Four Baltimore police officers fired 36 shots at a man with a gun fleeing from them in the western part of the city earlier this month, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said Friday.

A faint brown haze enveloped Baltimore and much of Maryland Thursday from wildfires in western Virginia that have been burning for weeks, fueled by drought and steady wind.

An autopsy later found 4-year-old Amir James had skull injuries and died from bleeding in his brain.

Salifou Savadogo towed a dozen stolen cars a week this summer, all of them Kias and Hyundais.

People whose cars are stolen aren't the only ones affected by this spike in auto thefts. The industries that tow, repair and sell cars have had to handle the surges, too.

One man is dead and a Baltimore police officer suffered “minor injuries” Tuesday in a shooting in the southwest part of the city, the Baltimore Police Department said.

One of Baltimore’s greatest statemen lived at the corner of Carrollton and Lafayette in West Baltimore across the street from Lafayette Square, long ago nicknamed the square of the churches for all the splendid churches built around it.

Police said the 16-year-old boy, who was previously involved in an attempted carjacking, died after being found shot and lying in the street.

Rinaldo is the second firefighter to succumb to injuries sustained in a rowhouse fire in Northwest Baltimore earlier this month.

In the fall of 2007, Ronnie Simpson, an accidental Texan by way of Iraq, a motorcycle salesman and apathetic college student, came to the conclusion he did not care whether he lived or died as he disappeared down a highway in San Antonio on a speeding motorcycle with the police in pursuit.

The Baltimore County Police Department is investigating the arrest Wednesday of a 16-year-old in front of the Baltimore County Public Library in Woodlawn, where last month, officers were accused of using excessive force during the arrest of a different teenager inside the library.

Baltimore community leaders on Saturday rallied against gun violence in the city.

The university opened the building to graduate students this fall and officially dedicated its gleaming Washington, D.C., outpost Thursday morning before a gathering of around 1,000 people, many of them alumni and board members.

The Maryland Department of Health conducted the testing of the substance, and advised that the room in the courthouse where the envelope was found could be reopened once decontaminated.

In a letter to the school, Bowie State president Aminta Breaux told students and staff to expect “an increased presence of police and security officers with support from local police agencies and security services.”

One charged, one sought in relation to shooting at Morgan State during homecoming activities.

The plaintiff is Students For Fair Admissions, which won the U.S. Supreme Court case striking down affirmative action in college admissions.

In the recording, Jasmine Billingsley makes clear that she believes her brother committed all the crimes he has been convicted of and the crimes he is currently accused of.

One or more shooters opened fire on the campus of Morgan State University Tuesday night, wounding five people and sending students running for cover during what is traditionally a celebratory homecoming week at the HBCU.

Test results delivered Tuesday showed no traces of the parasite cryptosporidium in the open-air reservoir, where low levels had recently been found.