UPDATED The Frederick Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred near Fort Detrick in Frederick Tuesday morning. Two people were shot and the suspect was confronted, shot and killed by authorities at the military base, according to local reports. The shooting took place at a business in Riverside Tech Park. One of the victims is […]

Three Maryland police officers were “ambushed” and shot while responding to a 911 call on Sunday, officials said. Prince George’s County police were responding to a report of a home invasion in Hyattsville at 6:30 p.m., said Interim Police Chief Hector Velez. “Within minutes they arrived at the scene, and within seconds they came under gunfire,” Velez […]

In response to growing calls to “defund the police,” the University of Maryland (UMD) said its police department will no longer participate in a federal program that transfers surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Newly appointed UMD President Darryll Pines announced the change on the first day of his tenure, saying in a statement […]

Tyree Moorehead believes the key to fighting Baltimore’s rising murder rate is to pay the potential killers. At 15, Tyree Moorehead was convicted of second-degree murder. After serving eighteen years in prison, the ex-convict dedicates his time to creating “no shoot zones” across Baltimore. Now, Moorehead has proposed a novel approach: prevent crime by paying […]

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said he may vote for President Donald Trump, depending on what the president does between now and the November election. “Like everybody else, I get to go into the voting booth and pull the lever for the person that I think is going to do the best job. And we’re going […]

An official at a school in Maryland called the police on an 11-year-old boy after a teacher caught sight of a BB gun in the child’s room during a virtual class. Courtney Lancaster, the child’s mother, and a Navy veteran, told WBFF that she was stunned when police showed up at her home. She explained […]

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan likened those who refuse to wear face masks during the current pandemic to drunk drivers, declaring that no one has a “constitutional right to walk around without a mask”—a claim disputed by a legal expert. The Republican governor made the controversial statement at a Nov. 23 presser as Marylanders were preparing […]

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday urged Baltimore city leaders to regain control of their own streets after rioters toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city over the weekend. “While we welcome peaceful protests and constructive dialogue on whether and how to put certain monuments in context or move them to museums or […]

October 21, 2020 Secret Service agents have charged a Maryland man for threatening in a letter to kidnap and kill Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and rape his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), The Baltimore Sun has reported. Additionally, he supposedly targeted Democratic supporters, the Secret Service said. The federal criminal complaint states that: […]

WASHINGTON — As coronavirus cases surge around the country and epidemiologists urge caution, the federal government is heading back to work, jeopardizing pandemic progress in one of the few regions where confirmed infections continue to decline: the nation’s capital. At the Energy Department’s headquarters, 20 percent of employees — possibly as many as 600 — […]