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Across Maryland, police departments, attorneys and advocacy groups are unpacking the raft of police reform measures state lawmakers passed last weekend by overriding vetoes by Gov. Larry Hogan. The Maryland Police Accountability Act of 2021 ushers in sweeping changes to law enforcement from big, urban departments to small, rural forces.
- Police officers responding to a parking complaint in Gaithersburg on Wednesday afternoon were fired upon from above, with nearby residents were encouraged to shelter in place for several hours, authorities said.
- A man was shot dead in Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, the three man shot in the city the same day, police said.
- The city of Baltimore’s private security costs have ballooned over the last five years and will increase again this week with another $4.5 million approved by the Board of Estimates.
- Peyton Ham was killed Tuesday in a shooting by a Maryland State Police trooper, and neighbors are wondering why police shot so much that bullets wound up on their property.
- Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby defended her decision not to prosecute certain lower-level crimes in front of the city's Public Safety and Governmental Operations committee Wednesday.
- Baltimore Police say two more teenagers have been charged with murder in the fatal carjacking of a 41-year-old man earlier this month in the Highlandtown area.
- George Floyd died of a sudden heart rhythm problem due to his heart disease while being restrained by police, retired forensic pathologist Dr. David Fowler testified for the defense Wednesday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, contradicting several experts who said Floyd succumbed to a lack of oxygen.
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Baltimore Police say two more teenagers have been charged with murder in the fatal carjacking of a 41-year-old man earlier this month in the Highlandtown area. - George Floyd died of a sudden heart rhythm problem due to his heart disease while being restrained by police, retired forensic pathologist Dr. David Fowler testified for the defense Wednesday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, contradicting several experts who said Floyd succumbed to a lack of oxygen.
- A homeless couple digging through a trash container in West Baltimore on Tuesday morning discovered “parts of a human foot,” police said.
- A lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that Baltimore police unconstitutionally seize and hold the car keys, money and clothes of shooting victims for months without establishing their worth as evidence in their investigations.
- Four years after more than 60 businesses sued Baltimore over what they called its botched response to unrest following the death of Freddie Gray, the city has filed a response casting its effort “a success” that looks even better compared with what has taken place in other cities.
- The Anne Arundel County judge presiding over the Capital Gazette murder case, in response to a series of concerns about the court’s coronavirus safety protocols, laid out Tuesday the clearest picture of how the sanity proceeding will play out while the threat of the pandemic persists — if it happens as scheduled over the summer.
- The bills that Gov. Larry Hogan signed into law include the Walter Lomax Act, which sets guidelines for how much money the state must pay individuals who have been wrongly convicted and sent to prison.
- Mumwaldi Kearney, 48, was charged with murder in the death of his mother, Baltimore police said.
- Baltimore police have identified nine homicide victim who were all fatally shot last week.
- Pretrial proceedings in the Capital Gazette mass murder case are slated to resume Tuesday following a five-month hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing the final portion of the trial into this summer.
- Some of the bills have already become law, but most now head to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan for his review.
- In one of their most significant final day actions, lawmakers set up the rules for legalized gambling on sports through nearly 100 in-person and online venues.
- Baltimore Police are questioning a suspect after a woman was found stabbed to death in her home Monday.
- Police said a man was fatally shot and two others were injured in separate shootings in Baltimore on Sunday.
- A federal judge on Friday refused to release an ex-Army captain imprisoned for decades for the murders of his wife and two young daughters, deciding he lacked authority to consider Jeffrey MacDonald’s request.
- A Baltimore financier pleaded guilty this week to charges for transporting a woman across state lines for prostitution.
- The bills rejected by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan contain some of the most controversial provisions in the sweeping Maryland Police Accountability Act.
- 22 shootings leaving 10 people dead causes concerns among public officials.
- Howard County police have charged eight adults and three teenagers with possession of child pornography over the past nine months, the department announced Friday.
- Gov. Larry Hogan has announced a new work group to address the problem, with former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as its chair.
- Janice Moses spent a lifetime trying to protect her son, Devon Little, from Baltimore's violence. Little survived two previous shootings, but not a third, which took his life last week.
