Baltimore’s Board of Estimates is scheduled to consider Wednesday a $80,000 settlement with a Laurel man who alleged he was falsely arrested on drug charges more than three years ago. Antonio Smittick alleged he was detained and questioned by police ...

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Elaborate plans to win back an ex are typically fodder for romantic comedies. But a Baltimore man is not laughing about a scheme involving a police raid on his house allegedly set up to help a police informant try to ...

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Baltimore city prosecutors on Thursday dropped felony drug charges against Freddie Gray, according to his attorney. Gray's trial had been scheduled to go on trial next month in Baltimore City Circuit Court for possession with intent to distribute.

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A former FBI agent was charged Friday with 34 counts stemming from allegations that he tampered with substantial amounts of drug evidence, kept heroin seized during investigations in his car, and periodically took the drug.

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TOWSON — A Baltimore County corrections officer is facing a drug charge after a smuggling probe at the detention center. Police announced Monday that 31-year-old Melvin Hodges has been charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled dangerous substance. Police say they ...

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Federal health officials on Friday approved the first lower-cost copy of a biotech drug in the U.S., a long-awaited milestone that could save billions for insurers, doctors and patients.

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Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday laid out plans to fight rising heroin overdoses, citing widespread citizen concern and personalizing the problem by noting the loss of his own cousin to an overdose a few years ago.

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Two for the price of one for the holiday weekend!

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Baltimore police say they have seized 12 kilograms of heroin and $825,000 in what they are calling an incredible drug bust.

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A former drug vendor on the Silk Road website, Jacob Theodore George IV, 33, of Edgewood, Maryland, on Friday was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to six years in prison. According to his plea agreement, from at least ...

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