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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.

When Stephen Huppaty, owner of OzCorp Fine Builders, moved to Baltimore from Australia in 1997, he was intrigued by an interesting appendage to the miles of brick row houses -- rooftop decks. In the following years, these playpens in the sky would continue popping up in neighborhoods like Fells Point, Federal Hill, Locust Point, Butchers Hill and Canton. To Huppaty, it made perfect sense. In the tight confines of these neighborhoods, owners wishing to put additions on their row homes could either go back (given sufficient room)

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.

The energy company Dominion said Tuesday that it is exploring developing an alternate evacuation route for some residential neighbors of its proposed Cove Point liquefied natural gas plant, prompting opponents to question anew assertions by the company and federal regulators that the facility poses no significant safety or environmental risks. Karl R. Neddenien, spokesman for the Richmond, Va.-based company, declined to offer details but said Dominion is "looking into" establishing an alternate route for residents living on Cove Point to get away should there be an emergency at the facility.

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)

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.

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.

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."

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.

Detroit is the largest city ever to seek bankruptcy protection, so its bankruptcy is seen as a potential model for other American cities now teetering on the edge. But Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans. Judge Steven W. Rhodes of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan is now weighing Detroit's plan to shed $7 billion of its debts and restore some $1.5 billion of city services by requiring various groups of creditors to make sacrifices.

A cow originally destined for the Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair this week remained at large in the greater Westminster area as of Saturday morning, according to the Carroll County Sheriff's Office. "I take them out to the fair every year for the kids' rodeo and a few of them managed to get off the trailer," said Doug Dell, the owner of the animals. Initially, four cows escaped on Tuesday, but three were later found. The missing animal is a 500- to 600-pound heifer, according to Dell, and was intended to participate in the "calf scramble" at Wild West Night, a rodeo event at the 4-H & FFA Fair.

A search is underway for a man who escaped from home detention in Belair-Edison this past week, according to the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Brian Cherry, 35, of the 2900 block of Erdman Avenue, was last seen Monday, officials said. Officials believe he cut off his ankle monitoring unit and left his home. Investigators said he is believed to be staying in the Northeast Baltimore area. Cherry, who is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds, is serving a five-year sentence for possession of a firearm.

Marching in an Independence Day Parade is not supposed to be a gut-wrenching experience, but for me last weekend in Philadelphia, it was. Don't get me wrong; I love playing my waist drum, in my waist-drum troupe. It's just that July 4th always triggers memories of the day I left behind my husband and child in China, to escape to America. I recall secretly wiping away my tears so that my mom wouldn't see the depth of my sadness. I told my 1-month-old daughter, who was fast asleep, "I promise you a bright future, but for now, mommy has to leave you here in China.

Sean Sneeton was picking up a colleague for work Friday morning when he turned around to walk back to his car and saw the escaped steer trotting down Druid Hill Avenue toward him. He tried to take a picture, and when the animal started toward him, he got back in his car and called 911. Sneeton was among nearly a dozen witnesses who struggled to explain the odd situation to police dispatchers in tapes of the calls released to the media Thursday night....

The girls are back! In the spirit of Season 5, with all five girls back together (Hana, Aria, Spencer, Emily and Ali) here are five big moments from last night's season premiere. The big split up : After Season 4's cliffhanger of an ending, we learned that Ezra has indeed survived his gunshot wound from A … but isn't out of the woods yet. While he is rushed to the hospital, Ali notices A on top of the ambulance. It is up to the girls to use Ali as bait to get A alone, so they can find out who “he,” “she” or the “bitch” is. Ali and Aria wander the city, making sure A isn't up to anything outside of the hospital, while Spencer, Hana and Emily end up in the hospital lobby.

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.

Seventeen months after he became a one-day sensation by bolting free down U.S. 1, thoroughbred Bullet Catcher is set for a gentle retirement. Now 5 years old, with 20 starts behind him, the gelding is munching hay on a Montgomery County farm, waiting to be adopted. “He's just been a thrilling horse,” says owner Gina Rosenthal. “And now I really want a special person to take him and give him that good life.” Though a solid racer, Bullet Catcher was never destined to achieve fame on the track because of creaky knees.