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The Town of Sykesviille this week recognized Det. Earl Kratsch, a local resident retired from the Baltimore Police Department, for 10 years participating in the Sykesville Police Department’s Junior CSI Academy.

Police arrested Leroy Hilton, of West Baltimore’s Heritage Crossing neighborhood, and charged him with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment in the killing of Murfeg Hussein, according to online court records.

The secrecy surrounding Baltimore police chief nominee Joel Fitzgerald's application for the job is not helping build trust in a man seeking to turn around one of the most troubled law enforcement agencies in the country.

Mayor Catherine Pugh's choice to be police commissioner says he plans to stay in his current job in Texas until the Baltimore City Council holds a final vote on his nomination. That means Joel Fitzgerald would not begin work in Baltimore until late January. He is the chief in Fort Worth.

Members of the Baltimore City Council are pushing the mayor's office to release the results of a background investigation into police commissioner nominee Joel Fitzgerald. Mayor Catherine Pugh's office says it's confidential. Some council members say they won't vote for him without seeing it.

The first two shootings were reported about 16 minutes apart, Baltimore police said. Two more shootings were reported about a half-hour apart in Northeast Baltimore later in the day.

Two men were shot in separate incidents in Southwest Baltimore Thursday evening, police said.

Baltimore County Executive-elect Johnny Olszewski Jr. named several top aides who will help him run the county's government.

A whistleblower within the Baltimore Police Department flagged investigators to corrupt members of the Gun Trace Task Force years ago — crucial information that later helped launch the federal racketeering case that took down an entire squad of crooked officers, new documents show.

The White House has lacked Maryland representation since former Gov. Spiro Agnew’s vice presidential tenure came to an end in 1973 during President Richard Nixon’s second term. In 2020, that could change.

Johns Hopkins officials recently announced plans to hold a series of community forums through the end of the year in an effort to renew plans to establish an independent police department to protect the university and medical campuses and surrounding areas of Baltimore. It's a great idea.

Baltimore’s incoming police commissioner Joel Fitzgerald is bringing his experience heading three previous police departments — all in the past five years. Here’s a look at each city by the numbers and how they compare with Baltimore. 

At an interfaith event with at a church Sunday, Mayor Catherine Pugh capitalized on the moment to defend her hiring of Joel Fitzgerald to head the Baltimore Police Department before a diverse crowd.

Activists who have been trying to reform the Baltimore Police Department say the new commissioner, Joel Fitzgerald, has to meet and develop relationships with the community if he hopes to succeed in leading a force that has been through much turmoil.

Some contacted in Fort Worth, Texas, were unequivocal in their disregard for Joel Fitzgerald. Said one retired police sergeant: “You couldn’t find a more unqualified person to move Baltimore police forward.”

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh: Today, I am announcing a new beginning at police headquarters and presenting the person I believe is best suited to lead the way forward as commissioner.

If Fort Worth police chief Joel Fitzgerald leaves his post to head the Baltimore Police Department, Baltimore would become the fourth city in five years where he’s held the top police spot.

Last year, Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald found his department at the center of the national debate over race and policing.

A man shouted a pro-Nazi and pro-Trump salute during a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday night. Audience members feared the worst was about to happen.

Baltimore police were wrong to regard the shouting of 'Heil Hitler' during performance of 'Fiddler on the Roof' as protected free speech when it was disorderly conduct which is a crime.

Less than a week after outgoing Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo dramatically scaling-back the ability of federal law enforcement officials to use consent decrees to enforce police reforms, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will call for a re-commitment to such efforts.

"Lady in the Lake" was inspired by the unsolved 1969 murder of Shirley Lee Wigeon Parker, whose body was found in a fountain at the center of Druid Lake.

Rank-and-file members of the Baltimore Police Department have voted to accept a new labor agreement with the city that would increase civilian oversight of the department

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is hoping to name a police commissioner "by Thanksgiving." City officials initially said they aimed to have someone in place by Halloween. Since that date passed, they've been reluctant to set a timeline. But the mayor and city solicitor got more specific Tuesday.

With another conviction of a Baltimore police officer, how can the public ever trust the department?

Before he was fired by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions signed a memo that appears to curtail the Department of Justice’s ability to implement and enforce consent decrees like the one Baltimore has entered to reform its police department.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has chosen an administrator from Georgetown University to lead the city's civil rights office, the city solicitor said. Darnell Ingram takes over amid a bitter legal dispute between the solicitor and a police oversight panel the office works with.

A Facebook post from the satirical 'City of Baltimore' account garnered a bit of attention on Election Day, urging voters not to vote in favor of a question on the ballot that would legalize "recreational murder."

A day after the Baltimore Civilian Review Board sued the city police department, City Solicitor Andre Davis said the group has no standing to hire a lawyer to bring a case against the government it's a part of. Davis warned the board's lawyer to abandon the case.

The man accused of fatally shooting 3-year-old McKenzie Elliott in 2014 pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court.

As Baltimoreans seek to address the city’s out of control murder rate, they need more information as to what works and what does not.

Maryland State Police arrested a 29-year-old Baltimore man alleged to be a member of the Bloods gang.

A former Baltimore and Philadelphia police officer entered a guilty plea in the midst of his trial on charges that he conspired to sell drugs with corrupt members of the Gun Trace Task Force.

A man was shot to death in Southwest Baltimore on Wednesday, and a separate shooting in Hollins Market caused James McHenry Elementary/Middle School students to be kept in the building after dismissal on Halloween as a safety precaution, officials said.

The Baltimore Police Department and City Hall would have us believe that it is impossible to manage overtime expenditures because they lack technology and still use paper time sheets.  This is simply untrue.  Rather, they refuse to try to control overtime and hold people accountable.

A Baltimore city councilman is introducing legislation to require gas stations to get a license to operate after midnight. Bill Henry says he wants to give communities a way to bring businesses in line. He says police have told him it's difficult to apply the existing licensing laws to stations.

A three-day period urging peace in the city returns Nov. 2-4.

A brief look at the Gun Trace Task Force scandal, and where former Philadelphia cop Eric Snell fits in.

After a mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, local police are increasing patrols near Baltimore-area synagogues and churches.

The Sun endorses Gov. Larry Hogan for re-election.

A day after 11 people were shot, including three fatally, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh condemned the city’s drug trade and interim Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle announced about 230 officers assigned to administrative duties will leave their offices for patrol work.

Eleven people were shot Tuesday, three fatally, according to Baltimore City police.

An off-duty Baltimore Police officer charged and cleared of a drunken-driving crash involving a departmental vehicle nearly evaded legal trouble — until patrol officers realized he was a fellow cop, newly released body-camera footage shows.

Why did so many people fail the Baltimore police department's sergeant exam?

The number of opioid overdoses in Maryland increased 14.8 percent in the first half of the year as public health officials and others continue to struggle to get a handle on the epidemic.

The city’s sheriff’s office is beginning a new Friday foot patrol in Baltimore’s southeast and eastern districts.

From the death of Freddie Gray to scandals over surveillance planes and body camera videos, the Baltimore Police Department has had a rocky three years.

BUILD — Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development — an influential coalition of Baltimore city churches and community groups held a town hall-style meeting to review what’s been done about reforms it has proposed.

A high-ranking internal affairs commander told Baltimore City Council members that seven officers are under internal investigations connected to the Baltimore Police Department's corrupt Gun Trace Task Force.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore will issue identity cards to undocumented immigrants and other vulnerable people that the Baltimore Police Department has agreed to recognize as legitimate, a program activists hope make people more willing to cooperate with law enforcement.