Girl’s death spurs bill
In response to the torture death of Ciara Jobes, a 15-year-old Baltimore girl who was allegedly killed by her mentally ill guardian, state legislators are introducing a bill this week...
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Girl’s death spurs bill
In response to the torture death of Ciara Jobes, a 15-year-old Baltimore girl who was allegedly killed by her mentally ill guardian, state legislators are introducing a bill this week...
Stokes retrial set on gun charges
Dontee D. Stokes, the city barber who was acquitted of shooting a priest he said molested him, will be retried on related handgun charges that were thrown out last week...
Stokes gun case voided
Baltimore barber Dontee Stokes, who was acquitted in 2002 of shooting a priest he said had molested him, was given another reprieve yesterday: The state's highest court threw out a...
Ehrlich targets witness threats
In an effort to target some of Maryland's most violent criminals, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s legislative agenda this year includes a bill that would give prosecutors broader powers to...
Ehrlich targets witness threats
In an effort to target some of Maryland's most violent criminals, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s legislative agenda this year includes a bill that would give prosecutors broader powers to...
State planning to replace women’s jail in Baltimore
The state plans to spend more than $110 million over the next five years to replace Baltimore's dilapidated women's detention center and to build a new jail for juvenile offenders...
Report argues DSS puts city children at risk
Noting last year's torture death of Ciara Jobes, a report filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore asserts that the city's Department of Social Services is "sitting on a time...
Scores of area roads remain blocked
Four days after Isabel lashed Maryland, scores of Baltimore-area roads remained blocked yesterday by toppled trees - some ensnared by power lines and awaiting utility crews - and crippled by...
City prosecutor drops charges against Bundley
Criticizing a police action as "overreaching and frivolous," the Baltimore state's attorney's office dropped charges yesterday against mayoral hopeful Andrey Bundley, who was briefly handcuffed by police Sunday for placing...