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(CNN, 4/9/2012)
A man in Baltimore is beaten and stripped and the whole incident is caught on tape. CNN’s Lisa Sylvester reports.
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(ABC 2 News, 4/10/2012)
A Maryland man is replacing Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s most wanted list.
Eric Toth was a third grade teacher at Beauvoir School in Washington, D.C. The FBI says pornographic images of a child were found on his school camera in 2008. The victim was a student at the school.
Toth disappeared. His car was found at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport with a suicide note. But FBI agents believe he was living in Arizona under an assumed name in 2009.
Continue reading at ABC 2 News.
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Police chief warns of racial tensions over a crime he says was ‘drunken opportunistic criminality’
By Justin Fenton (The Baltimore Sun, 4/10/2012)
Baltimore’s top cop on Tuesday warned against “race-baiting” amid rising tensions across the nation, citing the Trayvon Martin case and cautioning that a video generating outrage on the Internet of a tourist being beaten and stripped in downtown Baltimore doesn’t appear to depict a hate crime.
Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III, appearing on WBAL’s C4 program, said the attack on a 31-year-old Arlington, Va. Caucasian man appears to be nothing beyond “drunken opportunistic criminality.” The comment came in response to a caller who said if the victim were African-American and the assailants white, civil rights leaders would be descending on Baltimore and the attackers would be charged with a hate crime.
Bealefeld, the white police commissioner of majority-black Baltimore, warned against “fear-mongering.”
“There’s no doubt it’s a crime. We need to vigorously hold criminals accountable, and we have to be careful not to be pulled into this race-baiting,” he said.
“I want to caution people, because, I think there will be ample national noise as we progress through the Trayvon Martin and the [Oklahoma shooting] cases,” Bealefeld continued. “As these things get going, I will urge caution of Baltimoreans to distinguish between criminality and racially motivated crime.”
Continue reading at The Baltimore Sun.
By Ashley Lutz, (Business Insider, 4/6/2012)
Maryland is offering a bounty for a killer fish that can survive on land, the Daily Mail reported
The state’s Department of Natural Resources is hosting an annual contest with a $200 reward for killing the snakehead, which is banned from the U.S. and is a threat to other species.
Snakeheads grow up to several feet long and can survive outside of water for three days.
After demolishing the native population in rivers they simply hop up on land and seek out another source. They eat everything from fish and frogs to birds and small mammals.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources said they don’t expect to wipe out the snakehead population, but the contest could help to control it.
The fish originate in Asia and Africa and are considered a delicacy in Vietnamese food.
If you want to try your luck at the contest, here’s a video on how to kill these ferocious fish.
Continue reading “Maryland Has A Bounty For This Killer Fish Invading America” at Business Insider.
Snakehead Terror!
