Baltimore is losing its police commissioner. And what a loss it will be. Frederick H. Bealefeld III is retiring Aug. 1. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the commissioner, who is 49 and has been with the department for 31 years, had ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Move over, Los Angeles. Production companies are looking to Baltimore as a backdrop for filming locations — thanks in part to state funding used to lure them to Maryland. And film industry people say Maryland’s economy is reaping ...

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The local law world is going Hollywood this week. The Baltimore office of DLA Piper was featured in the season premiere of the new HBO show, “Veep,” which premiered Sunday night. The show stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, best known as Elaine ...

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Sonja Sohn, who played Kima Greggs on HBO's "The Wire," were the headliners at the Defending Childhood Task Force hearing held Tuesday morning at the University of Maryland's law school in Baltimore. Baseball legend Joe Torre is co-chair of the task force, which collects testimony about children exposed to violence.

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WASHINGTON — HBO has picked up a political satire series called “VEEP,” starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The show features the “Seinfeld” star as a former senator who becomes vice president. The pilot was filmed in Baltimore as a stand-in for Washington. ...

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Actress Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBO’s “The Wire” series, has been released on bond with electronic monitoring as she fights charges of conspiring to sell heroin. Defense attorney Benjamin C. Sutley say Pearson ...

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An actress who appeared on the HBO series “The Wire” is being held without bail on charges of conspiring to sell heroin. A Baltimore Circuit Court judge denied bail Friday for 30-year-old Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, who played a killer of ...

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HBO will shoot the film Game Change in Maryland this spring, Gov. Martin O’Malley’s office announced Friday afternoon. The film depicts the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, from the surprise pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin through his ...

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Police in Baltimore say an actress who appeared on the HBO series “The Wire” is among about 30 people arrested in an early morning drug raid. Police say Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, who played a killer of the same name on ...

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Happy bright and sunny Monday morning. Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts. Byron Warnken weighs in on same-sex marriage. In an interview a couple weeks ago, DLA Piper Chairman Frank Burch told me not to believe everything I read when ...

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