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A man has been arrested in the shooting of his 33-year-old son in Northeast Baltimore early Monday morning, after police said they determined that the son had given a false account of how he was wounded. Larry Grafton Carter, 57, of the 1200 block of Rossiter Ave. was in police custody shortly after noon Monday, about 12 hours after police were called to his home, said Sgt. Anthony Smith, a police spokesman. Just after midnight, police found Carter's son wounded at the home. He told police he was taking out the trash when he heard two shots and was hit in the arm before fleeing inside, Smith said.

Albert Snyder is a soft, bear of a man - more teddy than grizzly - with thinning hair, a trim goatee and tired eyes. He has a folksy, polite manner and speaks with the gentle tone and tempo of a storyteller. But if you mess with his family, he turns fierce. You can see the change whenever the Westboro Baptists of Topeka, Kan., are mentioned. They messed with his son in what he considers an unimaginable way. "You don't go after one of my kids," Snyder said from his lawyer's office in York, Pa. Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, 20, was killed in a Humvee accident in Iraq on March 3, 2006.

A Severn mother who, despite a poison center's admonition to get her son to a hospital immediately, waited until her child began having a seizure from sipping his father's methadone, was placed on three years' probation Friday. Kimberly Brooks, 28, feared a huge hospital bill and so waited to see if the condition of her five-year-old son, who had vomited, would improve - a decision that nearly cost the child his life last Sept. 4, Anne Arundel County prosecutor Sandra Howell told Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Hackner.

What is the world coming to when a parent who is devastated by the loss of a child cannot bury that child in peaceful manner without worrying about protestors whose legal bills he now has been ordered to pay? ("Anger over bill to Marine's dad," March 31.) This family and every other family should have the right to bury their loved ones in peace. This group crashed the son's funeral and spat out hateful things to further devastate an already grieving family, and now that family has to pay for suing them.

My nine-year-old son is an early riser. He gets The Sun in the morning from the end of the driveway, dumps it on the floor and checks out the weather in the bottom right corner, under the fold. He was born on Opening Day, 2002. Since then, the Orioles are a combined 674-904, having finished a combined 262 games out of first place. We have not been above .500 later than Aug. 23 in his lifetime. Last year, we did not spend a single day above .500. This year, the Orioles pitching staff ranks 30th out of 30 MLB teams in earned run average, quality starts, earned runs, runs, hits, doubles, home runs, total bases and wins.

The following is an open letter to my 12-year-old son. Dear Brian, Every morning when I come into your room to wake you for middle school, I pause, for a moment, and marvel. I can still see traces of that kid in the red wool cap and lumberjack coat up on my shoulders in that portrait above your bed. When I look at you, I see a boy bursting with ideas and creativity. When I look at you, I see a boy who honored his daddy's genes, shooting up tall and narrow as bamboo.

A Harford County mother whose son was missing for 40 minutes last week is questioning the public school transportation policy that allows bus drivers to "exercise best judgment" when leaving even their youngest charges at stops without a parent or guardian. Megan Brown said she was frantically searching for her 4-year-old son Jan. 3 after the school bus driver arrived earlier than usual and left the child alone at the family's driveway, which is a third of a mile from their rural home in Darlington.

An elderly husband and wife were found dead in their South Baltimore rowhouse yesterday, police said, and their 32-year-old son was being questioned last night in connection with the deaths.Police found the bodies of Harold Wainwright, 69, and his wife Essie, 62, about 5: 25 p.m in separate, second-floor bedrooms in their two-story Formstone house in the 1100 block of S. Hanover St.Police said the Wainwrights apparently were bludgeoned to death with an ax or another blunt weapon that has not been recovered.

The son of a County Circuit Court judge who was shot and critically wounded Thursday night is recovering, hospital officials in Baltimoresaid yesterday.Mark Alexander Thieme, the 29-year-old son of Judge Raymond G. Thieme Jr., suffered a punctured lung in the shooting at his Chelsea Beach home Thursday night.He was in critical but stable condition yesterday at the MarylandShock Trauma Center. Hospital officials said he was "holding his own."Investigators said they believe the shooting, which occurred about 8:30 p.m. in the hallway of Thieme's home on Riverside Drive, wasaccidental.

In a three-decade rock 'n' roll career, David Crosby has probably supplied enough stories to keep a struggling supermarket tabloid from going out of business.Tales of heroin and cocaine addictions. A nine-month stint in a Texas prison. And a down-to-the-wire liver transplant that saved his life in 1994.But the most remarkable story is just emerging.While Crosby was preparing for his transplant, he learned a son he gave up for adoption in the 1960s had been searching for him. He met the man, James Raymond, and discovered that his abandoned child had grown up to be -- what else?