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    Gov. Wes Moore and Mayor Brandon Scott lead a community walk with elected officials and law enforcement in Northwest Baltimore on Friday.
    Moore, Scott walk Park Heights in a message to Trump
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott tour the city in a community walk, pushing back on President Trump's narrative of Charm City.
    Da'Cara Thompson's family reported her missing to PGPD on Aug. 23.
    Man charged in killing of missing Prince George’s County 19-year-old
    Prince George’s County Police arrested a 35-year-old man in connection with the death of a 19-year-old woman who went missing in late August.
    Howard County Executive Calvin Ball speaks Thursday at a news conference outside the county police station about the department's identification of a woman in a 1971 cold case.
    After 54 years, Howard County Police identify woman in county’s oldest cold case
    Howard County Police have identified their Jane Doe in a 1971 cold case as Sarah Sharkey.
    Tyjuan Chapple, 26, remains in the custody of the Maryland Division of Corrections.
    State police charge incarcerated man in Somerset County prison death
    A man who is incarcerated at a state prison in Somerset County has been indicted and charged with murder in connection with the death of another prisoner earlier this year.
    The corrections department opened an investigation into the actions of a pretrial services employee after ICE agents appeared at the the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse in June.
    Employee accused of improperly inviting ICE to Baltimore courthouse no longer at her job
    The corrections department had opened an investigation into the actions of a pretrial services employee.
    Students cross campus between classes at Mount St. Mary’s University, a small liberal arts university in the Catoctin Mountains near Emmitsburg.
    Former Mount St. Mary’s student sues university for failing to protect her from rapist
    A former Mount St. Mary's University student has sued the university claiming she was raped by a rugby player who had previously been accused of sexual assault.
    The Maryland State Police logo.
    Body found along Route 50 could be connected to Prince George’s missing persons report
    A body that was found along a Maryland highway on Sunday has a “potential connection” to a missing persons report, according to the state police.
    Three men are on trial in U.S. District Court on charges that they participated in a racketeering conspiracy as members of MS-13.
    Feds say they’ll rely on ‘devils and demons’ in Baltimore MS-13 trial
    The MS-13 trial in Baltimore, expected to take weeks, will include testimony from confessed members of the gang, prosecutors say.
    The Baltimore County Detention Center complex in Towson.
    People keep getting sick to their stomachs at this jail. Baltimore County says that’s normal.
    Dr. Kunchok Dorjee‚ an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said that numerous reports of infections and symptoms coming from one setting is a clear “red flag.”
    Baltimore County Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that happened in Parkville Tuesday morning, the third one this year and the second in a week.
    Baltimore County Police investigate homicide in Parkville as possible murder-suicide
    Baltimore County Police are investigating a murder-suicide that happened in Parkville Tuesday morning, officials announced, just days after tackling a similar incident in Catonsville.
    The Baltimore County Orphans Court conducts its hearings in a series of small courtrooms on the fifth floor of the county courthouse in Towson.
    This judge will resolve ‘who’s your daddy?’ Her pay raise might be unconstitutional.
    Orphans' Court judges convinced the Baltimore County executive and council to give them $30,000 raises. It may have violated the Maryland Constitution.
    An inmate at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover was found dead early Sunday.
    Maryland inmate killed in Somerset County prison
    An inmate at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover was found dead early Sunday, prompting a homicide investigation, according to Maryland State Police.
    Baltimore Police on scene of a police-involved shooting on the 2700 block of Mosher Street on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
    Baltimore records 7 homicides in August, fewest for month in a half-century
    Baltimore is now in its third consecutive year of steep declines in homicides and nonfatal shootings.
    Baltimore County Police said they aren’t seeking additional suspects and there’s no ongoing threat to the public.
    Baltimore County Police continue to investigate double murder-suicide in Catonsville
    Baltimore County Police said they are continuing to investigate the Catonsville double murder-suicide as they wait for a complete an examination into the manner and cause of death.
    A protest outside of the Baltimore campus of Greater Grace World Outreach in 2024.
    Former Greater Grace pastor arrested in Florida on child sexual abuse charges
    Eric Anderson had been living in Virginia. Massachusetts State Police detectives used license plate reader technology to find Anderson near Florida’s Gulf Coast. He was arrested on Monday.
    Dr. John Trujillo, a veterinarian who opened Light Street Animal Hospital in 2000, poses for a portrait in front of a large mural made on the side of the hospital
    Baltimore veterinarian files lawsuit against brother who shot him in 2022
    On Aug. 29, 2022, Bobby Trujillo shot his older brother, veterinarian John Trujillo, at Pickles Light Street Animal Hospital in Riverside and then barricaded himself inside the building.
    Body camera footage from June 24, 2025, shows police engaging with Dontae Melton, who they say was having a mental health crisis at the intersection of Franklintown Road and West Franklin Street. Officers detained the man in handcuffs and leg shackles.
    Medical examiner rules Baltimore Police custody death a homicide
    Maryland’s chief medical examiner has ruled the death of a man who had been in Baltimore Police custody as a homicide, in what appears to be the first case with such a ruling since a scathing audit.
    Bishop Jaron Spriggs, brother of 70-year-old Pytorcarcha Brooks, testifies in front of Baltimore City Council on Wednesday.
    Brother of 70-year-old woman killed by police calls for reforming city’s crisis response
    The brother of 70-year-old Pytorcarcha Brooks, who was shot and killed by Baltimore Police officers last month, demanded “action” in response to his sister’s death — a tragedy, he said, that should have never taken place.
    A bag holding the cremated remains of a pet at Charm City Pet Crematory, in Baltimore, Friday, May 2, 2025.
    2 people charged in Baltimore County pet cremation scandal
    Two people face charges of felony theft, conspiracy to commit theft and more than 50 counts of malicious destruction of property related to a pet cremation scandal involving a Baltimore County business.
    State police are investigating a crash near Exit 89 that shut down Interstate 95 in both directions and hospitalized a Harford County Sheriff’s deputy.
    Man arrested in New York after I-95 chase of truck loaded with stolen cooking oil
    Juan Yahir Quiroz Manzueta, 21, was taken into custody in New York shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday, Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said in a news conference.
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