A young Baltimore boy who was suspended from school earlier this year for eating a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun received a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association at a Republican fundraiser last night.

A freight train collided with a tractor trailer in Rosedale, Maryland, near Baltimore this afternoon, causing a derailment, damaging nearby buildings, and ultimately leading to an explosion that residents felt miles away.

On Tuesday morning, a man driving on the Baltimore Beltway ran out of gas. So he did what anyone would do: He pulled over to the shoulder of I-695, set up his drum kit, and began to play until help arrived.

7-year-old John Welch of Baltimore still isn't quite sure why he was suspended from Park Elementary School, though he understands it had something to do with his breakfast pastry's slight resemblance to a weapon.

How desperate is crumbling Baltimore, Maryland for a population infusion now that those "see where The Wire was filmed!" bus tours are growing less popular? The city is actually not using every last dollar in its law enforcement budget to chase down and harass brown-skinned immigrants in a desperate attempt to focus the anger of the majority on a target that cannot fight back. Has Baltimore really fallen this far?

Yes, Omar Little was booked on possession of a handgun in Baltimore this weekend. No, silly, it's not Omar Little the awesome gay vigilante who terrorized the drug dealers of Charm City that we all rooted for on The Wire, this was a real Omar Little. Turns out, he also favors a life of crime.

Are you one of those Christmas revelers who goes absolutely bonkers the second December rolls around? There's nothing quite like those bright lights of Christmastime, but some have a tendency to overdo it on the holiday cheer.

Science stars! Kraken lair! Saturn rings! Persistent chemist! Envious mind! Foreign insects! Baltimore telescope! Ancient language! And a serious geological epochal debate! It's your Monday Science Watch, where we watch science—perilously!

Two Baltimore women, whose relationship we'll describe as "strained," had a memorable encounter with each other at the Walmart this morning when one of the women either threw or poured bleach on the other. Maybe it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Or they were filming a scene from a new John Waters movie? (No.)

Teonna Brown, the 19-year-old woman filmed beating transgender woman Chrissy Polis at a Baltimore-area McDonald's, was sentenced to five years in jail on hate-crime charges. "I'm sorry. My mother did not raise me like this," Brown said in court.

In a case of life imitating art, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who played the drugland hitwoman of the same name HBO's The Wire, plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin today to avoid going to trial.

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, the former gang banger who wound up playing a sinister yet lovable hitwoman on HBO's acclaimed The Wire, was arrested this morning in a big Baltimore drug raid. Hopefully Marlo can sort this all out.

Baltimore is being plagued by a man dressing as a woman impersonating a cop and stopping cars on the street. Impersonating a police officer is a serious (but occasionally hysterical) crime. Are we sure it's not the ghost of Divine?

A Baltimore cop with the city's Marine Unit dove into freezing cold waters in order to save a drowning dog. Not just any cop, either—this one is a cat person.

"The Block," the Baltimore neighborhood known for its "strip clubs with gaudy lights," was hit by a five-alarm fire around 4 p.m. It's under control now (just two alarms), and luckily no injuries were reported. But it looked gnarly!

A Cuba-bound jet was diverted to Baltimore due to an "odor in the cabin." No, not that kind of odor.

Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff spent 43 months in prison thanks to his unbelievable network of congressional corruption. And now he's got a "fresh start" at a kosher pizza restaurant in Baltimore! Dibs on the movie option. [Baltimore Jewish Times, via]

Earlier tonight Olympic stoner Michael Phelps was involved in a car accident in downtown Baltimore. Now we've learned that the precise location of the accident took place in heart of Baltimore's tranny-hooker district.

Clark Rockefeller-the mystery man with no driver's license, social security number, or tax history, who kidnapped his daughter in Boston last week-has been caught, the Post is reporting. "Fugitive Clark Rockefeller was taken into police custody in Baltimore today. His kidnapped daughter is safe and sound and in police hands, law enforcement sources said. Details of his capture were not immediately clear."