By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore teenager was convicted of felony murder Wednesday, about a year after he accelerated a stolen Jeep and hit a Maryland police officer, killing her on a suburban cul-de-sac. Dawnta Harris, who’s 17 but was tried as an adult, faces life in prison for the slaying […]
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Baltimore Church Leaders Handing Over Files Amid Abuse Probe
By DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The Catholic archdiocese in Baltimore has delivered over 50,000 internal files to Maryland’s top law enforcement official amid an investigation into child sex abuse and are in the process of handing over more, church leaders announced Tuesday. Archbishop William Lori described the clergy sex abuse scourge that’s been […]
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Baltimore Mayor Picks New Orleans Chief to Lead Police Force
By DAVID McFADDEN , Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A day after her first choice withdrew his candidacy, Baltimore’s mayor on Tuesday picked New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison as her nominee to lead the city’s troubled force and become a key player in making sure sweeping reforms finally take root. Mayor Catherine Pugh said Harrison […]
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Woman Killed While Helping Panhandler Was Known For Kindness
By DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Relatives of a Maryland woman who was knifed to death in front of her family while trying to help a panhandler said Monday that she died the way she lived: looking out for others and trying to be kind. Authorities say Jacquelyn Smith, an electrical engineer from Maryland’s […]
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Baltimore Breaks City Record for Killings Per Capita in 2017
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore has set a new per-capita homicide record as gunmen killed for drugs, cash, payback – or no apparent reason at all. A surge of homicides in the starkly divided city resulted in 343 killings in 2017, bringing the annual homicide rate to its highest ever – roughly 56 killings per 100,000 […]
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FBI Won’t Take over Investigation of Baltimore Detective Sean Suiter’s Slaying
BALTIMORE (AP) — The FBI won’t take over an investigation into the homicide of a Baltimore city detective who was shot in the head the day before he was to testify before a federal grand jury about a group of indicted officers, the city’s top police official said Wednesday. Det. Sean Suiter, an 18-year veteran […]
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Exonerated Baltimore Man: $15 Million Verdict Brings Justice
BALTIMORE (AP) — Sabein Burgess spent nearly two decades behind bars for a murder he always insisted he had nothing to do with. Now, a federal jury has given final vindication to the wrongfully convicted man by awarding him $15 million in his lawsuit against the Baltimore Police Department and two detectives. Sabein Burgess stands […]
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Baltimore Officer Cleared in Freddie Gray’s Police Van Death
BALTIMORE (AP) — A police disciplinary board on Friday cleared the highest-ranking Baltimore officer involved in the 2015 arrest of Freddie Gray, a young Black man who died from a spinal cord injury he sustained in a police van. The three-member panel ruled that Lt. Brian Rice was not guilty of all 10 administrative charges […]