Maryland has reached a $400,000 agreement to settle its share of a lawsuit in the 2013 death of Tyrone West from injuries received during a traffic stop in Northeast Baltimore. The settlement is scheduled for a vote Wednesday by the state Board of Public Works. It is part of the resolution of a...
In touting its technology, the private Ohio-based company that has conducted hundreds of hours of aerial surveillance on behalf of the Baltimore Police Department since January often pointed to a privacy policy that includes restrictions on footage retention. "All media will be stored in a secure...More
When an Ohio company pitched its aerial surveillance technology to the Baltimore Police Department in the summer of 2014, department officials weren't interested, according to internal emails obtained by The Baltimore Sun through a public records request. Persistent Surveillance Systems said it...
Before the first plane left the ground, the company operating an aerial surveillance program for the Baltimore Police Department recommended that the department conduct focus groups and other outreach efforts to gauge community acceptance and concerns. But the department did not hold any such meetings....
A man was killed Saturday in an accidental shooting in Jessup as he was preparing to go with his friends to a gun range, Howard County police said. Wyatt Haggerty, 21, of Boonsboro suffered a single gunshot wound when a gun was accidentally discharged, police said Monday. He died later at a hospital,...
A woman was killed and a man was injured in separate shootings overnight in Baltimore, police said Sunday. At about 11:35 p.m. Saturday, a woman was shot in the head and torso in the 500 block of Brunswick Street in Southwest Baltimore’s Millhill neighborhood, police said. The woman, who has not...
Half of the mothers who lived in the neighborhoods wracked by the civil unrest that followed the death of Freddie Gray in 2015 became so stressed by the circumstances that they suffered from insomnia, loss of appetite and other depressive symptoms, according to new research by the University of...
Dozens of Baltimore business owners are suing city officials, including the police department and former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, saying they mishandled the city's response to the rioting in 2015. In a nearly 700-page complaint filed in federal court this week, more than 60 plaintiffs say...
In one of her first acts on the job in 2015, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch called for an end to rioting in Baltimore by promising an independent civil rights investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man whose fatal injuries in police custody had provoked the unrest....
Prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, bringing to an end one of the highest-profile criminal cases in the city's history with zero convictions. Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby acknowledged the...
Six Baltimore police officers cleared of criminal charges in Freddie Gray's arrest and death will be investigated by Montgomery County police, who are leading the internal affairs reviews that could determine whether the officers can return to policing city streets. Officers from the Washington...