WASHINGTON — As HBO considers making a movie about Marion Barry with Eddie Murphy in the title role, the real Barry is doing something that comes naturally: running for re-election in the nation’s capital. Barry, the former four-term District of ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley is donating $7,000 in campaign contributions to a group that provides venison to help fight hunger, after a donor who contributed the money to the governor’s campaign pleaded guilty to failing to pay employment taxes. ...

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WASHINGTON — The FBI has launched a website to draw attention to a series of unsolved rapes and a murder in the Washington area that investigators believe are related. Local and federal authorities unveiled a public outreach campaign Thursday in ...

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WASHINGTON — Local and federal authorities on Thursday will solicit the public’s help in catching a man who they say is linked by DNA and other clues to a series of sexual assaults in Montgomery County and to the killing ...

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A Baltimore jury convicted Paul E. Schurick on conspiring and attempting to sabotage Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley’s re-election last fall with Election Day 2010 robocalls telling Democrats in the city and Prince George’s County that victory was at hand and ...

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A Baltimore jury will continue deliberating Tuesday morning on whether Paul E. Schurick tried to sabotage Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley’s re-election last fall with Election Day robocalls telling Democrats in the city and Prince George’s County that victory was at ...

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Closing arguments have begun in the trial of a political aide for former Gov. Robert Ehrlich who is accused of trying to suppress the black vote during last year’s gubernatorial election. Paul Schurick testified in his own defense in Baltimore ...

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Closing arguments are expected to begin in the Baltimore trial of a political aide for former Gov. Robert Ehrlich. Longtime aide Paul Schurick is accused of trying to suppress the black vote during last year’s gubernatorial election. Schurick testified in ...

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NEWARK, N.J. — Immigration services scams are getting so sophisticated that fraudsters now advertise online with websites that perfectly mimic those of official government agencies, federal officials said Thursday as they rolled out a nationwide awareness campaign meant to combat ...

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EASTON — First District Congressman Andy Harris is endorsing Newt Gingrich in the Republican presidential primary in Maryland. The Star-Democrat reports that Harris will be co-chairman of Gingrich’s Maryland team. The Maryland Republican said in a statement that he believes ...

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