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- The 11-month-old granddaughter of a woman who was killed by a car in the parking lot of the Target store in Owings Mills Saturday night has been released.
- A 67-year-old Navy veteran is among several men who served time in Maryland prisons for crimes they did not commit
- A jury has found 17-year-old Dawnta Harris guilty of felony murder in the death last May of Baltimore County Police officer Amy Caprio.
- McDonogh School administrators shared the details of the external investigation into the co-ed boarding school’s history of sexual assault allegations made against faculty members, dating from the 1940s to the mid-1980s.
- A Baltimore County judge has overturned the decision of a jury that awarded more than $38 million to the family of Korryn Gaines, the 23-year-old Randallstown woman who was shot and killed by county police in 2016.
- Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. on Wednesday named eight members of a panel that will interview top candidates for the position of county police chief.
- Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced Tuesday her office would cease prosecuting people for possessing marijuana regardless of quantity or criminal history.
- Baltimore County authorities seek dismissal of claims against them in class-action sexual assault lawsuit.
- A police report says a black student blamed his "bottled up anger" for racist, threatening graffiti he admitted to scrawling in bathrooms at Goucher College.
- Baltimore County government is poised to hire a private law firm to help defend itself against a federal class-action lawsuit that claims police failed to properly investigate sexual assaults involving students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
- On Nov. 15, two Baltimore County police detectives sat down at a Chick-fil-A to interview three University of Maryland, Baltimore County, baseball players accused of rape, according to investigative notes. The interviews, in total, lasted about an hour.
- Clearly, the efforts taken to curb the opioid death rate, however well intended, have not worked. Continuing current policies will bring the same results: more deaths, more disease, more crime and no drop in the opioid death rate. It’s time for a change.
- UMBC police chief Paul Dillon files a motion to dismiss in a class-action rape case.
- While the discipline and focus of Team Hogan’s messaging during the campaign is impressive, the echo of that message with an infamous and racist ad used by George H.W. Bush to win the presidency in 1988 is troubling.
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Officer interviews, body camera footage in Amy Caprio death shed light on possible defense for teens
Attorneys for some of the teens charged in the death of Baltimore County police officer Amy Caprio are attempting to distance their clients from murder charges filed in the case. - A recent federal lawsuit alleging Baltimore County police mishandled rape cases has drawn questions from an advocate who helped conduct an independent review that recommended changes to the way such incidents are investigated.
- The two women suing Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger and two prosecutors over their alleged failure to investigate sexual assault cases face an uphill battle overcoming special immunity given to prosecutors, some legal experts say.
- For more than an hour, the students went over their list of demands and grilled Hrabowski on how he planned to solve the scourge of sexual violence on campus. Their protest was spurred by a lawsuit brought by two former UMBC students who said they were raped in separate incidents.
- A 56-page, class action lawsuit filed Sept. 10 in federal court alleges a culture in Baltimore County — extending to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, suppresses sexual assaults.
- Tracey Carrington was on her way, friends and family say. Then, last week, she was gunned down by an unknown assailant while she was leaving a sports bar on Belair Road. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Ben Jealous, Democratic candidate for Maryland governor, wants to reform the state’s criminal justice system by shrinking the prison population by 30 percent and cutting an estimated $660 million from the state’s budget.
- A prosecutor who has tried Keith Davis Jr. three times for the killing of a Pimlico security guard is no longer with the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
- Maryland’s prison population — which has been decreasing at a faster rate than anywhere else in the country — continues to shrink.
- McCain, a 17-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, shot Micah Tucker, 38, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a stolen SUV driven by 32-year-old Robyn Slack.
- A Baltimore County police officer shot the passenger of an SUV multiple times on Pulaski Highway after police say the driver of the car drove at the officer following a police chase early Tuesday.
- If we are to be serious about reducing crime, then the focus must be on preventing and treating substance abuse. New multi-faceted policies are needed, both in the criminal justice system and in health care.
- Despite the death of Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio, locking up all juveniles accused of crimes won't make us safer.
- A judge set bail — $75,000 and $150,000 — for two Baltimore County brothers charged with first-degree murder in a double homicide in Towson last week.
- A sweeping crime bill that passed the Maryland Senate with Gov. Larry Hogan's support is being attacked by critics who call it an election year ploy tainted by harsh, racist sentencing proposals.
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- The corruption case against Sen. Nathaniel Oaks has its origins in Baltimore County, court documents reveal. County officials can't let that drop.
- The Maryland Senate is preparing a comprehensive crime bill that jettisons two key elements of Gov. Larry Hogan's proposal to combat street violence — mandatory minimum sentences and a crackdown on gangs.
- A last-minute flurry of fiings for Towson area offices came in this week as Tuesday's filing deadline for the June 26 primary election approached. Here's who is in the running.
- Advocates of legalizing growing and processing industrial hemp believe this is the year they can escape the marijuana stigma in Annapolis.
- A vigil was held in Arbutus in January after a neighbor's Facebook post, alleging that the dog had been left outside in the harsh cold overnight in late December, and then later news that the dog had died, went viral.
- Six months after a new judicial rule requiring court officers to seek alternatives to cash bail went into effect, the use of cash bail has declined significantly with no apparent negative consequences. But the work to end commercial bail is not yet complete.
- At a community meeting, questions about how police are coping with crime and punishment in Baltimore County
- Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday announced initiatives aimed at curbing violent crime in Baltimore. The following is a transcript of the announcement.
- Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby signs on to amicus brief opposing money bail
- The Baltimore County Council is delaying its review of rules governing who can watch video footage from police body cameras.
- Two Baltimore County councilmen want state lawmakers to take a second look at body camera regulations, saying they're concerned about invasion of privacy.
- Can a Baltimore County police officer be convicted of assaulting a suspect?
- Jurors acquit Balt. Co. officer accused of kicking, spitting on a suspect
- Baltimore County prosecutors have ruled that a county police officer was justified in shooting a man in the Parkville area in April, citing evidence including body camera footage.
- The body of a priest who died in 2001 has been exhumed as part of the investigation into the slaying of a Baltimore nun more than 40 years ago, Baltimore County police say.
- After fast-tracking a $12.5 million program to equip its police officers with body cameras, the Baltimore County Police Department has declined to release
- Baltimore County prosecutors on Tuesday dismissed their case against a Kingsville community activist who was charged with misdemeanor theft after he removed an
- Baltimore Police have ended an agreement with prosecutors and taken back the authority to charge homicide suspects without first getting approval from the city
- The opioid epidemic has claimed so many lives in Maryland that the state medical examiner's office is having trouble performing autopsies on time, officials say.
- Most Maryland jurisdictions did not apply for federal rape kit testing grants