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- On Sunday, she would have turned 30 years old. Her life was only just beginning, Gov. Larry Hogan told the crowd. He said her death was the result of a "heinous" crime.
- More than two years after Thiru Vignarajah found himself secretly filmed by controversial Project Veritas, his political rival is calling attention to the footage in the race for Baltimore stateās attorney.
- Marylandās secretary of juvenile services says the justice system failed in handling the case of a troubled West Baltimore teen Dawnta Harris now charged with murder in the death of Baltimore County policewoman Amy Caprio.
- Dawnta Anthony Harris, the 16-year-old charged with murder in Baltimore County police Officer Amy Caprioās death, will be held without bail, a judge ordered Tuesday in Towson district court.
- The National Transportation Safety Board will meet Tuesday in Washington to discuss school bus safety after two deadly crashes, including one in Southwest Baltimore from November 2016, killed a combined 12 people and injured 37 others.
- Health care provider Kaiser Permanente pledged Friday to invest as much as $200 million in affordable housing projects around the country, including in Baltimore.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa resigned Tuesday over federal charges for failing to file his tax returns. Hereās what Baltimore leaders are saying about his resignation.
- Radee Prince, the man accused of going on a shooting spree that crossed state lines from Maryland into Delaware, has been convicted by a Delaware jury āĀ but itās unclear when he will be taken across the border to stand trial in Maryland.
- A 79-year-old man was hit by a pickup truck and killed Monday night while crossing North Dundalk Avenue.
- Marylandās highest court has upheld the decision of the Baltimore Police Department to fire an officer accused of excessive force.
- Prosecutors are asking Marylandās highest court to reverse a ruling that grants a new trial to āSerialā podcast subject Adnan Syed in the killing of Woodlawn High School classmate Hae Min Lee.
- Meteorologists have issued a tornado watch for the Baltimore area through early Sunday.
- Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced three dates for potential debates with her two challengers, Ivan Bates and Thiru Vignarajah
- Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn said she believed the department turned a blind eye to the comings and goings of Steven Bagshaw, 45. She said the department chose to make an example of him only after scandal emerged across the city with the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force.
- Baltimore stateās attorney candidate Ivan Bates announced Tuesday a new television ad in which he says he never lost a murder case as a homicide prosecutor.
- One teenager was killed and another was wounded in a double shooting Saturday evening near City Springs Elementary/Middle School in Southeast Baltimore, police said ā the first in a series of shootings from Saturday evening through Sunday.
- Ray Glasgow III's life was cut short Saturday when he was shot to death near his middle schoolĀ in Southeast Baltimore ā the 95th victim of violence in the city this year.
- Dennis Ayd, 63, was killed Saturday when his Mercedes veered into oncoming traffic in Westminster, police said.
- A man was shot in his lower body Saturday afternoon in Essex, Baltimore County police said.
- The 88-year-old Margarita Melville returned to Catonsville Saturday for the dedication of a memorial marker at the site where she and the rest of the Catonsville Nine burned draft records in famous protest of the Vietnam War.
- Baltimore County police on Friday released the 911 calls that show Harry Anthony Rey, who was alleged to have killed his wife, asked people at Arundel Mills mall to watch his sons before he killed himself.
- Three months after Prince Greene was released from juvenile detention for a deadly stabbing in Waverly, the Baltimore teenager has been arrested again.
- Gerald "Geezy" Johnson was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday for ruling over a murderous regime of the Black Guerilla Family street gang and ordering the execution of a police informant.
- With the June primary election coming, Marilyn Mosby's two Democratic challengers are watching time run out for a chance to confront her on her record.Ā She has declined at least two debates.
- The East Baltimore block has been home to the retirees for four decades. Last week, it became the grim place their grandson was gunned down. Caught in the gunfire was George Evans, a 69-year-old Baptist deacon who tended the block for decades.
- 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.
- Quincey Gamble, 43, a veteran Democratic operative from Baltimore and top advisor to the re-election campaign of Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, stepped down Friday amid charges he harassed and assaulted two ex-girlfriends.
- The men were shot around 11:30 a.m. in the 1700 block of N. Regester St. of the Broadway East neighborhood, police said.
- A 27-year-old man from Southwest Baltimore was sentenced last week to 90 years in prison for opening fire on a crowd and mistakenly killing a child in June 2016, prosecutors said.
- An insurance company attorney raised questioned in court how Cynthia Vaillancourt can claim a cognitive disability while presiding over the Howard County school board.
- Prosecutors dropped murder charges against Brandon Pride, 37, whom they once accused of being a drug kingpin and ordering hits on police informants. They also dropped the most serious charges against three of Prideās co-defendants.
- At a slow trot, the nude man turned heads as he went up Saint Paul Street and passed Mercy Medical Center in downtown Baltimore Monday morning.
- Antoine Washington, 28, was convicted of operating a million-dollar heroin ring in Northeast Baltimore along with four other men. an investigation into the drug ring exposed Baltimore's corrupt police squad, the Gun Trace Task Force.
- City prosecutors are expected to rest their case Thursday in the murder trial of Michael Maurice Johnson, setting up a pivotal motions argument that could decide the case.
- Eric Ensey, 30, of White Marsh, has been charged with attempted murder, robbery and gun charges, police said.
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'You hit that man on purpose': Baltimore tenant accused of running over landlord amid rental dispute
Christopher Donnie Smith, 50, was arrested Saturday and charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment and other charges after he allegedly hit his landlord with his car. - A Baltimore judge ruled Friday that Ivan Bates has lived in Baltimore since November 2016, affirming the longtime defense attorney as the third candidate for the city stateās attorney's race.
- Baltimore Circuit Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill said he will decide Friday whether longtime defense attorney Ivan Bates meets a two-year residency requirement to run against Marilyn Mosby for city stateās attorney in June.
- A Baltimore judge has thrown out an election lawsuit against Thiru Vignarajah, clearing the way for the former deputy attorney general for Maryland to run for the city stateās attorney in June.
- Citizens have filed lawsuits challenging the residency qualifications of Ivan Bates, a longtime defense attorney, and Thiru Vignarajah, a former deputy attorney general for Maryland.
- Then the menās basketball team at University of Maryland, Baltimore County stunned top-ranked Virginia and overnight this suburban research campus ā a place where ābrainiacā is a term of endearment ā vaulted in the annals of college sports.
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County students showered love on their mascot True Grit after upsetting Virginia in the NCAA basketball tournament.
- Scammers are calling residents of Baltimore County and enticing them to pay hundreds of dollars to avoid arrest, Maryland court administrators warned Friday.
- Daryl Christopher Wade, 50, of Rosedale, pleaded guilty to extortion in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. He faces as much as 20 years in prison and is scheduled for sentencing in August. His attorney, Jason Downs, did not immediately return a message.
- Little did Detective David McDougall know his Harford County heroin case would uncover one of the biggest corruption scandals in Baltimore history ā the Gun Trace Task Force.
- The conduct of Baltimore District Judge Devy Russell, investigators say, breaks state laws that require judges be diligent, courteous and promote confidence in the courts.
- Police have arrested 19 people who they say operated a deadly heroin network stretching from the Bronx in New York to Cherry Hill in South Baltimore.
- One hundred years ago today, the USS Cyclops was due to steam into Baltimore and dock at present day Port Covington. The ship still hasnāt shown up. Its eerie absence has given rise to one of the enduring mysteries of the U.S. Navy.
- Sgt. Chance Hellum has been convicted of second-degree assault and misconduct in office for punching and choking an inmate at Baltimore's Central Booking and Intake Center, prosecutors said.
- The Maryland Court of Appeals unanimously voted Tuesday to restore the names of police officers to the public's online database of court cases.