NEWS
AEGIS STAFF REPORT | April 30, 2013
A Pennsylvania man known to frequent Harford County, where he works, has been missing from his home since last week and had not been found as of Tuesday afternoon Thomas Augustyniak, 53, of Glen Rock, Pa., works at a business in Belcamp and visits Harford County and other parts of Maryland regularly, according to a press release from Maryland State Police issued Friday Augustyniak is described as a white man, 6 feet, 1 inch tall and 175 pounds...
NEWS
By Stephen H. Sachs | February 25, 2013
February is Black History Month. Baltimore is celebrating it by commemorating the march of African-Americans toward full membership in the American family. Although I am a white man born and raised in the strictly segregated Baltimore of nearly eight decades ago, I am joining that celebration. The apartheid Baltimore in which I grew up has been thoroughly chronicled by C. Fraser Smith's "Here Lies Jim Crow," Antero Pietila's "Not in My Neighborhood" and Larry Gibson's "Young Thurgood.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann and Peter Hermann,Peter.hermann@baltsun.com | August 20, 2009
Here's the scene on a hot Wednesday afternoon at the end of the wooden pier at Baltimore's Fort Armistead Park: A newly arrived immigrant from Vietnam struggled to reel in a 2-pound catfish from the murky depths of the Patapsco River. A black man from West Baltimore put a net in the water to capture the writhing fish. A white man from Arbutus grabbed the line and hauled it in. Then all three men - from two generations and three cultures and races - stood over the pail and admired the biggest catch of the day. Less than an hour earlier, a city judge had denied bail to a white man who police said came to this park early Tuesday and attacked a 76-year-old black fisherman while yelling racial slurs.
EXPLORE
AEGIS STAFF REPORT | February 26, 2013
Two teenage girls out for a run Friday afternoon in the Fountain Green area said they saw a man expose himself. The girls, ages 16 and 17, told police they were jogging with some other girls in the 1400 block of Fountain Glen Drive around 5 p.m. when they saw a man standing in the wood line across the street, according to a report from the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Initially, the girls thought the man was urinating, but then realized the man was looking at them and smiling, according to the report.
ENTERTAINMENT
By STEPHEN HUNTER | November 30, 1995
'White Man's Burden'"White Man's Burden" works a "Twilight-Zone"-style switcheroo with John Travolta as a working-class member of the powerless minority white race and Harry Belafonte as the rich black industrialist who indirectly oppresses him.'The Crossing Guard'"The Crossing Guard" features Jack Nicholson as a father obsessed with the killer of his son in a hit-and-run crime, for which the man (David Morse) was caught and imprisoned. Anjelica Huston also appears in the film, written and directed by Sean Penn.
NEWS
November 25, 1992
Gunman robs McDonald's on Ritchie HighwayA gunman robbed a Glen Burnie fast-food restaurant Monday night, county police reported.Detectives said the gunman walked into McDonald's restaurant in the 7400 block of Ritchie Highway and demanded that the cashier open the cash register.When the clerk did not open it fast enough, the robber took out his gun and grabbed the money from the drawer, the police report said.Police described the gunman as a white man about 5 feet 8 inches tall, in his 40s.He was wearing a blue jacket, gray sweat shirt and jeans.