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Maryland homeowners open door for home invader thinking it's trick-or-treaters
Homeowners in Rockville, Maryland, got an unexpected scare on Halloween.
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Suspect in killing of judge who presided over divorce case found dead in rural Maryland
A suspect wanted for the murder of a Maryland Circuit Court Judge was found dead Thursday in Williamsport, Maryland, authorities say.
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Murdered Maryland judge presided over suspect's divorce hearing; manhunt underway
A judge was shot and killed outside his home in Hagerstown, Maryland, on Thursday night, and a manhunt is underway for a suspect whose divorce case was overseen by the victim.
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Adnan Syed goes before Maryland Supreme Court facing ‘specter of reincarceration,' his lawyers say
Adnan Syed is now free after being imprisoned for the murder of his ex-girlfriend more than two decades ago. But his attorneys will be arguing for his freedom once again on Thursday, this time in front of the Maryland Supreme Court.
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Morgan State University shooting: Baltimore police ask for help in IDing ‘persons of interest'
Police released surveillance video late Wednesday that shows several people walking in a grassy area.
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Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life.
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Capitol rioter who attacked AP photographer and police officers is sentenced to 5 years in prison
Rodney Milstreed, 56, of Finksburg, Maryland, “prepared himself for battle” on Jan. 6 by injecting steroids, prosecutors said.
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Christine Blasey Ford, who testified against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, will release a memoir in 2024
The California professor who testified that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir. Christine Blasey’s Ford’s “One Way Back” is scheduled for publication next March. According to St. Martin’s Press, she will share “riveting new details about the lead-up” to her testimony in 2018; “its overwhelming aftermath,” when she...
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Police pursuit ends in fiery crash into Maryland woman's home: ‘I lost everything'
A Temple Hills woman is trying to salvage what she can after a police pursuit ended with an SUV crashing into her home over the weekend.
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Maryland man charged with ISIS-inspired plot pleads guilty to planning separate airport attack
A man charged in 2019 with planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a Washington, D.C., area shopping and entertainment complex has pleaded guilty in a separate plot to drive a stolen van into a crowd at a Virginia airport.
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DNA links enslaved people to living descendants
For the first time, thousands of Black Americans may be able to trace their roots to enslaved ancestors in the 1800s as part of a groundbreaking DNA study in Frederick County, Maryland.
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Video shows escaped cows roaming through Maryland neighborhood
An unusual request for help with the cows was heard on a police scanner: “Can we check the air and see if anyone has any wrangling or cowboy experience, that can offer some wisdom?”
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Katie Ledecky passes Michael Phelps for most individual golds at world championships
American swimmer Katie Ledecky’s legacy keeps growing. She won the 800-meter freestyle Saturday at the swimming world championships, establishing two more records with the triumph. The victory by the 26-year-old Ledecky made her the first swimmer ever to win the same event six times at worlds and also marked her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps...
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Search on for Baltimore sailor reported missing at sea near Mexico
Donald Lawson, 41, an experienced sailor, was aboard his 60-foot racing trimaran about 285 nautical miles off the coast of Acapulco, according to his brother, Quentin Lawson Sr.
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Police fatally shoot suspect after stabbing spree leaves at least four injured in Maryland
Four people were hospitalized in Aspen Hill on Saturday morning, after a man stabbed multiple victims before being shot by police.
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Military veteran who stormed Capitol with loaded pistol is sentenced to 7 years in prison
A military veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a loaded pistol, metal-plated body armor and a gas mask has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
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GOP and FBI are at odds as Republicans move to stop the agency's new headquarters after Trump probes
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested recently he might block the FBI from relocating its downtown headquarters to a new facility planned for the suburbs of Washington. It was more than idle thinking about an office renovation. The Republican speaker is elevating a once-fringe conservative proposal to upend the FBI. Conservatives are angry at the FBI in the aftermath of the...
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New DNA testing helps Maryland investigators arrest suspect 44 years after woman's killing
Four decades after a mother was found killed in a wooded area of Charles County, Maryland, authorities say they have arrested the man responsible with the help of advancements in DNA testing technology.
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Baltimore block party shooting shatters holiday weekend, leaving 2 dead and 28 wounded
The July Fourth holiday weekend has been marred by mass shootings at a block party in Maryland and at a nightclub in Kansas.
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‘He is a gift': Trans child's family talks about fleeing Texas for Maryland
With the number of anti-transgender bills already doubling around the country this year, many families raising transgender kids have very tough decisions to make, like a family that moved to Maryland from Texas.