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A carjacking surge has prompted federal law enforcement to increase coordination with local agencies “to investigate and disrupt a rash of violent carjackings in and around the Baltimore area,” the Federal Bureau of Investigations Baltimore field office has announced.
- City officials plan Independence Day celebration with Orioles baseball, musical performances, food trucks and of course, fireworks.
- An 83-year-old woman was struck by a bullet while reading in bed and a man was found shot-to-death in a car overnight in Baltimore, police said.
- The Maryland Episcopal diocese has awarded grants to six community groups in the first distribution from its $1 million reparations fund.
- Gala Stern, a retired University of Maryland, Baltimore County professor of languages and French and Russian literature who spent World War II fleeing the Nazis, died May 17
- Baltimore residents lobbied for a reduction in police spending and more investment in social services during the city’s second annual Taxpayers’ Night on Thursday, the last chance for the public to speak out about the city’s proposed budget ahead of the Baltimore City Council’s consideration of the plan next month.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said he’s concerned a newly released list of 305 Baltimore police officers with credibility and integrity issues will further erode the department’s relationship with the community and hurt officer morale.
- A Baltimore jury on Thursday found the man accused of killing Safe Streets leader Dante Barksdale not guilty on all counts.
- Four people have been shot around Baltimore with one killed, two injured and one's condition unknown.
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- A Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office list of more than 300 Baltimore police officers with credibility issues, many of whom continue to be called to testify in court, has been made public for the first time after a court ordered the office to release the list last fall.
- The Greater Baltimore Committee plans to hire a “public safety advocate” who will track crime statistics, monitor data on prosecutions, and make monthly reports on violent crime in the area.
- Safe Streets leader Dante Barksdale was shot to death with an untraceable ‘ghost gun,’ a Baltimore firearms examiner testified Wednesday during the trial of the man charged in his death.
- The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office has cleared three city police officers of criminal charges stemming from the fatal shooting of an armed man near Power Point Live! last year.
- Fort McHenry Tunnel’s right southbound bore will stay closed overnight after an afternoon crash involving three commercial trucks left a trapped driver hospitalized in critical condition, according to officials.
- Garrick Powell, 29 is charged with first-degree murder and firearms offenses stemming from Baltimore anti-violence worker Dante Barksdale’s shooting death on Jan, 17, 2021, in the city’s Douglass Homes housing projects.
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- After the Academy Award winner's departure, producers are scrambling to recast the role of Cleo Sherwood in the series based on a book by local author Laura Lippman.
- A 22-year-old man is dead after sustaining “trauma to the head” in a North Baltimore neighborhood in the early hours of Monday morning, police said.
- The University of Maryland’s School of Medicine frequently provides critical vaccine research with the help of groups of well-paid volunteers willing to be infected.
- Earlier this month, Gail Curley, marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court, was handed a bombshell of an assignment — overseeing an investigation into the leak of a draft opinion and apparent votes in a major abortion case.
- Baltimore City Police are investigating after two boys were shot in the legs Monday afternoon in East Baltimore Midway.
- Lawyers for Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and federal prosecutors held a conference with Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby after the two sides could not reach an agreement on new deadlines for disclosing witnesses, filing motions and writing jury instructions.
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- A carjacking surge has prompted federal law enforcement to increase coordination with local agencies “to investigate and disrupt a rash of violent carjackings in and around the Baltimore area,” the Federal Bureau of Investigations Baltimore field office has announced.
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- President Joe Biden took aim at Russia and a changing world at the keynote address at the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony, where he also hailed late Naval officer Sen. John McCain.
- A carjacking surge has prompted federal law enforcement to increase coordination with local agencies “to investigate and disrupt a rash of violent carjackings in and around the Baltimore area,” the Federal Bureau of Investigations Baltimore field office has announced.
- A carjacking surge has prompted federal law enforcement to increase coordination with local agencies “to investigate and disrupt a rash of violent carjackings in and around the Baltimore area,” the Federal Bureau of Investigations Baltimore field office has announced.
- Dear NRA: Expecting a police officer or other armed person to save the day is not a reality-based strategy for preventing mass shootings.
