Lawyers should zealously advocate for themselves heads news summary including potential war-crimes trial for Assad, going undercover to investigate hate crimes and Elian Gonzalez lauds Castro.

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Baltimore police say Molotov cocktails are to blame for fires that injured more than a half-dozen people. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says Molotov cocktails were found in a garden-style apartment building and a nearby northeast Baltimore residence on Wednesday morning. ...

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TOWSON — A Baltimore County judge sentenced a 19-year-old woman to five years in prison Tuesday for her role in the beating of a transgender woman inside a McDonald’s restaurant, an attack that attracted national attention when it was captured ...

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TOWSON — A woman whose beating of a transgender woman at a McDonald’s near Baltimore was captured on video has pleaded guilty to the attack. Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger says 19-year-old Teonna Brown pleaded guilty Thursday to one ...

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TOWSON — A Baltimore County grand jury has indicted two teens in a beating of a transgender woman at a McDonald’s restaurant that was caught on video. The indictment returned Monday charges Teonna Brown with assault and hate crime in ...

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Happy Monday and welcome back! Was a man shot in Mount Vernon the victim of a hate crime? HT: Baltimore Crime. Who would buy meat from a van, anyway? Letting 300 people out of pre-trial lockup every month would save ...

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Jim Downs, an assistant professor of history at Connecticut College, has an interesting essay posted today on the History News Network’s Web site about the cultural significance of the noose. He mentions the noose-hanging incident last year at the University ...

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