WASHINGTON — The FBI will launch a pilot project early next year to begin collecting use-of-force statistics nationwide and create the first online national database on both deadly and nonfatal interactions the public has with law enforcement. “Accurate and comprehensive data ...

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Joseph T. "Jody" Landers will be paid $35,000 to develop a graphic housing database for every city neighborhood.

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Injury lawyers in Maryland now have what may be the legal profession’s equivalent of a rap sheet.

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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — Oracle will buy Acme Packet Inc., which makes equipment for telecommunications companies, for about $2.1 billion. Acme’s gear is used by more than 1,900 service providers and enterprises around the world. Its technology will complement Oracle’s ...

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The Daily Record is launching a searchable database of information aimed at the company’s core subscribers in the business, legal and real estate professions. InfoPoint, which was officially released Wednesday after two years of development, aggregates information located across multiple ...

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Visit Baltimore has partnered with Baltimore-based architecture and graphic design firm Ayers Saint Gross to develop an interactive, virtual map of the city — embedded with the tourism agency’s extensive database.

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Maryland’s chief legal officer and its chief public defender are awaiting word from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether it will keep allowing the state’s police to collect DNA samples from people arrested for violent crimes, despite a Maryland high court ruling that bars the collections except when absolutely necessary to identify the arrestee.

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to establish a searchable database of military valor awards and medals, hoping for a technological fix to the problem of people getting away with lying about earning military honors. Pentagon press secretary George Little said ...

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WASHINGTON — More than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new archive compiled at two universities. There is no official record-keeping system ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley said Wednesday he believes there are strong grounds to appeal a ruling by Maryland’s highest court that struck down a part of a state law allowing police to collect DNA from people charged with a ...

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