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A man on parole for bludgeoning an Annapolis woman to death 10 years ago is wanted again, this time by North Carolina authorities investigating the murder of his girlfriend. And state police here believe he is in the Baltimore area.Reginald Odell Lively, 35, who served almost eight years of a 20-year sentence for second-degree murder, was paroled in March. He is wanted on a warrant in connection with the May 22 stabbing death of Willy Mae Arrington, 31, of Sharpsburg, N.C.Maryland Trooper Robert Mignogna, who has been helping Sharpsburg authorities track down Lively, said that the victim's 6-year-old son saw a man "drag his mother into the bedroom, where he stabbed her numerous times.

TFC Michael J. Bonczewski of the Bel Air Barrack has been named 2011 Trooper of the Year for the Maryland State Police. Police Superintendent Col. Marcus L. Brown announced the statewide 2011 Trooper of the Year for the Department during a ceremony that recognized local winners from each barrack and division. Bonczewski was named the Bel Air Barrack's Trooper of the Year last month. In addition to making numerous traffic stops and arrests last year, Bonczewski was recognized for his work in street gang intelligence and drug interdiction, including his investigation that led to the dismantling of a tri-state fraudulent prescription ring operating in Harford County.

A Carroll County woman was fatally shot by a Maryland state trooper after she pointed a gun at him during a confrontation at a Hampstead home, state police said late Monday. State police were called about 5:40 p.m. to a home in the 4600 block of Upper Beckleysville Road for a domestic dispute. A second emergency call reported that the 40-year-old woman had a gun and was threatening to kill herself, state police said in a news release. The woman's sister said she and a teenage daughter had locked themselves in a bedroom for protection, police said.

A Montgomery County police officer shot himself to death after leading a state trooper on a high-speed chase on the Eastern Shore early Monday, state police said. Jed R. Bylsma, 30, of Gettysburg, Pa., was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Bylsma was observed on radar speeding on westbound U.S. 50 in Talbot County about 1:30 a.m., police said. A state trooper pulled him over near Skipton Creek. Bylsma showed the trooper a Pennsylvania driver's license and said he was an officer with the Montgomery County Police Department, police said.

As Maryland State Police disbanded an anti-abortion rally along a crowded road near the center of Bel Air, a sergeant told a colleague that the 18 arrested protesters could "sit in a cell for an hour ... and two or three or four and rot. " The same trooper, during another conversation from the Bel Air barracks, said of the group holding signs depicting gruesome images of aborted fetuses, "I am about ready to tell them to get the hell out of...

NEWARK, Del. - Police say a Newark man kicked a state trooper who tried to take him into custody. Police were called Tuesday to a home about a strange vehicle parked in the driveway. Officials say troopers found the driver passed out at the wheel, covered in vomit, and could smell alcohol and marijuana. The driver, 20-year-old Adam Decktor, got out of the car after troopers asked him to. But police say he then kicked an officer and tried to run away. He's charged with offensive touching of a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, marijuana possession, driving under the influence and other charges.

State police say a trooper shot and killed a pit bull who attacked another officer at a home in rural Queen Anne's County. It happened Thursday night in Millington. Police were responding to a report of a man firing a handgun during a party at his home. Twenty-three-year-old George Thomas allegedly fired the gun at the ceiling and held it to the head of his sister, 20-year-old Jessica Thomas. George Thomas faces charges including first-degree assault and reckless endangerment.

A state trooper assigned to protect the state's highest officials is facing felony charges of possessing child pornography after more than 3,000 images were found on a computer in his home, according to Baltimore County police. Investigators say Bruce Allen Tucker, 47, of Esplanade Court in Owings Mills had received and exchanged images of child pornography, including pubescent and pre-pubescent girls performing sex acts with adults. He was arrested Friday and released after posting $50,000 bail.

On his 21st birthday, Tanner Nickerson received a birthday card and a gun. He had graduated from the Maryland State Police academy in September, more than two weeks before he could legally make an arrest. The newly minted trooper bided his time at the Centreville Barracks wearing street clothes until Oct. 11, the day he became old enough to put on the olive-colored uniform and Stetson hat, and arm himself with a .40- caliber Beretta. Tanner Nickerson has a unique reason to be eager.

A Pennsylvania state trooper fatally shot a Maryland motorist who attacked the officer during an accident investigation on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Tuesday night. The officer found Daryl Jerome Berry, 45, of Columbia, arguing with another motorist at the scene of a collision that occurred just before 9 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of the highway in Brush Creek Township, Fulton County. Berry approached the officer with two aggressive Rottweiler dogs and then hit the officer repeatedly with a flashlight, police said.

As Maryland State Police disbanded an anti-abortion rally along a crowded road near the center of Bel Air, a sergeant told a colleague that the 18 arrested protesters could "sit in a cell for an hour ... and two or three or four and rot. " The same trooper, during another conversation from the Bel Air barracks, said of the group holding signs depicting gruesome images of aborted fetuses, "I am about ready to tell them to get the hell out of...

A 37-year-old man wanted on an arrest warrant was shot and wounded by a Maryland State trooper Tuesday morning after authorities said he refused commands to drop the weapon, pointed it at his own head and then aimed it at officers. Police said they later learned that revolver was a replica. The wounded man was identified as Christopher B. Thomas, of Pine Cone Drive in North East. Police said he was being treated for a gunshot wound to both legs at Christiana Hospital. He was being sought on a warrant charging him with assault and burglary.

From The Aegis of March 12, 1987: A Maryland State Police trooper and recruit were killed in a crash while they were on duty on I-95 this week 25 years ago. TFC John E. Sawa, 40, of Baltimore, and Trooper Larry E. Small, 21, of Cardiff, died when their patrol car, sitting in the median on I-95 near Route 155 at Havre de Grace, was hit by a tractor trailer. Police suspected the driver of the tractor trailer was drunk. Mr. Small was on his last day of his required 40-day supervised field patrol and was to assume full-time duties on his own the next day. Mr. Sawa and Mr. Small were sitting in the median around 4:30 a.m. to exchange papers with another trooper.

A Pennsylvania state trooper fatally shot a Maryland motorist who attacked the officer during an accident investigation on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Tuesday night. The officer found Daryl Jerome Berry, 45, of Columbia, arguing with another motorist at the scene of a collision that occurred just before 9 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of the highway in Brush Creek Township, Fulton County. Berry approached the officer with two aggressive Rottweiler dogs and then hit the officer repeatedly with a flashlight, police said.

A state trooper narrowly escaped serious injury during an early-morning chase Friday along Route 152 in southern Harford County, and a suspect has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. John Jacob Nussle V, 22, of Joppa also faces assault and malicious destruction charges. Trooper Jon Sawa stopped a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt at 12:01 a.m. in the southbound lane near Stockton Road for erratic driving. When the driver in the Cobalt fled, the trooper pursued for about three miles in his unmarked patrol car. The cars veered into the northbound lane, and the Cobalt rammed the trooper's vehicle at least once, police said.

A veteran Maryland State Police Trooper assigned to the Bel Air Barrack was injured after he crashed his cruiser during a high speed chase in the Joppa area of Harford County early Friday morning, state police said. The injuries sustained by Senior Trooper Jon Sawa were not life threatening. According to a state police news release, during the early morning hours of Friday, Sawa initiated a traffic stop of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt on southbound Route 152 (Mountain Road) near Stockton Road.

Authorities are searching for the driver of a car that struck and injured a Maryland state trooper early Sunday on Interstate 83 as he stood near a car that he had stopped. Trooper First Class Jason M. James, 30, was conducting a traffic stop on the shoulder of northbound I-83, north of Ruxton Road, at 1 a.m., authorities said, when he was struck by the mirror and side of a passing vehicle. He was then pushed into the car he had stopped, authorities said. James, who was in uniform and wearing a reflective jacket, used his radio to report that he had been struck and asked for help, authorities said, adding that pieces of the car that struck James were found at the scene.

The father panicked. He had pulled into the breakdown lane of Route 100 in Anne Arundel County, just as Melissa Dicus gave birth to a girl in the front seat of his Chevrolet Impala. The infant, struggling to breathe, had turned blue. Loren Edward Weinstein raced around the car, grabbing blankets and shirts from the back seat. That's what Maryland State Police Sgt. Daniel McLain saw as he drove into work, slowed by Monday morning's rush-hour commute near Route 10 in Pasadena. McLain stopped his unmarked cruiser and rushed to the Impala, urged on by a frantic Weinstein, and grabbed the infant.

Police pursued a motorist at speeds reaching more than 100 mph Wednesday afternoon after authorities said the driver took off from a routine traffic stop on I-95 in northern Maryland. Police said they had to puncture the car's tires with a spike stick put across a road to force the driver to stop. Police charged Tyree S. Jordan, 25, of the 2800 block of Pebble Beach Drive in Elkton, with numerous traffic offenses, resisting arrest, assaulting a trooper and possession of marijuana and heroin.

A Reisterstown man was charged in the hit-and-run incident involving a state trooper who was struck during a traffic stop on Interstate 83 early Sunday morning, state police said. Matthew L. Wood, 30, of the 200 block of Highmeadow Road turned himself in to the state police Golden Ring Barrack through his attorney Wednesday morning. Police said Wood struck Trooper First Class Jason M. James, who was standing in the shoulder of northbound I-83, north of Ruxton Road, at 1 a.m., with the mirror and side of a 1999 gold Buick LeSabre registered to him. James, 30, who was in uniform and wearing a reflective jacket, was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he has been treated and released.