BOWIE — Some police officers in Maryland will be out Thursday giving cash to drivers wearing their seatbelts. But beware: they may give you a ticket if you don’t. Prince George’s County police will be at Route 301 and Ballpark ...

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A police officer turned a routine encounter during a burglary investigation into a brutal beating death when he snapped on latex gloves, made a fist and threatened to take on a homeless man, a prosecutor said ...

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SALISBURY — The skies over Salisbury will be lit up this July Fourth. Mike Dunn, the former city council president and the event organizer, says the city hasn’t had Independence Day fireworks in about eight years, and it’s time to ...

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Taking a giant step toward an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Maryland’s attorney general on Tuesday urged the state’s top court to reconsider or stay its week-old decision that struck down the key feature of the 2008 Maryland DNA ...

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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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The Baltimore Board of Estimates last week approved a $155,000 settlement with a Baltimore couple who had sued the city police department after police searched the husband in the street for drugs. Wesley Williams and Shaney Pendelton, who have two ...

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ELKRIDGE — A Howard County man has been charged in the 1991 death of his missing wife after a body was found in concrete beneath a shed at their home. Two decades ago, Robert Jarrett told authorities that his wife, ...

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ODENTON — Anne Arundel County police are investigating the death of a man who lost consciousness while under restraint in the back of a police car. Police say 41-year-old Patrick Toney of Odenton died at a hospital Wednesday. He was ...

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Within minutes of talking to me, it is fairly obvious that I am an animal lover and take great joy in spending time with my two dogs, Dexter and Luca. In fact, it very well might be my favorite thing ...

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An Anne Arundel County delegate’s potential conflict of interest helped earn him a police escort from the office of a fellow delegation member on the final day of the General Assembly, making a dubious couple of days even more difficult ...

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