Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Police said the 17-year-old student was struck by a vehicle while walking in a crosswalk.
This story was updated at 3:20 p.m. Tuesday A 17-year-old River Hill High School student is now in stable condition after being struck by a car while walking to school on Linden Linthicum Lane Tuesday morning, said police. The student, Matthew R. Curley, 17, of the 5800 block of Clipper Lane, Clarksville, was initially transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in serious condition Tuesday morning, police said. His status was upgraded to stable later Tuesday morning, police said. Police said Curley was struck by a 1998 Honda Accord that was traveling westbound on Linden Linthicum Lane around 7:30 a.m. near Little Bells Row. Curley was walking in the crosswalk, according to police. The driver of the Honda, who stopped at …
Monday, March 26, 2012
The website publishes a constant stream of controversial videos.
By now, it seems almost everyone in Howard County has seen the controversial video. In the 27-second clip, a man in a ski mask approaches a student at Long Reach High School, both of them raise their fists, and then the student knocks the man out with one punch. As of noon on Monday, the video has garnered over 970,000 hits on the controversial website WorldStarHipHop.com. The site publishes about 30 videos per day. Most feature hip hop artists, buxom women, personal stories or fights. The fight videos appear to be by far the most popular videos on the site, based on viewership statistics. The site is the 301st most popular website in the United States, according to an article in Explore Howard, making it more popular than NBC.com, …
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The video shows a man being knocked out by a student.
Updated at 10:15 p.m. to include Board of Education candidate statement. The video is 27 seconds long. In a quick shot at the beginning, a young man wearing khakis and a collared shirt punches another man in the face and knocks him to the ground. Students scramble and scream as the man, wearing a ski mask, falls and lies motionless. The description of the video, posted on worldstarhiphop.com, is: “Girl send’s [sic] father to fight a boy for throwing a French fry… But gets knocked out by a 17-year-old!” The video was filmed at Long Reach High School, according to school officials. The video was posted on March 21 and has been viewed over 512,000 times as of noon on Thursday. “Long Reach” was trending on Twitter in the Baltimore region last …
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9:34 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013
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