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A Baltimore police officer charged with slitting a dog’s throat claims he did so to ensure the safety of a pregnant woman who had been bitten by the Shar-Pei.
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Read More »Md. woman pleads guilty in D.C. false statement case
Prosecutors say a former background investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has pleaded guilty to falsifying work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors.
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Read More »NFL to look into its handling of Rice case
The NFL called in a former FBI director to examine how it pursued and handled evidence in the Ray Rice domestic violence case as pressure increased for the league to be more transparent about its original investigation.
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Read More »911 call: Charged Md. mom tried to revive 2 kids
A Prince George's County mother charged with first-degree murder in the suffocation deaths of her two toddlers tried to revive them and sobbed over their lifeless bodies, a newly released 911 recording has revealed.
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Read More »Highway shutdown averted at Ferguson protests
A planned highway shutdown fell through Wednesday as a wall of officers in riot gear kept people who planned to protest the Ferguson police shooting from walking onto Interstate 70 during the late afternoon commute.
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Read More »Former nurse from Minn. convicted in assisted suicides
An ex-nurse who admitted going online and encouraging people to kill themselves was convicted Tuesday of assisting the suicide of an English man and attempting to assist in the suicide of a Canadian woman, following a legal battle that has spanned more than four years and led to the reversal of part of a Minnesota law that outlaws the practice.
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Read More »Man indicted in 1982 Md. murder
Prince George's County prosecutors say a man has been indicted in a 1982 murder and that a DNA match was key to the case.
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Read More »Jury finds McDonnell, wife guilty of public corruption
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife were convicted Thursday of taking bribes to promote a dietary supplement in a corruption case that derailed the career of the onetime rising Republican star.
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Read More »Suit: TV show made me look like a killer
Viewers who missed the last eight minutes of the 45-minute show, titled “Raging Bull,” saw the plaintiff depicted as the prime suspect.
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Read More »Transgender women’s killings test police outreach
The day after Mia Henderson's body was found in a Baltimore alley, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts invited members of the city's LGBT community to a meeting.
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