EXPLORE
August 22, 2011
Registration is now open for the Laurel Police Department's next Citizen's Police Academy. The goal of the Citizen's Police Academy is for citizens to gain an inside view of how law enforcement departments function and operate. The 14-week program includes classroom and hands-on instruction in topics such as major crime investigation, community policing, arrest techniques, officer survival, crime scene investigation and gangs, and includes a ride-along with an on-duty Laurel Police officer.
SPORTS
By Kevin Cowherd, The Baltimore Sun | August 3, 2011
Bubba Smith, the fearsome defensive end who played five seasons for the Baltimore Colts and helped them to victory in Super Bowl V in January 1971, was the very definition of a larger-than-life figure. A 6-foot-7, 250-pound All-American at Michigan State who prompted cries of "Kill, Bubba, Kill!" from Spartans fans, he was the No. 1 pick in the 1967 NFL draft and became a two-time Pro Bowl selection with the Colts before ending his injury-shortened career with the Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann, The Baltimore Sun | March 16, 2011
Thaddeus Allen served two tours in Iraq as an infantryman in the Army, barely escaping injury when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Jeep. His third time out as a newly minted state trooper, the rookie barely escaped again, this time by jumping over a concrete divider just as a suspected drunken driver slammed into the back of his cruiser while stopped on Interstate 95. For the 27-year-old trooper, Friday's narrow miss on the rain-slick highway bore out what instructors had drilled into him at the academy.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann, The Baltimore Sun | January 20, 2011
He circled the track at Northwestern High School six times, completing 1.5 miles in 12 minutes and 28 seconds — four minutes under the cutoff. Gilnord Estime Charles had already passed the civil service exam. His successful run on the morning of Jan. 14 got him one step closer to Baltimore's police academy, and one step closer to fulfilling his dream of being an officer. Then the 29-year-old walked off the track and collapsed. Two other applicants, both paramedics, rushed to his side, and an ambulance took him to Sinai Hospital, where he died.
NEWS
By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun | December 17, 2010
Baltimore's top cop is adding another obligation to his busy schedule next month: part-time student. Speaking at a ceremony Friday for a group of officers enrolled in a leadership certificate program at the University of Maryland University College, Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III disclosed that he would soon be going back to school himself. Bealefeld has a high school diploma. He dropped out of Anne Arundel Community College to join the police academy after suffering a sports injury that dashed his hopes of earning an athletic scholarship.
NEWS
By Larry Carson, The Baltimore Sun | October 18, 2010
A Columbia man on trial for allegedly assaulting Howard County police during a large parking lot brawl in April said Monday that officers beat him after he was handcuffed, bringing up a key issue in his separate, $50 million federal civil lawsuit against the county. Melvin J. Yates Jr., 24, who has the legal support of the county chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was amid a chaotic crowd just after midnight on April 10, both sides agreed in opening statements during the first day of a jury trial before Judge Richard S. Bernhardt in Howard County Circuit Court.