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- The trial for a West Baltimore carryout owner charged with shooting and injuring a customer in February ended in a mistrial Friday.
- A 24-year-old man is in critical condition from a shooting Thursday but managed to get himself to a hospital, Baltimore police said.
- A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a Baltimore man to more than 30 years in prison for extorting money from a man who failed to fully repay a debt and was later fatally shot, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.
- The manager of a Towson assisted living facility pleaded guilty this week to a scheme in which he stole residents' personal information to open credit card accounts, spending more than $70,000, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office said.
- Transportation Security Administration officers stopped a woman from carrying a loaded gun through security at Baltimore Washington International-Thurgood Marshall Airport Monday.
- Maryland's two-week firearm deer season begins with a fatality.
- A man is in critical condition after he caught on fire in Fells Point Saturday night, a Baltimore fire department spokesman said.
- Maryland Natural Resources police are investigating a fatal hunting accident in Frederick County Saturday.
- Police and residents play a game of flag football to help boost community unity.
- Baltimore City police are at the scene of they are describing as a police-involved shooting in the 3300 block of Greenmount Avenue.
- Baltimore County police are investigating a stabbing and a death at a Catonsville home Wednesday.
- Baltimore County fire crews rescued a man from a pit in Catonsville Wednesday.
- Metro Crime Stoppers is now offering $15,000 in reward money for information of a 2009 murder of a Towson University student.
- A former Baltimore Police officer who was convicted of assault in August and faces at least five years in prison is scheduled to be sentenced Friday.
- A Baltimore Police Officer has been charged with exchanging sexually explicit messages and pictures with a 15-year-old boy in Pennsylvania.
- Baltimore police are searching for a 21-year-old man they said kicked and stomped four puppies, before throwing them down a flight of stairs and leaving them in the dumpster.
- Baltimore police are asking for information about a pit bull taken from his Remington home during a burglary Wednesday.
- Baltimore police have arrested an 18-year-old man for a non-fatal shooting in West Baltimore earlier this month.
- A 48-year-old man was found stabbed in the back in an Northeast Baltimore alley early Wednesday morning, city police said.
- No injuries were reported in a vacant house fire in Carrollton Ridge overnight Wednesday, city fire officials said.
- Hundreds of photographers arrived before dawn to stake out spots along the Susquehanna River Saturday, not to capture the peak fall colors, but the dozens of bald eagles that fish along the Conowingo Dam.
- An attorney assigned to represent a correctional officer charged in scheme to smuggle drugs and other items into a state prison facility was removed from the case after posting about the case to Facebook.
- A 23-year-old man was killed in a shooting in Southwest Baltimore Wednesday night, city police said.
- For five days, Tyler Asher's family called hospitals, handed out flyers, posted pleas to Facebook, and scanned the neighborhood, looking for the missing 20-year-old.
- A Maryland Transit Administration bus and a car collided in Randallstown Tuesday morning, Baltimore County police said.
- About 1,500 Howard County Public School System employees have been incorrectly paid this school year, prompting officials to monitor payments.
- On Saturday, families of more than 25 servicemen and women, who had ties to Baltimore County and were killed in Middle East conflicts, gathered to dedicate a new war memorial outside the Historic Courthouse in Towson.
- A federal judge is being asked to determine the outcome of the White Marlin Open, billed as "the world's largest billfish tournament," after organizers said the man who was initially declared the winner of a $2.8 million first prize twice failed a lie-detector test.
- Baltimore police said 19 elementary school children were taken to a hospital as a precaution after their bus side-swiped another vehicle Friday morning.
- Frederick Avenue is closed in Southwest Baltimore after a school bus and commuter bus collided early Tuesday.
- Adam Lindquist, director of the Waterfront Partnership's Healthy Harbor Initiative, demonstrated how to clean sediment off oyster cages Saturday to a group of about two dozen volunteers, who helped clean the cages before returning them about three feet below.
- Adam Lindquist, director of the Waterfront Partnership's Healthy Harbor Initiative, demonstrated how to clean sediment off the oyster cages Saturday to a group of about two dozen volunteers, who helped clean the cages before returning them about three feet below.
- A 38-year-old man was killed and another man injured in separate shootings in Baltimore overnight, city police said.
- A former National Security Agency contractor charged with stealing government property and taking classified information is again asking to be released from prison at hearing in federal court Friday.
- A 30-year-old man died from a cutting in Northeast Baltimore early Friday, city police said.
- Car fire at White Marsh Boulevard at I-95 causing traffic delays
- A 15-year-old juvenile has been charged after Baltimore police said the teen carjacked an SUV with an 11-month-old boy inside.
- City police are investigating a shooting early Tuesday morning in North Baltimore.
- The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services held a career fair at Baltimore City Community College to work to fill about 1,000 vacancies, including 777 officer positions.
- A man was killed and a woman injured in a shooting Friday night in Southwest Baltimore, city police said.
- Leaders of the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties group expressed concern over a hate message left outside a Dundalk home earlier this month.
- A judge declared a mistrial Friday after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict against a man accused of killing his friend and later dubbed "Public Enemy No. 1."
- A 20-year-old man was shot in the arm overnight in Northeast Baltimore, city police said.
- A funeral procession for John Paterakis Sr. is expected to weave through Harbor East and Fells Point Thursday morning.
- U.S. District Court Judge sentenced William Kyndall Francis on Tuesday to 42 months in federal prison for wire fraud after stealing funds from at least 51 homeowner and condominium associations, which had hired his management firm provide financial and property services
- An Abingdon man was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to 14 years for trafficking large amounts of cocaine into Maryland through a Linthicum Heights warehouse.
- Cheering crowds have become an integral part of Baltimore Running Festival as runners look for the boost of encouragement and spectators find a way to participate without having to pound the pavement. Some say it's best just to embrace the race rather than fight the traffic.
- Several Blue Angels met with will visit Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital to visit with young patients as part of Maryland Fleet Week and Air Show this week.
- A gang member being held at the Chesapeake Detention Facility in Baltimore was sentenced Friday to an additional 15 years for beating a man with a sock filled with batteries and dominoes, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office said.
- Acquinetta Johnson described how she watched as her son gunned down across the street from her home by his friend, whom she said often spent the night in her home and shared meals with the family.