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Police in Md. holding DNA on people not convicted of crimes
Even as the U.S Supreme Court reviews Maryland's law on police collection of DNA samples, many law enforcement agencies in the state are collecting and holding genetic material from murder victims and people never convicted of crimes. The practices...
Tags: Howard County, Chemical Industry, Wicomico County, Crime Victims, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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'Gun Center,' money to offset sequester cuts included in O'Malley's $222 million in supplemental budget
The Baltimore SunGov. Martin O'Malley today released a $222 million supplemental budget that creates a "Gun Center," strives to save a baseball program and sets aside another $10 million in case federal sequestration cuts take a toll on Maryland. The governor designated...Tags: Interior Policy, Mental Health, U.S. Congress, First Aid, Towson University
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Gun control draws more than 2,000 to Annapolis
Maryland's gun control debate drew more than 2,000 people to Annapolis on Friday as the House of Delegates took up the governor's bill to ban the sale of assault weapons and impose some of the nation's strictest licensing requirements. People arrived as...
Tags: Howard County, Interior Policy, Firearms, Justice System, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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50 years ago: A week on the job, Sheriff Stearns found dead in his home
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, April 4, 1963: Paul Stearns, who was just sworn in as the new sheriff of Harford County 50 years ago last week, was found dead in his home. The 61-year-old veteran police officer was overcome by the...Tags: Entertainment Events, Harford County, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Miss America Pageant
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Proposed gun legislation will not accomplish stated purposes
I am writing in opposition to the proposed legislation in both the Maryland Senate and House to ban assault weapons ("Governor predicts assault weapons ban will pass" Jan 13). The proposed legislation will not accomplish stated purposes of increased...
Tags: Assault, Interior Policy, Justice System, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Weaponry
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First of 10 new state medevac helicopters arrive
Years after a multimillion-dollar contract to replace the state's fleet of aged medevac helicopters caused controversy in Annapolis, two newly purchased aircraft arrived Tuesday at the aviation command of the Maryland State Police. Four more are expected...
Tags: Annapolis, Air Transportation Industry, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Transportation Industry
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Four die in 10 years in accidents at Route 23, Grafton Shop
What many people think is among the most dangerous intersections in Harford County might be best explained this way: When an Aegis photographer went to shoot the intersection of Grafton Shop Road and Route 23 in Forest Hill for this story on Monday...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Transportation Accidents, Accidental Death, Harford County, Technology
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DUI checkpoint in Harford Friday nets impaired drivers and drugs
More than 100 vehicles were stopped and four people were arrested during the Maryland State Police's first "Janet Hardy Memorial Checkpoint" Friday night. Troopers from the JFK Memorial Highway Barrack held the checkpoint late on the rainy evening in...
Tags: Prosecution, Transportation Accidents, Heroin, Harford County, Drug Trafficking
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State police add staff to process gun purchase applications
A crush of applications to buy firearms in Maryland has overwhelmed the Maryland State Police, which said Tuesday it has tripled manpower to process more than 26,000 applications made in December and January. Last month alone, 14,000 Marylanders applied...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control
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Assaults on staff are focus of scathing report at Catonsville psychiatric hospital
In-patient units at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville have become troubled environments where serious assaults on hospital staff are common, according to a scathing new report from a consultant for the Maryland health department. The chaos...
Tags: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Justice System, Defendants, Judges
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'Peep Show' in Westminster is oozing with sugary pop-culture references
From many little yellow peeps, one artistic family saw a giant yellow bird. At the sixth annual "Peep Show" in downtown Westminster, the massive 3,810-marshmallow-strong Big Bird drew the biggest oohs and ahhs among the young kids and older fans who...
Tags: Bart Simpson, Hunt Valley, Just Born, Inc., Easter, Arts
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