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Drug wife pleads guilty to money laundering BALTIMORE (AP) A Salisbury woman pleaded guilty Thursday to laundering money for her husband, who was dealing drugs out of the Salisbury restaurant they owned and operated together. Wendy Apostolopoulos, 37, had faced charges of conspiring to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, heroin and other drugs. She faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on the money laundering conviction, the U.S. office said. Sentencing was scheduled for Sept.

29. Her husband, Paul Apostolopoulos, 36, pleaded guilty last month to possession with the intent to distribute and conspiring to launder money and deal drugs. He also pleaded guilty in a separate case to transporting stolen goods. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison when sentenced Sept. 15.

According to a statement of facts, Paul Apostolopoulos sold drugs from 1999 to 2005, largely out of his restaurant, Bar and Grill, which has been turned over to the government along with the rest of his and his assets. Police await drift report for teen OCEAN CITY (AP) Police are awaiting a toxicology report that they hope will determine what caused the death of an Elkton teen whose body was found in June off Cape May, N.J. Nicholas Gochnour, 18, was last seen June 14 arguing with several people outside an Ocean City nightclub. His body was found nearly two weeks later. He had been celebrating his high school graduation in the resort town.

Investigators are also waiting for a drift analysis from the Coast Guard that should determine if it was likely that body floated from Ocean City to Cape May, said Patrolman 1st Class Barry Neeb, an Ocean City police spokesman. The drift analysis was turned over to the Coast Guard Research and Development Center in Groton, Conn. have 13 worth of data to Neeb said. results are not going to be The toxicology report from the New Jersey medical examiner was delayed because of wrangling between Gov. Jon Corzine and that General Assembly over their state budget, which led to a weeklong government shutdown.

Police need to see the toxicology report and the drift analysis before they can decide what steps to take next, Neeb said. Meanwhile, friends and family continue to provide police with of Neeb said. They indicated he was not a good swimmer and said it would be unlike him to go swimming. have no evidence that he went Neeb said. think he went swimming, body was found dressed in a T-shirt, boxers, socks and sneakers, but no shorts or pants.

A pair of shorts could have come off in the water, Neeb said. Sprinklers required for new duplexes FRUITLAND (AP) New residential duplexes in Fruitland will need sprinkler systems after council members approved a revised ordinance that originally would have required all future residential development to have a sprinkler system. Local and state fire officials encouraged the council to mandate the requirement in all new homes but that idea only had partial council support. State law requires all town- homes and multifamily structures to have sprinkler systems. Salisbury is expected to act on a similar ordinance later this year.

Gilchrest to tour County BALTIMORE (AP) Eastern Shore Congressman Wayne Gilchrest, is planning a tour Monday of Baltimore City and Howard County with Congressman Elijah Cummings, to learn more about issues residents face. The two will visit Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Baltimore Pediatric HIV program, a drug addiction recovery program and take a driving tour through a successful Hope VI community. In Howard County, they will also focus on sites that are reflective of transportation issues in the county. In April, Cummings toured Kent County on the Eastern Shore with Gilchrest. NAACP kicks off convention by honoring abolitionist Brown BALTIMORE (AP) More than 74 years after the NAACP sought to honor militant abolitionist John Brown as a man who at human slavery a blow that woke a guilty the civil rights organization is following through with a plan first led by W.E.B.

DuBois. DuBois led the 1932 pilgrimage from an NAACP convention in Washington to Harpers Ferry, W.Va., to lay Great at historically black Storer College. But school officials objected, saying it was too militant. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans on Friday to put a tablet with the same language in Harpers Ferry before the 97th convention, which will be in Washington. NAACP officials are scheduled to place the tablet at the college in the town where Brown captured a government arsenal in 1859.

Julian Bond, the modern chairman of the Baltimore-based NAACP, pointed out how the raid sent shockwaves through the country 16 months before the Civil War spreading fear in the white South and causing abolitionist circles in the North to cel- ebrate his actions as heroic. Brown was a big inspiration to NAACP founders, Bond said. condemned the violence but celebrated the impulse, and I think that generally true Bond said Thursday. not celebrating the violence that he perpetuated. celebrating his commitment to racial justice, and we think fitting to continue that NAACP officials, including CEO Bruce Gordon, will take a 1932 eight-car train to Harpers Ferry for the reenactment.

The tablet will include the original language, which expresses the civil rights gratitude for actions. It also will be the same design and layout of the original. The tablet will be displayed outside on a permanent monument. him fought seven slaves and sons of the tablet was inscribed. his crucified corpse marched 200,000 black soldiers and 4,000,000 freedmen singing body lies a- mouldering in the grave but his soul goes marching The reenactment is part of a series of NAACP events, leading up to the centennial celebration in 2009.

trying to touch as many historic bases as we can, and then we discovered that this plaque had never been put in Bond said. thought not In the late 1850s, Brown and 21 others occupied the arsenal at Harpers Ferry in what is now West Virginia to start a of The next day a company of Marines under Col. Robert E. Lee took last stronghold by assault. Ten people were killed or mortally wounded, including two of 20 children.

Brown was convicted of treason to the Virginia Commonwealth and conspiracy to murder. When the Civil War began in 1861, Lee put his loyalty to Virginia first and took command of Confederate forces. AP LIBRARY OF CONGRESS In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are photographed May 22, 1932, as they surround a tablet to honor militant abolitionist John Brown during the pilgrimage of the 23rd annual conference of the NAACPto Harpers Ferry, W.Va. friend: Navy QB said things on night of alleged rape WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. Naval Academy quarterback Lamar Owens Jr.

told the friend of a woman he allegedly raped that he know what he was when he went into her room early one January morning and had sex with her. Testifying Thursday at the Washington Navy Yard at court-martial for rape, the friend said Owens told her that things when he approached the woman as she slept in her bed, but that he should have left before anything happened. Owens said someone had done this to his sister, he would want to kill the person who did the friend told the jury of five Naval Academy officers. When questioned by attorney, the friend acknowledged that the senior midshipman had not admitted to sexually assaulting the woman. never said that he raped attorney Brian Heberlig asked.

the friend replied. Owens, 22, of Savannah, is charged with rape, conduct unbecoming an officer, and violating a protective order. If convicted, he would be eligible for a maximum term of life in prison. A nurse who examined the alleged victim a few days after the incident said that the woman showed no physical signs of rape when she conducted a rape kit at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. However, Lt.

Cmdr. Amy Branstetter said that necessarily mean there been any abuse. Owens said someone had done this to his sister, he would want to kill the person who did Testimony of friend.