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May 2, 2018

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Baltimore prosecutor accused of leaking to Gun Trace Task Force says she had 'no clue' about investigation

Wednesday, May 2

A city prosecutor who was fired in February after being accused of leaking information to the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force officers is fighting back, saying she had "no clue" about a federal investigation.

Body camera footage after Det. Suiter's death show Baltimore residents living under police watch

Police body-camera footage from the days after Det. Sean Suiter was shot to death in West Baltimore shows residents of Harlem Park living under police watch — with officers stopping everyone entering the neighborhood and residents having to show identification.

Baltimore police union tells officers not to answer integrity questions from Mosby's office

The Baltimore police union has advised its members not to answer questions being posed by prosecutors to flush out potential integrity issues of police witnesses, saying they go beyond the internal affairs disclosures mandated under a March agreement between prosecutors and city attorneys.

Baltimore teen accused of fatally stabbing bicyclist on his way home from work arrested again

Three months after Prince Greene was released from juvenile detention for a deadly stabbing in Waverly, the Baltimore teenager has been arrested again.

Baltimore OKs $9M settlement to man wrongly convicted of murder, sparking clash between council president, FOP

Baltimore’s spending panel on Wednesday approved a $9 million settlement with a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 20 years in prison before DNA evidence cleared his name a decade ago.

‘The block took my baby’: Shooting haunts East Baltimore home of retirees, 'block captain'

The East Baltimore block has been home to the retirees for four decades. Last week, it became the grim place their grandson was gunned down. Caught in the gunfire was George Evans, a 69-year-old Baptist deacon who tended the block for decades.

Former Episcopal Bishop Heather Cook applies for home detention

Heather Cook, the former Episcopal bishop serving a seven-year prison sentence for the drunken-driving crash that killed a bicyclist in 2014, has requested to be released into home detention, according to a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

Officers were called to Baltimore County home twice before day of murder-suicide, police say

Police were called at 4 p.m. and again at about 7 p.m. Tuesday to the couple’s mobile home on Davis Avenue, where they had been arguing about issues in their relationship, police reports said.