James “Troy” Durham, who was fired from his job as a Somerset County sheriff’s deputy after he complained about being ordered to doctor an arrest report, has already won a $1.1 million verdict from a federal jury and a state-court action to get his job back.

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Where should Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried?

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Police say a man is dead after exchanging gunfire with officers in southeast Baltimore. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says officers were responding to a domestic disturbance call around 11:50 p.m. Thursday when they heard gunshots. An officer found an armed ...

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WASHINGTON — Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will force unpaid leave for U.S. Park Police officers who guard the nation’s monuments in Washington, New ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Annapolis police say they’ve seen a 60 percent spike in thefts from vehicles during the first four months of 2013. The Capital of Annapolis reports there have been 102 thefts this year, up from 64 during the same ...

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A $2.8 billion operating budget for fiscal 2014 was scheduled to be presented Monday to the Baltimore County Council by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz.

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OCEAN CITY — A violinist is suing Ocean City, saying police hassled him over his music while enforcing a restrictive noise ordinance. The American Civil Liberties Union has sued on behalf of William F. Hassay Jr., who says he stopped ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — A murder trial starts this week in Howard County for a man charged in the 1991 death of his wife. Robert Arnold Jarrett, Jr. was arrested last year and charged with first-degree murder after human remains were ...

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LEESBURG, Va. — A Connecticut man has received two more life sentences for the 2001 kidnapping and rape of a Leesburg woman that was one of many rapes linked to a man identified by authorities as the “East Coast Rapist.” ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland House of Delegates has voted to maintain a much-debated state law that allows police to take DNA samples from arrestees without a warrant. In 2009, the state began requiring people arrested for certain violent crimes to ...

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