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• Sports

Sixteen female senators urge Roger Goodell to adopt zero-tolerance policy against domestic violence

Sixteen women senators have sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell requesting that the NFL adopt a zero-tolerance policy against domestic violence.

• Sports

NFL appoints former FBI director to conduct investigation of Ray Rice case

The NFL has appointed former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III to conduct an independent investigation into how the league has pursued and handled the evidence in the Ray Rice domestic violence case.

• Sports

NFL received Rice video in April, report says

Questions surrounding when the NFL and the Ravens saw video of Ray Rice punching his fiancee in an Atlantic City casino elevator intensified on Wednesday following a report that a law enforcement official sent the graphic footage to a league executive in April.

• Opinion

Hackers have no right to steal private images of celebrities [Commentary]

If both celebrities and the rest of us have no place where we can safely be our private selves, then we can no longer live with autonomy.

• News

Police blotter: Robberies for the week of Aug. 30

Baltimore police blotter: Robberies for the week of Aug. 30

• Baltimore City Paper

The Mail 9/3/14

• Baltimore City Paper

Clicking and Streaming: 'The Battered Bastards of Baseball' and 'Locke'

• Opinion

No justice for Gina [Commentary]

As one of two former prosecutors in the 1995 murder trial of then-police Sgt. James Kulbicki, I was outraged and incredulous to learn that the Court of Appeals of Maryland has, for the second time, reversed the conviction of a man whose arrogance and hubris led to the senseless and brutal execution of an innocent, young woman more than 19 years ago.

• Maryland

Suspicious co-worker tipped Johns Hopkins in Levy case

A suspicious technician took a pen used by Johns Hopkins gynecologist Dr. Nikita A. Levy, discovering images that shook thousands of women across the region and led the world-renowned hospital to pay $190 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.

• Baltimore County

FBI joins search for man wanted in Lansdowne stabbing

The FBI has joined Baltimore County police in the hunt for a man wanted in a Lansdowne stabbing earlier this week, and his girlfriend who also remains missing.

• Baltimore City Paper

Informant's phone calls lead to massive federal drug-dealing indictment in Baltimore

The FBI had a busy day in Baltimore on August 11, when an informant's phone calls set up drug deals resulting in charges against nine men. The informant had been arrested with "several kilograms of both heroin and cocaine," and set up sales to customers so the FBI could arrest them.

• News

Ex-Baltimore Police sergeant granted new trial in murder of mistress

A sharply divided appeals court granted a new trial to a former Baltimore Police sergeant convicted in 1995 of murdering his young mistress, finding that his attorneys should have done more to attack questionable forensic evidence.

• Opinion

Too much of a good thing [Commentary]

With the tremendous explosion of information technology, the intelligence community lost control of its data, to the detriment of everyone.

• News

FBI assists in search for two teens missing from Elkton

Two male teenagers who disappeared from the Elkton area under suspicious circumstances last week remain missing, and the FBI is now offering a $5,000 reward for tips in the search.

• Sun Investigates

Baltimore robbers challenge investigators' use of cellphone data

Attorneys for two convicted robbers are challenging investigators' use of cellphone data, saying that it breached their privacy and that investigators should have used a search warrant to get it. Their appeals in federal court thrust the convicts into the center of a debate about police powers and the meaning of privacy in the digital age.

• Baltimore County

Family of man shot by FBI raises questions about shooting

The family of a man fatally shot by FBI agents conducing a surveillance earlier this year on Reisterstown Road is questioning police tactics and the finding by prosecutors that the use of deadly force during a car stop was justified.

• Baltimore County

Family of man shot by FBI raises questions about shooting

• Opinion

The U.S. needs Russia [Commentary]

The U.S. needs Russia. This may sound peculiar coming from a person who spent 25 years at the NSA, almost half of those fighting communism. But our approach to Russia since the end of the Cold War has been unimaginative and aggressive. Politicians in Washington put on their Cold-War glasses any time Russia makes noise. It's time to archive those in the Smithsonian.

• Anne Arundel

Slain gas station clerk remembered at vigil in Anne Arundel

A vigil is held for Rajinder Kumar, the 49-year-old gas station clerk who was shot and killed while working at an Exxon in Hanover on Aug. 7. The case remains unsolved.

• Anne Arundel

Vigil on Monday evening for gas station worker killed in shooting

A vigil is planned in Hanover on Monday evening in memory of a gas station clerk killed in a shooting earlier this month. The vigil will be held at 6 p.m. at the Exxon station at 7898 Ridge Road in Hanover, where Rajinder Kumer was shot and killed Aug. 7.

• Opinion

Did Nixon commit treason? [Commentary]

In an exhaustive new book, journalist and researcher Ken Hughes makes the case not only that Richard Nixon, as a presidential candidate, committed treason by interfering in peace negotiations in Vietnam, but also that he sought to use the circumstances to enhance his election chances on the eve of the 1968 presidential campaign.

• Anne Arundel

Arundel police seek help in gas station killing; reward increased to $27K

Anne Arundel County Police issued a plea for the public's help Wednesday in solving the brazen murder of a gas station clerk in Hanover last week.

• Anne Arundel

Arundel police seek help in gas station killing; reward increased to $27K

• Baltimore City Paper

The Mail 8/12/14

• Baltimore City Paper

Just Business?

• News

FBI: Motor home full of drugs stopped in Aberdeen

FBI: Motor home full of drugs stopped in Aberdeen

• News

FBI: Motor home full of drugs stopped in Aberdeen

• Baltimore County

Parkville man convicted in Iran embargo plot

A Parkville man was convicted Monday of conspiring to ship industrial components to Iran in violation of the U.S. trade embargo on that country, the U.S. attorney's office announced.

• Opinion

Baltimore vacants are linked to crime, as are other indicators

Vacant buildings are many things: signs of decay, eyesores and dangerous. They might also hold a strong relationship to crime. According to frequently updated data provided by Open Baltimore, there is a strong correlation between vacant buildings and certain crimes, such as shootings and homicides.

• Maryland

Brian DeLeonardo, Republican [Profile]

• Maryland

Charles Harrison, Democrat [Profile]

• Sun Investigates

Baltimore vacants are linked to crime, as are other indicators

• News

Eastern Shore men charged with trying to carve off roommate's tattoo

Two Hebron residents were charged Monday with attempted murder and assault for beating a man, attempting to carve a tattoo from his arm, and setting him on fire, police said.

• Maryland

Feds considering 2 sites in Md. for FBI headquarters

The General Services Administration released a long anticipated list of sites on Tuesday it said could accommodate the FBI's requirements for a new home to replace the 39-year-old J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. Two of the properties are in Maryland — one in Greenbelt, the other in Landover — and a third is in Springfield, Va.

• Politics

GSA announces three potential sites for FBI headquarters

WASHINGTON ¿ The General Services Administration is considering three sites ¿ including two in Maryland ¿ as viable options for a new headquarters building for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a long awaited short list of potential properties released Tuesday.

• Harford

Aberdeen businessman arrested linked to NYC mafia family [25 years ago]

Two business owners were arrested in Aberdeen 25 years ago this week, and one of them was linked to a New York City organized crime family.

• Trials and Arbitration

Surprise in suburbia as a quiet neighbor is arrested

Zhenchun "Ted" Huang, a longtime resident of a Clarksville subdivision, pleaded guilty this month to federal charges that he tried to fraudulently obtain electronic devices that can be used in fabricating missile detectors. Former neighbors in the suburban development were shocked.

• Trials and Arbitration

Lawyers spar over Maryland assault weapon ban in federal court

Lawyers for the state and gun rights advocates sparred in federal court Tuesday about the government's power to hem in the Second Amendment to ward off mass shootings.

• News

Three sought in Wells Fargo bank robberies

Three men are sought in connection with two July robberies at a Wells Fargo bank in Baltimore.

• Baltimore County

Suspects named in 2 cold cases closed by DNA evidence

Two suspects who died before they were formally charged by police but were identified through DNA evidence in separate homicide cases from the 1990s were named by the Baltimore County State's Attorney's office on Monday.

• Maryland

Manchester man charged with soliciting a minor

An aquatics instructor at a summer camp for youngsters at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore has been charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, police said.

• Maryland

Aquatics instructor at summer camp charged with solicitation of a minor

An aquatics instructor at a summer camp for youngsters at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore has been charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, police said.

• Opinion

Detainees are human [Commentary]

I have been locked up at Guantanamo Bay for 12 years, held without charge or trial. I've done nothing wrong; in 2009, I was unanimously cleared for release by six different branches of the US government, including the FBI and the CIA. Yet here I am, still detained. The US government says I do not have the right to be treated as human. It says that I have committed serious crimes which cannot be ignored. But, if that is true, all I ask for is proof. But the government cannot even offer me that.

• Law Enforcement

Under Armour hires former Baltimore police chief as head of security

Baltimore athletic apparel company Under Armour Inc. has added some more muscle to its brand, hiring the former head of the Baltimore City Police Department as its first chief security officer.

• Opinion

Construction: a boys club [Commentary]

Harassment, intimidation and sabotage are a major reason why women do not enter or remain in jobs in the construction industry, according to a provocative and hard hitting study on women in construction by the National Women's Law Center.

• Opinion

Gansler was no ally to seniors [Letter]

Attorney general's response to Medicare rip-off shows he is not the man to look out for elderly

• Sun Investigates

Officer alleges jail leaders held town hall meetings with BGF

• News

City schools officer pleads guilty to federal drug-dealing charge

A Baltimore City schools police officer pleaded guilty Monday to drug conspiracy charges in U.S. District Court, and faces no less than five years in prison.

• News

BGF and officials discussed improvements to Baltimore jail, corrections officer says

Officials at the Baltimore jail held town hall meetings with Black Guerrilla Family gang members to get tips on how to better operate the institution, a corrections officer told the FBI.

• Sun Investigates

Officer alleges jail leaders held town hall meetings with BGF