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Widow's friends plead for help

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Newborn's father was fatally stabbed in Catonsville

Friends of Claudia Sales and Carlos Santay appeal for information about the person who fatally stabbed Santay in Catonsville Saturday evening. Santay was going to pick up Sales, who had just given birth to their first child.

Pikesville man accused of setting explosions out on bail

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:55:00 -0400

A Pikesville man accused of setting off the loud nighttime pyrotechnics that disturbed his neighbors for months has been released on $250,000 bail.

Inmate's actions called strange

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Fellow prisoners testify on behavior before killing on bus

Two inmates who have been housed in the same prison tier as twice-convicted killer Kevin G. Johns Jr. testified yesterday that he acted strangely in the months before authorities say he strangled another prisoner on a bus traveling from Hagerstown to a maximum-security prison in Baltimore.

BGE seeks cause of electrical fire

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

About 175 senior and disabled residents of a Towson apartment complex remained displaced yesterday as utility crews worked to repair an underground electrical cable.

Police, firefighters to honor their dead

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Separate memorial ceremonies have been planned in Towson to honor county police officers and firefighters who have died in the line of duty.

3 students named scholarship winners

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The county school system has awarded scholarships to three high school seniors in a program that helps graduates to pursue careers in education.

Hampton mansion gets federal grant

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The Hampton National Historic Site in Towson has received a $195,000 matching grant as part of the National Park Service's Centennial Challenge.

Public seminars planned on zoning

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The county Office of Planning will hold free informational seminars for residents interested in learning how to participate in development and zoning decisions in their communities.

Child-rearing topic of talk

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore will host a talk on being a parent at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Rosenbloom Owings Mills Center, 3506 Gwynnbrook Ave.

Birth, death collide on Mother's Day

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Woman delivers first child hours after husband is fatally stabbed in robbery

Claudia Sales spent Mother's Day teetering between grief and joy. On the same day that she welcomed her first child into the world, she learned that her husband and her tiny son's father was dead.