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Baltimore officials plan to give $100,000 to the family of man shot and killed by police in a North Baltimore alley four years ago. The city spending panel, the Board of Estimates, is expected on Wednesday to approve the payment to settle a multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought by the family of Shawn Corey Cannady, who was 30 at the time of his death. On March 6, 2009, Baltimore Police Officer Jemell Rayam and two other detectives were driving past an alley near the 2800 block of W. Garrison Ave., when they saw Cannady with his "hands in his waist area," according to board documents.

The following is compiled from police reports. It is the Baltimore Messenger's policy to include descriptions only when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Baltimore City Police Department's Northern District at 410-396-2455. Amberly Way 100 block, between 3 and 4:15 p.m. May 14. Handbag, ID, credit cards stolen from vehicle. Art Museum Drive Unit block, between 6:15 and 7:30 p.m. May 14. Toshiba laptop stolen from vehicle.

Pietro "Pete" Rugolo, the popular owner of Jerry's Belvedere Tavern on York Road in Govans, died May 8 at Gilchrist Hospice Care of pancreatic cancer. The Lutherville resident was 75. Mr. Rugolo grew up in Enna, Sicily, where he stopped attending school after the fifth grade. In 1965 he fell in love with Beatrice Varelli, a woman he had known since childhood; she had returned to Sicily after living a while in America. The two married in 1966 and moved to Baltimore the next year. She worked as a seamstress at Lebow Brothers and Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. He worked as a heavy equipment mechanic at Marocco Construction in Towson.

Baltimore officials plan to give $100,000 to the family of man shot and killed by police in a North Baltimore alley four years ago. The city spending panel, the Board of Estimates, is expected on Wednesday to approve the payment to settle a multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought by the family of Shawn Corey Cannady, who was 30 at the time of his death. On March 6, 2009, Baltimore Police Officer Jemell Rayam and two other detectives were driving past an alley near the 2800 block of W. Garrison Ave., when they saw Cannady with his "hands in his waist area," according to board documents.

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Baltimore police have identified the man who died early Thursday after he was shot in the Woodbourne-McCabe neighborhood. A police spokesman said Sean Ramseur, 40, of the 500 block of Sheridan Ave. was found in the rear of the block with a wound to the back. An officer on patrol in the 5200 block of York Road heard gunshots about 11:30 p.m. and went to investigate, spokesman Kevin Hagan said. Ramseur was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:15 a.m., Hagan said.

A man was shot during an attempted carjacking in North Baltimore early Friday morning, according to Baltimore Police. Based on preliminary reports, a 23-year-old driving in the 4500 block of Northwood Drive in the New Northwood neighborhood at 2:36 a.m. was shot in the lower abdomen, said city police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. The victim was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in critical condition, police said. No further information was available.

A food delivery man was robbed and stabbed late Sunday in North Baltimore, police said. The man apparently had been trying to deliver food to a home in the 1000 block of Dartmouth Road, in the Chinquapin Park-Belvedere neighborhood, when he was approached by three men dressed in dark clothing. After taking his money and personal items, the men stabbed the victim and fled, police said. Officers found the man about 11:30 p.m. near the 1000 block of E. Northern Parkway. He was taken to a nearby hospital, but police had no word on his condition.

City police are investigating a reported rape that occurred Thursday night in North Baltimore, with a woman reporting a man broke into her home and attacked her. The incident occurred in the 3900 block of Frisby Street, on the border of Pen Lucy and Waverly, at about 11 p.m. Police say an 18-year-old woman said she was in her bedroom when a masked suspected armed with a handgun entered the home and sexually assaulted her.  The suspect took...

A man was shot multiple times in North Baltimore about 10 p.m. Thursday, according to police. Police responded to reports of gunfire in the 1000 block of Evesham Avenue in the Chinquapin Park-Belvedere neighborhood, where they found the man. Detectives were on the scene late Thursday investigating, police said. No further information was immediately available. krector@baltsun.com twitter.com/rectorsun

Pietro "Pete" Rugolo, the popular owner of Jerry's Belvedere Tavern on York Road in Govans, died May 8 at Gilchrist Hospice Care of pancreatic cancer. The Lutherville resident was 75. Mr. Rugolo grew up in Enna, Sicily, where he stopped attending school after the fifth grade. In 1965 he fell in love with Beatrice Varelli, a woman he had known since childhood; she had returned to Sicily after living a while in America. The two married in 1966 and moved to Baltimore the next year. She worked as a seamstress at Lebow Brothers and Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. He worked as a heavy equipment mechanic at Marocco Construction in Towson.

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I showed up at the door of a Greenway home I've admired for years. Charles B. Reeves — who goes by "Sprat" — greeted me with his enthusiastic welcome: "Delighted. " For the next 90 minutes I tried to take notes about his version of the history of North Baltimore's Guilford. "I was born in 1923. Huzzah!" said the neighborhood patriarch. I posed a few questions about Guilford's centennial, an event that is being celebrated Sunday with a house and garden tour. Who else but this retired Venable attorney, fox hunter and Austrian skier could tell me where the bodies were buried?

America is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis - Baltimore, too. Ten million families are paying more than 50 percent of their monthly income on rent, a severe cost burden that leaves little for food and other necessities. Over 32,000 applicants (and counting) are on the Housing Authority of Baltimore City's waiting lists. Public housing authorities can only do so much. With limited, dwindling public resources, private dollars are needed now more than ever to help create affordable housing.

Designed by the influential Baltimore architects Edward L. Palmer and William D. Lamdin in 1925 and built in 1928, the home at 101 Witherspoon Road is one of the premier properties in Homeland. This North Baltimore home is built of local stone with a Vermont slate roof, and it has over 7,000 square feet of living space. The property is being offered by Hill & Co. Realtors for $1.25 million. "It's a unique property with one of the largest lots in Homeland," said Mary Lynne Mullican, the listing agent for Hill & Co. "The wrought-iron work on the back loggia is beautiful.

Frances H. Mueller, a retired educator who had chaired the Bryn Mawr School's English department and also taught at Towson University, died March 24 of complications from dementia at Roland Park Place. She was 94. Born and raised on her parents' farm in Painesville, Ohio, Frances Heckathorne was a graduate of local public schools. After earning a bachelor's degree in 1939 from Lake Erie College, Mrs. Mueller taught English from 1943 to 1946 at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pa. While at Penn State, she earned a master's degree in English from Columbia University in 1945, and the next year married William Randolph Mueller, a philosopher, clergyman, literary historian and author.

A 22-year-old man was critically wounded after being shot in the Charles North neighborhood early Friday morning, according to Baltimore Police. The incident occurred at 12:30 a.m., in the 1900 block of Maryland Ave., police said. The victim was standing at a bus stop when he was approached by two people, police spokesman Detective Kevin Brown said. One pulled out a gun and fired, hitting the victim twice in the back, chief police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. The victim was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment, Guglielmi said.

When Nancy Aiken talks to students in Baltimore's Orthodox Jewish community about domestic violence and sexual assaults, she asks the boys a simple question: How many of you want to grow up to be a perpetrator of violence? Aiken knows the students mean it when they say, 'No, not me.' But she also knows, statistically, that some will, indeed, become wife beaters or sexual predators. "There is only so much we can do to train our young women how not to be victims," said Aiken, executive director of the Counseling, Helpline and Aid Network for Abused Women, or CHANA.

A 49-year-old man is recovering from multiple broken bones and fractures after being struck by a light rail train in North Baltimore on Saturday night, according to a Maryland Transit Administration spokesman. Emergency responders were called to the tracks just south of the Woodberry station about 8:45 p.m. Saturday and found the injured man, who has not been publicly identified, said Terry Owens, administration spokesman. The man had been "walking on or near the tracks" when he was struck by a northbound train, Owens said.