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Baltimore City police arrested a Virginia couple over the weekend after they asked an officer for directions. WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team reporter David Collins said Joshua Kelly and Llara Brook, of Chantilly, Va., got lost leaving an Orioles game on Saturday. Collins reported a city officer arrested them for trespassing on a public street while they were asking for directions . "In jail for eight hours -- sleeping on a concrete floor next to a toilet," Kelly said. "It was a nightmare," Brook said. "I was in there thinking I was just dreaming and waiting to wake up." Collins reported...

An 11-year-old sixth-grade girl was arrested Friday afternoon at Fox Chapel Middle School on a charge of possessing a weapon. The weapon? A butter knife. The girl, who won't turn 12 until March and whose name is being withheld by the Times because she is a minor, was handcuffed, taken to the Hernando County Jail and charged with the possession of a weapon on school property, a third-degree felony.

Marine Corps Sgt. Zach Richardson survived Iraq, but not Carson Middle School in Greensboro. When Richardson walked into the Greene County school last week, he expected to meet some of the sixth-graders who had written to him during his seven-month deployment. Instead, he was shown the door, coming under the scrutiny of a principal enforcing a policy that requires prior approval for visiting speakers. Principal Ulrica Corbett told teacher Matthew Lund, the Marine's host and former college roommate, to escort Richardson from the campus. On Wednesday, after the incident had gotten attention across the nation, the superintendent of Greene County...

Three years and eight months after the terrorist attacks that changed our lives and after spending $4.5 billion on screening devices to monitor airports, seaports, mail and the air we breathe, the Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged what many of us frequent fliers already suspected. The money was misspent on equipment that has failed to do the job. As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money on even more expensive equipment. Among the problems associated with the current equipment, as detailed in last Sunday's New York Times, are...

Teen risks penalty over beads School threatens in-school suspension if Raven Furbert dons red, white and blue necklace By MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON, Staff writer First published: Saturday, April 9, 2005 SCHENECTADY -- The saga continues for a 13-year-old Mont Pleasant Middle School student who is suing school officials for the right to wear a handmade red, white and blue necklace to class. Raven Furbert was a typical student before she received a string-it-yourself bead kit for Christmas. Now, the girl who filed the civil rights violation claim in U.S. District Court in February has drawn national attention as she fights...

Plan Would Allow Children To Carry Own Inhalers Legislation Inspired By Death Of Camper POSTED: 7:14 p.m. EST January 30, 2003 CONCORD, N.H. -- The House passed two bills Thursday to allow children who have asthma or allergies to carry their own inhalers at school or at camps in New Hampshire. The legislation was inspired by the death of 14-year-old Jovahny Ortiz, who died of an asthma attack last summer at a YMCA summer camp on Lake Winnipesaukee. His inhaler was kept in a locker away from his cabin. The legislation would allow children to carry inhalers if they...