Woodlawn

Baltimore County Police have charged a Woodlawn man with assault in the stabbing of his father Thursday evening. Michael Darnell Palmer, 22, of the 6000 block of Prince George Street, is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $50,000 bail. Police said he stabbed his father James Elise Sudler several times with a steak knife during an argument that began about 9 p.m. The suspect fled the home but was soon located at a grocery store parking lot at the intersection of Ingleside Avenue and Baltimore National Pike.

A Baltimore County police captain who was recently reassigned from the Woodlawn Precinct this month is being investigated by the department's internal affairs section, a spokeswoman confirmed. Capt. Andre K. Davis, who was reassigned to the Community Resources Section, is the subject of the investigation, police spokeswoman Elise Armacost said. "I can't comment on or offer the details of that complaint because it is a personnel matter," she said Tuesday in an email. Davis, reached by phone, denied any wrongdoing and would not comment further about the allegations.

A Baltimore man has been charged in a Woodlawn rape that occurred 15 years earlier, after county investigators matched DNA evidence to an earlier case. The evidence collected in the 1997 Woodlawn case matched evidence from a 1993 city case, where police identified Ronald White, 49, as a suspect, police said. Law enforcement agencies continue to review DNA collections, after the process was briefly halted when the state's highest court blocked the collections in April. The court of appeals decision in a Wicomico County case found collections of DNA samples unconstitutional and that the practice provided access to a significant amount of personal information.

Storms are cropping up Wednesday afternoon as the core of a slow-moving low-pressure system passes through Virginia, and more are expected through the end of the week. A severe thunderstorm warning was briefly issued for parts of western Baltimore city and county about 3:40 p.m., affecting the Woodlawn, Pikesville and Roland Park areas. The storm brought lightning and heavy downpours, with hail ranging from small pellets to penny- and nickel-sized hunks. Radar images showed storms moving up from the south into the southwest Baltimore suburbs by about 3:30 p.m., with more storms to the south that could move up through the evening.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has once again proposed making the Social Security Administration (SSA) an independent agency. It is an eminently sensible suggestion.Experts on government administration have been urging taking SSA out of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for years. The House has voted three times to make SSA independent. All Maryland representatives voted for the bill last time. They may have been influenced by the widely-held assumption that career employees of SSA at Woodlawn strongly favor such independence.

About 20 homes in Woodlawn were evacuated Saturday afternoon after a gas meter leak was discovered, officials said. The gas leak was discovered at about noon in the 1500 block of Kellys Court in Baltimore County, officials said. The leak was secured by 12:48 p.m. and the residents were able to return to their homes shortly after. No one was injured in the incident, officials said. ywenger@baltsun.com

A Virginia firm said Friday that it purchased six rental complexes in Woodlawn for $190 million and intends to spend close to $8 million more to renovate the 1,984 units. The Norfolk-based Harbor Group International purchased the 808-unit Crosswinds at Rolling Road, the 92-unit Diamond Ridge, the 270-unit Glens at Rolling Road, the 264-unit Granite Run, the 280-unit Rolling Wind and the 270-unit Stratton Meadows. The acquisition, from an affiliate of Sawyer Realty Holdings, brings to more than 3,300 the number of rental units Harbor Group owns in the Baltimore area.

Baltimore County police have charged three men in a targeted, nonfatal shooting in Woodlawn early Sunday morning. The unidentified victim, who is listed in good condition at a local hospital, was found in a Nissan Altima suffering a gunshot wound in the first block of Guild Hall Court. Police charged Antonio Charles Johnson , 22, of the 7400 block of Castlemoor Road in Gwynn Oak, James Edward Prescoe Braxton, 22, of the 4100 block of Reisterstown Road in Baltimore, and Guyon Ingram Mathurine, 23, of the 3500 block of Woodmoor Road in Gwynn Oak. They face attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault charges and are being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.

Baltimore County police have made an arrest in a fatal stabbing that occurred Wednesday night in Woodlawn. Police say 35-year-old George Robert Evans Jr., a convicted sex offender who lives in the 1400 block of Langford Rd., was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder of 23-year-old Kevin Regusters, who was stabbed to death in the 2600 block of Purnell Drive at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. According to a statement from police, Evans and Regusters, of the 5300 block of Kenilworth Ave. in Baltimore, and been involved in a fight.

A man was shot in Woodlawn in Baltimore County on Friday night, according to police. City police first responded at about 7:30 p.m. to reports of a man shot near the intersection of Liberty Heights Avenue and Powder Mill Lane, which is near Powder Mill Park and just inside the city line, according to Det. Jeremy Silbert, a city police spokesman. After determining the man had actually been shot nearby in Baltimore County, they turned the case over to county police, Silbert said.

Baltimore County police are investigating an assault outside of Woodlawn High School Friday after a video was posted on YouTube. The incident took place sometime after school but does not appear to have been reported to police, according to a statement from the department. The victim and a 17-year old suspect have been identified, police said, but it is unclear if the teen will be charged as an adult or a juvenile. Police spokeswoman Cpl. Cathy Batton said investigators are still trying to determine if Woodlawn students were involved in the incident.

Administrative law judges who evaluate disability claims for the Social Security Administration want a federal court to ease a workload that they say makes errors more likely - the latest in a series of challenges confronting the Woodlawn-based agency. In a federal lawsuit filed this month, 1,400 judges said the agency's expectation that they decide as many as 700 claims per year is causing them to rush evaluations and possibly approve claims that should be denied, at a potential cost of millions of taxpayer dollars.

There was a time, not too long ago, when the NFL draft wasn't on Corey Fuller's radar. Without a football scholarship offer during his senior year at Woodlawn, Fuller went to Kansas to run track and compete in the triple jump. After two years there, he abandoned his scholarship, transferred to Virginia Tech and paid his tuition out-of-pocket for one year - all for the opportunity to walk onto the football team as a wide receiver. In his first season of eligibility, Fuller played just 57 offensive snaps and had two catches for 19 yards.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Baltimore County man to 11 years in prison and ordered him to pay close to $200,000 in restitution to victims of a wire fraud and identity theft scheme that victimized Johns Hopkins doctors, among some 250 others, the U.S. Justice Department said. Derrick Hill, 53, of Woodlawn, previously pleaded guilty to the charges, along with co-conspirators Renee Cabell, 51, John Coffey, 43, and Tawney King, 46. Authorities said Hill and the other defendants stole identities, then cashed counterfeit checks and rented apartments in the names of victims.

Baltimore County will be getting two new Weis Markets soon -- a supermarket in Towson Place  in Towson and one on Security Boulevard in Woodlawn. Both stores will open Sunday, March 3. Weis said it invested $14 million in the more than 55,000-square foot space vacated by Super Fresh in Towson and in the more than 58,000-square-foot Woodlawn store. The supermarkets will employ 400 workers and are still hiring. Each will feature 600-item produce departments with organic food, pharmacies, full-service meat and seafood departments and large deli/prepared food departments.

The Digital Harbor boys basketball team has been known to round into form late in the season to make a strong playoff push, winning consecutive state titles in 2009 and 2010 in that manner. Coach Johnnie Grimes is hoping the 17th annual Basketball Academy can provide a springboard for a similar run. So far, so good. The Rams got 18 points from sophomore guard William Robinson, played stingy zone defense and hit 19-of-22 free throws to come away with a 55-45 win over Woodlawn in the event's opening night Thursday at Morgan State.

Firefighters who were tackling a one-alarm house fire in Woodlawn shortly after noon Thursday found a woman dead just inside the front door of the single-family dwelling. Elise Armacost, a spokeswoman for the county fire department, said fire crews who were summoned to the blaze in the 3100 block of Gartside Drive in northwestern Baltimore County came across the woman, who was "deceased from her injuries. " The victim's identity was not immediately released. Fire investigators remained at the scene in early afternoon and had not determined a cause of the fire.

Baltimore County will be getting two new Weis Markets soon -- a supermarket in Towson Place  in Towson and one on Security Boulevard in Woodlawn. Both stores will open Sunday, March 3. Weis said it invested $14 million in the more than 55,000-square foot space vacated by Super Fresh in Towson and in the more than 58,000-square-foot Woodlawn store. The supermarkets will employ 400 workers and are still hiring. Each will feature 600-item produce departments with organic food, pharmacies, full-service meat and seafood departments and large deli/prepared food departments.

A 25-year-old Woodlawn woman has been charged with arson, assault and destruction of property after allegedly setting fire to her own home Saturday morning, then kicking out the window of a police patrol car and assaulting an officer after her arrest, according to Baltimore County Police. Police initially responded to the home of Ashley Joy Davis, in the 1600 block of Langford Road, about 5:44 a.m. for a report of a suicidal person, but upon an initial investigation determined a simple assault had occurred at the residence, said Cpl. John Wachter, a police spokesman.

The Violent Crimes Division of the Baltimore County Police Department is seeking several unidentified suspects in a shooting Monday in Woodlawn. Officers responded to shots fired at 11:21 p.m. near the intersection of Windsor Mill Road and Woodlawn Drive, which is within a few blocks of a county police precinct station. At the scene, they located one victim with gunshot wounds. The unidentified adult male was taken to an area hospital for treatment of injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said.