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Advocates for police accountability and transparency in Baltimore and across the state urged legislators in Annapolis on Tuesday to pass a bill giving police administrators the discretion to release disciplinary and internal affairs records when they deem it appropriate. - A white supremacist from Baltimore has pleaded guilty to killing a black man with a sword as part of a racist plot that prosecutors described as a hate crime
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- Standing outside his tent pitched on the sidewalk by a defunct downtown diner on Thursday, Jimmy Steward III wonders where he'll sleep after city officials force him to leave this morning.
- George B. Brosan, a career law enforcement officer who had been Maryland State Police superintendent, died Thursday of cancer at his Annapolis home. He was 78.
- Baltimore police are doing away with the term "stop and frisk," though officers can still use the controversial search tactic. Baltimore's Deputy Police Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said controversy over the New York Police Department's heavy use of the practice led to a negative connotation from which police must distance themselves.
- If the pilot of cop show "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" is any indication, police captain Ray Holt is well on his way to joining the pantheon of well-realized LGBT characters on network TV.
- As the new network season arrives this week, a couple of old familiar Baltimore faces have caught my eye: Andre Braugher and Wendell Pierce.
- One of the top television series of the summer of 2013 has a Harford County native among its cast members, an actor who has spent nearly 25 years working with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry.
- The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived side-by-side in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and development companies, court records show.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said Tuesday that the shooting of a trainee will be the catalyst for an across-the-board review of how its officers use weapons.
- When Henry Bromell won the Writers' Guild Award this year for scripting The Good Soldier episode of Homeland, he thanked Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.
- Bratton: Next Baltimore chief must be on same page with mayor
- Though E.L. James has received recent headlines for the phenomenal sales of "Fifty Shades of Grey," stalwart James Patterson remains the highest-earning author, according to Forbes.
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- The number of police officers killed in the line of duty jumped 13 percent this year -- 173 compared with 153 last year -- and for the first time in more than a decade more died from gunfire than by motor vehicle accident.
- The Wall Street protests in New York invite scrutiny of police brutality toward the participants
- 'Survivor: South Pacific' Episode 3 is called "You Reap What You Sow." Oh, if only that were true.
