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Antonio Martinez pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with a terrorist plot to blow up a Catonsville military recruiting center in December 2010.

Shipowner and operator fined $1.85 million in pollution case exposed by a whistle-blower.

A federal jury in Baltimore has found a former Frederick County sheriff's deputy is not liable in a case stemming from a man's death after he was shocked twice with an electric stun gun.

The National Security Agency has responded to lawsuit filed by former NSA whistle-blowers who want confiscated computers back. The computers were seized during the investigation of Thomas Drake for leaking information to The Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Police hire ex-DEA, Homeland Security official to oversee internal affairs

EDF withdraws opposition to merger of Exelon and Constellation

A Salisbury man was arrested Wednesday in as part of nationwide, coordinated seizure of 50 individuals prosecutors say are involved in a Puerto Rico-based identity trafficking ring, according to the federal immigration agency.

A 21-year-old Maryland man pleaded guilty Friday in an Indiana federal court to seven counts of producing child pornography, prosecutors said.

Upcoding a problem with Medicare fraud

DOJ urges judge to side with plaintiff in Baltimore Police camera seizure case

The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has urged a federal court to side with a Howard County man in a lawsuit over his camera being seized by Baltimore Police at the Preakness Stakes after he filmed officers making an arrest

City, Hopkins to expand Safe Streets intervention program

The federal definition of rape for the purpose of collecting national crime data has been changed for the first time in more than 80 years, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

Cal Thomas asks: Why should a state like South Carolina be punished for the sins of the past?

Proposed energy merger clears a regulatory hurdle.

A Clarksville man has been sentenced to 46 years in prison and three years of probation for conspiring to transport and distribute untaxed alcohol

The nation's 'toughest sheriff' may have met his match in the civil rights lawyer from Maryland who has uncovered a pattern of discrimination against Latinos

The attorney for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army soldier suspected of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, spent the first day of a key hearing Friday trying to get the presiding officer thrown off the case.

The law office representing police unions across the state is alleging that the Westminster Police Department is misspending money at the expense of officers and public safety.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County received a $25,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation which will be used to raise awareness about domestic violence issues. The funding will support UMBC's Violence Protection Advocates Program.

A 62-year-old blind man has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice after Baltimore paramedics refused to allow his service dog to accompany him in an ambulance after he was struck by a car.

Illegal immigrants in Baltimore will be among the first in the nation to have their cases reviewed under a new policy that focuses on people who have committed crimes since arriving in the United States while freezing the cases of some of those who have not.

Four former analysts at the National Security Agency and a congressional staffer who complained that government waste and mismanagement impeded efforts to protect America are heading to federal court to try and force authorities to return personal computers seized from their homes in 2007.

Four former analysts at the National Security Agency and a congressional staffer who complained that government waste and mismanagement impeded efforts to protect America are heading to federal court to try to force authorities to return personal computers seized from their homes in 2007.

Baltimore Fire Chief James S. Clack, who has been grappling with allegations of racism in his department, announced Tuesday that he is promoting two African-American officers to be his top deputies.

A veteran political operative was slated to go on trial Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges that he violated election laws last fall by carrying out Election Day robocalls to Democratic homes in predominantly African-American areas that suggested the vote was over.

State regulators said Wednesday that they have ordered Allied Home Mortgage to stop making loans to Marylanders after federal investigators alleged the company violated the law.

A Maryland jury on Tuesday found Sen. Ulysses S. Currie not guilty of accepting bribes from two Shoppers Food Warehouse executives, acquitting all three men of extortion and conspiracy charges.

An administrative hearing between Baltimore County officials and the owner of a Catonsville home cited for having one too many unrelated adult tenants has been postponed…

Al Darnell Moore sentenced to five years for throwing a Molotov cocktail

Attorney, partner in a Towson law firm, had worked for the Justice Deptartment and was captain of Harvard's lacrosse team

Attorney, partner in a Towson law firm, had worked for the Justice Deptartment and was captain of Harvard's lacrosse team

Baltimore City Councilwoman Belinda Conaway, who is running a write-in campaign to keep her seat in the Nov. 8 election, accused the city elections board Tuesday of committing "major fraud" by mailing out incorrect absentee ballots to 7th District voters.

Federal action is needed to put an end to forced marriages in some U.S. immigrant communities

A group that advocates for black firefighters wants the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate what it describes as "systemic discrimination in hiring, discipline and recruitment" in the Baltimore Fire Department.

Five Howard County residents were among the nearly three dozen gang members indicted last week on federal racketeering and drug charges. The charges stemmed from a laundry list of accusations, including an armed home invasion robbery in the county in March 2010.

The Obama administration is addicted to the idea of reasonableness, but there are times when it pays to make the other side worry.