-Nick Madigan writes about a Baltimore County woman who is accused of scamming former classmates at Dundalk High School into thinking she had terminal stomach cancer. Prosecutors say Dina M. Perouty, who was convicted of a mortgage scheme a few years ago in Carroll County, took at least $12,000 from her victims, among them champion skateboarder and Dundalk native Bucky Lasek, who flew Perouty out to California and paid for her to go to Disneyland - one of the things that was apparently on her "bucket list."

-Peter Hermann profiles a bizarre case out of Newark, Del., where a man is believed to have been stealing shoes, pictures of men, and boxer shorts for the past six years. Two-hundred-and-fifty shoes turned up in Maryland on Sunday, in Elkton. In other news, the Newark Police Department's evidence control unit is seeking a grant to buy Gold Bond foot powder in bulk. (No, not really)

-Julie Bykowicz reports that Gov. Martin O'Malley who has proposed reforms to sex offender laws, has activated an advisory board formed four years ago that never met. Former Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr., O'Malley's father-in-law, will serve as the chairman. Bykowicz reported the other day that many of the state's laws dealing with sex offenders aren't even being enforced.

-Over at the Investigative Voice, Stephen Janis has been reporting on the unraveling of an apparent scheme in which a convicted sex offender was able to continue to get paid by the city while serving jail time. Officials are exploring whether other Department of Public Works employees helped Dennis McLaughlin forge medical leave slips, the site reports.

-Tricia Bishop reports that attempted murder charges have been thrown out against two Baltimore men accused of trying to kill a former Black Guerrilla Family gang member. The victim changed his story last week. One of the suspects' attorneys had filed a rare appeal to the federal courts for intervention in the case, attempting to get his client freed pending trial.