The night began with a card game as a group of cousins and a couple of friends engaged in a weekend past-time. The atmosphere was reminiscent of urban culture with drugs and alcohol being part of the festivities, but for this group it was an all too familiar scene. The only problem is that no

I’m not quite sure how long ago the Maryland State Division of Corrections asked the Federal Bureau of Investigations to conduct a covert investigations into the secret dealings behind the walls of the Baltimore City Detention Center (a.k.a Steel Side), but last week Federal Prosecutors dropped a bomb shell on the doorsteps of the office

Once upon a time in our society people who practice gay life or alternative lifestyles were afraid to make their sexual preference known publicly. The ridicule of homosexuals was so immense that people dared not expose who they truly are out of fear of being ostracized, attacked, and cast out of vast social settings that

Those who came to finally witness closure in the grueling murder trial of Michael Johnson for killing Honors Student Phylicia Barnes were gravely disappointed, as Judge Alfred Nance revealed in a Baltimore Circuit Court today that Johnson would receive a new trial. Johnson was scheduled to be sentenced today after having been previously convicted of

They will bring flowers, the piano will play sad songs, and the preacher man will speak to ease the pain within the hearts of those who knew and loved young Jonylah Watkins at her funeral services in the coming days. Sadly, another black child has fallen to the perverse sickness of violent culture that permeates

Charlie LeDuff is an award winning journalist who wrote about a police shooting that killed a 7-year-old little girl named Aiyana Stanley-Jones one night in Detroit nearly 3 years ago. The little girl was asleep on the sofa with her grandmother when a police swat team expelled a stun-grenade into the front window of their

As I walked through the halls of the Maryland State Police & Corrections Training Commission in Woodstock, Maryland, while a Corrections Cadet in Class 95-22, I had confidence that I would make an impact on the job with a thorough understanding of the training which had been instituted prior to my rookie class being assigned

I decided to publish this article after Michael Johnson was convicted of killing 16-year-old honors student Phylicia Barnes. I along with most people who followed her tragic story,  we were hoping that charges would be pursued against Deena Barnes after she admitted under oath that she allowed Phylicis to drink alcohol and ingest drugs. Also a

They are moms, school teachers, and other professionals from all around the nation whose meeting places are far remote from the glare of television cameras where society usually obtain information when tragic murder cases hit mainstream media. Their communities are in the backdrop of real criminal investigations within the forums of Lipstick Alley, Websleuths Crime

The details are still emerging but news media reports that Michael Maurice Johnson was convicted of 2nd degree murder in the killing of young Phylicia Simone Barnes in a Baltimore Circuit Court  today less than an hour ago. Phylicia’s family members could be seen hugging, crying, and thanking God in the hallways of Courthouse East.