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Baltimore County Police have charged an Owings Mills man in the death of a 37-year-old who was found shot earlier this month in his Pikesville home. Kelly Emanuel Shird, 27, of the 200 block of Cedarmere Road, was arrested in Virginia Thursday after the shooting of Craig Bouie, 37, on August 5, police said. Baltimore County Police are awaiting the results of an extradition hearing and then police will formally charge Shird with first-degree murder. Officers were called for a burglary in progress Bouie's home in the 100 block of Western Winds Circle at 2:13 a.m. at where he was found suffering from a gunshot wound.

The second-floor motel room in Pikesville had been transformed into a print shop, churning out fake U.S. currency, a money factory behind closed curtains. But police and federal agents were on to the three men inside room 240, and were keeping watch. Just after midnight Thursday, as a pair of detectives closed in, the men left the room and, when challenged, one pulled a gun. A firefight erupted, police said later, and the gunman went down, fatally wounded. The two other suspects were pursued and arrested nearby, one of them hiding under a trailer.

Firefighters from Baltimore county and city battled an early morning two-alarm blaze Saturday that left 20 people displaced and required about 80 personnel, fire officials said. The fire broke out around 6:10 a.m. on the fourth floor of a 4-story-apartment building in the 2800 block of Diamond Ridge Road in Windsor Mill, said Chief Michael Robinson, division chief for the Baltimore County Fire Department. No residents in the apartment building were injured. A Baltimore City firefighter was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center for injuries that were not life-threatening, after falling off a ladder.

Trapped in the darkness of a wrecked Haitian hotel, choking on the dust of crushed concrete, Richard L. Santos wondered whether anyone would ever find him and his five colleagues, two of them badly hurt. At one point, the thump of a helicopter's swirling blades gave them hope, only to fade into silence. As he awaited rescue from the Jan. 12 earthquake that shook Port-au-Prince to its core, Santos made a vow. "We knew the whole city must be devastated, and I realized that the rebuilding of Haiti would take decades," he recalled.

A Windsor Mill husband and wife were convicted in Baltimore County Circuit Court on Tuesday on one count of animal cruelty that resulted in the starvation death of one of three horses they owned. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bollinger found Donna and Hilton Silver guilty after a three-hour bench trial. The judge ordered the couple to undergo psychological evaluations before he sentences them June 29. "There's obviously something going on here that I don't have a handle on," Bollinger said.

Julia R. Cairns, who was known as New Windsor's "unofficial historian" and spent decades gathering and preserving the history of the Carroll County village, died March 20 from complications of pneumonia at Friends House, a retirement community and nursing facility in Sandy Spring. She was 96. Julia Ann Roop, scion of an old Carroll County family, was the daughter of a real estate salesman and a homemaker. She was born one of nine at home in New Windsor, and was raised in the Carroll County community, where she spent most of her life.

An 11-year-old boy was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after he was struck by a small commercial truck yesterday morning in Windsor Mill, according to Baltimore County police. The collision, involving a 2004 Isuzu, was reported at 7:33 a.m. at Lord Baltimore Drive and Bexhill Road, just north of Windsor Mill Road, said county police spokeswoman Louise Rogers-Feher. The boy, James Jones, was crossing Lord Baltimore Drive with another pedestrian at the intersection, which has no traffic signal or crosswalk, Rogers-Feher said.

A 33-year-old Carroll County man accused of beating his doctor wife with a hammer has been extradited from Georgia and now faces attempted first-degree murder charges, according to state police. Anthony Soligny of New Windsor was arrested last week near Atlanta on Interstate 85 in Franklin County after a deputy spotted his truck, a spokesman for Maryland State Police said. Police had put a national lookout for Soligny's vehicle. Soligny was transported Tuesday evening from a Georgia jail to the detention center in Carroll County.

Walter W. Windsor, a retired accountant and World War II veteran, died of heart disease Dec. 1 at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 89 and had lived in Towson and Mount Washington. Born in Baltimore and raised on Harlem Avenue, he was a 1938 City College graduate. During World War II, he served in the Army and was stationed in England, where he was a bomb loader and worked in telecommunications. He received a business degree from the University of Baltimore and was a certified public accountant.