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A divided Maryland high court on Tuesday overturned an ex-felon’s gun possession conviction, saying Baltimore police violated his constitutional rights by frisking him without reasonable suspicion he was armed. In its 5-2 decision, the Court of Appeals said Tamere Thornton’s ...

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A federal judge will not allow state officials to file a new motion for summary judgment in ongoing litigation by “juvenile lifers” over Maryland’s parole system. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore in 2016, alleges the parole system does ...

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LOS ANGELES — Stephen Kay was a fresh-faced prosecutor just 27 years old and three years out of law school when circumstances handed him the Charles Manson “family” murder case. Over the next half-century, it would come to define his ...

WASHINGTON — A veteran FBI agent who wrote derogatory text messages about Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging that the bureau caved to “unrelenting pressure” from the president when it fired him. The suit from Peter Strzok also alleges ...

ANNAPOLIS — A judicial discipline hearing against a Baltimore City District Court judge currently serving a suspension for prior misconduct concluded Monday with no timeline set for deliberations. The Court of Appeals suspended Judge Devy Patterson Russell for six months ...

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A Frederick County police officer violated a woman’s constitutional rights by looking down her underwear during a highway-side search for hidden drugs after a traffic stop allegedly revealed cocaine in her car, Maryland’s second-highest court has ruled in overturning her ...

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The development team leading a $140 million overhaul of Baltimore’s Penn Station plans a second public meeting next week to hammer out details for how to transform the historic train station. This marks the second meeting to gather public input on the ...

A Maryland program designed to engage primary care practices to find cost savings is generating some optimistic feedback from leaders, though it may be years before data starts to show results. The Maryland Primary Care Program was announced last year ...

  Over the weekend, two mass shootings in the United States left 31 people dead and scores of people injured. On Saturday, 22 people were killed and 26 were wounded in a shooting centered around a Walmart store in El ...

A Harford County Republican is asking a legislative ethics panel to impose one of the severest forms of punishment on a sitting state delegate who is suing him for defamation. Chris Biggs, of Abingdon, is asking the Joint Committee on ...