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Ex-Perry Hall man gets
30 years in killing of wife
A Baltimore County judge has sentenced a former Perry Hall man convicted of killing his wife to 30 years in prison, prosecutors said. Roxanne Amick’s death in 2006 went unsolved for almost a decade until new DNA matching techniques bolstered circumstantial evidence tying her husband, Michael Amick, to the killing. Roxanne Amick’s body was found wrapped in a blanket and dumped in a patch of poison ivy near Belair and Perry Hall roads. After the killing, police saw that Michael Amick, who had been the one to report his wife missing, had a rash they believed was caused by exposure to the plant. But detectives didn’t have enough evidence to charge him. Michael Amick, now 58, moved with the couple’s two young children to Hawaii, but police continued to investigate his wife’s death. Advances in DNA technology allowed them to get matches from work gloves found in his van. Michael Amick was arrested in October 2016 when he returned to Maryland to visit family. A jury convicted him of second-degree murder in April.
Man dies while climbing at Rocks State Park
A man died Saturday evening after falling while climbing the King and Queen seat in Harford County's Rocks State Park, according to natural resources police. Police were called to the scene around 6 p.m. and found a man in his 30s who had fallen while climbing the natural rock outcrop, Maryland Natural Resources Police spokeswoman Candy Thomson said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity is being withheld until his family can be notified, Thomson said. The King and Queen seat in the park in Jarrettsville rises 190 feet above Deer Creek.
West Cold Spring Lane at JFX to be shut till Tuesday
Roadway repairs involved in a water main break in the area of West Cold Spring Lane at the Jones Falls Expressway will close the roadway in both directions until Tuesday, according to city public works officials. On Saturday the Department of Public Works said via Twitter that a 16-inch water main that had split open was under repair, but fixing the roadway would take some time. Water service was being restored Saturday to apartments and businesses in the area.
UM board to be briefed on football player’s death
The University of Maryland’s board of trustees will be briefed this morning on the external investigation looking into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of football player Jordan McNair during a scheduled offseason team workout May 29, sources familiar with the situation said Sunday. The redshirt freshman offensive lineman, a resident of Randallstown and a graduate of the McDonogh School, died at age 19 on June 13.