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Baltimore plans to offer $2,500 a year property tax discount for police and firefighters

Baltimore’s leaders plan to offer local police officers, firefighters and sheriff's deputies a property tax break of $2,500 a year if they own a home in the city.

 

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Baltimore, DOJ request extension to combine two teams for independent monitor finalist

Baltimore and U.S. Justice Department officials have asked a federal judge for another week to decide who will oversee sweeping police reforms in the city.

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State opens $35 million youth detention facility in Baltimore

After community resistance stifled past plans, juveniles charged as adults in Baltimore will be held in a new $35 million detention center that state corrections officials say is better equipped to rehabilitate them.

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Boy sentenced in robbery during brutal murder of Baltimore high school student

"It smacks of just downright sociopathic behavior,” Baltimore Circuit Judge Philip Jackson told the courtroom. “There are few more violent things that I have ever heard of.”

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Raid continues police targeting of violent West Baltimore neighborhood where 15-year-old boy was killed

Police this week raided the West Baltimore home of an alleged Crip gang member as part of a broader effort to stem violence in the neighborhood where a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot last month.

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Washington-area rapper '30 Glizzy' identified as man fatally shot in South Baltimore

Theodore Dashawn Pigford, 26 — better known as the Washington-area rapper “30 Glizzy” — was the man fatally shot in South Baltimore on Wednesday.

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Detective says cousins went out for cheese steaks after killing Loyola student and three others

One of two cousins charged in the deaths of four men who were found buried on a sprawling Pennsylvania farm has waived his preliminary hearing.

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Battle of the 'crab bombs' proves to be a brief one

A battle between Maryland restaurants over the name of their signature crab cakes was over almost as quickly as it began.

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