BALTIMORE (AP) — The top state prosecutor in Baltimore, a prominent figure in the racial justice movement, attended two dozen events outside Maryland in 2018 and 2019 without getting approval for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's rare for public opinion on social issues to change sharply and swiftly. And yet in the wake of George Floyd's death, Americans' opinions about police brutality and racial...
CHICAGO (AP) — In Baltimore, protesters shouted the name of Freddie Gray. In Topeka, Kansas, T-shirts were emblazoned with the name of Dominique White. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, people gathered in a...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on services to honor the life of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (all times local):
7:20 p.m.
Multiple speakers are honoring the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings in...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The top prosecutor in Baltimore knew exactly where to go for guidance after she made the decision to file charges in an explosive case involving the death of a black man in police...
BALTIMORE (AP) — He stood up for the poor and the disadvantaged throughout urban America — but Elijah Cummings was principally the strong voice and political advocate for Baltimore, where he was...
BALTIMORE (AP) — As Latoya Peoples painted a mural with high school-age students Monday in Baltimore, she was determined not to let President Donald Trump's recent tweets about the city "sink in...
NEW YORK (AP) — After he burns down the house during his current concert tour, singer David Byrne ends each show on a serious note with a song that calls attention to minority victims of violence.
BALTIMORE (AP) — During her first months in office as Baltimore's top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby stridently vowed to "deliver justice" on behalf of a black man whose death in police custody triggered massive protests and the city's worst riots in decades.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A lawyer for Baltimore's top prosecutor asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit by five police officers who claim she maliciously prosecuted them in the death of a black man gravely injured in custody.
NEW YORK (AP) — Sonja Sohn has gone from being in front of the camera to behind it. The actress, who played a Baltimore detective on "The Wire," has become a documentary filmmaker and her debut offering is a powerful look at her beloved adopted city.
‘The Wire’ star makes documentary ‘Baltimore Rising’
BALTIMORE (AP) — A police disciplinary board on Friday cleared the highest-ranking Baltimore officer involved in the 2015 arrest of Freddie Gray, a young black man who died from a spinal cord injury he sustained in a police van.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Two Baltimore police officers say a superior's decision to put a black man in a van in handcuffs and shackles but without a seatbelt was reasonable and based on safety concerns because the man was combative and a crowd that gathered was a threat to officers.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on the Baltimore police lieutenant facing administrative charges in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who suffered a fatal injury in police custody (all times local):
5:20 p.m.
The highest-ranking Baltimore police officer who responded to the arrest of a black man who later died in custody didn't give a reason to investigators about why he didn't buckle the man into a seatbelt in the back of a van as required.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore's mayor said Wednesday she will renew a push to add two civilians to police trial boards after a board of three officers ruled that a police van driver violated no policies when a black man was fatally injured inside his van.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on a disciplinary hearing for Baltimore police van driver Caesar Goodson, who transported Freddie Gray when the black man suffered a fatal injury in police custody (all times local):
4 p.m.
Baltimore's police commissioner says he remains committed to an effort to discipline officers for the treatment of Freddie Gray, a black man who died in police custody.
BALTIMORE (AP) — A forensic pathologist testified Friday he doesn't believe a seatbelt would have prevented the fatal injury to a black man being transported in a Baltimore police van after his arrest. But a police department lawyer who says the van driver should be fired questioned the pathologist's conclusions.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on an administrative police board that is hearing a disciplinary case against a Baltimore officer (all times local):
1:30 p.m.
A forensic pathologist says he doesn't believe a seat belt would have prevented an arrested man's mortal injury in a Baltimore police van.
However, a police department lawyer who says the van driver should be fired questions his conclusions.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorneys for a Baltimore police van driver who transported a black man who later died from injuries suffered on that ride began his defense before a disciplinary board Thursday, calling a witness who testified about police department failures in disseminating policy changes the officer is accused of violating.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on an administrative police board that is hearing a disciplinary case against a Baltimore officer (all times local):
3:30 p.m.
Attorneys for a Baltimore police van driver who could be fired for the in-custody death of a black man are pointing to police department failures to disseminate policy changes.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore officer that arrested a black man who later suffered fatal injuries in a police van testified at the van driver's disciplinary hearing Wednesday that he still considers it dangerous to put a seatbelt on an uncooperative prisoner in the confines of a police van, even though current police policy now requires it.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on an administrative police board that is hearing a disciplinary case against a Baltimore police officer (all times local):
2:15 p.m.
A board considering whether to discipline an officer at the wheel of a police van when a young, black arrestee was fatally injured will inspect the vehicle at Baltimore Police Department headquarters.
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore police officer involved in arresting a black man who later suffered a fatal injury during a police van ride testified at the driver's disciplinary hearing Tuesday that the man did not show any signs he needed medical care when he was first put into the van.
Officer Edward Nero testified at the hearing for Officer Caesar Goodson, the van driver who could be fired for violating department policies in the case.
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore police officer who was acquitted of criminal charges in the death of a suspect while in custody is now fighting an administrative procedure that could cost him his job.
Officer Caesar Goodson is facing a police disciplinary board hearing over the death of Freddie Gray, who sustained fatal spinal cord injuries while being transported in a police van in April 2015. Goodson was the driver of the van.