Pasadena

A pit bull attacked a 9-year-old child Wednesday night in Pasadena as the boy played on his bike, police said. The child was with his mother who was visiting a neighbor in the 200 block of Armstrong Lane around 8:18 p.m. when the dog bit the boy on his lower leg. The child was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police said the dog's owner was able to get the animal away from the child. Animal Control officers took the dog into custody. An investigation continues.

The vision is this: At a six-acre wooded campus in Pasadena, Hospice of the Chesapeake has its headquarters, counseling program, a conference center and hospice facility. But the setting includes services, including tutoring and transportation, offered by others. The organization is about to start making that a reality. Ailing trees are being removed in preparation for a $2 million renovation of the offices of a defunct engineering company on a site tucked off Ritchie Highway.

POLICE LOG* Pasadena: A 37-year-old woman reported to police that someone stole her bicycle that was in the back yard of her home in the 1200 block of Holmespun Drive Saturday.

A pit bull attacked a 9-year-old child Wednesday night in Pasadena as the boy played on his bike, police said. The child was with his mother who was visiting a neighbor in the 200 block of Armstrong Lane around 8:18 p.m. when the dog bit the boy on his lower leg. The child was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police said the dog's owner was able to get the animal away from the child. Animal Control officers took the dog into custody. An investigation continues.

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.

Pasadena resident Jessie Ambler is the winner of the DinnerTool.com Slow Cooker Showdown Recipe Contest. Ambler's grand-prize winnng recipe for Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese beat out nearly 200 other entrants in the contest, which appeared on DinnerTool.com, a site run by Procter & Gamble Entertainment in partnership with Digital Works @ NBCU . Over 120,000 total votes were cast in the online contest. Ambler will receive $1,000 and a free KitchenAid slow cooker. You can see Ambler's award-winning Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese recipe here .  

The sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl reported Sunday to authorities in Anne Arundel County is unfounded, police said Friday. The reported sexual assault allegedly occurred on Feb. 14 after the girl left her Pasadena elementary school, according to a statement released Tuesday from Anne Arundel County Police. It had been reported that shortly after 3 p.m. the girl was heading home from Lake Shore Elementary by walking through the Riding Woods neighborhood when a man "grabbed her and pulled her into a wooded area," according to the statement.

Whenever a wayward politician (or staff member) nowadays gets caught, they never admit that they did something wrong. According to them they made a "mistake" ("Disgrace in the Senate," Feb. 19). They make this denial even though they did exactly what they intended. They didn't try to do one thing and it ended up as another, which would be a mistake. It seems that their "mistake" was they got caught. Frederick C. Lohn, Pasadena

When Barbara Huston took a look at the dilapidated Pasadena building that had been offered as new offices to the nonprofit organization she heads, she was taken aback. "It was very dark, and there was a lot of mold. When I walked through, the carpet — it was like walking through a golf green after it rained. " recalled the chief executive officer of Partners In Care, a 19-year-old agency devoted to helping senior citizens remain in their own homes. "I thought, 'Oh, my God,'" That was last year.

Annapolis Police arrested a 30-year-old Pasadena man Jan. 10 for a hit-run-accident that seriously injured a bicyclist in August. Jason Ryan Bowen of Colchester Court was charged with failure to immediately stop his vehicle at the scene of accident involving bodily injury, failure to provide an ID and license, reckless driving, negligent driving and failure to control speed to avoid collision, police said Friday. Bowen also failed to exercise due care to avoid a pedestrian collision.

A 39-year-old Pasadena man was sentenced to life in prison — for the second time — Thursday in the contract killing of his fiancee 16 years ago, the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office announced. Robert Dwayne Harris hired a hit man to stage a robbery and murder Teresa Lynn McLeod, who was shot five times in the back in a Southwest Baltimore parking lot, in order to collect on a $150,000 insurance policy, not knowing he wasn't listed as a beneficiary. A jury convicted him of the crime in 1997, after hearing testimony that he may have been the actual trigger man after his accomplice got cold feet.

A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge sentenced a Bloods gang leader to life plus 20 years for his role in the kidnapping and fatal shooting of a rival gang leader three years ago. Dajuan Marshall, leader of the Spider Gang, a subset of the Bounty Hunter Bloods in Baltimore, was convicted earlier this month of first-degree murder in the slaying in of Kenneth Jones. Jones was the leader of the Pasadena Denver Lanes Bloods gang in Baltimore. Marshall and an accomplice, who was also convicted this month, kidnapped Jones at gunpoint in June 2008 in downtown Baltimore, and shoved him into the trunk of a car. Jones was shot multiple times in the head with a .45 caliber handgun, and police found his body in the trunk of the car less than an hour later in Northwest Baltimore.