Julie Bykowicz

President Donald Trump points as he walks from Marine One across the South Lawn to the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, as he returns from Springfield, Mo. (

White House: Trump will donate $1 million in personal funds to Harvey relief

August 22, 2019 at 5:43 a.m.

President Donald Trump is pledging $1 million in personal money to Harvey storm relief efforts. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the announcement at a briefing Thursday. She...

Baltimore mayor to quit

August 23, 2021 at 1:14 a.m.

Mayor Sheila Dixon will resign next month, part of a plea deal reached Wednesday that closes a years-long corruption investigation. The plea in a perjury case follows her conviction last...

Baltimore mayor convicted on 1 count

August 22, 2021 at 2:37 p.m.

Jurors on Tuesday convicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on a single charge of taking gift cards intended for the city's poor. Although she was acquitted of a felony theft charge,...

Dixon convicted of embezzlement

August 19, 2019 at 6:05 a.m.

Jurors in the theft trial of Sheila Dixon convicted the Baltimore mayor Tuesday on a single charge of taking gift cards intended for the city's poor. Although Dixon was acquitted...

$11 million for Marine’s family

August 21, 2021 at 8:15 p.m.

A Baltimore federal jury awarded nearly $11million Wednesday to the father of a Marine killed in Iraq, deciding that the family's privacy had been invaded by a Kansas church whose...

Judge lands in spotlight

August 21, 2019 at 9:15 p.m.

Margaret Brooke Murdock was once president of the Women's Law Center in Towson, an organization that promotes "equal rights for women and children," according to its mission statement. Now she...

Motive in killings remains unclear

May 30, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

Despite five weeks of testimony, the reason behind the slashing deaths last year of three elementary school children in Northwest Baltimore is "some secret buried in the family," a prosecutor...

Triple murder trial is near end

May 30, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

The 15-year-old brother of a defendant on trial in the slashing deaths of three children testified yesterday that one of the two suspects may have been at home in Baltimore...

Lab tests link men, clothes to killings

May 30, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

Four pieces of clothing - including two pairs of blue jeans frequently mentioned by prosecutors - contain the blood of three slain children and genetic material consistent with the two...

Lifting language barrier in court

May 30, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

Marta S. Goldstein leans in to hear what the judge is saying during private conferences at the bench, sometimes pulls up a chair near a soft-spoken witness who is testifying,...

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