Friend of dead Arundel teen Jones gets sole conviction in fatal brawl
A friend of Noah Jamahl Jones, an Anne Arundel teen who died in a brawl last year, pleaded guilty to a gun charge yesterday - putting to rest the only...
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A crowd multiplies difficulties of trial
Legal experts say the case of Noah Jamahl Jones is an almost textbook example of how challenging prosecutions that involve crowds and chaos can be. "You've got all the physical...
One stop for Philly’s fashion
It's a little-known fact that Philadelphia - the City of Brotherly Love, the Liberty Bell and a host of historical landmarks - is also a city of style. Downtown Philly,...
A wide range of reactions to new pope
When the Rev. Denis J. Sweeney heard the news, he tore down the halls of St. Mary's Catholic school in Annapolis, high-fiving students and encouraging them to shout, "Three cheers...
Baltimore native helps run the church
Pope John Paul II is dead. The election of his successor is at least two weeks away, and most members of his Curia have lost their positions. During the interregnum,...
34-year-old N.J. university employee ‘always brought energy’ to room
When employees of a New Jersey university created a group called the "fun committee," Lisa Pierce was one of the first to join. Much to the delight of her colleagues,...
A ‘phenomenal nurse’ who was ‘devoted to kids’
The call came late last week. Lisa Pierce, 30, telephoned her parents in Vineland, N.J., to invite them on an overnight trip to Baltimore, where she had agreed at the...
Group hunts for tavern’s ghosts
The shrill chorus of the ghost-detecting devices began sometime in the middle of dinner Thursday night at Reynolds Tavern, punctuating the clink of forks on china. Nothing could be seen,...
`A’ is for alphabet, `M’ for mystery
Around 1800 B.C., long before it became the symbol of superiority, the letter A was depicted as an ox head. As for B, the roots of its inferiority complex (think...
The refined beauty of Charlottesville
The Eden of the United States. That's what Thomas Jefferson called Charlottesville, Va., the charming city three hours south of Baltimore at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. To...