Police Search

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the chest in Aberdeen on Saturday night, police said. Officers from the Aberdeen Police Department were called at about 7:30 p.m. to the 200 block of Edmund St., where they found the injured teen, police said. He was taken to Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace. Police did not have an update on his condition Saturday night. Police are searching for two men and two women who may have fled the scene. Anyone with information is asked to call 410-272-2121.

Baltimore County Police said a man suffered non-life-threatening injuries after he was assaulted and cut outside a Towson shopping center by two men Thursday night. Officers were called to Loch Raven Boulevard and Taylor Avenue at 9:14 p.m. where they say a man in his late 20s was beaten and cut with a box cutter causing, him to lose consciousness. The victim was taken to a local hospital for serious injuries, but he is expected to survive, police said. His identity was not released Thursday.

A bomb threat at the Lowe's store at Westview Shopping Center in Catonsville caused the store to be evacuated Wednesday afternoon, Baltimore County police said. An unidentified person called the store in the 5900 block of Baltimore National Pike just after 4 p.m. and said there was a bomb in the store, and store management immediately evacuated the building, police said. Police responded shortly after with bomb-sniffing dogs, said Louise Rogers-Feher, a Baltimore County police spokeswoman.

Baltimore County police are seeking the public's assistance in locating a missing 15-year-old girl from the North Point area. Maria Victoria Lafage of the 2000 block of Kelmore Road has not had any contact with family or friends for a few days, according to police. County officers went Monday to Lafage's home after her parents reported that she left the house without their knowledge. Police said Lafage suffers from a serious medical condition, which is unknown to her, and needs to receive treatment.

Police released yesterday a composite sketch of a man they believe robbed a priest and two workers at gunpoint of several thousand dollars in collection money and threatened to kill a secretary in the rectory of a Northeast Baltimore church Monday. Edwin Day, the Baltimore Police Department's chief of police detectives, said yesterday that police were flooding the area near the Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church with extra officers, and detectives were trying to uncover more clues.

When registered sex offenders don't tell authorities where they're living, the police usually head out to knock on some doors. But that might not do any good when a sex offender lives, as the state registry puts it in some cases, on "Homeless Avenue." Baltimore County police said yesterday that they were looking for two homeless sex offenders who failed to report their whereabouts. The search for Thomas Joseph Gauthier and Ronald Roland Ellison illustrates the challenge of keeping tabs on criminals who have no real address.

City police say a 29-year-old man died after he was assaulted inside a home in Northeast Baltimore and have charged another man in his death but they continue to search for the victim's car. Derrick Cross was found by officers inside a residence in the 4400 block of Plainfield Ave. in the Parkside neighborhood, east of Herring Run Park, just before midnight Tuesday. Terrance Parker, 30, has been charged with first degree murder and related charges, police said, but no motive has been determined.

A pizza delivery driver fought off five would-be robbers with a metal pipe Friday in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County police said. One of the suspects assaulted the 24-year-old driver around 7:30 p.m. when he exited his vehicle to make the delivery. Five suspects approached the driver and tried to rob him. One man assaulted the victim who fought off the suspects using a metal pipe he had with him. The suspects didn't get anything from the Pizza Hut driver, police said. Several officers including a K-9 and aviation unit were called in to search the area.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - A fatal shooting at a gas station here yesterday set off a huge manhunt that brought Interstate 95 to a crawl for hours, in what police say is likely the latest strike by a serial sniper terrorizing the Washington area. In driving rain and heavy mist, the gunman somehow slithered through the police dragnet, despite the fact that the latest attack was among the most daring - the 53-year-old victim was shot a short distance from a state trooper who happened to be across the street at the time.

A West Virginia woman sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing a teenage romantic rival and her infant daughter lost an appeal yesterday to Maryland's second-highest court. The Court of Special Appeals upheld the police search and seizure of a blood-spattered minivan that Sonya Daniels was found driving in Martinsburg, W.Va., hours after Deanne Prichard, 16, and 5-week-old Makayla Frost were shot Oct. 19, 2002, outside Prichard's Walkersville home. Lawyers from the state Office of the Public Defender had argued that Martinsburg police stopped the minivan, owned by Daniels' father, without probable cause.