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NC Teen Found Dead Had Never Been to Area Before
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsThe half-brother of a missing North Carolina girl said she had never gone to the area in northeastern Maryland near the Conowingo Dam where her body was found last week and said he hopes an arrest is made soon. Authorities confirmed on Thursday they had found the body of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes, who vanished late last year while visiting her older half-siblings in Baltimore for the holidays. Her body was pulled from the Susquehanna River after authorities and volunteers had searched for weeks. Her half-brother, Bryan Barnes, told The Baltimore Sun that he doubted Phylicia would travel 40 ...
Police: Body Found in Md. River Is Missing NC Teen
By not in system - AOL NewsBALTIMORE -- After months of searches and appeals to the public, authorities confirmed Thursday that a body found in a northeast Maryland river was a North Carolina teen who went missing while visiting relatives in Baltimore over the Christmas holidays. Phylicia Barnes, from the small North Carolina city of Monroe, about 25 miles southeast of Charlotte, disappeared Dec. 28 while visiting her older half-siblings for the holidays. Her 17th birthday was Jan. 12. Baltimore Police Baltimore police say a body found in a river in northeast Maryland on Wednesday is that of missing teen ...
Plane With First Lady Came Too Close to Cargo Jet
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Air traffic controllers directed a plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama to abort a landing at Andrews Air Force Base because it was too close to a military cargo jet, officials said Tuesday, in yet another embarrassment for the Federal Aviation Administration. While there apparently was little risk to Mrs. Obama, the episode puts the FAA back into the spotlight as officials struggle to calm public jitters about flying that have been raised by nine suspensions of air traffic controllers and supervisors around the country in recent weeks, including five for sleeping on the ...
Woman Accused of Killing Bethesda Co-Worker and Cover-Up Is Due in Court
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe woman accused of murdering her co-worker in an upscale Maryland athletic store and then fabricating a story about being the victim of a brutal rape and assault as a cover-up is due in court today. Brittany Erin Norwood is being charged with first-degree murder. She is the only suspect in the slaying of 30-year-old Jayna Troxel Murray, her former co-worker who was found beaten and stabbed to death inside the Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda, Md. MCPD / AP Brittany Norwood has been charged with the murder of Jayna Murray, her former co-worker at a Lululemon Athletica store ...
Maryland DUI Suspect Drives Truck Onto Police Cruiser
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsJust because you have an off-road vehicle doesn't mean you hold a license to drive wherever you please. Witnesses told police that Brian Head, a 26-year-old from Maryland, found himself a bit stranded early Sunday morning after a bar fight turned into a car chase that left him -- and his pickup truck -- perched on the hood of an unmarked police car. Head allegedly took the wheel of his Ford F-250 intending to pursue someone he had just been in an argument with at a tavern when he collided with his adversary's Volkswagen, MSNBC reports. ...
Swollen Waterways Worry Officials on East Coast
By not in system - AOL NewsTRENTON, N.J. - Hundreds of flood-weary East Coast residents were returning home Saturday, as rain-swollen rivers and other waterways were slowly receding to normal levels. But officials say it might be a few more days before some people - especially those in hard-hit areas of northern New Jersey - will be able to get back home. And others may need to be evacuated if some major regional waterways crest as expected on Sunday morning. "This is not a game. This is real. If you can, please seek higher ground now," Paterson Mayor Jeffery Jones told residents on Saturday, warning them that it ...
Police: Serial Rape Suspect Tried to Hang Self
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The man suspected of terrorizing women with sexual assaults from Virginia to Rhode Island over 12 years tried to hang himself in his cell Saturday, but survived and was treated at a hospital, police said. Aaron Thomas, 39, was returned to jail after a brief hospital stay, New Haven police Officer Joe Avery said Saturday night. Thomas is scheduled to appear Monday in New Haven Superior Court. Police said Saturday that DNA confirmed that the unemployed truck driver is the East Coast Rapist, suspected in attacks on at least 17 women. Thomas could not be reached for ...
East Coast Rapist Suspect Arrested in Connecticut
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW HAVEN, Conn. - A man suspected of terrorizing women with sexual assaults from Virginia to Rhode Island over a span of 12 years as the so-called East Coast Rapist has been arrested in Connecticut, federal and local authorities said. The suspect, 39-year-old Aaron Thomas, was facing questioning by investigators following his arrest Friday at his home in New Haven, police spokesman Joseph Avery said. Fairfax County Police / AP This composite of artists' sketches provided by the Fairfax, Va., County Police Department was distributed in a recent initiative to catch the attacker. On ...
Rocket Glitch Spoils Glory Satellite Launch
By not in system - AOL NewsVANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A rocket that blasted off early Friday carrying an Earth-observation satellite has failed to reach orbit, NASA said. The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's Glory satellite lifted off about 2:10 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials said . Randy Beaudoin, AFP / Getty Images The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's Earth-observation satellite Glory sits on the launch pad Thursday at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket failed to reach orbit after blasting off early Friday. But NASA said in a brief statement that a protective ...
Slaves Hid African Talismans at Maryland Plantation
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe greenhouse built on a storied Maryland plantation where Frederick Douglass once lived as a boy has long been celebrated as a shining example of European-style architecture. But the slaves who built it left their mark on the greenhouse as well, hiding African talismans in the structure to defend against evil spirits. The talismans were found at the Wye House Farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore, unearthed as part of a years-long dig by University of Maryland researchers that has found remarkable traces of the lives of the hundreds of slaves who once worked the plantation in ...
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