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They don't make many power couples like this: He's a self-proclaimed whistle blower, the focus of international headlines and Obama administration ire. She describes herself as a "world-traveling, pole-dancing super hero. " Edward Snowden and Lindsay Mills lived in a modest blue clapboard house with white trim here in a Honolulu suburb until about six weeks ago. Their former neighbors described them as quiet and private. On Sunday, Snowden announced that he was responsible for leaking secrets about America's telephone and Internet surveillance pograms to the media, reviving a global debate about Big Brother-style government surveillance of private citizens.

They don't make many power couples like this: He's a self-proclaimed whistle blower, the focus of international headlines and Obama administration ire. She describes herself as a "world-traveling, pole-dancing super hero. " Edward Snowden and Lindsay Mills lived in a modest blue clapboard house with white trim here in a Honolulu suburb until about six weeks ago. Their former neighbors described them as quiet and private. On Sunday, Snowden announced that he was responsible for leaking secrets about America's telephone and Internet surveillance pograms to the media, reviving a global debate about Big Brother-style government surveillance of private citizens.

A man wanted in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old girl and the wounding of four others early yesterday in Baltimore died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound last night after forcing his way into a western Pennsylvania home, police said. James Lydell Ray, 34, had barricaded himself in a house in Clarion, about two hours northeast of Pittsburgh, after leading police on a brief chase, Baltimore police spokesman Donny Moses said last night. Surrounded by police, Ray shot himself, and he was pronounced dead shortly after 7 p.m., Moses said.

A second man has been arrested and charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a Cheesecake Factory employee during an early morning fight near the Inner Harbor restaurant, Baltimore Police said Tuesday. The move to arrest Derek Schuler, 24, of Glen Burnie, contradicts previous statements from police that he had tried to diffuse the situation and wouldn't be arrested. According to new charging documents, Schuler had in fact joined in the April 7 fight that left 20-year-old Anthony Black bleeding profusely in front of the World Trade Center building downtown.

Decked out in hot pants and go-go boots, a young Jeanne Bell caught William Donald Schaefer's eye 40 years ago at a City Hall protest. The two went on to have a long but very private relationship. Bell offers a peek into their life together in an article I've written for The Sun's magazine , sharing love notes, home movies, photos and recorded phone messages. The story will appear in the magazine, which comes out Sunday, and is available online now.

A 31-year-old Baltimore man, who stole a gun from one girlfriend to murder another, was sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison Wednesday, the city prosecutors' office announced. Shortly before sentencing, on the same day, a jury convicted Daniel Sullivan, of the 700 block of West Vine Street, of shooting Keenya Jordan to death. He “had a history of attacking Sullivan,” the prosecutors' office said in a statement. Sullivan took the murder weapon from another woman with whom he was romantically involved.

T he big story in Baltimore lately has been about a situation between a former boyfriend and girlfriend. But the story's not about teenagers. The "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are in their 50s. She's the mayor; he's a big-time developer. A few years ago, Baltimore had a police commissioner, Kevin P. Clark, who got into an argument with the woman he lived with. Their dispute made the news. She said she was Mr. Clark's wife. He said she was his fiancée, whom he has been dating for 14 years.

A Cecil County man has been charged with murder after Maryland State Police say he assaulted his girlfriend who died Monday morning of her injuries. David A. Barton, 23, of North East faces charges including second-degree murder and manslaughter as well as assault, according to state police. Based on the preliminary investigation, police say Barton assaulted his girlfriend of six years, Tracy M. Weichert, 23, in the home they shared between Friday and Sunday. He took her to to Union Hospital in Elkton with abdominal pain at about 6 p.m. Sunday.

Baltimore County police charged an Essex man Monday with stabbing his girlfriend after officers found her body wrapped in a blanket on his kitchen floor. Police say John W. Falkenstein Jr. of Essex stabbed Janet Palasik, 48, after the two got into an argument. Palasik's daughter had called 911 Monday to have officers to check on her mother who had gone to Falkenstein's home in the 700 block of Myrth Ave. on Nov. 4, police said. Officers spoke to Falkenstein at the home, and found Palasik, of the 1100 block of Maple Road in Essex, on the kitchen floor covered with a blanket.

A 43-year-old Elkridge man was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for attacking his girlfriend after she had evicted him from the apartment they shared. Donald Joseph Scallio, formerly of the 6000 block of Old Washington Blvd., was sentenced in Howard County Circuit Court to seven years in prison, with all but three years suspended, after he pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree assault and one count of resisting arrest. Scallio had also initially been charged with attempted first-degree rape.

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge sentenced Richard Charles to 65 years in prison Wednesday for a string of sexual assaults on his girlfriend's young daughter. The attacks started when the girl was seven years old and continued until she was nine, according to the State's Attorney's Office. The girl came forward in April 2011 and Charles, 45, was convicted of second degree rape and three counts of sexual abuse of a minor last December. "This was a depraved, unconscionable act of repeated violence and the basest kind of violation of a child's vulnerability," Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein said in a statement.

Super Bowl Sunday arrives, and Nate Smith has an important message for his girlfriend, Darlene Griffin. It goes like this: "Don't be wearin' my slippers. " That's a warning Nate uttered the other day, after cutting my hair in the West Baltimore shop where he styles and teaches the tonsorial arts. He seemed to be asking me to convey the message for him, though I'm sure he's delivered it directly by now: "Don't be wearin' my slippers, Darlene. " Those are Nate's 'Niners slippers, see, a gift from a customer.

The papers and talks shows are full of sad stories about Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o' and his apparently imaginary deceased girlfriend ("We're supposed to be skeptical," Jan. 17). With all the trouble, pathos and good will stories to be told, why are we assaulted with this trash? You'd think that journalists and others in the news media would have more important items on their agenda. F. Cordell, Lutherville Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

A 25-year-old man city police believe fatally stabbed his girlfriend Thursday died hours later after hanging himself in Catonsville. Brandon Jerome Nowlin, whose last known address was in Halethorpe, killed Rebecca Ann Coughenour, 23, of Baltimore, inside her home Thursday, police said. Police categorized the killing as an act of domestic violence. Nowlin and Coughenour had been in a relationship for several years, officers said. Police said the couple had a "prior history of domestic violence.

Terrell Suggs' longtime girlfriend claimed in a protective order filed last month that the Ravens' Pro Bowl outside linebacker punched her in the neck and drove a car containing their two children at a "high rate of speed" while she was being dragged alongside. The reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year has since been ordered to turn over seven guns, including an AK-47, according to a temporary protective order granted by the Baltimore County Circuit Court. Suggs does not face criminal charges related to the alleged early September incident.

Your editorial on the apparent murder-suicide Involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, noted approvingly sportscaster Bob Costas' opinion that "if Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today" ("The tragedy of Jovan Belcher," Dec. 4). Yet consider some other gun-related homicide news: A 41-year-old Dutch man working as a linesman at a youth soccer game, was shot to death by a group of teenage players.

It was business as usual for Patterson junior guard Aquille Carr in Thursday's Class 3A state semifinal game against Tuscarora. At Comcast Center, Carr scored a game-high 24 points in a 70-46 win that sent the No. 3 Clippers to Saturday's state title. The rest of the night - carrying into this morning - was far from the norm for Carr, however.  At approximately 6:35 a.m. this morning, Carr, 18, became a father when his girlfriend, Treshonda, gave birth to a baby girl they named Averi.

For a man said to have been married to the city of Baltimore, William Donald Schaefer had a lot of women fighting over him. His longtime companion, Hilda Mae Snoops, didn't get along with Lainy LeBow-Sachs, an aide since his days in City Hall. The rivalry simmered even after LeBow-Sachs married Baltimore developer Leonard Sachs in 1993. Snoops did not allow LeBow-Sachs into the governor’s mansion, so the latter resorted to sneaking in for her first tour as Schaefer was wrapping up his second term as governor, former Sun reporter C. Fraser Smith wrote in his biography of Schaefer.

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend -- the mother of his 3-month old daughter -- multiple times Saturday morning, drove about five miles from their home to the team's practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium and killed himself in front of Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli, Kansas City police say. Belcher, 25, and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, 22, had been arguing when Belcher shot her just...

A 42-year-old Baltimore man was stabbed in the back during what police believe was a domestic dispute with his girlfriend in Glen Burnie on Sunday morning, according to Anne Arundel County police. The woman, Autumn Mary Marler, 31, has been charged with second-degree attempted murder and related charges, police said. Police responded to an apartment building in the 7700 block of Oakwood Road just before 9:30 a.m. for a reported stabbing and found the man in a staircase with a stab wound to the back and a laceration across his head, police said.