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The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Justice plans to review a decision not to build a new headquarters for the FBI in the Washington suburbs.

By Pamela Wood

Jul 8, 2019

Such warnings are not uncommon around holiday periods in which there are large crowds and heavy travel.

By Jeff Barker

Jul 2, 2019

It's more imperative now than ever to remove Donald Trump from office, says Jules Witcover.

The House is poised to approve legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference but the Senate may have other plans.

The Baltimore bank they hit on Saturday afternoon made it a full dozen, and that’s not counting the unsuccessful attempt in Baltimore County hours before. 

By Kevin Rector

Jun 15, 2019

On the very anniversary of Sebastian Dvorak’s death, his accused killer was in court testifying in his own defense.

By Tim Prudente

Jun 13, 2019

From time to time over the last few months, the Maryland Book Bank has found an occasional trash bag of "Healthy Holly" books on its loading dock.

By Kevin Rector

Jun 12, 2019

Trump's claim of most 'transparent' administration in history must be about motives, not behavior.

Baltimore officials on Wednesday assured the public that government websites are safe to use even as online payments remain crippled by a hacker.

By Doug Donovan

May 15, 2019

In his first remarks on the Mueller probe after resigning as deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein casts himself as a man above politics.

Akia Eggleton was eight months pregnant when she went missing from Baltimore in 2017. FBI agents say their investigation into her disappearance continues.

By Lillian Reed

May 3, 2019

Minutes after Catherine Pugh announced that she had resigned as Baltimore’s mayor Thursday, city leaders expressed relief and hope for a brighter future.

By Lillian Reed

May 2, 2019

Rosenstein's departure ends a nearly two-year run defined by his appointment of a special counsel to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: After Mueller report, America can't be wishy washy about impeaching President Trump.

After federal agents executed search warrants on seven locations with ties to embattled Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, the Maryland Center for Adult Training remained closed the next day.

Catherine Pugh’s attorney Steve Silverman said doctors are hoping to get the embattled mayor “to a level of physical and mental stability so she can make material decisions about what she wants to do next.”

By Talia Richman

Apr 26, 2019

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is taking swipes at his critics as he prepares his exit from the Justice Department.

Baltimoreans woke up Thursday to the news that FBI agents were on the move across the city, raiding City Hall and Mayor Catherine Pugh’s homes — among other locations — amid what appeared to be a large investigation also involving the Internal Revenue Service.

By Kevin Rector

Apr 25, 2019

The University of Maryland Medical System on Thursday received a subpoena for documents in a federal investigation into Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s business dealings. 

By Luke Broadwater

Apr 25, 2019

As a federal investigation into Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, leaders have pledged to move forward with the work that affects everyday people’s lives. Others in Baltimore are concerned about how the rapidly developing scandal will affect city operations.

By Talia Richman

Apr 25, 2019

The FBI raids on Mayor Catherine Pugh and her associates represent a dramatic escalation of the troubles surrounding her leadership of the city — but much remains unknown.

Acting Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young has fired three aides to Mayor Catherine Pugh. Young had put them on leave after Pugh herself took an indefinite leave of absence. Pugh is recovering from pneumonia, but also under intense scrutiny over sales of her "Healthy Holly" children's book.

By Ian Duncan

Apr 24, 2019

man once described by an FBI agent as the world's largest "facilitator" of child pornography will remain held in U.S. custody after his extradition from Ireland, a federal magistrate ruled Wednesday.

Local prosecutors will continue to pursue hate-crime charges in the fatal stabbing of a black Army lieutenant at the University of Maryland at the state level, after the FBI decided not to pursue charges at the federal level.

Eric Eoin Marques, a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, was extradited to America as he faces federal charges in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt of distributing child pornography.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: There is an object lesson in the college admissions scandal beyond disgust.

Baltimore’s spending board on Wednesday will consider a contract extension and pay raise — to $100,000 a year — for Tyrone Powers, a former FBI agent and consultant to Mayor Catherine Pugh who the city uses to help identify potential police hires.

By Kevin Rector

Mar 20, 2019

The FBI's Bank Robbery Task Force is seeking help identifying a man who is suspected of robbing multiple banks in the Baltimore area within the past two weeks.

By Christina Tkacik

Mar 13, 2019

Unwelcome messages to the family house phone fall in two categories: sales calls and scams.

A new firm has taken ownership of hosting Maryland’s elections data after a federal investigation into the Russian ties of the previous vendor. The state elections administrator says Maryland will use Intelishift and a subsidiary, The Sidus Group, now that ByteGrid is no longer connected to Sidus.

By Luke Broadwater

Feb 4, 2019

Three of the top four safest cities in Maryland in 2019 are in Harford County, according to the National Council for Home Safety and Security, a trade organization for the security alarm industry.

By Erika Butler

Jan 31, 2019

What exactly federal agents were looking for when they executed sealed search warrants at the Taneytown Police Department and multiple locations in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, earlier this week likely won’t be known until the documents are unsealed.

A five-decade old FBI threat assessment of race riots in U.S. cities says Martin Luther King Jr. and others are responsible for inciting the violence.

By Doug Donovan

Jan 18, 2019

News reports of a counterintelligence probe suggest deeper trouble for President Trump, says Jules Witcover.

Take a look at the resume of New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison, as released by Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.

Anne Reed Allen, 62, is heading to trial again in January for allegedly attempting to influence witnesses in her previous murder trial in November.

By Lillian Reed

Jan 4, 2019

James Wolfe of Ellicott City, a former Senate intelligence committee staffer, was sentenced on Thursday to serve two months behind bars after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI .

Maryland consumers are more vulnerable to losses via email scams during the home-buying process than ever before.

A former Baltimore police officer has admitted to the FBI that he stole money, lied in police reports, and improperly used electronic surveillance devices, federal prosecutors in California said — widening the scope of police misconduct unearthed by the Gun Trace Task Force scandal.

The ousted GOP leadership is doing dirty work in the House during its lame-duck month, says Jules Witcover.

When a police agency reports that a rape case has been “cleared,” it doesn’t always mean its been the case is solved and the suspect arrested.

By Catherine Rentz

Nov 23, 2018

A Baltimore Police officer who resigned from the force in June was being investigated for alleged drug trafficking, with the FBI obtaining a tracking warrant for her phone after receiving detailed allegations from a confidential source, records show.

The FBI says hate crimes reports were up about 17 percent in 2017, marking a rise for the third year in a row.

By Catherine Rentz

Nov 13, 2018

A former veteran Senate Intelligence Committee security director pleaded guilty Monday to lying to FBI agents about his contact with a reporter during a federal leak investigation.

Recent FBI data show that Baltimore has the worst homicide rate in the nation, and the second highest violent crime rate, yet we shouldn’t worry, counsels Mayor Catherine Pugh, because she's "attacking the root causes of poverty." Lip service to this tired cliche will not help the city.

A former high ranking Baltimore County school system employee was sentenced to serve nine weekends in jail for accepting payment from real estate developers and federal agents.

By Tim Prudente

Oct 9, 2018

In Baltimore Speakers Series appearance, former FBI Director James Comey says President Donald Trump is intelligent but lies constantly, treats women like “meat” and failed to properly condemn white supremacists in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va.

By Jeff Barker

Oct 2, 2018

President Trump says FBI should be talking to "whoever they deem appropriate" in Kavanaugh background check and it's a growing list.

The last-minute delay in Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, to allow for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against him, may save the Senate Judiciary Committee from a rerun of the earlier Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill fiasco.

No one thing is going to change the epidemic violence in Baltimore. Every politician, every business, every institution, every police officer and every resident simply needs to do everything they can, and they need to do it better.