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Lexus, Mercedes Torched Outside Maryland Home In Suspected Arson: Fire Marshal Lexus, Mercedes Torched Outside Maryland Home In Suspected Arson: Fire Marshal
Lexus, Mercedes Torched Outside Maryland Home In Suspected Arson: Fire Marshal Someone apparently wanted these cars burned. A Lexus and Mercedes were found engulfed in flames outside a Maryland home early Thursday, Sept. 17, in what investigators believe was an intentionally set fire. The Indian Head Volunteer Fire Department was called to 10 Jameson Court in Charles County shortly before 1:30 a.m., according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal. Waiting for the four responding firefighters were a Lexus LS400 and Mercedes C240 burning in the parking area outside the residence. It took approximately 20 minutes to bring the one-alarm fire under control. Nobody was inju…

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Man Faces Murder Charge After Infant Killed With Traumatic Injuries In DC: Police Man Faces Murder Charge After Infant Killed With Traumatic Injuries In DC: Police
Man Faces Murder Charge After Infant Killed With Traumatic Injuries In DC: Police More than a month after 2-month-old Khamyah Honesty was killed, police say they have made an arrest. Demetrius Beatty, 40, was tracked down by members of the Capitol Area Regional Fugitive Task Force on Wednesday, Sept. 16, and arrested on a DC Superior Court warrant, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The man with no fixed address is now charged with first-degree felony murder and first-degree cruelty to children in Khamyah's death. Police have not said what Beatty's relationship was to the 2-month-old girl, though detectives said the killing had "domestic overtones." First…

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Loaded Gun Found In 15-Year-Old's Bag As Students Arrive At Maryland High School (DEVELOPING) Loaded Gun Found In 15-Year-Old's Bag As Students Arrive At Maryland High School (DEVELOPING)
Loaded Gun Found In 15-Year-Old's Bag As Students Arrive At Maryland High School (Developing) A loaded gun didn't make it past the morning arrival rush. A 15-year-old student was caught carrying a loaded handgun into Joppatowne High School in Harford County on Thursday morning, Sept. 17, according to the sheriff's office. Students were arriving for the day when the school's weapons detection system flagged the teen for a possible weapon, prompting a school safety liaison to conduct a search. That search turned up a loaded handgun concealed in the student's belongings, authorities said. A school resource officer who was already on campus detained the teen before deputies took him t…

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Measles Alert Issued After Infectious Visitor Stops At Maryland Beach Hotspots Measles Alert Issued After Infectious Visitor Stops At Maryland Beach Hotspots
Measles Alert Issued After Infectious Visitor Stops At Maryland Beach Hotspots A trip to the beach came with an unwanted passenger. Maryland health officials issued an alert after a person infected with measles visited several popular Ocean City destinations while contagious earlier this month. The potential exposures stretch from Wednesday, Sept. 3 through Saturday, Sept. 5, and include an Ocean City hotel, pizzeria, and restaurant, according to the Maryland Department of Health. Contact tracing is underway to identify and notify people who may have been exposed. Officials said anyone who visited these locations during the listed windows may have been exposed: Ca…

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Maryland Shopper Got Tired Of Waiting In Line, Then Came Back With A Gun: Sheriff Maryland Shopper Got Tired Of Waiting In Line, Then Came Back With A Gun: Sheriff
Maryland Shopper Got Tired Of Waiting In Line, Then Came Back With A Gun: Sheriff Tiffany Booze does not wait in line. The 38-year-old Fort Washington woman was arrested and released following a strange incident that played out at the Smallwood Village Center in Waldorf, according to the Charles County Sheriff's Office. Earlier this month, officers were called when Booze allegedly became confrontational with a store employee after expressing frustration about waiting in line, prompting a second employee to open another register for her. That wasn't enough. Before leaving, it is alleged Booze punched the first employee in the face. There was a brief physical alterc…

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Tiny Bursts Of Sound May Help Brain During Deep Sleep, Study Reveals Tiny Bursts Of Sound May Help Brain During Deep Sleep, Study Reveals
Tiny Bursts Of Sound May Help Brain During Deep Sleep, Study Reveals A barely noticeable sound delivered at exactly the right moment during sleep may give one of the brain’s overnight maintenance systems a boost. MIT researchers found that precisely timed bursts of pink noise strengthened waves of cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that helps remove waste products from the brain during sleep. The findings were published Wednesday, Sept. 9, in Science Translational Medicine. Pink noise contains the full range of frequencies people can hear, but lower pitches are louder and higher pitches are softer. MIT describes the result as a balanced, gentle sound, lik…

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Man Jumps From Moving Car After Armed Carjackers Force Him Into Trunk In DC, Feds Say Man Jumps From Moving Car After Armed Carjackers Force Him Into Trunk In DC, Feds Say
Man Jumps From Moving Car After Armed Carjackers Force Him Into Trunk In DC, Feds Say A DC man thought locking his victim in the trunk would be enough. It wasn't. The man popped the emergency release and jumped from the moving car after Dajuane Goode and two others allegedly forced him inside during an armed carjacking in Southeast DC, according to federal prosecutors. More than two years later, Goode has admitted to his role in the ordeal. Goode, 25, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Sept. 15, to carjacking and possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture containing fentanyl, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced. The carjacking b…

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'She Deserved Another Birthday': Transgender Woman Sophie Mourned After Maryland Shooting 'She Deserved Another Birthday': Transgender Woman Sophie Mourned After Maryland Shooting
'She Deserved Another Birthday': Transgender Woman Sophie Mourned After Maryland Shooting Sophie should have had decades left. Instead, the 27-year-old transgender woman was shot and killed in Maryland early on Friday, Sept. 11, leaving her family to plan a funeral and those who loved her asking that she be remembered for more than how she died. Baltimore Police were called to the 2300 block of Hunter Street at approximately 1:15 a.m. for a reported shooting and found a woman suffering from gunshot wounds in the 2400 block of North Calvert Street, officials said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not publicly identified the victim, though Baltimore Safe Haven id…

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Fugitive Wanted On Child Sex Charges 1,500 Miles Away Turns Up In Northern Virginia: ICE Fugitive Wanted On Child Sex Charges 1,500 Miles Away Turns Up In Northern Virginia: ICE
Fugitive Wanted On Child Sex Charges 1,500 Miles Away Turns Up In Northern Virginia: ICE A fugitive wanted on child sex charges in Colorado turned up more than 1,500 miles away in Virginia. Jose Saul Canas-Guandique, 49, was arrested by ICE officers in Falls Church after authorities said they learned he was wanted out west on three felony charges involving a child. Canas-Guandique, a Salvadoran national, is charged in Colorado with: Sexual assault on a child by a person of trust; Solicitation of child prostitution; Use of the internet to lure a child with intent to exploit. The arrest raises an obvious question that ICE's Wednesday, Sept. 16 announcement doesn't answer: How d…

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Manhunt Underway For 21-Year-Old Accused Of Killing 'Coach Nick' In Maryland (UPDATED) Manhunt Underway For 21-Year-Old Accused Of Killing 'Coach Nick' In Maryland (UPDATED)
Manhunt Underway For 21-Year-Old Accused Of Killing 'Coach Nick' In Maryland (Updated) The search for Nicholas Njuki's killer now has a name and a face. A 21-year-old Maryland man is wanted for murder after investigators identified him as the suspected gunman in the fatal shooting of Njuki outside a Rockville restaurant early Sunday, Sept. 13, according to Montgomery County Police. Shayan Solimani Damabi, of Gaithersburg, remained on the run as of Wednesday, Sept. 16, three days after the 33-year-old Njuki was killed following a confrontation that began inside Quincy's on Seven Locks Road. Police say Damabi may be driving a red 2018 four-door Acura TLX with Maryland license …

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Maryland Nurse Took Morphine Meant For 10-Year-Old After Open-Heart Surgery: AG Maryland Nurse Took Morphine Meant For 10-Year-Old After Open-Heart Surgery: AG
Maryland Nurse Took Morphine Meant For 10-Year-Old After Open-Heart Surgery: AG A 10-year-old recovering from open-heart surgery was left in severe pain in Maryland while the nurse entrusted with the child's morphine was diverting the drug for herself, prosecutors say. Kaitlyn Elizabeth Chalmers was working in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore when another nurse began questioning why the child's pain wasn't under control, according to the Maryland Attorney General's Office. The child had just undergone open-heart surgery. Chalmers, a registered nurse at the time, was responsible for administering the morphine p…

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Search For Missing Purcellville Woman Covered 6K Acres Before She Was Found Not Far From Home Search For Missing Purcellville Woman Covered 6K Acres Before She Was Found Not Far From Home
Search For Missing Purcellville Woman Covered 6K Acres Before She Was Found Not Far From Home Hundreds searched. Thousands of hours were spent. Still, the ending came painfully close to home. Nearly two weeks after 80-year-old Carolyn Taylor disappeared in Virginia, she was found dead by a neighbor on Sunday, Sept. 6, in a densely wooded area not far from her Lincoln-area home, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office. Now, investigators are detailing just how extensive the search for Taylor became before she was found. Approximately 315 people spent more than 2,400 hours combing over 6,000 acres of rural terrain after Taylor, who had dementia, was reported missing at 1:51 …

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