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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.

By Pamela Wood

Jul 8, 2019

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.

Despite corruption that has sometimes flourished in plainclothes squads, Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison says they still have a place.

A dozen internal affairs charges against Baltimore Police officers were dismissed by a circuit court judge because the department filed them too late.

By Jessica Anderson

Jun 17, 2019

A bail review hearing Richard S. Barnes is underway, although police have so far filed no charges against the Lyft driver.

Jules Witcover: The House of Representatives appears on the verge of initiating a formal impeachment process.

Jules Witcover: Seeking more evidence of President Trump's abuses of power before initiating impeachment is fair.

Baltimore has been selected to participate in a federal law enforcement initiative targeted at lowering violent crimes.

By Lillian Reed

Jun 4, 2019

Only 16 percent of Baltimore police officers are women. A new recruitment campaign aims to change that - and help heal troubled relations with residents.

By Jessica Anderson

May 24, 2019

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. 

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

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.

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

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Apr 25, 2019

Youth arrests in Baltimore drop, but not enough is being done to steer kids from the juvenile justice system, a report says.

By Jessica Anderson

Apr 24, 2019

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.

By Jessica Anderson

Apr 10, 2019

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.

The Healthy Holly scandal consuming Mayor Catherine Pugh is complicated and confusing. Here is a summary of what we know and what we still don't.

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.

By Jessica Anderson

Mar 27, 2019

The Sun should investigate the Russia collusion on the Democratic side in 2016.

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."

By Jeff Barker

Mar 14, 2019

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.

By Sarah Meehan

Mar 12, 2019

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.

By Kevin Rector

Mar 11, 2019

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.

By Jessica Anderson

Mar 11, 2019

The 2020 race will be first and foremost a referendum on Donald Trump, says Jules Witcover.

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.

By Kevin Rector

Mar 7, 2019

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.

By Catherine Rentz

Mar 6, 2019

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.

By Kevin Rector

Feb 27, 2019

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.

By Jessica Anderson

Feb 26, 2019

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.

By Jessica Anderson

Feb 25, 2019

More than 200 individuals have been asked to sign waivers that release police from investigations into their reported sexual assaults

By Catherine Rentz

Feb 19, 2019

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.

By Meredith Cohn

Feb 15, 2019

Maryland should revise public information laws that keep secret police misconduct investigation files.

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.

By Jeff Barker

Feb 1, 2019

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

By Jean Marbella

Jan 25, 2019

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.

By Jessica Anderson

Jan 24, 2019

Operation Kidsafe is a quick, mess-free way for guardians to keep their kids' fingerprints and pictures on hand in case of emergency.

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.

William Barr emerges as the unlikeliest of Trump choices - someone committed to the rule of law and a supporter of the Mueller inquiry.

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.

By Jeff Barker

Jan 9, 2019

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.