Glen Burnie

Hundreds of people lined up on sun-drenched asphalt Saturday to see if they could get regular payouts, in the form of paychecks, from the new Maryland Live! Casino, a slots casino scheduled to open at Arundel Mills mall in about three months. "I hope I get lucky enough to get a position," said Mark Ellison, who's from West Baltimore. "They want people who are willing to go the extra mile so customers come in and enjoy spending their money. " The operators of what will be the state's largest casino hosted a job fair Saturday with the Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corp.

An Odenton man who tricked a mentally disabled Glen Burnie postal worker into giving him more than $250,000 over the course of three years pleaded guilty Wednesday to exploiting a vulnerable adult, according to Anne Arundel County prosecutors. Eugene Allen Hinson, Jr., 59, of the 1300 block of Tab St. in Odenton was sentenced by Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Paul Hackner to serve 18 months of a 10-year prison term, prosecutors said in a news release. Hackner also required Hinson to pay full restitution to Thomas "Tommy" Newberger, 50, who is mentally retarded and has worked various jobs at the U.S. Post Office in Glen Burnie for about 30 years, prosecutors said.

When Nikki Green walked into the district courthouse in Glen Burnie on a recent afternoon, she had no idea how to begin her quest to unravel a dispute over a car payment. But after sitting with an attorney designated to help people who want to tackle claims on their own, she learned what papers to file and where and when to do it, and received a briefing on court deadlines and procedures. The cost: nothing. "I knew what I wanted to do, and I didn't know how to do it," said Green, a Severna Park nurse.

A Baltimore man serving a 60-year murder sentence now faces life without parole in an unrelated homicide in Glen Burnie, after he was convicted Monday of the first-degree murder of Dr. Albert Woonho Ro. Dante Jeter, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced July 24 in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court for his role in the fatal beating, stabbing and robbery on Sept. 26, 2006, of Ro, 51, a dentist well-known in the area's Korean-American community. Prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess said she intends to seek life without parole for the murder, plus another life sentence for Jeter's conviction of conspiring with his cousin, Shontay Joyner Hickman, 37, also of Baltimore, and possibly additional time for a robbery conviction.

Seven men arrested on drug chargesCounty police have charged four Glen Burnie men and a Baltimore man with possession of PCP with intent to distribute in two separate incidents. They also charged two others with possession of the drug in one of those incidents.In one case, four men were arrested Tuesday night at a Shell station in the 7900 block of Ritchie Highway by a police officer who investigated what he said was "suspicious activity" near a 1981 Buick on the lot.The officer smelled a strong odor of PCP coming from inside the vehicle.

A Baltimore man serving a 60-year murder sentence now faces life without parole in an unrelated homicide in Glen Burnie, after he was convicted Monday of the first-degree murder of Dr. Albert Woonho Ro. Dante Jeter, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced July 24 in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court for his role in the fatal beating, stabbing and robbery on Sept. 26, 2006, of Ro, 51, a dentist well-known in the area's Korean-American community. Prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess said she intends to seek life without parole for the murder, plus another life sentence for Jeter's conviction of conspiring with his cousin, Shontay Joyner Hickman, 37, also of Baltimore, and possibly additional time for a robbery conviction.

A Beltsville technology company that bought a former department store building in Glen Burnie said this week it plans to convert it into a sprawling data center for government and commercial customers. Privately-held AiNet Corp., which owns and operates data centers and fiber optic networks, bought the former Boscov's department store building at Marley Station Mall in January for $1.6 million from an arm of General Growth Properties. Deepak Jain, AiNet's founder and president, said his company is ramping up operations this spring and summer at the 300,000-square-foot facility.

A 25-year-old Glen Burnie man was charged with stabbing another man during a fight Saturday, Anne Arundel County police said. Ravon Tyrone Anderson was charged with attempted murder, assault and reckless endangerment. Responding to a call just after 11 p.m., Anne Arundel Police found three men fighting in the street in the 1400 block of Saunders Way, Glen Burnie. A witness was able to disarm the suspect, police said. A 20-year-old Glen Burnie man suffered multiple stab wounds to his upper and lower torso, police said.

Anne Arundel County lost a white elephant and gained a major new employer yesterday when a distributor of Armstrong flooring bought the former Cardinal Industries modular home-building factory for nearly $7million.J.J. Haines & Co. Inc. will move its corporate offices and wholesale distributing business from overcrowded Baltimore headquarters to the Glen Burnie plant, where it will employ 150 people, company officials said.At a public foreclosure auction at the Aviation Drive plant, J.J. Haines bid $6.7 million for the 35-acre property and warehouse containing 225,000 square feet of manufacturing space and 16,000 square feet of two-story office space.

Anne Arundel County Police said a pedestrian was struck and killed early Sunday morning while trying to cross a road in Glen Burnie. At about 3:29 a.m., county police and fire departments responded to a report of a crash involving a pedestrian in the area of Furnace Branch Road and South Meadow Road, police said. Upon arrival, officers found a 1999 Chrysler 300 stopped in the northbound lane near the double yellow line, police said. Lying in the southbound lane of Furnace Branch Road next to the Chrysler was a man who was unresponsive, police said.

A 42-year-old man died early Thursday morning from injuries sustained after the vehicle he was driving hit a tree in the Glen Burnie area. Rafet Gerigiden of the unit block of Marley Neck Road in Glen Burnie was trapped in the vehicle with extensive injuries and pronounced dead at the scene on Route 10 near Furnace Branch Road, police said. Officers responded at 1:43 a.m. to a report of a collision and found a 2004 Ford Ranger pickup off the road in the woods. The initial investigation showed that the driver was traveling south on Route 10, when his vehicle left the road for unknown reasons and continued into a wooded area, until it struck a tree.

Colleges Terps ' Vellano named to IMPACT watch list   Maryland defensive lineman Joe Vellano was named to the Lott IMPACT Trophy watch list, which honors the top college defensive player in the country. The list of 42 players, including seven from the Atlantic Coast Conference, was announced at a luncheon Monday held by Ronnie Lott, the NFL Hall of Fame safety, and the Pacific Club IMPACT Foundation. Vellano, who will be a senior in the fall, was a second-team All-American and a consensus first-team All-ACC choice last season.

A pedestrian struck Sunday night while walking on Route 100 near Route 97 in Glen Burnie has died at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Dwayne Rauchhaus, 31, whose last known address was the 300 block of William Way in Stevensville, died at 10:45 a.m. Monday as a result of his injuries, police said. Witnesses had told police they had seen a man walking in the travel lane of the highway and darting in and out of traffic shortly before midnight. He was hit by a 2010 Hyundai Elantra, driven by a 16-year-old girl, police said.

Police in Anne Arundel County are investigating three separate car accidents Friday and early Saturday in Annapolis, Glen Burnie and Pasadena that left seven people hospitalized, according to authorities. The first occurred on Friday about 5:30 p.m. at East College Parkway and Revell Downs Road in Annapolis. Police said two cars collided at the intersection, and the female driver of one of the vehicles suffered serious head injuries. She was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in serious condition.

Dr. Richard T. Koritzer Sr., who practiced dentistry in Glen Burnie for 50 years and whose thirst for knowledge resulted in his earning a master's degree when he was 84, died Thursday from blood clots at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The Glen Burnie resident was 85. The son of a dental technician and a homemaker, he was born in Baltimore and raised on Eutaw Place and later in the city's Pimlico neighborhood. He was 14 when he began working for his father, who owned Southern Dental Laboratory.

I now fell much safer knowing that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations authorities have captured the flea market gang that was threatening our country with phony merchandise ("Counterfeits long suspected at market," April 24). It seems to me that they could have deputized a Boy Scout troop led by a couple crossing guards to apprehend these desperadoes while homeland security folks were stopping the daily flood of illegal immigrants, including terrorists, from entering the country.

As relatives of a Columbia teen-ager slain in a rough Pasadena neighborhood held hands, an Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge sentenced yesterday one of two Glen Burnie men convicted of his murder to 50 years in prison. "That a young man like you would spend a substantial part of your life incarcerated is such a tragedy," Judge Robert H. Heller Jr. told Keith Lamont Mallett, 21, before sentencing him in what prosecutors have described as a robbery gone awry. The crime, said the judge, "boggles the mind."

Anne Arundel County deputy sheriffs arrested 22 men in raids throughout the county yesterday on deadbeat-dad charges. The men were charged with being a total of more than $88,200 in arrears in child support payments, deputies said.The raids began about 3 a.m. and continued until 11 a.m. Among those arrested was a man charged with being $11,209 behind in child support payments, three charged with owing more than $7,000 each and four charged with owing more than $6,000 each, according to the sheriff's department.

I have been watching the congressional hearings on the waste, fraud and abuses of public servants in the General Service Administration who spent more than $800,000 on a "conference" trip to Las Vegas. And according to the Inspector General's Office that was just the tip of the iceberg. The really frustrating aspect of this is twofold. First, this occurred in 2010 and was discovered soon after. The exact time is difficult to ascertain from the hearings since there is so much double-talk, but the Inspector General began an investigation.

Those folks at Mission BBQ are serious about their commitment to honoring America's men and women in uniform. At Thursday's, "Lunch with the Heroes" event, the Glen Burnie restaurant will be providing a complimentary lunch to more than 25 Wounded Warrior Project alumni. The owners of Mission BBQ , Bill Kraus and Steve Newton, will also present a $10,000 check to the Wounded Warrior Project, money they've raised through the sale of through the sale of the restaurant's American Heroes Cups.