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CRIME & SAFETY
Cumberland Man Arrested for Burglary and Violating Protective Order
Cumberland, MD — Early Monday morning, Cumberland City Police apprehended 29-year-old Joshua Michael Clark Sr. following a reported burglary in the 200 block of Park Street. Clark was taken into…
Homicide Investigators Looking Into Triple Murder’s Death In Prison
Maryland State Police are conducting an investigation into the death of Ralph Ruark, an 80-year-old inmate at the Western Correctional Institution in Allegany County. Ruark was serving a sentence in the maximum security prison for a triple homicide committed in Salisbury, Maryland in 1972. On October 14, 1972, Ruark fatally shot his estranged wife, Glenda Smack Ruark, 25, at a bookstore in the Salisbury Mall. News reports at the time said that the incident took place in front of several customers and that Ruark was apprehended shortly after the shooting.
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