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 Sunday, Mar 4 Students at Excel Academy in West Baltimore haven’t experienced a school shooting, but have lost seven schoolmates to street gun violence in the last year and a half, and can share stories going back decades about the outsize role guns have played in their lives and the impact it has had on them. |
| More than seven years after North Carolina teenager Phylicia Barnes went missing, a third trial is set to begin Monday for her accused killer. |
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| After an outcry by attorneys, transparency advocates and journalists, Maryland courts officials said they would reconsider their decision to hide police officer names in the state’s online Case Search database of court cases. |
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| Preston Green, 26, was killed Saturday outside his West Baltimore home. His grandmother said the family is struggling to tell Green's 7-year-old nephew his uncle isn’t coming home. |
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| Baltimore County police arrested five teens after a carjacking a 66-year-old man in Nottingham last week. |
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| A Baltimore police officer who was fired in 2016 is spending at least the weekend in jail after being charged with first-degree assault, court records show. |
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| Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa has appointed Gary Tuggle, a former top-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration official, as his deputy commissioner of strategic and support services, the department announced Friday. |
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| There were fewer homicides in Baltimore in February than in any other month in years. |
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