Beaver caught 'shopping' for Christmas decorations, causes property damage to Md. store CHARLOTTE HALL, Md. (ABC7) - A beaver left his or her dam in Charlotte Hall Monday on a quest to find Christmas decorations at a local dollar store, the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office reports ( Read more... )

Hagerstown police taking heat over Facebook video that appears to show abuse of girl

Dan Dearth

The Hagerstown Police Department is taking heat on Facebook after a video surfaced earlier this week that shows what appears to be a handcuffed girl being pepper sprayed in the back of a police cruiser.

Hagerstown Police Capt. Tom Langston said ( Read more... )

A neo-Nazi is representing the Baltimore Police Department in a lawsuit claiming officers fabricated evidence in order to send an black man to jail for a murder he didn’t commit, according to an investigation by the Southern Poverty Law CenterGlen Keith Allen, who works in the Baltimore City Law Department, is a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi ( Read more... )

LANCASTER, Pa. - Linn Moedinger's farm has been in his family for 10 generations, dating back to 1711, 150 acres of rich fields and meandering streams nestled in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country. As long as the family has owned it, it’s been a working farm; today Moedinger leases the fields to a neighbor who grows corn, wheat and soybeans. ( Read more... )

A high-profile Black Lives Matter activist is taking his fight to the polls, joining the race to become the next leader of Baltimore.

Filing deadline surprise: @deray files to run for mayor of Baltimore pic.twitter.com/J1ABRGjSau
- Luke Broadwater (@lukebroadwater) February 4, 2016

Shortly thereafter, Mckesson formally announced his candidacy on ( Read more... )

BALTIMORE - Baltimore’s chief prosecutor charged six police officers on Friday with crimes including murder and manslaughter in the arrest and fatal injury of Freddie Gray, a striking and surprisingly swift turn in a case that has drawn national attention to police conduct ( Read more... )

Less than 72 hours after being violently snatched off a Philadelphia street as she walked home from visiting her godson, Carlesha Freeland-Gaither has been rescued from the "vicious predator" police say kidnapped her ( Read more... )

Wanted Man Taunts Police On Facebook, Arrested 24-Hours Later

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD- A man trying to outsmart the cops in Maryland, actually helped lead law-enforcement right to him. And it all started on a police department Facebook page.

"We figured we'd profile a couple of our wanted people that we haven't been able to track down," said TJ ( Read more... )

Plenty of enterprising local dining establishments are making marketing hay out of the shutdown, offering all kinds of free and discounted fare to furloughed feds ( Read more... )

By CARL ZIMMER
Published: August 7, 2013


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