Couple deny killing twins
A Northeast Baltimore teenager arraigned with her boyfriend yesterday in the beating deaths of their 1-month-old twins was physically abused in the hospital by that boyfriend shortly after giving birth,...
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DNA links uncle to deaths of 3 children
A bloody glove discovered in a car trunk links the uncle of three Mexican children killed in Northwest Baltimore to their deaths, sources familiar with the investigation said after seeing...
Stokes pleads guilty to handgun violations
More than two years after shooting his former priest, Dontee D. Stokes' legal saga ended yesterday as the West Baltimore barber pleaded guilty to handgun violations and was sentenced to...
2 Mexicans indicted in killings of children
Two Mexican immigrants were indicted yesterday by a Baltimore grand jury in the slashing deaths of three young relatives, one of whom was beheaded and the others partially beheaded. Adan...
Border crossings: prosperity, peril
TENENEXPAN, Mexico - The route that Noemi and Andrea Quezada traveled from this small farming village into the United States is an inhospitable passage, but one that many of their...
Child welfare head tries to improve agency’s image
When Christopher J. McCabe stood at the microphone of a recent nationally televised news conference, Maryland's highest child welfare official mentioned his boss' name, introduced his colleagues and spoke vaguely...
A village prepares to bury 3 children
TENENEXPAN, Mexico - The parents of Lucero, Ricardo and Alexis Quezada wanted their children to understand the simple life of their hometown, so in March, they sent them from Baltimore...
Uncle, cousin held in deaths of 3 children
Two Mexican immigrants who joined relatives grieving for three slain children Thursday night were arrested at the crime scene and charged yesterday with the killings, police said. Baltimore police said...
Improved safeguards for children proposed
In the aftermath of the beating deaths of month-old twins, Maryland's top child welfare official and Baltimore's chief prosecutor announced yesterday several proposals they say are aimed at better protecting...
Report on abuse got no response
The latest case of fatal child abuse in Baltimore is raising another round of questions about how the system attempts to protect children from their abusive parents. One-month-old twins died...