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    A Taco Bell location on Reisterstown Road in Baltimore on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. O'Brian Lynch of Frederick recently filed a lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court against Taco Bell. An employee, Dayquan Harding, 29, of Southwest Baltimore, pleaded guilty in 2023 to first-degree assault and related crimes for pulling a gun on him at the location on Reisterstown Road on Aug. 8, 2022, and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
    Taco Bell messed up his order of chicken tacos. Then an employee pulled a gun on him.
    O’Brian Lynch recently filed a lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court against Taco Bell on two counts: negligent hiring and retention, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
    15-year-old killed, another teen injured in Baltimore shooting
    Two teenagers were shot Wednesday evening in Baltimore, leaving one dead and another injured.
    After a federal investigation spurred by the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore launched its police consent decree in April 2017.
    An exodus at Trump’s DOJ is threatening to unravel Baltimore’s federal police oversight
    The wave of departures threatens to tilt the 8-year-old court case into dysfunction.
    WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 09: Mother (2nd R) of Kilmar Abrego Garcia holds a picture of her son and his family during a news conference to discuss his son's arrest and deportation at Cannon House Office Building on April 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus held a news conference to discuss the deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the maximum security prison Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, an incident the Trump administration claims as “an administrative error,” but refuses to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
    Maryland’s Salvadoran community roiled by Abrego Garcia deportation
    The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case has roiled Maryland’s Salvadoran population, which is one of the largest immigrant groups in the state.
    Patty Morin, center, mother of Rachel Morin, during a press conference outside the circuit court for Harford County in Bel Air last month.
    Rachel Morin’s children file new lawsuit against their grandmother and aunt
    The five children of Rachel Morin, the Bel Air woman slain on a hiking trail in 2023, have again filed a lawsuit against their grandmother and aunt.

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    6/28/22—the exterior of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse.
    Mother pleads guilty to murder for killing her 1-year-old daughter in Baltimore
    Aurielle Montgomery, 23, of Pikesville, faces between 10 years and 22 years in prison at sentencing on July 16 in Baltimore Circuit Court on one count of second-degree depraved heart murder.
    Baltimore Police officers respond to the scene after a child was shot in the 800 block of Vine Street on Saturday, May 3, 2025.
    6-year-old boy found dead with gunshot wound inside Baltimore home, police say
    A 6-year-old boy was found dead with a gunshot wound inside a Southwest Baltimore home, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said Saturday.
    Alcatraz Island is pictured on Sunday, May 4, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
    Trump says he’ll reopen Alcatraz for ‘most ruthless and violent offenders’
    President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.
    Baltimore family demands answers after finding aunt dead in a safe
    Police said they are investigating the death of 53-year-old Dawn White, found dead inside her home on Benzinger Road in April.
    Baltimore County Police say gunfire broke out just after midnight Friday in the parking lot of a shopping center along Woodlawn Drive.
    4 injured after shooting outside Baltimore County shopping center
    Baltimore County Police say gunfire broke out just after midnight Friday in the parking lot of a shopping center along Woodlawn Drive.

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    The charges against Quwan Lamar Gordon of Owings Mills stem from an Aug. 12 incident in which he fired a weapon at another driver.
    Baltimore County man gets 50 years in nonfatal Howard County road rage incident
    The Howard County State’s Attorney’s office sentenced a Baltimore County man to 50 years in prison for his role in a violent road rage shooting.
    Matthew Schlegel, a third grade teacher at Severna Park Elementary School, is charged in Anne Anne Arundel County Circuit Court with sexual abuse of a minor, third- and fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault. He’s accused of sexually abusing eight students.
    Prosecutors want to introduce other bad acts at Severna Park Elementary teacher’s sex abuse trial
    Matthew Schlegel, 45, of Severna Park, is set to stand trial on May 19 in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, third- and fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault.
    April marked the lowest total of any month in any year dating back to 2012.
    Baltimore’s homicide rate dropped to a historic low last month, defied racial trends
    Baltimore ended April with five homicides, the lowest monthly total in recent memory.
    Homes owned by ABC Capital Investments across the city.
    State regulators pull license of title company connected to ABC Capital
    One of the title companies that handled ABC Capital’s disastrous sale of hundreds of homes to foreign buyers has been stripped of its license.
    University of Maryland Medical System corporate headquarters at 250 West Pratt Street in downtown Baltimore. UMMS is suing the the Maryland corrections department over unpaid prisoner health care bills.
    UMMS demands state pay $4.6 million in prisoner health care debt
    University of Maryland Medical System’s lawsuit could hinge on a legal debate over what qualifies as a state subcontractor.

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    Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan addresses the Baltimore County Council during a hearing on two bills proposed to enshrine her office in the county's charter and remove a waiting period to subpoena non-government records Nov. 28, 2023.
    Trash hauler ‘likely committed fraud,’ according to Baltimore County inspector general
    A Harford County trash hauler “likely committed fraud” by playing fast and loose with landfill dumping rules and fees, costing Baltimore County at least $25,000.
    Former Coppin State University Police Cpl. Jamar Brockington, who was a 17-year veteran of the force, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court to misconduct in office and fourth-degree sex offense.
    Ex-Coppin State University Police officer pleads guilty to forcibly touching 16-year-old girl
    Former Coppin State University Police Cpl. Jamar Brockington pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court to misconduct in office and fourth-degree sex offense.
    Police allege that Brent Goetz, 23, of Sparrows Point, threw an airsoft grenade out the window of a car toward a group of men waiting for work in the rear parking lot of a Home Depot in Southeast Baltimore.
    Man charged after allegedly throwing airsoft grenade at men in Home Depot parking lot
    Brent Goetz, of Baltimore County, was charged with second-degree assault and a related weapons charge after he allegedly threw an airsoft grenade at a group of men in a Home Depot parking lot.
    Mark Anthony Sykes was sentenced to three years of supervised probation in connection to an ongoing corruption investigation at the Maryland Department of Labor.
    Defense attorney: Bribery case at state Labor Department involves ‘much larger fish’
    An ongoing corruption investigation involving bribery at the state Department of Labor could involve “much larger fish,” a defense attorney involved said.
    Law enforcement officers escort Victor Martinez-Hernadez from an airplane at Martin State Airport after his extradition from Oklahoma on June 20, 2024.
    Sentencing set for man who raped and murdered Rachel Morin on Ma & Pa Heritage Trail
    Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, is set at to be sentenced on Aug. 11 on charges of first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree rape, third-degree sex offense and kidnapping.
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