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FBI investigating Dunbar football coach, school police detective in overtime probe
The investigation into Smith, who has guided the Poets to seven championships, relates to possible timecard irregularities and overtime fraud, sources said.
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Three years after indicting 25 corrections officers, Baltimore prosecutors drop case, defense attorneys say
Shanteari Weems (left) and James Weems (right)
Charging documents offer timetable of how police investigated child abuse allegations at Owings Mills day care
The first allegation against James Weems came almost three weeks before his wife shot him in a Washington, D.C. hotel.
Portrait of Marilyn Mosby at the Baltimore City State's Attorney Office.
Prosecutors lay out federal perjury case against Marilyn Mosby in clearest terms yet
Personal finances of the outgoing city state's attorney will be on display as prosecutors try to prove their case.
Robert Hankard, center, leaves the downtown Baltimore federal courthouse July 28 after being sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Ex-Baltimore Police officer gets 30 months in gun planting, maintains innocence
The sentence was half of what federal prosecutors had asked for, arguing Hankard had “perverted the course of justice on not one but four occasions.”
A Baltimore City Police car sits parked on North Calvert St.
Man shot by wife is being charged with sexually abusing children at her Baltimore County day care
James S. Weems Jr., 57, a former Baltimore Police officer who left the force in 2008, faces 13 counts related to three victims
7/8/22—A Baltimore Police officer’s car is parked on the corner of E Lombard St. & President St.
Man who forged document, paid witness to overturn murder conviction is Baltimore’s 200th homicide victim
Tony DeWitt’s life sentence was overturned in 2015 and he sued the detectives three years later.
Baltimore City State's Attorney candidate Ivan Bates arrives at at his election night event on Tuesday night. Maryland held its primary election on Tuesday, July 19.
Ivan Bates wins Democratic primary for Baltimore state’s attorney, defeating Marilyn Mosby
Mosby concedes and vows a 'smooth and orderly transition.' Former prosecutor Thiru Vignarajah is in second.
Baltimore Police Det. Ethan Glover, right, walks out of the downtown Baltimore federal courthouse with his attorney, Joseph Murtha, after a motions hearing Friday. Glover is accused of stealing money from a search warrant scene in 2016.
Abortion reference prompts mistrial in federal Baltimore Police corruption trial
Former officer Ethan Glover is accused of stealing close to $10,000 from a drug bust in 2016, as well as taking $1,000 returned by an informant two years later.
The UMBC mascot and logo outside of the Retriever Activities Center.
UMBC police officer charged with setting campus fires
The fires occurred in December and April in academic buildings on campus.
Attorney Warren Brown and (r) J. Wyndal Gordon represent the squeegee worker accused of fatally shoot a motorist.
Attorneys defend 15-year-old squeegee worker: ‘A case of perfect self-defense’
The teenager was arrested Thursday and charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the killing of 48-year-old Timothy Reynolds.
Police respond to Conway and Light Streets for a possible shooting.
Squeegee worker, 15, arrested and charged as an adult in fatal shooting of bat-wielding motorist
Timothy Reynolds left his car idling and crossed eight lanes of traffic to confront a group of squeegee workers before he was fatally shot.
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Baltimore Police officer conspired with motorcycle club to sell drugs, sold ‘ghost gun’
Steven Angelini, an officer since 2006, was arrested Wednesday morning in Baltimore County.
Demetric Simon had a BB gun planted on him in 2014 by former police Sgt. Keith Gladstone, who was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison Wednesday.
Victim frustrated as corrupt former Baltimore Police sergeant sentenced to 21 months
Former Police Sgt. Keith Gladstone was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison Wednesday for helping plant a BB gun on Demetric Simon.
Albert J. Peisinger, Jr., State's Attorney, Harford County
Harford County’s top prosecutor, under fire from deputies union, makes complaints
Albert Peisinger's opponent and union leaders, however, say the state's attorney is off the mark in his claims.
Screenshot from a driver’s dashcam footage.  The shooting occurred near the blue Interstate 95/395 sign.
Dashcam video shows final seconds of Timothy Reynolds’ fatal encounter with squeegee workers, but questions remain
Anthony Barksdale, a former acting Baltimore police commissioner (who directed operations for the Police Department from 2007 to 2012) and often vocal critic of the Baltimore Police Department, has been named deputy mayor for public safety, Mayor Brandon Scott announced Friday 7/8/2022.
Former Baltimore Police deputy commissioner Anthony Barksdale returns as deputy mayor for public safety, with apologies to current police command
Since leaving BPD in 2014, Barksdale has been highly critical of the city’s approach to policing, the consent decree, and Commissioner Michael Harrison.
Police respond to Conway and Light Streets for a possible shooting.
Man with bat fatally shot after confronting squeegee workers in downtown Baltimore identified as Timothy Reynolds
The shooting happened in the area of Light Street and Conway Street near the Inner Habor.
6/22/22—Police investigate a crime scene where three men were shot in a Northeast Baltimore shopping center Wednesday morning.
New Baltimore Police district boundary lines proposed, will reallocate resources
New district boundaries would mark the first such change in more than 60 years.
7/1/22—WBAL journalist Jayne Miller stands for a portrait during an interview with a Baltimore Banner reporter.
WBAL’s Jayne Miller retiring from television news, considers shift to politics
What’s next? Miller says she intends to get involved in political causes. And there's also a documentary.
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