Escaped

The escape of a convicted murderer from a Maryland prison serves as a way to highlight the severe waste of both time and money in the judicial branch of government. Why must we move a convict's body to a new place to attend a court hearing? This could be done very inexpensively via Skype or any other teleconference service that allows the accused to have his/her day in court without the enormous expense, time and risks of physically moving a prisoner from place to place. When you multiply this movement to and from court hundreds (or more)

Down 7-3 in the fourth quarter, No. 2 Notre Dame put together a 6-0 rally to edge upset-minded Detroit in an NCAA tournament first-round game Saturday, 9-7. Matt Kavanagh, who scored four second-half goals, tied the game at 7 with 10:10 left and then put the Irish (11-4) ahead for good with less than six minutes remaining. The Titans (5-10) were able to keep Notre Dame in check during the first half as Detroit took a 5-1 lead into halftime. Brandon Beauregard led the Titans with three goals.

Baltimore County and Maryland State police are searching for two juveniles who escaped from the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School on Sunday night. The juveniles were reported missing from the Baltimore County detention facility at around 8:45 p.m., but had escaped at around 8:25 p.m., said Cpl. David Hooper, of the Maryland State Police Golden Ring Barrack. Hooper said the juveniles escaped by climbing the fence of the facility, and had not been located as of 10 p.m. Sunday. Hooper said K-9 and aerial units were also being used to locate the juveniles.

The top-ranked Boys' Latin lacrosse team beat St. Mary's on the road, 17-9, Tuesday, keeping its perfect season and No. 1 ranking intact. The Lakers (12-0, 3-0) were led by Colin Heacock's five-goal performance. Shack Stanwick contributed a goal and three assists. Boys' Latin dominated throughout, leading 9-2 at halftime. The No. 7 Saints (6-4, 1-2) were led by Cole Robertson's three goals. No. 2 Calvert Hall 9, No. 9 Archbishop Spalding 8, OT: Tim Kelly had two goals and three assists to lead the visiting Cardinals (7-2)

State police on Friday located the second teenager that escaped May 2 from the Charles H. Hickey School in Parkville. Frederick Catchings, 17, was arrested at 9:45 a.m. in an alley at West Lafayette Street and Division Street in West Baltimore, police said. He will be charged, but the case will remain confidential because he is juvenile. Catchings was arrested without incident and was transported to the Baltimore City Juvenile Detention Center, police said. He was one of two youths who escaped from the school on May 2. Another 17-year-old was apprehended the following day at the Royal Farms on Joppa Road at Old Harford Road, police said.

Police and federal agents in two states were seeking a 32-year-old man charged with burglary, theft and rape who escaped early yesterday from Spring Grove State Hospital in Catonsville, a state police investigator said. Paul D. McGlothlin, who has addresses in Harford County and Delta, Pa., was being held at the Harford County Detention Center awaiting trial on burglary and theft charges when a court ordered him Aug. 14 to the hospital for treatment, said Cpl. James DeCourcey, the criminal investigation division supervisor at the Bel Air barracks.

Two Blockbuster Video employees escaped uninjured yesterday after they were held at gunpoint and carjacked while leaving work in Owings Mills, Baltimore County police said. The two men were leaving the Blockbuster store in the 9900 block of Reisterstown Road about 9:50 a.m. to make a deposit at a nearby bank when an unknown male got into the back seat of their vehicle, pointed a handgun at the victims and told them not to turn around, police said. The victims were forced to drive to Montgomery County, where they escaped and were able to call police.

A slaying suspect who police said broke out of the Baltimore City Detention Center on Sunday evening gave himself up to police last night.Anthony Edward Rennick, 41, who escaped by apparently hiding in a food delivery truck, walked into the Eastern District station about 8: 30 p.m. and told a desk officer he had escaped from jail and was surrendering, police said."

Escaped killer Harold Benjamin Dean has been tracked to Western Maryland, where authorities detained three of his relatives yesterday.The FBI believes that Dean, who escaped Saturday from Maryland's "Supermax" prison in Baltimore, crossed into West Virginia earlier this week, and the bureau obtained a warrant Tuesday charging him with interstate flight, Special Agent Andrew S. Manning said.The search for Dean quickly focused on Western Maryland after his escape from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, the formal name for the state's highest-security prison, which houses 280 of the state's most dangerous convicts.

Baltimore County police are trying to determine how a suspect who was wearing leg irons and was handcuffed to a metal bar escaped from the Garrison precinct yesterday afternoon. Police identified the suspect as 27-year-old Damion Latrell Harrington of Owings Mills. He was being held in the prisoner processing area on warrants charging him with falsifying documents, fraud and failure to appear at a court hearing - all traffic-related - when he ran out of the precinct about 12:45 p.m., said Cpl. Vickie Warehime, a police spokeswoman.

Aberdeen Teresa Alfiea Gonzales, 44, of the 700 block of Custis Street, was charged Wednesday with second-degree escape. Lisa Marie Diban, 44, of the 300 block of Baltimore Street, was charged Thursday with failing to appear in court for a case in which she was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol, driving on the sidewalk and driving while impaired by alcohol. An SUV was driving over ball fields in the 600 block of Chelsea Road on Tuesday. Juveniles were playing with fire in the woods, near the 500 block of Plume Court, on Tuesday.

A man police were trying to take into custody in Harford County Circuit Court escaped Wednesday and led police on a brief foot chase. Alton Cumbo Jr., 19, who has addresses in the 1000 block of Waterside Court and the 1200 block of Valley Leaf Court, both in Edgewood, was late for a violation of probation hearing before Judge William Carr Wednesday morning, according to Aaron Stewart, a spokesman for the Harford County Sheriff's Office. He showed up around lunchtime. Carr was not pleased the man was late, Stewart said, and told him he was going to hold him "for a little while.

A man jumped from a second-story window of an East Baltimore home that had caught fire Wednesday morning, escaping serious injury, according to the Baltimore Fire Department. Firefighters responded to the home in the 2200 block of E. Preston Street in the Broadway East neighborhood about 7:30 a.m. and found heavy smoke showing, said Capt. Roman Clark, a department spokesman. They discovered a fire in the basement had spread smoke through the home, and the man had jumped out the window to escape, Clark said.

Notre Dame's habit of living dangerously backfired on the team. After registering back-to-back overtime wins against Penn State and North Carolina, the No. 3 Fighting Irish dropped an 8-7 decision to No. 20 Hofstra last Saturday. It is Notre Dame's first loss in four contests, but coach Kevin Corrigan - and perhaps his health - would prefer a few games where the outcome isn't as tight. “If you said to me that I could win every game between now and the end of the year and never come close to anybody, I'd take it, but I don't think that's the case,” he said Monday morning.

SARASOTA, Fla. - Right around the time major league teams first began taking notice of a talented young outfielder playing at Crenshaw High in South Central Los Angeles, a harsh reality check came for Trayvon Robinson. The Orioles outfielder was in the 10th grade when his mailbox started to fill with questionnaires from big league clubs, inspiring hope in a place where young men are far more likely to become gang members than major league baseball players. Then, one day, shots rang out from outside his family's housing complex.

In this town, it remains a sepia-toned nightmare: Billy Cundiff's 32-yard field-goal attempt in the chill of Gillette Stadium drifting left, left, left - so far left you thought it would smack one of the cheerleaders. Cundiff has never recovered from that miss in last year's AFC championship, the one that left the Ravens in stunned disbelief and the New England Patriots headed to the Super Bowl with a 23-20 win. Funny thing is, Justin Tucker can't get away from that miss, either.

Terrell Watson has never seemed to stay in one place for long - even when he was supposed to be locked behind bars. The convicted felon, believed to be 33, was reported missing from his cell at a medium-security Nashville, Tenn., prison at 5:50 a.m. Sunday. The same prisoner, known in Maryland as Terrence Kassis Washington, also escaped from Harford County sheriff's deputies last year. Known for his brazen escapes, Watson once sawed through a window in a Louisiana prison and persuaded a jail trusty to look away while he fled from an Arkansas facility, authorities said.

Jerelle Benimon scored 26 points to lead five players in double figures, and Towson came back from a 13-point deficit in the second half to beat William & Mary, 99-86, in double overtime Wednesday night in a Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball game. Marcus Damas scored 19 points, Mike Burwell had 18, Rafriel Guthrie 15 and Jerome Hairston 13 for the Tigers (8-8, 3-0 CAA). Benimon had a game-high 12 rebounds to help Towson earn its fourth win in a row. William & Mary All-CAA guard Marcus Thornton, held to two points in the first half, finished with 24. Brandon Britt scored 17, Kyle Gaillard had 14, and Matt Rum (Loyola)

Days after the deadly  Sandy Hook school shooting, the tragedy is still dominating news sites, social media and search traffic. The coverage is splintering a bit, but major trends include: last night's emotional speech by President Obama, the Westboro Baptist Church 's plans to protest the funerals of the victims, and more details about the ammunition and weapons that Adam Lanza used. Meanwhile, many other Americans sought to escape the grisly news and took refugee in escapist TV fare.