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4 THE BALTIMORE SUN NEWS SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2018 Judge upholds Mass. assault weapons ban what happened to J.L." But he received a 22 -year sentence in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. A federal jury convicted him in October of selling the heroin to J.L. and Kenneth Diggins six years ago.

She overdosed three days after Christmas in 2011. Washington becomes the fifth man sent to federal prison for running an extensive heroin ring in Northeast Baltimore. Called the Shropshire drug crew, the men sold dope with impunity under the protection of a corrupt Baltimore police detective, Momodu Gondo. The detective admitted in court to protecting the drug dealers from honest police who would arrest them and crooked cops who would rob them. When FBI agents wiretapped Gondo's phone and bugged his car, they uncovered crimes by the rest of his police squad, the Gun Trace Task Force.

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Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it has failed its responsibility to issue guidelines to control methane emissions from oil and natural gas sources. The suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said the agency is violating its "mandatory" duty under the Clean Air Act. It said the inaction is delaying the date by which states must submit their own methane control plans "and the date by which existing sources must comply with approved pollution control standards." Asked about the suit, an EPA spokesperson said Friday: "We don't comment on pending litigation." Methane is a greenhouse gas. The suit alleges that methane emissions "harm plaintiffs and their citizens by significantly contributing to air pollution that causes climate change." Maryland is represented in the suit by Attorney General Brian E.

Frosh. The other plaintiffs are New York, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Vermont, Iowa, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Oregon and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia and the city of Chicago. Jeff Barker Anderson stays on as head of city delegation Veteran Democratic state lawmaker Del. Curt Anderson will remain the leader of the influential Baltimore delegation even after telling all of his colleagues he wanted to step down. On Friday morning, the city's delegation voted against holding an election to replace the 68-year-old lawmaker.

The action means he will stay in the role until the regularly scheduled leadership election in September, unless he resigns his post. Anderson, who represents Northeast Baltimore's 43rd District, has led the city's 16 House lawmakers for a dozen years. He plans to seek an eighth term representing the district. He said Wednesday that he had been planning a transition to a replacement for six months. He had hoped that Del.

Cheryl Glenn, an East Baltimore Democrat, would succeed him. Not all members of the delegation were willing to go along with that plan. Del. Nick Mosby, a Democrat, was also lining up votes to run for chair of the delegation. But on Friday, Del.

Mary Washington called the out-of-season election process "highly irregular," particularly because Anderson had not resigned his post. The delegation voted on whether to suspend its rules to hold an election, but the measure did not get the two-thirds majority needed to pass. Erin Cox Fifth member of heroin ring gets prison sentence With the women of his family crying in the gallery, Antoine Washington was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison for selling the heroin that killed a young Bel Air woman known in court documents as J.L. Washington, 28, asked for leniency. "Please," he said to the judge, "I'm sorry for Rules that those firearms beyond 2nd Amendment's reach By Alanna Durkin Richer Associated Press BOSTON A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Massachusetts' ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, saying in a ruling released Friday that the weapons fall beyond the reach of the Second Amendment U.S.

District Judge William Young said assault weapons are military firearms and aren't protected by the constitutional right to "bear arms." Regulation of the weapons is a matter of policy, not for the courts, he said. "Other states are equally free to leave them unregulated and available to their law-abiding citizens," Young said. "These policy matters are simply not of constitutional moment" Democratic state Attorney General Maura Healey said the ruling "vindicates the right of the people of Massachusetts to protect themselves from these weapons of war." "Strong gun laws save lives, and we will not be intimidated by the gun lobby in our efforts to end the sale of assault weapons and protect our communities and schools," she said in a statement Young's decision comes as AR-15 assault-style rifles are under increased scrutiny because of their use in several recent mass shootings, including the February massacre at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead. The Gun Owners' Action League of Massachusetts and other groups that filed the lawsuit argued that the AR-15 can't be considered a "military weapon" because Day Daily: 589 Play 4: 1895 Night Daily: 568 Play 4: 7703 Multi-Win, April 4: 18 19 22 26 28 34 PENNSYLVANIA Day Pick 3: 309 Night Pick 3:300 Treasure Hunt: 07 15 20 25 27 Match 6, 17 27 33 37 45 46 Cash 5: 23 26 28 39 40 it cannot fire in fully automatic mode. But Young dismissed that idea, noting that the semi-automatic AR-15's design is based on guns "that were first manufactured for military purposes" and that the AR-15 is "common and well-known in the military." "The AR-15 and its analogs, along with large capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional right to 'bear Young wrote.

Young also upheld Healey's 2016 enforcement notice to gun sellers and manufacturers clarifying what constitutes a "copy" or "duplicate" weapon under the 1998 assault weapon ban, including copies of the Colt AR-15 and the Kalashnikov AK-47. Healey's stepped-up enforcement followed the shooting rampage at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 patrons. She said at the time that gun manufacturers were circumventing Massachusetts' ban by selling copycat versions of the weapons they claimed complied with the law. The Massachusetts assault weapons ban mirrors the federal ban that expired in 2004. It bans the sale of specific and name-brand weapons and explicitly bans copies or duplicates of those weapons.

The lawsuit was filed last year by the gun owners group and others who said the law infringed on their rights under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Jim Wallace, executive director of the Massachusetts gun owners group, said Young's upholding of Healey's crackdown on copycat assault weapons gives the attorney general "unbridled authority" to interpret laws as she pleases. "Everyone in the state should be really concerned about that," Wallace said. "What if the next attorney general isn't a friend on one of your issues?" Wallace said he couldn't yet say whether they will appeal the ruling.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment allows Americans to have guns in their homes for self-defense and blocked local governments from banning handguns. But the court last year turned away an appeal from Maryland gun owners who challenged the state's ban on assault weapons. Maryland's news station Coverage of the day's stories, breaking news and First Warning weather WJZ at AREA RUG CLEANING lts Tit Time Again! 1 1 3 1 UK A I IUN SPRING SPECIAL SAVE 50 8 Offer good through April 30,201 ON SOFT PRETZELS, SIZZLING FAJITAS MORE 410-560-1220 www.borhanirugs.com 2189 Creenspring Dr. Timonium DONATE YOUR CAR Wheels For Wishes Benefiting Make-A-Wish Mid -Atlantic WheelsFVrwTshes.org Call: (443) 438-1 622 Wheels For Wishes is a DBA of Car Donation Foundation.

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