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FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- Twice since December, flowers appeared on the graves of 14 German prisoners here.The men, executed in 1945, had lain largely forgotten until then.No one knows who placed the flowers. And that's not the only question haunting the German POWs' graves.Why did President Harry Truman permit their hangings months after the European war ended? And why were the 14 executed contrary to a military board's recommendation that their death sentences be commuted to life?All were sentenced to death in military court-martials for the murders of three fellow German POWs, men they thought were traitors for cooperating with American captors.

A 47-year-old Baltimore man has been charged with attempted first-degree murder in the near drowning of his 3-month-old son in a bathtub at the family's Mondawmin Avenue home last week, according to Baltimore Police. Augustus Parker, who has previously served time in prison for child abuse, allegedly admitted to police that he intentionally held his son, Montez Parker, under water in the tub until the "bubbles began to stop" and the boy appeared unconscious, according to a police report.

A federal judge yesterday ruled that the execution of John Frederick Thanos may be videotaped and his brain waves monitored as possible evidence to determine if death by lethal gas is cruel and unusual punishment.U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis said the constitutionality of the gas chamber is a "serious question" that should be decided on "the best possible evidence." He agreed with attorneys for another death row inmate that a videotape of Thanos' death could be critical evidence and must be preserved.

A 24-year-old Baltimore man died Wednesday night after correctional officers at Central Booking and Intake Center found him unconscious in a shower, state prison officials said. Thomas Moylan was transported to University of Maryland Medical Center about 6 p.m. and was pronounced dead later that evening, according to Mark A. Vernarelli, a state prison spokesman. Vernarelli said there was no sign of trauma or foul play. But the inmate's mother said her son called her Monday and complained that prison officials were not giving him proper medical treatment.

Baltimore County emergency crews responding to a carbon monoxide call at a Fullerton apartment complex found a woman holding an unconscious baby outside the building, then pulled an unconscious woman from a unit, a Fire Department spokeswoman said. About 1:25 p.m., crews found extremely high readings of carbon monoxide inside the complex in the 7500 block of Twincrest Court. At 7508 Twincrest, firefighters found 900 parts per million of the gas -- a life-threatening amount, said spokeswoman Elise Armacost.

Albert Hall, a professional opera singer and choirmaster who began his singing career during his student days at City College, died May 13 from colon cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Towson resident was 89. The son of a plumber and a homemaker, Albert Hall was born in Baltimore and raised on Rose Street. It was while he was attending City College in the late 1930s that he came to the attention of Blanche F. Bowlsbey, the legendary music teacher whom her students fondly called "Mrs.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- A thin, beautiful model dies under mysterious circumstances, and the questions begin.Could the blast of bronchial spray she inhaled have killed her? Eating disorders? Drug use?Broward County, Fla.'s medical examiner, Joshua Perper, doesn't know yet what killed Krissy Taylor on the brink of supermodel status, although preliminary autopsy results point to heart failure.But doctors and pharmacists say Primatene Mist, the asthma inhalant she used about two hours before her death, can cause rapid heartbeat which, in combination with other medical conditions, could kill an otherwise healthy young girl.

PHILADELPHIA - Daisy Myers vividly remembers the rocks through the windows, the taunts and name-calling and cross-burnings and the day-and-night blaring of "Old Black Joe" that greeted her arrival as a member of the first African-American family in Levittown, Pa., 40 years ago.Memories of nights, more than a week of them, in which a mob that was estimated from 200 to 1,000 people gathered along Deepgreen Lane in the Dog Hollow section screaming racial epithets,...

Baltimore County police are waiting for the autopsy results of a 42-year-old man who was found dead in a motel room on Pulaski Highway late Friday morning.Michael Ronald Trescott, who lived in a room of Pierre's Motel in the 1100 block of Pulaski Highway, was found dead at 11:45 a.m. after residents complained to the management of a foul odor coming from the room.When police arrived, they found Mr. Trescott's badly decomposedbody sitting up in bed next to his girlfriend. Although she was unconscious when police arrived, she is still alive, investigators said.

A Deale man turned himself in Monday at the Southern District police station, where he was charged with sexually assaulting a 23-year-old woman.The woman told police she and the man were at a party in the 700 block of Frazier Ave. in Deale about 1 a.m. Monday and that she drank a lot of rum. The woman said she passed out and that someone took her to an upstairs bedroom, police said.The woman said she awoke to find an acquaintance having sex with her. She told the man to stop and he did, police said.