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CBS News
15 hours ago
- CBS News
Maryland man sentenced after burning neighborhood street with flamethrower
A Maryland man has been sentenced to one year of community service and 60 hours of probation after burning a neighborhood street with a flamethrower last year. Prosecutors said Craig McQuin posted a video of himself using the flamethrower to burn the words "Trump" and "USA" into the ground. On Nov. 15, 2024, arson investigators responded to Hickory Hollow Drive in Glen Burnie to assist Anne Arundel County Police with a report of property destruction. When they arrived, they saw the words "TRUMP" and "USA" burned into the middle of a public road maintained by the Creekside Village Homeowner Association, officials said. After an investigation, police found a TikTok video showing a man later identified as McQuin using the flamethrower to ignite the two words, which had been spelled out on the asphalt with a flammable liquid. McQuin was charged with second-degree malicious burning, destruction of property (greater than $1,000), and possession of a destructive device. "Though his actions were reckless and damaged community property, I appreciate that the defendant has accepted full responsibility for what he did. In addition to forfeiting the flamethrower, he has paid $5,500 restitution and must complete an additional sixty hours of community service as part of his sentence," Anne Arundel County State's Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said in a statement.
Medscape
5 days ago
- Health
- Medscape
Evolving Pulmonary Care Strategies for Lung Cancer Patients
Lung cancer poses a potential smoke screen for today's pulmonologists. Overall, incidence rates continue to decline in the US as other cancers are on the rise, yet a growing number of patients are being diagnosed with lung cancer without any history of smoking. While this could partly be attributed to airborne pollutants, making a lung cancer diagnosis as early as possible is essential in reducing the rate of fatalities. According to the American Lung Association (ALA), many lung cancer diagnoses are not happening early enough for many of today's patients. Recent ALA findings claim that only 27.4% of patients are being diagnosed at a point when their chances of 5-year survival are optimal. 'We are making progress against lung cancer, but there's still tremendous opportunity for improvement,' said Peter Olivieri III, MD, director of interventional pulmonary at the University of Maryland (UM) Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Glen Burnie, Maryland. 'Early diagnosis is key, but most studies that have been done suggest that screening is vastly underutilized.' Although insurance does not usually cover routine lung screenings among never smokers, Olivieri and other providers believe there are strategies that can help identify lung cancer early and help treat comorbid infections in patients with lung cancer. The Pulmonologist's Place Supporting Patients With stage I lung cancer being asymptomatic, improving outcomes hinges on the detection of 'incidental' pulmonary nodules, said Olivieri. 'The majority of pulmonary nodules that are actually detected today are not found through lung cancer screenings — they're found on CT scans that are done for other reasons,' he said. 'For instance, patients who come into the ED [emergency department] after a trauma or with chest pain.' Although the majority of these nodules are found to be noncancerous, there are enough early-stage cancer nodules found this way to make an impact. 'We need to develop an infrastructure to identify those patients who are found incidentally and get them care quickly because many of them actually would not have qualified to undergo screening, and it represents an opportunity to detect cancer early,' said Olivieri. At UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center, an incidental lung nodule program launched in 2024 by interventional pulmonary and thoracic surgery specialists associated with the Lung Center and Tate Cancer Center reviews ED scans to better identify nodules. Olivieri encourages others to consider a similar approach. 'There should be some process for how to identify these nodules, whether it's in the ED, the hospital, or your local outpatient radiology center where primary care doctors may be ordering scans for various reasons,' he said. 'It's a big logistical and resource endeavor, but we think it's worth the investment if you can make that a priority and then funnel patients into a clinic where they can be evaluated.' At the University of Iowa, a group of pulmonologists in the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center's Lung Cancer Clinic perform same-day lung function testing, point-of-care ultrasound, and bronchoscopy to assist in patient management, according to Thomas J. Gross, MD, professor of internal medicine-pulmonary, critical care, and occupational medicine. 'We stay involved with and perform procedural interventions in cases that may need physical tumor debulking or airway stenting, or patients who suffer from bleeding complications related to tumor invasion,' he said. Iowa's pulmonologists are also involved in advanced bronchoscopic biopsy techniques, including robotic-guided navigation to the lung periphery that allows for a safe biopsy of small peripheral nodules to assist in curative surgical resection planning. 'We also perform measurements of pulmonary function and cardiopulmonary fitness to assess risk for lung resection,' said Gross. Adapting Disease Treatments With Cancer Pulmonary disease treatments often need to be modified when lung cancer is present, especially for chronic conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease (ILD), asthma, or pulmonary hypertension, said Amina Pervaiz, MD, pulmonologist, thoracic oncologist, and member of the thoracic oncology multidisciplinary team at Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit. According to Pervaiz, COPD complicates surgery and standard cancer treatments, limiting surgical options, such as lobectomy; increasing postoperative risks, such as failure of extubation; and increasing respiratory infections, especially with the forced expiratory volume in 1 second < 50%. 'As an alternative, stereotactic body radiation therapycan offer similar outcomes to surgery in early-stage patients with poor lung function,' said Pervaiz. 'ILD patients face higher risks of lung toxicity from chemo- and radiotherapy. Regimens like carboplatin and paclitaxel are preferred. Antifibrotic drugs, such as pirfenidone and nintedanib, added to chemotherapy can reduce postoperative exacerbations and improve outcomes.' With asthma, systemic steroids can interfere with immune checkpoint inhibitors, necessitating careful balancing of control and immunotherapy risks, while pulmonary hypertension or reduced diffusing capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide (DLCO) can affect candidacy for curative-intent surgery or radiotherapy, Pervaiz said. According to Kathleen McAvoy, MD, assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, 'it is incredibly important for any newly diagnosed patient who's scheduled to undergo lung cancer treatment to have other pulmonary conditions defined and under good control.' New or worsening respiratory symptoms often lead to treatment interruptions in lung cancer, said McAvoy. 'Controlling underlying lung diseases can help streamline a patient's treatments,' she said. All medications should be reviewed with a pharmacist due to the possibility of interactions with cancer treatments, McAvoy advises. 'For those with underlying pulmonary disease who are at higher risk for cancer treatment-related complications, frequent monitoring of symptoms, lung function, and pulse oximetry, including with ambulation, is also strongly encouraged,' she said. Jeffrey D. Marshall, MD, a pulmonologist and critical care medicine physician at UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center, agrees that pulmonary diseases change certain approaches to lung cancer care. 'Management of infectious processes may be different given concerns around resistance or more opportunistic infections in the face of chemotherapy or other immunomodulating therapies used to treat lung cancer,' he said. 'And though we already consider patients with structural lung disease or COPD to be at risk for pseudomonas aeruginosa, patients on chemotherapy are at risk of other gram-negative organisms, invasive aspergillosis, and less common organisms such as nocardia, necessitating a lower threshold for thorough diagnostic workup.' Other considerations include the use of steroids for management of COPD, asthma exacerbations, or community-acquired pneumonia. 'Though steroids are the backbone for the treatment of reactive airway disease flares or exacerbations, when patients are on immunomodulatory therapies their use is controversial,' said Marshall. 'Many of our newest treatments for all cancers work by revving up the immune system to use our own mechanisms for defense against the cancer cells. The use of steroids necessarily inhibits this immune response. We know from laboratory experiments and clinical trials that the use of steroids can dramatically impair the ability of checkpoint inhibitors to fight cancer.' Immunotherapy or small molecule-targeted therapies can cause pneumonitis and secondary infections related to impaired immunity. 'And we manage medications to palliate symptoms,' said Gross. At the same time, determining whether a patient has infectious pneumonia vs pneumonitis secondary to therapy can prove diagnostically challenging and make it difficult to determine the need for steroids vs antibiotics, said Marshall. Current Research and Best Practices Earlier diagnosis of lung cancer could be on the horizon. At UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Olivieri and colleagues are involved in a study conducting a blood-based test to look at the epigenome to assist lung cancer diagnosis. 'We would envision this test being administered in a primary care office as routinely and be available to everyone to predict cancer or at least identify early,' Olivieri said. Lisa Paul, MD, assistant professor of medicine - pulmonology at New York Medical College, is optimistic about research efforts targeting early detection by using liquid biopsy to look at DNA biomarkers. 'Those with strong family history of lung cancer and nonsmokers with environmental exposures are now being looked at closely,' she said. Paul also serves as a director of the lung cancer screening program at affiliated Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York. According to Pervaiz, research also supports personalized screening using artificial intelligence and nodule risk models, expanded molecular profiling, and biomarker-driven prehabilitation. 'Trials are evaluating how spirometry, DLCO, and frailty scores can guide treatment intensity,' he said.
CBS News
07-07-2025
- CBS News
Man dies, 3 firefighters burned from fire in Anne Arundel County
A man died, and three firefighters suffered minor burns from a fire Sunday in Anne Arundel County, according to the fire department. Firefighters responded to the fire in the 1100 block of Crain Highway in Glen Burnie. A child and another adult were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. The firefighters are expected to recover, a fire spokesperson told WJZ. Officials said the Red Cross and Mobile Crisis are assisting the families. The Anne Arundel County Fire & Explosives Investigation Unit is investigating the cause of the fire.
CBS News
19-06-2025
- Climate
- CBS News
Damaging Maryland storms knock out power, take down trees and power lines
Severe storm threat persists through the evening in Maryland Severe storm threat persists through the evening in Maryland Severe storm threat persists through the evening in Maryland Stormy weather knocked down trees, power lines, and took out power for tens of thousands of Marylanders on Thursday These strong to severe storms swept through the state with damaging winds, torrential downpours, and flooding in some areas. According to the National Weather Service, some parts of Maryland had hail and wind gusts of up to 70 mph. Maryland storm damage WJZ received photos of damage across the state. A large tree was knocked over along Gillis Falls Road at Watersville Road near Mount Airy. A video by Timothy Butz showed relentless rain pouring on Glen Burnie. @SteveSosnaWX Videos of the vicious storm that hammered Glen Burnie, Md. a bit ago. — TIMOTHY BUTZ (@timbutz70) June 19, 2025
CBS News
17-06-2025
- CBS News
Video shows Maryland police using aerial support to track down stolen car
Video footage shows the Anne Arundel County Police Department using support from its Aviation Unit to track down a stolen car. On May 7, detectives conducting surveillance near Crain Highway in Glen Burnie spotted suspects near a stolen car that had been flagged by a license plate reader. Detectives followed the car while the Aviation Unit provided aerial support. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐕𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐈𝐧 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐲 On May 7, 2025, detectives conducting proactive surveillance in the area of Crain Highway in Glen Burnie observed suspicious activity involving a… — Anne Arundel County Police Department (@AACOPD) June 17, 2025 Police executed a traffic stop near Jumpers Hole Road and Mountain Road and took two individuals into custody without incident. The vehicle was successfully recovered. Maryland police departments begin using drone technology Maryland police departments have begun to utilize drone technology more in recent months. Earlier in June, Howard County Police found a missing 5-year-old boy using a drone with thermal imaging technology. In April 2024, police used drone thermal imaging to track down a teen who crashed a stolen vehicle and was attempting to evade police in Columbia. The footage released by HCPD showed an officer checking the stolen vehicle for occupants before speaking with witnesses to try and find the suspect. Police used the drone to locate the suspect near the crash site. The Frederick County Police Department launched its drone program in February, which included the deployment of three Skydio X10 drones for search and rescue, public event monitoring, and disaster surveys. Drones were used in the capture of David Linthicum in 2023, a man found guilty of shooting two Baltimore County Police officers before fleeing to Fallston, leading police on a multi-day manhunt. In November 2024, Harford County Police used drones to track down two teens suspected of breaking into over 20 vehicles. The drones were able to capture the suspects' body heat to track the suspects down. The 15- and 16-year-olds were later charged with breaking into at least 21 cars in a crime spree in Abingdon and Joppa. Harford County currently has 11 drones in its fleet. In April 2024, Harford County Police also used drones to capture suspects in two home invasions. The Harford County Sheriff said drones are cheaper than helicopters, require less staff to operate, and can be deployed more quickly. "Public safety is enhanced through these kinds of technologies, and there's going to be a day where it's probably going to be standard to have one in every car," Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said. ACLU raises concerns about drone use The American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns about privacy regarding police drones being used to monitor protests. The organization estimates that about 80% of law enforcement agencies nationwide use drones, a number expected to grow.
