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  • Violent fugitive keeps running from authorities

    Scott McCabe

    Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

    U.S. Marshals are looking for a fugitive accused of escaping from a District of Columbia halfway house and driving a carjacked SUV. Twenty-three-year-old Jericho Missouri was finishing his armed robbery sentence at the time of his disappearance in 2010. Police caught up to him in Southeast...

  • Cold Case: Police still purse leads in Johns Hopkins grad student's slayings

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    The disappearance of a Johns Hopkins University graduate student once gripped the region and became known as the "Route 29 Stalker" investigation, but 17 years later her case remains unsolved. On March 2, 1996, the 25-year-old Alicia Showalter Reynolds was driving along Route 29 to...

  • Crime History: NYC cabbie is first person stopped for speeding

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    On this day, May 20, in 1899, a New York City cab driver became the Þrst person to be stopped and jailed for speeding in the United States. Jacob German, 26, a taxi cabdriver for the Electric Vehicle Co., was traveling along Manhattan's Lexington Avenue in what was called a horseless...

  • Crime History: Child who sneaked into zoo mauled by polar bears

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

    On this day, May 19, in 1987, an 11-year-old boy was killed by two polar bears after he and his friends sneaked into their enclosure at a Brooklyn zoo. Police found the bears, standing 8 feet tall and weighing 900 and 1,400 pounds, tugging at the body of the dead boy, Juan Perez. It took 20...

  • Stupid Crimes: Losing weight; Happy Meal, happy ending; there are rules

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Losing weight A Georgia woman is facing charges after police said she dropped weights, plates and beer mugs from an 18th-story balcony at people down below. Witnesses said they heard a woman, later identified as Chloe Chalavoutis, screaming from a balcony above, go back into her apartment...

  • Crime History: Two-year FBI probe finds 'Louie Louie' unintelligible

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    On this day, May 17, in 1965, after a nearly two-year investigation, the FBI Laboratory declared the lyrics of "Louie Louie" to be unintelligible. The Kingsmen's 1963 cover about a Jamaican sailor who missed his girlfriend had caused a countrywide panic. Rumors spread that the incoherent...

  • The Blotter for May 16

    Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    $8.6m awarded in deadly P.G. stabbing A Prince George's County jury has awarded $8.6 million to the family of a man who was fatally stabbed at a club in Forestville, but the verdict may be merely symbolic. The jury found that the CFE Event Center failed to provide adequate security the night...

  • University Park burglary suspect sought

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Prince George's County police have a photo of a suspect in a burglary of a home in University Park, and they are asking the public to help identify him. On Tuesday, police officers responded to the 6500 block of 43rd Avenue in University Park for a breaking-and-entering call, in which several...

  • $8.6 million awarded in fatal stabbing at Prince George's club

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    A Prince George's County jury has awarded $8.6 million to the family of a man who was fatally stabbed at a club in Forestville, but the verdict may be merely symbolic. The jury found that the CFE Event Center failed to provide adequate security the night George Cooper, 25, was stabbed inside...