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Daughter, boyfriend indicted in Howard blogger's killing
A 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend arrested in the killing of her father in his Ellicott City home this month were indicted and charged as adults by a grand jury this week, according to court records. Morgan Arnold, a Mount Hebron High...
Tags: Murder, Mental Health, Prosecution, Justice System, Ellicott City
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Girl charged in father's death struggled with mental health
Morgan Lane Arnold, an emotionally frail 14-year-old freshman, navigated the hallways of her Howard County high school each day filled with anxiety, unable because of a learning disorder to decipher the social cues, jokes and emotions of her peers. Her...
Tags: Entertainment, Human Interest, Electronics, Learning Disability, James B. Kraft
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Woman who accidentally shot son to death denied lighter sentence
A Slatington woman sentenced in March to up to a decade in prison for accidentally shooting her 19-month-old son in the head and killing him while unloading a gun she planned to sell to a drug dealer tearfully asked a judge Tuesday to reduce her sentence....Tags: Allentown, Shootings, Bipolar Disorder, Alprazolam (drug), Clonazepam (drug)
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Connecting workers on the autism spectrum with tech jobs
Data entry is repetitive and hard to do well — that is, quickly and accurately. Shane Foley is great at it. The 21-year-old Ellicott City man works on two computer screens, eyeing images of handwritten sheets on one and clicking the information...
Tags: Business, Autism, Ellicott City, Learning Disability, Howard County
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Stephen Stills aims to Light Up the Blues for Autism Speaks
On his own and as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young), two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Stephen Stills has taken part in many a benefit concert over the last four decades, but usually his role has been that of rock singer...
Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Nokia Corp., Lucinda Williams, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
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Maximum mayhem on his mind
WASHINGTON -- The gunman in the Newtown massacre fired 154 bullets from his Bushmaster military-style rifle in less than five minutes, killing 20 first-graders and six adults. He brought with him 10 large-capacity magazines, each holding up to 30 rounds,...
Tags: Shootings, Politics, Entertainment, U.S. Congress, Firearms
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Arsenal of weapons found in Newtown gunman's home
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - An arsenal of weapons including guns, a gun safe with shotgun shells, a bayonet and several swords were found in the home of the gunman who carried out the Newtown school shooting, according to search warrants released Thursday. ...
Tags: Shootings, Politics, Murder, Entertainment, Firearms
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Newtown massacre: Warrants detail Adam Lanza's world of weapons
Adam Lanza, the gunman who attacked a Connecticut elementary school, killing 20 children and six adults, had an arsenal of guns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and even samurai swords, knives and a bayonet, according to search warrants released on...
Tags: Jared Lee Loughner, Politics, Entertainment, Firearms, Newspaper and Magazine
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Theater review: 'On the Spectrum' a love story with a difference
Cormac is a law-school-bound young man living in a cramped apartment in New York's West Village with his financially strapped mother. Iris is a blogger, working from home in Queens, who hires "Mac" to spiff up her website. The love story that develops...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Autism, West Village, Behavioral Conditions
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Smart comedy "Body Awareness" comes to Empire Stage
Staff Writer"Body Awareness" is a strange little comedy, and a smart one at that. It defies easy categorization or even deciphering. Produced by Island City Stage and Empire Stage, the play by Annie Baker is getting its South Florida premiere at the cozy Empire...Tags: Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale
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Giants come together for wins and a lot more
Back when left-handed pitcher Justin Stern was a fourth grader and lived in Milwaukee, his class had to work with a group of second graders. Little did he know how much that day was going to change his life and eight years later how much it was going to...
Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Baseball, San Francisco Giants, First Aid
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Adam and Nancy Lanza: An investigation into their family life
Years before Adam Lanza shot up Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, his mother, Nancy, had enrolled him there in the hopes that the boy would pull out of his shell. He never did. A new investigation, co-reported by the Hartford Courant and PBS...
Tags: Adam Lanza, Entertainment, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Anders Breivik, Gaming
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