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Ronald Patrick Johnson Jr. (right) stands with his mother, Audra Travers, in Towson as he speaks about the dropping of charges against him in connection with the Randallstown High School shooting. At left is his attorney, A. Dwight Pettit.

Owings Mills man freed in Randallstown shooting

A former Randallstown High School student who had been jailed since shortly after last month's shooting at the Baltimore County school was freed yesterday after prosecutors dropped attempted-murder charges against...
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‘He was real bad news for her’

Sierra Swann well knows of the various addictions that play out in the neighborhood near the corner of Boone Street and East 20th, a grim place where heroin and cocaine...
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Generations bred in despair

Long before Sierra Swann was charged, along with Nathaniel Broadway, with murdering her month-old twin girls last week, she lived with her mother, five siblings and her mother's boyfriend in...
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Twins slipped through gap in city services

An apparent gap in child protective services allowed a teen-age mother with a history of abuse to leave Johns Hopkins Hospital with her newborn twin girls that she and the...
The Tiki Bar's annual opening at Solomons attracts thousands of revelers each April, but the place seats fewer than 100, so the street is closed as the party spills outside.

Solomons Island is the nearby getaway

So you want to go somewhere relaxing, a place that's quiet yet offers fun activities. A place not too far from Baltimore, so that getting there and back in a...
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Guardian indicted in death of teen

A Baltimore City grand jury indicted yesterday on first-degree murder charges the legal guardian of a teen-age girl who prosecutors said died from abuse. Satrina Roberts, 31, was charged with...
Dontee Stokes (left) leaves the courthouse with attorney Warren Brown after the jury verdict. Stokes was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of the Rev. Maurice J. Blackwell.

Cheers and tears after Stokes verdicts

Under the glare of television lights, minutes after hearing the jury's verdict, about two dozen of Dontee D. Stokes' relatives stood on the East Courthouse steps last night clapping and...