Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Lawmakers from Baltimore City and Montgomery County call for stricter gun laws.
In the aftermath of the shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut last week, leaders from Baltimore City and Montgomery County are calling for stricter gun laws in the state of Maryland. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Sen. Brian Frosh and Sen. Jamie Raskin were among those who attended a press conference at the Episcopal Ecumenical Council Center in Baltimore on Wednesday to announce support for legislation aimed at curbing access to firearms. "[This] legislation is intended to address the epidemic of gun violence that has swept the country. The mass killings that we’ve experienced in theaters, in places of worship and most recently and most horribly in an elementary school," Frosh said. "We have a public health crisis that stems …
Monday, December 17, 2012
Counties across the state took measures to deal with the Newtown, CT school shooting.
Communities across Maryland have been reeling in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Some residents said they feared dropping their children off at school while others demanded action from legislators. Hyattsville Elementary School's new principal, Julia Burton, addressed her students Monday before Prince George's County schools observed a minute of silence to honor the victims of Friday's school shooting in Newtown, CT. "Take care of yourself. Take care of each other. And take care of the place," she told students. In Wheaton, parents reacted to the tragic news and talked about school safety in Montgomery County. Frances Frost, a contributor to the Local Voices section on Wheaton Patch, wrote in an email: "As a mom of 4…
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Deliberations will continue Thursday in the trial of Quinnton Brown, who faces attempted murder charge.
After more than three hours without having reached a verdict, jurors were asked to return to Montgomery County Circuit Court Thursday to continue deliberations in the case of a man on trial in the kidnapping, robbery and attempted murder of a Germantown resident. Quinnton Brown, 25, of Columbia, MD, could face a maximum life sentence for the most serious charge against him, first-degree attempted murder. He also has been charged with kidnapping, armed robbery, and related conspiracy charges, in addition to weapons offenses. Brown was named as one of at least three men suspected in a Jan. 22 incident at a Germantown apartment complex in which the suspects approached a man in a parking lot at gunpoint, forced him to withdraw money from an …
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Campus officials are encouraging parents to talk to their young adults more about drinking.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it simply: Underage alcohol use is a major public health problem. According to the CDC, people aged 12 to 20 drink 11 percent of all alcohol consumed in the United States and more than 90 percent of that alcohol is chugged in the form of binge drinking. Recently, Montgomery County officials have focused on stemming underage drinking parties At a January press conference in Montgomery County, police displayed stacks of kegs and 24-packs of beer seized from underage drinking parties in the county. A task force of local police agencies busted 23 underage drinking parties and issued 239 alcohol citations to youth in possession of or providing alcohol, between Nov. 16 and Jan. 7, said Capt. …
Frank
7:52 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Even B.O. actually had some enlightened comments. His comments on the recent gun control threads were quite a relief from his usual "diaper blowout" robot-posts. more ›