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Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden thanked Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Wednesday for her support in the wake of a police-involved shooting of a black man.

City officials want to install a gunfire detection system to help Baltimore police pinpoint where shootings are happening, technology that a previous police commissioner called a "horrible, horrible failure."

Feds give back $30k siezed from farmer in money-laundering case

A Baltimore tax preparer has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for aiding in the preparation of false returns, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch used an address in Baltimore on Monday to stress the need for Washington to work with local officials on youth violence and gangs, particularly in cities that are still wrestling with those problems despite a national reduction in crime.

Tom Perez fought three years ago to win confirmation as U.S. labor secretary. Recently, he has been answering to another, unofficial title almost as frequently. "Potentially our next vice president," a union official roared into a microphone as the Marylander took a stage last week on Capitol Hill.

Baltimore led the nation with the highest increase in homicides last year, according to a recent U.S. Department of Justice report.

Senior Justice Department officials, including U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, will meet with city leaders in Baltimore next week.

A federal judge has sentenced a Westminster man to prison on charges of distributing heroin that led to the death of another man.

KAL's gets it wrong on guns, immigration

I must admit to being no big fan of Hillary Clinton, and for a variety of reasons. Regardless, when you put the two candidates on the scales, there is no question about who is more qualified and has the better character and temperament, and who gets trumped.

Area politicians and civic leaders weigh in on Thursday's verdict in the trial of Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray.

Barry Glenn Williams has been an Associate Judge with the Baltimore City Circuit Court since December 2005. On Wednesday, he'll become a bit more of a household name.

Antonio Muhammad sat in a Baltimore jail for weeks last year on $2,500 bail after being swept up in the riot-related arrests on charges of burglary. If it weren't for a crowdfunding effort to help people like him afford bail and the efforts of his court-appointed attorney, Kerri Cohen, the 20 year old with no criminal record might have sat there for 11 months — until prosecutors dropped his case this spring — simply because he was unable to buy his way out.

With unanswered questions at 71 Baltimore precincts, candidates must decide this week whether to mount a formal challenge to a primary election in which there was a series of irregularities.

Area politicians, civic leaders and others weigh in on the not guilty verdict handed down Monday morning in the case against Officer Edward Nero

The verdict clearing Officer Edward Nero of all criminal charges in connection with the death of Freddie Gray surprised few on Monday, although it disappointed some.

The verdict clearing Officer Edward Nero of all criminal charges in connection with the death of Freddie Gray surprised few on Monday, although it disappointed some.

If the candidates want the trust of communities damaged by over-incarceration, they should commit to using a more efficient process to continue and expand President Obama's initiative to free deserving candidates who were over-sentenced for drug offenses.

Transgender students may soon be accommodated in bathroom and locker room facilities in Harford County Public Schools, in accordance with a federal mandate, but some in the community appear to be uneasy, if not downright hostile, about the change.

Bystander intervention is a call to action by encouraging people who may not be directly involved in a situation to take a stand. Such actions require noticing the situation; interpreting the event as requiring intervention; assuming responsibility; determining the safest way to help; and confidence in the capacity to help.

Cal Thomas applauds North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory for pushing ahead with his anti-LGBT bathroom bill.

The Baltimore Sun was named News Organization of the Year on Friday among daily papers with a circulation over 75,000 in the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press

'Bathroom bill' aims to demonize LGBT community

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has banned all city government travel to North Carolina and Mississippi over the states' controversial bathroom laws.

Officer Edward M. Nero has decided to stand trial in the arrest of Freddie Gray before a judge rather than a jury, clearing the way for the first verdict in the closely-watched case next week.

Warning from Justice Department that HB2 violates the rights of transgender people hits the mark

If Republicans want their best chance to win a Md. Senate seat, they should vote Kefalas.

Hillary Clinton sought to circumvent Congress and the public by hiding her email on a private server, says John Kass.

Months after asking the U.S. Department of Justice to reform the Baltimore police force, Commissioner Anthony W. Batts went before a City Council committee to detail how much force officers used during arrests.

A federal judge accepted an offer by Baltimore City to pay $200,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a police trainee who was accidentally shot during a 2013 training exercise, citing a state law that caps such payments at that amount. But the trainee rejected the settlement as inadequate and plans to appeal.

Members of 12 organizations throughout Maryland were tasked with finding two teenage girls as part of a training exercise Wednesday.

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The Towson hospital is beginning to teach staff how to recognize and prevent domestic violence among its staff of 2,700, and organizers hope the shift in attention normally reserved for patients not only helps workers stay safe but sets a standard that can be replicated at other hospitals in the state and around the country

The viral video showing an officer slapping and kicking a student at the Reach Partnership school where I teach has once again brought national attention to Baltimore and the role police play in the lives of our residents. But the incident, and the misguided perception that some schools should be run like prisons, are merely symptoms of a larger offense against students across the city: deep racial and economic segregation.

The Montgomery County Council's public safety committee announced Thursday that it has scheduled a hearing next month to review the county police department's

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett announced Wednesday that he has ordered the police department to examine its use of Tasers and review investigations into four deaths of people shocked by the stun guns fired by officers.

Several prominent arrests in Baltimore in recent weeks, including of a Baltimore man dubbed "Public Enemy No. 1" after the February shooting of two elderly residents and another who allegedly killed a co worker at a public works facility in the city — were partially the result of nationwide initiative by the U.S. Marshals Service to bring criminals to justice, the agency said Wednesday.

As the General Assembly moves to create an independent police commission, key lawmakers say one of its first priorities should be to develop a statewide policy on how officers use stun guns across Maryland.

As warm weather approaches, we all feel the inner buzz of joy approaching: longer evenings to spend with our families, bright flowers and beautiful trees blooming and a general sense of hope and promise coming forward from the long, cold winter. As the neighborhood prepares for spring, remember to spring forward your clocks on Saturday night for daylight saving time, so you can enjoy the extra hour of sunlight starting Sunday.

The Rawlings-Blake administration is scaling back the amount it would pay lawyers this year to represent the city in the federal investigation of the Baltimore Police Department — part of a compromise that also untangles money promised to Freddie Gray's family.

After a year of record-breaking violence in Baltimore and nationwide debate about policing, the city's most prominent mayoral candidates are pledging to balance safety in the streets and police accountability.

City schools officials are "vigorously" investigating a cellphone video that shows a uniformed officer slapping a young man, schools spokeswoman Edie House Foster said.

So-called 'rough rides' are bad but the fix is up to law enforcement community, not legislature

More than 1,000 Maryland borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure after working with HSBC on loans are slated to get relief under the terms of a $470 million settlement reached with the British firm over abusive lending practices, Attorney General Brian Frosh said Friday.

Baltimore is preparing to launch a mediation program that will put police officers in a room face-to-face with citizens who have filed complaints against them.

Don't make matters worse, Baltimore: Keep outside counsel for the DOJ's Freddie Gray investigation.

Community members will not allow three schools slated for closure next year to be shuttered without continuing to put up a fight, after the Carroll County Board of Education voted last month to close three schools – Charles Carroll Elementary, New Windsor Middle and North Carroll High, to reduce the school system's operating costs.

A key Baltimore City Council panel refused Tuesday to hear the Rawlings-Blake administration's plans to spend $2 million for legal help in a police probe — leaving the $6.4 million settlement for Freddie Gray's family hanging in the balance.