Prosecutors say a Bowie, Maryland, woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for wire fraud in a scheme to defraud at people of more than $1.2 million.
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.
Once they are born, kids become needy and quite a burden. And that’s when many pro-lifers lose interest. You don’t need to feed the unborn or buy them soap.
A lawsuit that alleges a 2020 census question pushed by the Trump administration violates minorities' rights will be sent back to a federal court in Maryland.
A Maryland judge says new evidence suggests a racially discriminatory motive behind Trump administration's push to ask everyone about citizenship status.
Only 16 percent of Baltimore police officers are women. A new recruitment campaign aims to change that - and help heal troubled relations with residents.
Checks and balances. That’s what makes our federal government work — except when it doesn’t because of the dysfunction and obfuscation of one of the branches.
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.
The controversy surrounding Catherine Pugh and her Healthy Holly books isn't the first time books, or the written word, have gotten a politician into trouble
After months of turnover at the Baltimore Police Department, recently appointed Commissioner Michael Harrison expressed his commitment to implementing reforms at a quarterly consent decree hearing. But much of the discussion was dominated by political turmoil involving Mayor Catherine Pugh.
A third federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, ruling Friday that it poses a "substantial risk" of undercounting Hispanics and non-citizens.
No gun has been recovered from the scene where Baltimore police fired at a man officers believed to be armed earlier this week, according to a source close to the investigation.
Rep. Elijah Cummings says he has “very serious questions” about whether U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was truthful in explaining how the Trump administration developed a census question about citizenship status. Ross says he "testified truthfully to the best of my ability."
James Johnson, a West Baltimore drug dealer, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for conspiring to distribute enough fentanyl to kill the population of Maryland.
Michael Harrison, Baltimore's first permanent police commissioner in 10 months, has received unanimous support from City Council. That means he's also launched on a complex mission: drive down historically high rates of violent crime while reforming a dysfunctional department.
Michael Harrison, who left the New Orleans department to become Baltimore’s next police commissioner, is again taking the challenge of leading a troubled department through expansive court-ordered reforms, while also dealing with a community largely distrustful of police.
Ganesha Martin, an attorney who spearheaded the Baltimore Police Department’s consent decree compliance efforts before quitting last year, has been rehired by the city to serve as Mayor Catherine Pugh’s top adviser on criminal justice issues.
Four years after Maryland lawmakers passed legislation requiring police to count untested rape kits, they are now discussing a proposal that would require authorities to test them.
Kevin Davis, the former Baltimore Police commissioner who helped negotiate and begin implementing policing reforms under the city’s consent decree with the Justice Department, has won a fellowship from the Open Society Foundations to write a book analyzing such agreements across the country.
An organization called National Police Association wrote a letter to President Trump asking him to water down the consent decree mandating reform of the Baltimore Police Department. But what is the National Police Association, and who is behind it?
Rosenstein is wrong if he thinks it's appropriate for the Attorney General to sit on the special counsel's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Rod Rosenstein gets it half-right: The Justice Department should be sensitive to the rights of uncharged people but that standard can't apply to a president.
The Baltimore police consent decree “does a tremendous amount of harm,” a law enforcement advocacy group said, and it is asking the Trump administration to modify reforms it calls too burdensome.
The Baltimore Police Department continues to work to bolster its training academy staff, and is requesting a three-week extension within the consent decree schedule to double its personnel.
The Baltimore-based Law Offices of Peter Angelos have joined a host of firms across the country beginning to file lawsuits against the St. Paul, Minn-based 3M Company over earplugs it provided the military and were alleged to be defective.
A federal judge has dismissed Maryland's attempt to protect the Affordable Care Act, known as "Obamacare," from any Trump administration efforts to dismantle it. The office of Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh had sought a declaration that the national health care act is constitutional.
Testimony wrapped up Thursday in Greenbelt, Maryland, over the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census as government attorneys sought to show it would not harm the accuracy of the count.
Reaction to the police body camera video of the police's fatal encounter with 19-year-old Anton Black in Greensboro, Md., ranges from activists who say it shows police brutality and others who say police used proper procedures
The federal judge overseeing the Baltimore police consent decree on Thursday called for the state to contribute money towards a new city police training facility, and also disputed recent comments by the governor that reforms and crime reduction can’t occur simultaneously.
Former Baltimore cop: This “us versus them” culture between the BPD and the city’s African American communities is hardly new, however. It has existed for more than half a century.
A former Baltimore Police officer has filed a defamation lawsuit after he was appointed to serve as deputy commissioner but lost the job after a fake memo was sent to the media.
During this week’s hearings to confirm William Barr for the U.S. attorney general position, the Senate must bring Mr. Barr’s positions on important civil rights issues into sharper focus.
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Wednesday that the departure of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would threaten Robert Mueller's Russia investigation at a time when the integrity of the Justice Department "is under assault" by President Donald Trump.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced that she has chosen New Orleans police superintendent Michael Harrison to lead the city’s police department, a day after her previous pick for commissioner withdrew from consideration.
