him to life in prison, with all but 45 years suspended. Dwayne Thompson, of the 500 block of Bloom St. in West Baltimore, was convicted Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court of first-degree murder and a handgun violation. The Baltimore State's Attorney's Office said he shot 28-year-old Alvin B. Moore III several times in the chest, back and left arm. The shooting occurred about 11 a.m. on May 30, the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend 2010, inside a rowhouse in the 2100 block of Ramsay St. It was one of three killings that day in Southwest Baltimore's Carrollton Ridge neighborhood, and one of eight shooting deaths across the city over the three-day holiday.

A woman was gunned down Thursday night outside a West Baltimore funeral home where she was attending a private family gathering for her boyfriend, who was fatally shot last week, police said. The woman's name was not released. About 7 p.m., police said, the 33-year-old woman received a cell phone message while attending services for Michael Anthony McFadden at the Joseph H. Brown Funeral Home in the 2100 block of N. Fulton Ave. McFadden, 51, of the 2000 block of W. Lanvale St. was shot to death Nov. 12 near his home.

Updated: Baltimore City police sent out a release around 2:30 p.m. informing that Guadalupe Sosa and Michael Carter, the two Baltimore School for the Arts students who went missing Wednesday, have been found safe and unharmed.    Original Post: Baltimore school officials are spreading word that two students from the Baltimore School for the Arts left the school Wednesday morning, and to date have not been seen or heard from...

While Matt Snow assures us that he loves both dogs and cats, he has to admit, "Cats edge out the dogs by a hair. " Good thing he's not discriminating during National Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month, or April as you know it, as his Baltimore-based clothing company Ex-Boyfriend is donating 100% of the net proceeds from poster, magnet and keychain bottle opener sales to the Maryland SPCA from now through April 15th. Ex-Boyfriend, the "clothing that starts conversations," gets its name from that one awesome item your ex left behind after a messy break-up that you just can't bear to part with because of the awesome compliments it gets you. Snow's designs stay true to that concept, with quirky images and phrases that bring the monsters, zombies, and "foodie cuties" back to your wardrobe, and the shirts have been worn recently in TV shows including Modern Family and Tosh.

Matthew Snow's Baltimore-based clothing company, Ex-Boyfriend , gets its name from that one awesome item your ex left behind after a messy break-up. Snow's designs stay true to that concept with quirky images and phrases that bring the monsters, zombies, and "foodie cuties" back to your wardrobe. Ex-Boyfriend has kept Art Institute of Pittsburgh grad Snow busy since he started the company with his wife, Meredith, in late 2005 (It became a full-time business in 2009). And the hard work has paid off; his shirts have become so popular that they've been used on "Modern Family and "Tosh.

A 26-year-old woman was injured and her boyfriend was arrested after a shooting early Friday in North Beach, Anne Arundel County police said. Officers responded to the 600 block of Alabama Ave. shortly after 2 a.m. Friday for a report of a domestic-related shooting, police said. On the way to the scene, officers learned the woman went to a neighbor's residence in the 7000 block of Charleston Ave. for help, according to police. Police said they found the woman suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the upper body when they arrived at that address.

Three people were shot Sunday in separate incidents in Baltimore, including a man police say was shot by his girlfriend during a domestic dispute. The first shooting occurred at about 12:15 p.m. in the 3900 block of Benzinger Road in the Oaklee neighborhood of southwest Baltimore. Police say a 39-year-old woman shot her 30-year-old boyfriend during an altercation. The boyfriend was shot in the leg. Police arrested the woman, charging her with first-degree assault and attempted murder.

A 38-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing his former girlfriend's new boyfriend in a Southwest Baltimore rowhouse, and a judge sentenced him to life in prison, with all but 45 years suspended. Dwayne Thompson, of the 500 block of Bloom St. in West Baltimore, was convicted Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court of first-degree murder and a handgun violation. The Baltimore State's Attorney's Office said he shot 28-year-old Alvin B. Moore III several times in the chest, back and left arm. The shooting occurred about 11 a.m. on May 30, the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend 2010, inside a rowhouse in the 2100 block of Ramsay St. It was one of three killings that day in Southwest Baltimore's Carrollton Ridge neighborhood, and one of eight shooting deaths across the city over the three-day holiday.

Baltimore police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old Linthicum woman whose body was found in Leakin Park last month, charging her boyfriend with first-degree murder. Police said Lois Smyth had left her home to meet with boyfriend Kenneth Brunetti and attend a picnic on the afternoon of May 29. Court records show that police believe Smyth was "lured to the Gwynns Falls Trail" in the 3900 block of Windsor Mill Road and down a wooded path, where she was shot in the head.

Estelle wants listeners to know she's not just the happy-go-lucky Londoner many first met on 2008's "American Boy," her cheery hit single with Kanye West. "The Life," the opening track to "All Of Me" (her first album in nearly four years, due out Tuesday), finds the 32-year-old Grammy nominee rapping in her heavy accent, "Tiny with a temper, I'm-a get it till I pass out. " She's not kidding about the temper. "All of Me" isn't a break-up album per se, but some of its more emotionally draining tracks were written as Estelle's three-year relationship crumbled.

The death of a Pikesville woman last month has been ruled a homicide by state medical examiner, Baltimore County police said Thursday. Gwendolyn Jackson, 44, of the 5200 block of St. Charles Avenue had called 911 on Nov. 21 to report a verbal argument with her boyfriend, 52-year-old Herbert Westley Johnson, in the 4600 block of Chickory Hill Lane, police said. Officers who responded to the domestic disturbance call at 9:40 p.m. said both parties said no physical contact had occurred, police said.