Sniper trial ends with 6 murder verdicts
John Allen Muhammad was convicted Tuesday of murder in the 2002 sniper rampage that killed six Maryland residents, ending a trial in which his claim of being framed was eclipsed...
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State agrees to offer young offenders at city center more school services
State juvenile services officials agreed yesterday to offer more educational programs at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center, beginning next week. The step came after a Baltimore judge summoned them...
Youths needing services jailed
As Maryland prepares to close most of the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School this week, it has developed a backlog of tough young offenders who are being held for weeks...
Plans for youths challenged
The Maryland public defender's office is asking the courts to block the state from placing two delinquent youths in reform schools in distant states - the first in what is...
Young offender is sent to Iowa
With little warning, the state Department of Juvenile Services put a Baltimore youth on a plane to Iowa yesterday to spend months in a program for delinquents there - despite...
Federal investigators to visit juvenile jail
A team of federal investigators is scheduled to visit the state-run juvenile jail in Baltimore today to examine complaints of youths being mistreated, inadequate staffing and other problems at the...
Muhammad moved to Maryland prison for 2nd murder trial
Death row inmate John Allen Muhammad was transported to Maryland from Virginia under heavy guard early yesterday to await trial with co-defendant Lee Boyd Malvo on six more counts of...
Judge orders Muhammad moved to Md. for 2nd trial
A judge in Virginia ordered yesterday that death row inmate John Allen Muhammad be moved to Maryland, where he faces a second trial in the 2002 Washington-area sniper attacks. His...
Some youths to be sent out of state when Hickey closes
More than a month after announcing that most of the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School would close by Nov. 30, the Ehrlich administration is still scrambling to find places to...
Assaults are reported at 2 juvenile facilities
Authorities are investigating reports of assaults at two state-run juvenile facilities -- including allegations that a 14-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by a group of other residents at the Charles...