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A squabble over the recording of Baltimore police officers during training sessions — and whether it improves outcomes or stifles honest learning — played out this week between Commissioner Michael Harrison and the union that represents rank-and-file officers, further exposing their frayed relationship at a time of great violence in the city.
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Following former Baltimore Del. Cheryl Glenn’s guilty plea to taking bribes in exchange for introducing legislation, it remains unknown to the public who made the payments that have Glenn facing a likely federal prison sentence.
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Drug deaths and homicides have increased the burden on medical examiners, who are leaving their posts in Maryland and elsewhere.
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A Baltimore Sun analysis of every hour of overtime paid over the past two fiscal years shows for the first time the outsize workloads logged by individual officers, often with little oversight from supervisors. But police insist things are improving.
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Dozens of additional businesses in Baltimore have contacted city officials to report issues with their water bills — or lack thereof — since revelations last fall that wealthy waterfront condominium owners at the Ritz Carlton Residences hadn’t paid for their water service in over a decade, Baltimore officials said.
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Almost a dozen Democrats have filed to run in the primary election for Baltimore’s next mayor, but even that large number doesn’t reflect just how crowded the field is in this deep-blue city. Several of the best-known candidates have yet to formally submit their paperwork — including Mayor Bernard C. “Jack”, City Council President Brandon Scott and former Mayor Sheila Dixon — ahead of the Jan. 24 deadline.
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Maryland police departments destroyed 270 rape kits over the past two years, according to new data released by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office.
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Definitions of mass shootings vary, but by one count Baltimore suffered 18 of them last year, more than in any recent year.
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The Maryland Department of Health filled a crucial leadership job after an advertisement for the post drew controversy for offering an unusually high salary for such a position.
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The proposal to build a $10 billion high-speed maglev train route between Baltimore and Washington has been put on hold amid an environmental review of historic properties along the proposed 36-mile line that could be affected, according to the federal government.
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Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot is about to launch a new website, and he’s worried that some taxpayers might think it’s fake because he says it looks so good.
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An audit is faulting the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention for not having clear guidelines for awarding crime grants and not always following up to ensure that the money was spent properly.
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More than 100 Marylanders now have their gender listed as “X” or “unspecified” on their driver’s licenses and identification cards under a law that went into effect on Oct. 1.
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The stewards of Maryland’s public records law are seeking greater authority to adjudicate disputes between government agencies and individuals who seek public records from them, without sending the matters to court.
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For six minutes after the mass shooting, killer Jarrod Ramos hid from police in the Capital Gazette newsroom. Experts say first responders face tough decisions.
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Maryland’s Handgun Permit Review Board was found in violation of the state’s open meetings law after going into a closed session this summer.
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Service on the MTA’s light rail, the Penn-Camden Shuttle or Metro Subway was disrupted on all but one weekday in September, according to a tally of the agency’s service alerts by the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, a rider advocacy group.
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Baltimore struggles to maintain and update Open Baltimore, its website for sharing data with the public about everything from crime to city salaries. Officials say it's a matter of resources.
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State agencies in Maryland are struggling to handle thousands of public records requests from reporters, attorneys and other members of the public and lack consistent policies for complying with the state disclosure law, according to a survey by the state’s public access ombudsman.
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The state’s Census Complete Count Committee is charged with an important task: Making sure every Marylander is counted in the 2020 Census. But lawmakers on the committee say it isn’t doing much of anything. With about $900,000 to spend, the committee has yet to create a budget or spending plan.
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Gov. Larry Hogan pledged this week to authorize up to 10 Maryland State Police helicopter crews to staff flights over Baltimore as part of an effort to help the city to deter crime, but the union that represents state police pilots has a message for the governor: Not so fast.
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Legislative auditors for the General Assembly are examining how the Maryland Racing Commission doled out state subsidies to the Maryland Jockey Club.
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The apartment company owned by Jared Kushner's family has refused to settle with the Maryland Attorney General's office, which has been investigating the New York company's rental practices in Maryland.
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Several of the Maryland horse racing regulators who have been winning breeders’ bonuses from an account they manage also have been winning lucrative state-subsidized purses as owners of top-performing thoroughbreds.
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Baltimore state Delegate Nick Mosby is asking Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh to investigate the Maryland Racing Commission.
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The Baltimore City Board of Ethics’s electronic filing website was back up and running, more than three months after the May 7 ransomware attack, offering the curious a look at city officials' ethics forms once again.
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Most members of the Maryland Racing Commission are financially invested in the sport they govern, including several who have won cash awards from a state program managed by the panel, a Baltimore Sun investigation has found.
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Anytime one of their own is injured—and whenever any shooting victim is transported to the hospital by ambulance—at least one Baltimore police car travels with the ambulance to help the journey
