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- The motorcyclist struck a car around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday on westbound Philadelphia Road at Kenwood Road, ejecting the man from his motorcycle, police said.
- A 60-year-old man was shot in Northwest Baltimore while getting items out of his car after returning from church Monday night, Baltimore police said.
- A group of teen girls allegedly used a ruse to enter three local schools in an attempt to nab car keys and flee in the stolen vehicles, according to Baltimore County police.
- Four people are dead and another five are injured after a spate of violence this weekend in Baltimore, according to police.
- Havre de Grace police are asking for the owners of a missing pig to come forward, so it can go all the way home.
- Baltimore police counted 17 killings last month, but 29 within the past three weeks. For Baltimoreans and for the officials charged with keeping them safe, a familiar dread is returning.
- A judge set bail — $75,000 and $150,000 — for two Baltimore County brothers charged with first-degree murder in a double homicide in Towson last week.
- Most nights, Cynthia O’Neal would return to her Gilmor Street home in West Baltimore and find her son Ricky Jones waiting up for her, watching television on the couch. But on this night of March 21, O’Neal found her son lying in the basement, shot, unable to speak and blood bubbling from his mouth.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa on Thursday told the panel created to review the investigation of Det. Sean Suiter’s killing to “go where the evidence leads you,” before the group was scheduled to spend hours discussing the unsolved case in private.
- Three men were killed in Baltimore on Wednesday, Baltimore police said, continuing a spate of violence from over the weekend.
- A man was found fatally shot in a vacant house in Baltimore’s Brooklyn neighborhood on Tuesday night, Baltimore police said.
- Nearly 12 years ago, Roxanne Amick left the house she shared with her husband in Perry Hall and went shopping. Two days later her body was found in a wooded area about four miles away. She had been killed by what an autopsy determined was blunt-force trauma.
- A crash on Interstate 695 led officials to shut down a portion of the roadway Tuesday morning, Baltimore County fire department officials said.
- Eleven individuals are facing charges for their connection to a South Baltimore drug distribution organization that was responsible for selling fentanyl in the Brooklyn neighborhood, authorities said Monday.
- A barricade at a Pikesville apartment building on Monday ended when officers arrested a man wanted on a warrant, Baltimore County police said.
- Baltimore police have made significantly fewer juvenile arrests compared with this time last year, the latest city crime statistics show.
- The Baltimore Police Department has rolled out mobile metro units to help assist in patrolling city streets. The unit has been credited with helping reduce violence in the city.
- Baltimore County Police said Tuesday evening they’ve confirmed the identities of two men who were found dead Monday in an apartment on Lambourne Road in Towson, but did not release any additional information about the killings.
- An independent city agency that reviews complaints against police has found that four Baltimore officers used excessive force in the 2015 shooting of a suspect, Keith Davis Jr., and his attorneys are now calling for his charges to be dismissed.
- The Saturday morning vigil service is held each year before the day Orthodox Christians observe Easter Sunday, known as Pascha. Orthodox Christians celebrate later than other denominations.
- It has been a year since a federal judge signed the consent decree between Baltimore and the U.S. Department of Justice into an order of the court mandating sweeping local police reforms. What progress has been made?
- Last year, a federal judge approved a consent decree between the city of Baltimore and the U.S. Department of Justice, mandating sweeping police reforms. Here’s a what you need to know about the consent decree.
- The Great Mills school resource officer who confronted an armed student last month threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals game Thursday night.
- Rashard Gabriel Williams, 25, has been charged in the shooting of a man in the Foundry Row parking lot on Tuesday.
- At age 19, Devonte Rhodes, was shot multiple times and admitted to the hospital and never left. He died nearly five years after the shooting.
- City police found a man who was shot and lying in the street in North Baltimore on Wednesday morning.
- Six members of the independent monitoring team spoke to residents about the progress at its first quarterly update at Mount Pleasant Church in Northeast Baltimore.
- Baltimore County police said a married couple was found dead in their Pikesville home Wednesday night after a "murder-suicide."
- Nathaniel T. Oaks pleaded guilty to two federal corruption charges this morning in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Judge Richard D. Bennett said — about two hours after Oaks formally resigned his Senate seat in the Maryland General Assembly.
- Baltimore County police are looking for a man they said beat and killed a Chihuahua named Ginger.
- The Mega Millions jackpot has surged to $502 million, the 10th-largest prize ever offered in the United States.
- Students from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute led a large crowd that stretched through blocks of downtown, through the Inner Harbor, for a local version of the national March For Our Lives protest Saturday.
- The Baltimore Marching Ravens held its annual tryout for veterans and hopefuls, which requires them to play for judges and sight read a piece of music they are given on the spot.
- A man who had barricaded himself inside a home on Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County for 17 hours was found dead when responders entered the home Friday afternoon, according to Army officials.
- A kitchen fire at a downtown Burger King Friday afternoon causes street closures in the area, fire department said. No injuries were reported.
- Calling for the former members of the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force to testify in cases in which they were involved presents challenges for courthouse security.
- A man was found dead Thursday inside a Canton home where high levels of carbon monoxide were detected, Baltimore fire officials said.
- Here's what museums and attractions are closed today in Baltimore.
- Jashawn Ivory had worked about a decade caring for the elderly in Florida but moved to Baltimore about five years ago to be closer to his mother, she said. Now, she wishes he never had.
- As school systems across the country debate arming staff, Gov. Larry Hogan and the St. Mary’s County Sheriff praised the actions of the school resource officer who fired at a gunman at Great Mills High School.
- A 26-year-old man was killed in a Monday night shooting in West Baltimore, city police said.
- Lawyers for Sen. Nathaniel Oaks argued in court Friday to have charges dismissed because he was not acting in an official capacity when he had bond bill drawn up.
- Alyssa Lightner, already the mother of three children, was on the way to the hospital, but said she knew it was time and delivery could not wait. With aid from her doula — who was in the car with Lightner — and a 911 dispatcher, Asher was born.
- Officers were called at 9:50 p.m. to the 4400 block of Marble Hall for a report of a shooting.
- A man in a motorized wheelchair was injured following a crash outside Sinai Hospital Tuesday, Baltimore police said.
- The city fire department identified a 58-year-old man who died after a house fire over the weekend.
- Business leaders question city's efforts to reduce crime at Greater Baltimore Committee meeting Thursday morning.
- Three men were arrested after a fight in Towson Saturday night, Baltimore County police said.
- Paul Jackson, 33, killed last week was a 'free-spirited' father who liked to meditate, and carried his guitar with him everywhere.
- More than 30,000 power outages were reported Monday after strong, gusty winds caused trees and power lines to topple.