Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:39 PM EST
Baltimore terminated its contract with the organizers of the Baltimore Grand Prix on Friday and opened the door to having another group continue the race in future years.
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Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:35 PM EST
The city known nationwide as a homicide hot spot thanks to TV crime dramas could record its lowest annual homicide total since the early 1980s.
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Tue Nov 8, 2011 10:10 PM EST
Incumbent Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has easily won Baltimore's mayoral election nearly two years after her predecessor stepped down embroiled in scandal.
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Mon Nov 7, 2011 6:12 PM EST
Officials threatened Monday to terminate the city's five-year contract with organizers of the Baltimore Grand Prix if the group doesn't restructure and pay its debts to the city and vendors.
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Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:14 PM EDT
A presidential historian's assistant pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to steal valuable documents signed by Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte and other historic figures from both sides of the Atlantic.
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Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:58 PM EDT
A federal judge will allow a presidential historian charged with conspiring to steal documents from U.S. archives to sell an Andy Warhol print and other items to cover his living expenses.
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Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:12 AM EDT
A presidential historian charged with conspiring to steal documents from U.S. archives — including papers signed by Abraham Lincoln — is seeking court permission to sell an Andy Warhol print, other artworks and inaugural medals to cover his living expenses.
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Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:35 PM EDT
Officials say a fire in southwest Baltimore killed a woman and two children and damaged nearly a dozen homes.
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Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:21 PM EDT
Incumbent Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has defeated five challengers in Baltimore's Democratic primary for mayor, a post she assumed last year after her predecessor stepped down amid scandal.
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Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:29 PM EDT
Baltimore police officers deleted videos from a man's mobile phone after he recorded a confrontation between officers and a female friend at the 2010 Preakness Stakes, violating his constitutional rights and wiping away a year and a half of memories of his young son, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:00 PM EDT
For years, William Hillar's tales about his exploits as an Army Green Beret and a puffed up resume helped him land jobs teaching counterterrorism and drug and human trafficking interdiction, but the scheme has now earned him 21 months in federal prison.
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Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:20 PM EDT
A letter to President Abraham Lincoln from three military surgeons requesting a chaplain to tend to the wounded and dying soldiers after the Battle of Antietam, accompanied by the president's signed response, were returned to the National Archives on Thursday.
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Tue Aug 9, 2011 4:52 PM EDT
The Libyan government has acknowledged that a Baltimore writer who went missing in the early weeks of the conflict there is alive and in custody, a Maryland congressman said Tuesday.
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Mon Aug 8, 2011 2:13 PM EDT
An actress who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBO's "The Wire" pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to distribute heroin, caught by a wiretap in a joint federal-state drug probe of an alleged drug gang.
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Thu Aug 4, 2011 5:26 PM EDT
A federal judge in Maryland is allowing a presidential historian charged with conspiring to steal valuable documents to return to his New York City apartment with GPS monitoring and no Internet access.
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Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:23 PM EDT
The FBI is unraveling a yearlong plot by two New York City men to sell valuable historical documents they stole from archives around the country, a Baltimore prosecutor said Tuesday at bail hearings related to the alleged theft of $6 million in documents.
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Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:09 PM EDT
An attorney for a presidential historian charged with the theft of such library treasures as papers signed by Abraham Lincoln and invitations to inaugural balls says there is no evidence against his client and he shouldn't have been denied bail.
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Wed Jul 6, 2011 2:51 PM EDT
The Baltimore-Washington Parkway was closed for a few hours Wednesday after a man walked out of the woods and tapped on the rear window of a speed camera contractor's vehicle with a gun, then hit the windshield with a hammer before fleeing, authorities said.
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Sat Jun 4, 2011 10:46 AM EDT
As the uprisings of the "Arab Spring" began to unfold, writer Matthew VanDyke was at home in Baltimore, editing a book and film about his trips across the Middle East by motorcycle. An email from a friend in Libya convinced VanDyke dispatches from that country's war would make a perfect epilogue.
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Mon May 23, 2011 6:50 PM EDT
Maryland Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger called attention Monday to the case of a freelance journalist from Baltimore who has been missing in Libya since March, saying all means necessary must be used to bring the reporter home.
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Fri May 6, 2011 10:09 AM EDT
The very travels that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and shaped modern biology may have led to one of the illnesses that plagued the British naturalist for decades and ultimately led to his death, a gastroenterologist said Friday.
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Fri Apr 8, 2011 3:58 PM EDT
An actress who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBO's "The Wire" has been released on bond with electronic monitoring as she fights charges of conspiring to sell heroin.
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Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:19 PM EST
Actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who played a murderous member of a Baltimore drug gang in the hit HBO series "The Wire," is shocked to be facing charges of conspiring to sell heroin, her attorney said Friday.
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Tue Mar 8, 2011 5:25 PM EST
Kevin Matthews calls himself an example of everything that can go wrong when lenders abuse the system and aren't held accountable.
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Wed Mar 2, 2011 6:57 PM EST
After decades of making do with a small, outdated visitor center, the Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine is getting new space and an update for the 21st century, just in time for the bicentennial of the War of 1812.
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