Kitchen Knife

A police officer serving a routine burglary warrant inside a Northeast Baltimore house shot and killed the suspect yesterday morning, officials said, after the man lunged at the officer with a kitchen knife in a cramped, second-floor bathroom. The city's second fatal shooting by an officer in as many days prompted Commissioner Edward T. Norris to visit the scene on Montpelier Street in Clifton Park and talk to residents upset about police use of deadly force. The dead man was identified as Raymond Askins, 39. He is the eighth person to be shot by a city police officer this year, and the fourth to die - equaling in five months the number of people killed by police in all of last year.

Citing the "bravery of two" but noting the "valor of all" their colleagues, the state's governor and city's mayor lauded Thursday the workers who helped save an infant being stabbed at a social services office in East Baltimore. William Purnell Short III hit the suspect with a chair, forcing her to drop the infant, and Dana Hayes screamed for help, prompting a flurry of 911 calls that got police and paramedics quickly to the social services complex on Biddle Street on April 24. Short held the suspect — who police said bit him on the hands — until police arrived.

Last week, without permits, drawings or inspections -- and without much experience -- I built a house in two days. I glued it together using flimsy materials. In the process, half of the roof slid off, and the other half broke up. The walls were structurally unsound. I glossed over mistakes with decorations, ran over budget with abandon and even subcontracted the landscaping to my 5-year-old. And yet, the new inhabitants couldn't be happier. You see, I'm a gingerbread house contractor.

Baltimore area police hunted yesterday for a 26-year-old state Department of Corrections employee who fled from officers after his wife and two young sons were found stabbed to death in their Essex townhouse.The suspect, Michael Antonio Reese, sped away from a Baltimore patrolman who had stopped him for running a red light at 9:45 a.m., an hour after Baltimore County police discovered the bodies of his wife, Rhonda, 24, and his sons Michael, 7, and Kenneth, 3.Officers checked the Reese home in the first block of Spicewood Court at the request of Mr. Reese's mother, who said that her son had threatened to kill his family and himself, according to Sgt. Stephen R. Doarnberger, a county police spokesman.

Chesapeake Knife & Tool stores are like the Swiss Army knives that line their shelves: They are easily accessible, compact, and have a variety of toys and tools tucked in every corner. That design has been a secret of success for the Columbia-based chain of 19 stores - one of the largest chains of specialty cutlery stores in the country - and it's the formula that founder Mel Herman hopes will propel the 23-year-old company forward. Chesapeake Knife & Tool has grown for several years at a pace of nearly one store a year, but next year, if the economy stabilizes or improves, the company might add three or four new locations, Herman said.

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...

LT. OWEN E. SWEENEY, 47, was doing paperwork Wednesday, when he heard an emergency call. He decided his place was on the scene. While trying to pacify a mental patient, a shotgun blast killed the 28-year police veteran.In some ways, the Northeast Baltimore confrontation was an eerie reminder of an incident that took place in Homeland 16 months ago. A mentally ill woman, distraught and armed with a kitchen knife, was killed after she lunged at officers. Advocates of the mentally ill attacked police behavior, saying that despite her knife, the more numerous officers should have been able to overpower her or defuse the crisis with the aid of psychiatrists.

The call came into the Baltimore County emergency dispatch center just after midnight. An unidentified woman asked police respond to a home in Parkville. She didn't say why. When officers arrived in the first minutes of Sunday, they found 26-year-old Paul White Jr., who had been released from the county jail less than three months earlier, leaving his family's home, police said. Inside, White's mother was found unconscious and bleeding from at least one stab wound from a kitchen knife, and his sister was also found stabbed and bleeding, police said.

Our troupe of chefs enter the kitchen still reeling over the Grand Canyon field trip. “What a filling!” says Thierry. Or maybe that was “feeling”. Tricky French accent. He also reveals he's feeling much more competitive now that he's won an elimination challenge. Curtis announces the Quickfire challenge: create two versions of the same dish - one with meat and one vegetarian. Judging the dishes will be Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, otherwise known as the rock duo the Indigo Girls.

A 12-year-old honor student in Mount Airy is paying the price for committing a random act of kindness.Christine Rhodes' school record is marred, her dreams of playing in the school band jeopardized. Her crime: She shared her asthma medication with a fellow student who was having a severe asthma attack.Brandy Dyer, 13, had the attack while riding the bus home from school April 22. She was gasping for air and numb in her feet and hands. So, as the bus driver dialed 911, Christine gave Brandy her asthma inhaler.