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A theft this month of 311 gallons of gasoline from a station in Baltimore is one in a series of similar incidents, according to the station's owner, who says people have been disabling pumps and allowing friends and relatives to fill their tanks for free Mehdi Rezakhan, who owns BP stations in Remington and East Baltimore, said each businesses has been hit once, and stations owned by friends have been taken several times, one for 1,800 gallons of...

A theft this month of 311 gallons of gasoline from a station in Baltimore is one in a series of similar incidents, according to the station's owner, who says people have been disabling pumps and allowing friends and relatives to fill their tanks for free Mehdi Rezakhan, who owns BP stations in Remington and East Baltimore, said each businesses has been hit once, and stations owned by friends have been taken several times, one for 1,800 gallons of...

Anne Arundel County police have identified the man who was shot and killed early Tuesday by the owner of a Laurel business that police say he had come to rob. Josue Alberto Angel, 29, of the 12000 block of Carland Place in Laurel, was killed around 3:30 a.m. after a struggle with the 48-year-old owner of a Quest gas station in the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road. According to police, Angel came into the store, implied that he had a weapon and announced a robbery. Angel was shot in the parking lot, police said.

I've got another annoyance that Dan Rodricks can add to his list ("Overpriced popcorn, O's early-season tease and other annoyances," April 26). It's when I go to the gas station to fill up and I see the price of $4.05 and 9/10 per gallon. Give me a break! Come on, already and lose the 9/10! Do they think we're all stupid? Why not just go $4.05 and 99/100 or $4.05 and 999/1000. Sheesh! The first gas station that I see that loses the 9/10ths of a cent will get all my business.

A man stabbed at a gas station early Sunday morning has died, Baltimore City police say. The 24-year-old victim, identified as David McClaughlin Jr., was attacked by several people outside at a gas station in the 4500 block of Edmondson Ave., police spokesman Detective Jeremy Silbert said. McClaughlin was stabbed several times and initially taken to St. Agnes hospital about 2:30 a.m. He was transferred to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died at 5:01 a.m., Silbert said.

An unidentified man was found shot in the hand Wednesday afternoon near a gas station in North Baltimore, according to city police. The man was taken to an area hospital, where he was expected to be treated and released, police said. A police spokesman said officers were called about 4:30 p.m. to the intersection of The Alameda and Belvedere Avenue, where they found the man near an Exxon station. Police said they were investigating the possibility that the man's wounds were self-inflicted.

An Exxon gas station attendant in Bel Air was shot during an armed robbery late Saturday night, according to Harford County police. At about 11 p.m., a suspect entered a gas station at 600 W. MacPhail Road with a black handgun and shot the attendant, police said. The suspect was last seen running away wearing a ski mask, long-sleeved shirt and shorts, and tennis shoes - all black, police said. The attendant was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore where his condition is unknown.

Daniel Clem Rigney, a former gas station owner turned missionary, died Sept. 28 of a massive heart attack at York Hospital in York, Pa. He was 73. Mr. Rigney was born in Baltimore and raised on Seven Mile Lane in Northwest Baltimore. After graduating from Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in 1954, he worked as an auto mechanic and later owned a Reisterstown gas station. In 1965, Mr. Rigney decided to enter the ministry and graduated in 1968 from the Moody Bible Institute with a degree in Jewish studies.

A 52-year-old Essex woman accused of helping to set up a $9,000 contract killing provided the gun used in the crime, making her equally responsible for the victim's death, a prosecutor told a jury Thursday in Baltimore County Circuit Court. Susan M. Datta is one of six defendants accused of murder, conspiracy and other crimes in the killing of William R. Porter, who was shot in the head March 1 after being lured by a false alarm to his gas station on Towson's East Joppa Road. During opening statements, prosecutor Jennifer Schiffer told the jury that the crime was orchestrated by the victim's wife, Karla Porter, and that she was helped by Datta, her sister, and her 53-year-old brother, Calvin L. Mowers, as well as a nephew and another man. Schiffer said police officers summoned to the scene found the victim, known as Ray, "lying in a pool of his own blood" and that nothing could be done to save him. The prosecutor said Datta arranged for her sister to have a gun with which to kill Ray Porter, and that, in an interview with detectives, she had acknowledged acquiring the weapon two weeks earlier for that purpose.

A gas station employee was shot multiple times in the upper body during an apparent attempted robbery early Friday just outside the city line, according to Baltimore County police. Officers were called to the Carroll Fuel gas station at 5217 Baltimore National Pike about 6:10 a.m. and found the male victim. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, police spokeswoman Detective Cathy Batton said. Police believe the man was shot during a robbery attempt and were at the gas station investigating, Batton said.

Someone fatally shot Terrence Joyner Sunday as he was walking with 15-year-old Donye Thompson through a Northeast Baltimore gas station parking lot. Police know this much - they and have it on tape. But while police don't know the assailant who killed Joyner, 42, they recognized Thompson and have charged him with attempting to kill an unknown person. He was seen on the video tape shooting back at the assailant, according to police. Detectives who work the Northeast Baltimore neighborhood where the shooting occurred have had “numerous, in excess of 15, encounters over the past four months” with Thompson, according to charging documents.

Baltimore city police are investigating a shooting early Monday in the Park Heights area of Northwest Baltimore that left an unidentified man seriously wounded. The victim was found at 4:23 a.m. behind a gas station in the 4100 block of W. Garrison Ave., investigators said. He had been shot at least two times and was suffering from wounds to the head and lower back. mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Baltimore police have released a composite sketch of a possible suspect in the November stabbing and attempted robbery of a man at a gas station in Charles Village. Police said the incident occurred about 5 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, in the 2200 block of North Charles St. The 27-year-old victim had been stabbed several times, police said, and has been treated and released from a hospital. Police said the victim and a friend were at the gas station when they were approached by two men who asked for a light.

Mohammad Akram Bhatti, the owner of an Edgewater gas station and convenience store, died of cerebral meningitis Nov. 9 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 68 and lived in Crofton. Born in Nabah, India, he moved with his family to the Punjab province in Pakistan as a child. He earned a degree from Islamia College in Lahore, Pakistan. He worked briefly for Lever Brothers in Karachi, Pakistan. Family members said that in 1969, with only some pocket money, he immigrated to Florida, where he studied at Florida Memorial College.

Within 24 hours of the release of a surveillance photograph, the man wanted in connection with five recent armed robberies in Harford, Cecil and Baltimore counties was arrested in Cecil County. Michael R. Malpass, whose age in court records is 26, was arrested without incident after a 2008 Chevrolet Impala he was driving was stopped by state police on Route 40 in Perryville around 7 p.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the Maryland State Police JFK Barrack in Perryville.

America is a product of the Age of Reason. Our founders used their rational powers to free us from the ignorance and superstition that shackled less enlightened societies. For over two centuries, we have assumed that the Age of Reason was here to stay, a permanent flowering of our intellectual growth. Alas, the anti-planning hysteria in parts of Maryland reveals that the Age of Reason may have been just a phase, one that is ending as we regress to the magical thinking of centuries past.

A 28-year-old Rosedale man who prosecutors said introduced a prospective hitman to a woman looking to have her husband killed was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and two other counts in the murder-for-hire scheme. A jury deliberated less than two hours before finding Seamus A. Coyle guilty of participating in the March 1 murder of a Towson gas station owner, William Raymond Porter. Coyle was the first of six defendants to be tried, and faces a life sentence. "He was an important go-between," Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott D. Shellenberger said outside the courthouse after the verdict.

The owner of a Laurel gas station struggled with, then shot and killed a man who attempted to rob his store early Tuesday, police said. About 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a report of a robbery in the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road at a Quest gas station that is also the site of a Dunkin' Donuts and a Baskin Robbins ice cream store. The station is located on a busy street lined with shops and strip malls. Based on a preliminary investigation, police said they believe a man entered the store, implied that he had a weapon and demanded money.

There's no good reason for Bill 11-48 (Gas Station Reforms) that is before the Harford County Council. Procedures already exist (Harford Code 2671-21) that can allow expansion of gas stations near private drinking water wells. Although no gas stations have applied, Bill 11-48 throws away this procedure and lets stations expand without consideration of possible harm to neighboring properties and wells. Currently, gas stations in areas served by private wells must ask the County Council's permission to expand and must participate in a public hearing.