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

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.

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.

"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.”

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.

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

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.

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