By Hannah Gaskill and Elliott Davis, Capital News Service The Capital Gazette shooting trial has been rescheduled for early March, just as court documents with information ranging from references to DNA testing to notes about the defendant’s veterinary history recently became publicly available. Nadine Maeser, spokeswoman for the Maryland Judiciary, said Thursday that the trial determining criminal […]
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Legislative Update: Md. Lawmakers, Officials, Union Meet on Staffing Shortages
By Elliott Davis, Capital News Service State union employees told lawmakers on Oct. 29 they are concerned that staff shortages — of about 2,600, according to a 2018 study — are causing safety issues, including some injuries, for employees at certain agencies. Maryland lawmakers, state officials and union members gathered in Annapolis to address the shortage […]
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Capital Gazette Shooter Enters Guilty Plea
By Michelle Richardson, Special to the AFRO The man accused of killing five staffers at the Capital Gazette Newspaper in Annapolis has pleaded guilty for the June 2018 mass shooting. Jarrod Ramos, 39, is asking for a jury trial on the question of his mental competence. This week, Jarrod Ramos pleaded guilty to the mass shooting […]
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Md. Senate President Miller to Step Down as Chamber Leader
By Capital News Service, Elliott Davis Maryland Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller Jr. announced Oct. 24 that he is stepping down from the position he’s held for more than three decades as he continues to battle cancer. Miller, a Democrat, said during a news conference in the building bearing his name that he will […]
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Congress Pays Tribute to Elijah Cummings at U.S. Capitol
By HORUS ALAS, NORA ECKERT, SAMANTHA HAWKINS, GABRIELLE WANNEH and DAN NOVAK Capital News Service WASHINGTON – Carried by Armed Forces body bearers, the late Rep. Elijah Cummings’s flag-draped casket ascended the steps of the United States Capitol Thursday morning and was placed on a catafalque in National Statuary Hall, where he became the first […]
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Baltimore’s ‘Goodbye’ to a Beloved Leader
By Samantha Hawkins, Capital News Service Marking the passing of Rep. Elijah Cummings last week, community leaders, elected officials and friends gathered together on the evening of Oct. 23 to honor the former congressman at Morgan State University, where Cummings served as a member of the Board of Regents for 19 years. “I have lost a […]
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A ‘Giant of a Man With a Gentle Soul’
By Elliott Davis and Emily Top, Capital News Service Elijah Cummings became known to the nation as a Democratic leader in Congress. But his roots in public service are in Annapolis, where he is being remembered fondly by officials from both parties. Rep. Cummings, D-Baltimore, of Maryland’s seventh congressional district, died Thursday morning of complications from […]
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Maryland Fights Clean Water Rollback
By Dan Novak, Capital News Service The Environmental Protection Agency revoked two regulations last month dealing with clean water and air that present conflicting positions from the Trump Administration over the role states should play in protecting their own natural resources. The first came in the removal of an Obama-era rule that sought to protect streams, […]
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Therapy Puppies In Maryland Juvenile Centers
By Hannah Gaskill, Capital News Service LAUREL, Maryland––When visitors and staff members walk through the front door of Thomas JS Waxter Children’s Center, they’re greeted by sign-in sheets, hand-held metal detectors and, now, a bouncing, fluffy yellow pup named Clay. Affectionately described by staff as Waxter’s “welcoming committee,” he is a 20-week-old Miniature Goldendoodle. Clay and […]
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Crime-Scene Video Ruled Admissible in Capital Gazette Hearing
By Captial News Service ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Judge Laura Ripken ruled that video from the Capital Gazette shooting scene is admissible, Public defenders Katy O’Donnell, Elizabeth Palan and William Davis are representing Jarrod Ramos, who has pleaded not guilty and not criminally responsible to multiple charges, including murder and assault, in the June 28, 2018, […]
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Attorneys Argue Over Crime-Scene Video, Other Motions, at Capital Gazette Hearing
By Elliott Davis and Hannah Gaskill Capital News Service ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Capital Gazette newsroom shooting case argued over whether to include video from the June 2018 mass shooting site during a hearing Tuesday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, among other motions. State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess described […]
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Pelosi’s Impeachment Inquiry
By Dan Novak, Horus Alias, and Gabrielle Wanneh, Capital News Service For the fourth time in history, Congress is opening an impeachment inquiry into the president of the United States, an extraordinarily fast-moving development after months of debate among Democrats over whether to proceed with such a constitutionally serious step against President Donald Trump. “This week […]