Courthouse shooting baffles police and guards
Baltimore AP report details a dramatic courthouse incident as a 31 year old jail guard Walter Lucas wrestled with an inmate who fired at him. Police questioned a 19 year old inmate and expanded the probe to uncover how a Kaliber pistol and 18 rounds entered the heavily guarded Criminal Court. The suspect fled with the weapon after the attack, and investigators noted the pistol had not been reported stolen.
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Baltimore
Hill
Courthouse Crime Information Center
Walter Lucas
Lucas
Laas
Jury weighs sanity in Leuschner sex murder trial
In Garrett County Circuit Court a seven woman and five man jury prepared to hear opening arguments in the murder and sodomy case against Ellwood Leroy Leuschner. Defense argues insanity as a possible defense based on psychiatric testimony describing hysterical neurosis and multiple sexual deviations, with reported hallucinations.
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Oakland
Ellwood Leroy Leuschner
Garrett County
Salisbury Soup Factory
William “Rusty” Jory
Leuschner
Baltimore
Fred A. Thayer
John Henderson
Richard D. Warren
Wicomico County
Henderson
Wagaman quits state politics for Washington County race
Charles F Wagaman Jr a leading Republican in the Maryland House of Delegates announces he will leave state politics to run for Washington County Commissioner He cites family life and lengthy Annapolis terms as the reason leaving two Democratic challengers surprised Wagaman has chaired the county Republican delegation and held a House subcommittee chairmanship plus a seat on the Appropriations Committee
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Hagerstown
Charles F Wagaman Jr
House of Delegates
Washington County
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Hagerstown Morning Herald
Annapolis
S &Uite
Wagman
Paul Muldowney
Ray Kline
House
House Appropriations Committee
Mitchell endorses Lee for governor in Maryland
Rep. Parren J. Mitchell, the only Black congressman from Maryland, endorsed Acting Gov. Blair Lee III in the Democratic race for governor. He cited meetings with Lee and noted Lee’s actions on the Continental Can prison site, minority business bills, and support for a Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority, plus appointments of Blacks to the governor’s staff, the Court of Appeals, and the security detail.
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Baltimore
Parren J. Mitchell
Blair Lee III
Mitchell
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Lee
Baltimore City
Continental Can
Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority
Wth
Maryland Court of Appeals
Baltimore woman dies from rare gonococcal heart infection
A young Baltimore woman died February 27 from gonococcal endocarditis caused by a rare gonorrhea infection. Health officials investigated for months to locate the infection source, narrowing to a single male suspect who shows no current symptoms.
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Baltimore
David Glasser
Baltimore Health Department
Bureau of Disease Control
Glagser
Glasser
Samor
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