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By Nicole Fuller | July 2, 2009
A 16-year-old boy admitted Wednesday that he took part in the firebombing of a Piney Orchard townhouse that was intended as retaliation for the recent homicide of a Crofton teenager. In the equivalent of a guilty plea, he admitted in Juvenile Court his involvement in conspiracy to commit arson. The deal requires him to testify against three others, two juveniles and 22-year-old Jonathan R. Myers, also accused in the June 3 crime that charred the front of the home but did not injure anyone.
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May 7, 2008
Woman loses control of car at ceremony A Baltimore woman lost control of her Ford Crown Victoria sedan yesterday in Northwest Baltimore and careered past politicians and other state officials getting ready for an event that would feature Gov. Martin O'Malley. Margarie Hall, the driver, said that when she put her car into gear in the parking lot of the shopping plaza near Wabash Avenue and West Northern Parkway, it accelerated and she couldn't stop it. She hit a parked car and then maneuvered past state officials and a transit bus, up an embankment and across a busy intersection, crashing into railroad tracks near a Maryland Transit Administration maintenance facility.
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By Tyeesha Dixon | March 27, 2008
The teenager described his state of mind when a teacher at his Howard County high school allegedly pulled down the student's underwear after school one day last year and took photos of him nude. "I was extremely shocked," the 18-year-old testified in Howard County Circuit Court yesterday. "I didn't know what to do. I was scared. I froze. I basically stopped thinking." The student's account of the events of Jan. 8, 2007, came on the first day of testimony in the trial of Alan Meade Beier, 53, a former River Hill High School science teacher.
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January 20, 2008
HC DrugFree and the Atholton PTSA will sponsor a free program for parents, "What Is Your Teen Thinking?" from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the media center at Atholton High School in Columbia. The program, for parents only, will address questions such as "How do teens think?" and "Why do they do what they do?" Mark Donovan, an adolescent therapist with Integrative Counseling, will share his view of why teens do what they do as it affects their grades, use of alcohol and other drugs, and other risky behaviors.
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By Jia-Rui Chong | December 9, 2007
After 14 years of steady decline, the rate of teen births rose 3 percent last year, according to a federal study released last week. Bill Albert, deputy director of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research group, said that after years of declining teen birthrates, "perhaps complacency has become the enemy of progress here." The new numbers were compiled by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using 2006 birth records covering 99.9 percent of the United States.
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August 26, 2007
An Annapolis teen has been charged in the robbery of another Newtowne 20 teen. Police said two young men approached a 19-year-old resident of Newtowne Drive about 11:20 p.m. Wednesday and while one pointed a gun at the teen, a second stole his wallet. Reco Ramon Johnson, 19, also of Newtowne Drive, was arrested the next night. He is charged with armed robbery, assault and related offenses and was being held at the Jennifer Road Detention Center on $35,000 bond. Police are still searching for a second suspect.
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By David Zurawik | August 21, 2007
For the past month, the banner on Buontempo Brothers restaurant on Main Street in Bel Air has been urging viewers to "watch and vote for Bel Air's own Julienne Irwin on America's Got Talent." The message has been heard: In recent weeks, the 14-year-old country singer has steadily advanced to the final four of the hit NBC talent contest. Tonight, the winner of the $1 million prize on television's highest-rated summer show will be announced. But whether the rising freshman at Harford Christian School in Darlington takes home the money, she is already the beneficiary of one of the most successful marketing campaigns of the TV year - a skillful job of packaging the teen's image and voice that all but guarantees her a recording contract and singing career.
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By Jane Engle | April 29, 2007
Lounges, programs for youths help groom future customers You'll never embarrass your teenager again. At least, not while you're all on vacation. Just book one of the growing number of hotels, resorts and cruises that give teens their own tour guides and lounges, with dance clubs, theater classes, spa treatments, video arcades and more. You and your offspring need meet only at meals -- and maybe not even then. Even Club Med, once synonymous with swinging singles in paradise, is catering to teens.
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By Rashod D. Ollison | April 26, 2007
On their 2005 debut, All We Know Is Falling, the musician friends of Paramore just wanted to have fun. "We wanted to tour and hope people would latch on to the music," says lead guitarist Josh Farro, the available spokesman for the teen emo-pop band. The Tennessee quartet -- fronted by charismatic lead vocalist-songwriter Hayley Williams and featuring Farro's brother Zac on drums and Jeremy Davis on bass -- generated a fair amount of buzz on the Vans Warped Tour in the past two years.
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By Nia-Malika Henderson | March 17, 2007
It came to Paula Chase-Hyman one Saturday morning: What would happen if, down the line, her daughter's interracial friendship hit a snag along the color line? She took that musing, poured it into characters who live in an Annapolis suburb like the one where she grew up and three weeks later had the first draft of her debut young adult novel, So Not the Drama, which arrived in bookstores late last month. Chase-Hyman, who grew up reading the syrupy Sweet Valley High series, Judy Blume's equally white coming-of-age novels and Mildred Taylor's black historical fiction, said she wrote the kind of book she wanted her 12-year-old daughter, Aliyah, to read.