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A lawyer for the man convicted in the 2018 murder of 7-year-old Taylor Hayes is petitioning the Baltimore City Circuit Court to grant his client a new trial. Keon Gray, through his attorney, filed the request Monday, citing an “unjust and improper verdict” in the case. Gray was found guilty of second-degree murder earlier and […]
The family of an armed robber fatally shot by an off-duty school police officer and a retired Department of Corrections officer are speaking out after his death. Family members gathered outside City Hall Monday identified him as 22-year-old Devonte Jones and said they don’t believe he would have tried to rob anyone. Investigators say Jones […]
Southwest Airlines says that one of its planes landed safely at BWI Sunday evening after an indication light came on the flight deck. Southwest Airlines flight 2796 originally took off from Reagan Airport in Washington D.C. but had to be diverted after an indication light lit up on the flight deck. See Also: Southwest Airlines Plane […]
An off-duty Baltimore school police officer and a retired Department of Corrections officer shot and killed an armed robbery suspect after he tried to rob them in north Baltimore Saturday night, reported city police. Baltimore Police said it happened just before 11:15 p.m. Saturday at the corner of East 23rd Street and Guilford Avenue in […]
Thousands of Marylanders could lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits after the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed limiting who is eligible for them. In Baltimore City alone, 15,000 people would lose their benefits and 50,000 would lose benefits across Maryland. More than 3.1 million people will lose SNAP benefits nationwide Children whose parents or […]
Gov. Larry Hogan is set to meet Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young and Police Commissioner Michael Harrison today to discuss crime in Baltimore. “Baltimore as a city has challenges with violence,” Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen said. “Any time we see acts of violence within our communities, it really shakes people up.” This is a […]
A Baltimore City Public Works employee who, according to a new report, made 17 tweets “that could be viewed by a reasonable person as intentionally racist, anti-Semitic, or derogatory” no longer works for the city. The tweets may have been made while the former employee was on city time, the inspector general’s office said in […]
The chairman of Merriweather Post Pavilion and owner of the 9:30 Club and The Anthem has been arrested for attempting to pay a massage therapist for sex. According to Montgomery County Police, 60-year-old Seth Hurwitz called a massage business around 12:30 on August 15 and spoke to the victim, making a massage appointment for 3 […]
Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Isaac Carrington is back home after getting shot earlier this month. More than 100 members of the city’s police and fire departments saluted Carrington outside the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center’s ambulance bay entrance Wednesday as he was loaded into an ambulance and taken away. “We’re glad that this day […]
A Columbia mom facing murder charges in the death of her newborn baby, has been release on bond. Moira Akers’ bail was set at $150,000 and she posted in Tuesday. The 38-year-old is facing first-degree murder charges after she place her newborn boy in a zipped plastic bag after her home birth back in November […]