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By Howard Libit and Howard Libit,Sun Staff Writer Sun staff writer Peter Hermann contributed to this article | July 15, 1994
Baltimore's mayor and state's attorney lashed out at the city police union yesterday, saying union officials have made inappropriate comments about an investigation into the death of a West Baltimore man who some witnesses say was beaten by police as he was being arrested.Also yesterday, the state medical examiner's office announced it had completed an autopsy report on Jesse Chapman's body and had forwarded a copy to State's Attorney Stuart O. Simms. But authorities refused to release a copy to the public, saying the investigation remains in a sensitive stage.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | January 29, 2004
FRUITLAND - The death of a Wicomico County public defender whose body was found Tuesday in his parked pickup truck has been ruled a suicide by the state medical examiner's office. An autopsy performed yesterday determined that Anthony T. Carozza, 40, died of multiple cut wounds to his wrists, complicated by hypothermia, according to Dr. Laron Locke of the medical examiner's office. Carozza, who lived in Salisbury's Coulborn Mill Village neighborhood, was found about 4 a.m. in the truck, which was parked beside a recreational complex in Fruitland.
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March 19, 1997
Jim McConn, 68, mayor of Houston in the boom years of 1978 to 1982, died Friday of cancer in Houston.Joseph H. McConnell, 90, a former NBC president and retired president of Reynolds Metals Co., died Thursday in Atlanta.Victor Vasarely, 90, whose strong geometric designs and use of optical illusions made him a master of Op Art, died Saturday in Paris after a two-year battle with prostate cancer. Among his best-recognized works is a three-dimensional portrait of President Georges Pompidou, hanging at the Beaubourg Center in Paris.
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By Lisa Goldberg and Joe Nawrozki and Lisa Goldberg and Joe Nawrozki,SUN STAFF | November 19, 2004
Thirty-two years after the death of his 5-year-old brother, a man's suspicions about their mother's involvement sparked a re-examination of the Baltimore County case that led to her arrest in Florida this week on a murder charge, police said yesterday. Richard A. Coffman, now 35, sent an e-mail to Baltimore County police through the department's Web site July 9, saying he believed that his mother, Diane B. Coffman, was responsible for his brother's death in 1972, said Bill Toohey, a department spokesman.
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April 9, 1991
Joseph A. Scalia II, a University of Baltimore law student, said yesterday that the state medical examiner's office on Penn Street will serve as a backdrop when he announces his candidacy today as a Republican contender for mayor of Baltimore.Mr. Scalia said the medical examiner's office, which houses the morgue, is an appropriate place to kick off his candidacy because he intends to make an issue of the soaring number of homicides in the city. As of yesterday, there had been 80 homicides in Baltimore during 1991, police spokeswoman Arlene Arlene K. Jenkins said, four more than during the same period in 1990.
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By GREGORY KANE | May 18, 2002
HOW'S THIS for sheer baffling irony? Folks gathered in the City Council chamber Tuesday to excoriate Baltimore police Commissioner Ed Norris. Three African-Americans -- one former lieutenant and two officers still on the force -- said that the disparity in discipline for black and white cops still exists. That's a horrible double standard, they moaned, apparently oblivious to the other double standard. It's the one they applied to Norris, the white guy. Has there ever been a black police commissioner -- and there have been several -- who's gone through this type of reconfirmation hearing?