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More than a dozen Maryland state prison guards helped a dangerous national gang operate a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from behind bars that involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Thirteen female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore jail to gang leaders, prosecutors said. The officers were charged Tuesday in a federal racketeering indictment. The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers became pregnant by one inmate. Two of them got tattoos of the inmate’s first name, Tavon — one on her neck, the other on a...

Last night a "GDFD" (get drunk, fall down) was brought into the Emergency Department by aid car. She arrived, as most drunks do, bellowing obscenities and calling the staff vile names. And this young lady was also a spitter. Nice.The law allows us to restrain a patient who poses a threat to himself or to staff, and our MD, a particularly excellent one, wasted no time in decreeing that it be made so. Security is always down there, so we summoned them to help us put the leathers and a spit sock on the young lady. We then shifted her...

As she stood in Adams County Courtroom No. 1 on Monday, Erica Rutters used a tissue to dab tears from her eyes. The 29-year old Dover Township woman pleaded guilty to the charge of corruption of a minor and accepted her sentence of three years of probation. Rutters quietly answered "yes" when Judge John D. Kuhn asked if she was pleading guilty because it was true that she wrote sexually graphic letters to a 16-year-old boy she taught at Oxford Christian Academy in New Oxford. The teenager's mother, Vicki Klinedienst of Reading Township, said she found the handwritten letters in...

Police contend that a husband and wife who ran a prostitution ring from their home in a prosperous suburban Boca Raton neighborhood kept a list of bad customers, and attracted a clientele from North Miami Beach to Palm Beach Gardens. The trade was so vast for David Bachmann, 41, and his estranged wife, Michelle Harris Bachmann, 42, that David Bachman kept a list of more than 1,600 bad customers, police contend in court documents. Police say David Bachmann kept a computer file that included men who threatened violence and who might be police officers. His notations also suggest his operation...

German Protestant youth group creates calendar with photos depicting erotic scenes from Bible. It's wonderful when teenagers commit themselves with hair and skin to Bible, pastor says A German Protestant youth group has put together a 2006 calendar with 12 staged photos depicting erotic scenes from the Bible, including a bare-breasted Delilah cutting Samson's hair and a nude Eve offering an apple. "There's a whole range of biblical scriptures simply bursting with eroticism," said Stefan Wiest, the 32-year-old photographer who took the titillating pictures. Anne Rohmer, 21, poses on a doorstep in garters and stockings as the prostitute Rahab, who...

Braidie is just your average kid. She's a little melodramatic, maybe, and a handful for her mother, but nothing too out of the ordinary. So when she sees her friends cruelly hazing a girl at school, she does what most kids would do - absolutely nothing. Joan MacLeod's sober and gripping one-woman show "The Shape of a Girl," produced by a Canadian company, the Green Thumb Theater, and playing at the Duke on 42nd Street through Jan. 30, adds to the growing consensus in popular culture that "sugar-and-spice and everything nice" might have been overstating the case. In recent years,...