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The 19-year-old man charged with fatally stabbing Dennis Lane allegedly told investigators that his girlfriend had instructed him to kill her father and his fiancee, specifying the number of times each was to be stabbed in the throat - 10 for him and 15 for her. Jason Anthony Bulmer charging documents In a conversation at school hours before the Ellicott City blogger and businessman was killed, Jason Anthony Bulmer said, 14-year-old Morgan...

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.

Former NBA player Oliver J. Miller was sentenced Friday to a year in the Anne Arundel County jail for pistol-whipping his girlfriend's brother in Arnold. Miller, 41, who was living with his girlfriend in Edgewater, pleaded guilty last fall to first-degree assault and carrying a handgun. "I apologize for the wrong I've done," Miller told Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Paul A. Hackner. He said he is "just a man protecting the people I love. " The allegations stemmed from a family argument at a cookout April 17 at a friend's home.

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.

After speaking privately with homicide detectives investigating the death of the girlfriend of a man charged with dealing heroin, a judge ordered that the man be released to a Baltimore halfway house while awaiting trial on federal drug charges. But federal prosecutors immediately appealed the ruling, effectively blocking the release of Jermarl A. Jones before a U.S. district judge conducts another hearing next week. The decision came at the end of a detention hearing during which a deputy U.S. marshal detailed his nearly seven-month search for Jones and the ways he believed Jones and his girlfriend attempted to evade authorities hunting for him. Jones, 31, of Hyattsville was arrested last month on a year-old federal indictment that charged him with conspiring to sell heroin.

A 41-year-old Wheaton man now charged with four Montgomery County murders and a Catonsville carjacking was convicted of trying to choke his ex-girlfriend and stabbing her companion with two butcher knives after lying in wait under her bed for an hour in 1982.The portrait of Alan Patterson Newman that emerges from the record in Montgomery County Circuit Court is of a disturbed, suicidal and sometimes violent man, whose jealousy erupted into rage 10 years ago, when he tangled with the criminal justice system and received probation and an order to continue seeing a psychiatrist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 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 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.

Anne Arundel police have charged a 29-year-old homeless man with attempted murder. Louis Vaden also faces assault charges stemming from an incident involving his girlfriend Monday in Brooklyn Park. The victim told police that the suspect had violently assaulted her early in the day in a wooded area behind the 6000 block of Ritchie Highway, where the couple had been living. Investigators said the two became involved in an argument that led to an altercation. The suspect dragged the victim through a bonfire, police said.