NEWS
By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun | December 26, 2011
Anne Arundel County police arrested and charged one man in a Christmas morning break-in at an Annapolis automobile dealership. A video security service notified police shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday of two people on the lot of Fitzgerald Oldsmobile Cadillac. Officers saw two men running, and arrested one when he tried to climb over a fence, said Lt. Doyle Batten. Police found bolt cutters and other tools on the lot that they suspect were used to cut catalytic converters from two vehicles there.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | December 11, 2011
The book "Guardians of the Capes" asserts that "most of the marine casualties on the bay have been minor in nature. " But 33 years ago, the bay was the scene of a spectacular tragedy. On Oct. 20, 1978, the collier M/V Santa Cruz II, loaded with 19,500 tons of coal, was steaming southbound on the Chesapeake Bay when it collided with a northbound Coast Guard cutter, the Cuyahoga. The collision happened 3.5 miles from Smith Point, at the mouth of the Potomac River, near the Maryland-Virginia border.
NEWS
By Matthew Hay Brown, The Baltimore Sun | November 3, 2011
The commandant of the Coast Guard, in Maryland this week to visit a newly launched national security cutter, said Thursday that he expects to deploy two of the state-of-the-art vessels off the East Coast. Initially, the Coast Guard had planned to berth all eight national security cutters on the West Coast. Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., the top officer in the service, said the plan is being revisited. "The Pacific presents us with greater challenges then does the Atlantic," Papp said.
NEWS
By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun | June 20, 2011
A father accused of slitting the throats of his wife and daughters in the family's Crofton home was ordered held without bail Monday, and no motive was offered for why he may have harmed his family and himself. Julio Cesar Esquetini, 49, of the 1600 block of Forest Hill Court in the Crofton Meadows Four townhouse community, appeared on a monitor in District Court in Annapolis from the Anne Arundel County Detention Center. He was arrested Friday and faces more than a dozen charges.
SPORTS
By Philadelphia Inquirer | April 29, 2011
WILMINGTON, Del. — Close your eyes and you can hear the father's voice as the son speaks. Open your eyes and look beneath the son's spikes and you can recall the days when the father left a trail of tobacco juice on the outfield turf at Veterans Stadium. There is no mistaking this is Lenny Dykstra's son, and he's more than happy to admit it. Three years ago, when the Milwaukee Brewers selected Cutter Dykstra in the second round of the baseball draft, it was a feel-good story about the son trying to follow in the father's footsteps.
NEWS
By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | September 16, 2010
Baltimore County Police said a man suffered non-life-threatening injuries after he was assaulted and cut outside a Towson shopping center by two men Thursday night. Officers were called to Loch Raven Boulevard and Taylor Avenue at 9:14 p.m. where they say a man in his late 20s was beaten and cut with a box cutter causing, him to lose consciousness. The victim was taken to a local hospital for serious injuries, but he is expected to survive, police said. His identity was not released Thursday.