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Local police in Oklahoma said a Pikesville man identified as a suspect in his grandparents' deaths was unresponsive when they found him in a motel just off Interstate 40 last week. Matthew Long, 31, was scheduled to check out of the Travel Inn on historic Route 66 in Weatherford, Okla., on the morning of Sept. 11, but, when he did not leave his room, the motel's owner called police. "We found Mr. Long basically unresponsive," said Detective Todd Doyals with the Weatherford, Okla., Police Department.

Baltimore police on Wednesday identified the two officers who fired their service weapons at a man who'd allegedly threatened them with a gun Saturday as Detectives Christopher Icenroad and Donta Williams. Both detectives are members of the department's Violent Crime Impact Section. Police also identified the man shot by the officers as Leontey Kiah, 36, whose last known address is the 4000 block of W. Rogers Avenue. Kiah sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the altercation with police.

Anthony W. Batts, the former Long Beach and Oakland chief who is poised to become Baltimore's next police commissioner, is making the rounds - shaking hands with officers, speaking at district roll calls and joining citizens on neighbor walks. The city police union has said that they are looking forward to Batts taking the helm, but within the department many are grousing about the prospect of an outsider turning the agency upside-down. It's not unexpected until Batts gets a chance to prove himself.

Baltimore's next police commissioner believes the drug trade is at the core of crime problems from car break-ins to gang killings. And it's an issue that Anthony W. Batts says he's seen up close. "I have relatives who have had addiction problems, and they didn't solve those problems until they got into treatment," he said, referring to family in the Baltimore area. "Trying to stem those issues will stem some of the property crime issues and some of the violence. I think it's all connected.

A 46-year-old man died after he was stabbed Thursday night during an argument in Laurel, and a 20-year-old man has been charged on multiple counts, according to the Howard County police department. Officers were called around 7:15 p.m. Thursday to the 10000 block of North 2nd Street in Laurel, police officials said. They found Robert Lynn Foster of Savage lying near the entrance to the Midway mobile home park with stab wounds. Foster was taken to Laurel Regional Hospital with stab wounds and was pronounced dead there, according to police.

Enforcement of a three-year-old Annapolis law levying fines for false security alarms will begin Sept. 1 as city police start cracking down on businesses and residences. Property owners will get a pass for the first two false alarms; for the third and fourth within a year, a civil fine of $100 will be assessed. That jumps to $200 for subsequent false alarms. The clock doesn't start ticking anew until 365 days pass with no false alarm, said Annapolis Police Maj. Scott Baker. Responding to false alarms costs the city money - an estimated $60 to $65 per officer responding, and sometimes two are sent.

Baltimore police are close to making an arrest in a triple shooting that critically injured a 9-year-old boy, which would be the third high-profile case closed in as many days.  The police department posted a message to its Twitter account saying that a man had been arrested in the shooting, which occurred Sunday night in the 400 block of Bloom St. in Druid Heights, but soon after said the suspect was still at large.  Two men who a spokesmen said...

A 19-year-old man died Tuesday night after he was shot in the 1700 block of Cole Street in South Baltimore, according to the Baltimore City police department. According to the police department, officers responded to a call about a shooting on Cole Street at 11:17 p.m. and found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the torso at the intersection of Monroe Street and Wilkens Avenue. The victim was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11:48 p.m. His identity has not been released and no arrests had been made as of 7 a.m. Wednesday.

Baltimore County's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled the January death of a 91-year-old woman from Cockeysville a homicide - and as a result, her daughter has been indicted for manslaughter. Police said that on Jan. 17, at 3:33 p.m., county medical personnel were dispatched to the 1000 block of Hidden Moss Drive, and found Audrey Caslow, 91, in a bathroom. Medical personnel determined that she had been there for two days, according to a press released from police. She lived at the home with her daughter, Sharon Caslow.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake needs to do some serious soul searching. In the past four months she has sounded more like a despot than a democratically elected mayor. How can she refuse to pay damages to lead paint victims, renege on a $150,000 payment the city agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit against the police department, or allow the Department of Public Works to make excuses for not collecting millions in unpaid water bills? Her house is not in order. She has lost sight of one of her signature initiatives - enticing 10,000 more families to live in the city.