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BALTIMORE (AP) — A cloud of tension and mistrust between Baltimore prosecutors and the city’s police department is hanging over the high-profile trial of an officer charged with murder in the death of a black prisoner whose neck was broken in a police transport van. Testimony in the case ended Friday, though the biggest surprise […]

STATE EMPLOYEE WAGE ERROR: Maryland might have shortchanged as many as 13,000 employees by as much as $30 per pay period for as long as two decades, state officials announced Friday, reports Erin Cox in the Sun. Budget and Management Secretary David R. Brinkley said the mistakes could affect up to  roughly one-quarter of the […]

Word On The Street By Steve Smith I uphold all religions that are based in a true belief in God, but I do not hold with anything that is against Christianity.  America was founded on CHRISTIAN beliefs.  Not Budda, not Mohammed, not a so called religion based on hatred. We must get back to basics… […]

BALTIMORE (AP) – Baltimore Judge Barry Williams will be sorting through plenty of contradictory and confusing testimony when he decides the case of a police officer charged with murder in the death of a black prisoner whose neck was broken in a transport van.   The trial of Officer Caesar Goodson heads into its seventh […]

RENEWED PUSH ON GUNS: In the wake of the Orlando, Fla., massacre, topMaryland Democrats plan to renew a push to ban people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns here, Erin Cox of the Sun reports. House Speaker Michael E. Busch said Thursday the legislation will be “a top priority” for next year’s session, and […]

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — There were clashes in the courtroom Thursday in the trial of Officer Caesar Goodson Junior. The defense began presenting its case after the judge refused to throw out the charges. Goodson is facing the most serious charges in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray. The defense may have lost the motion […]

Posted on June 15, 2016 by sundance Officer Caesar Goodson was the police transport van driver who the Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has charge with murder.  However, the case is beginning to collapse because as outlined last year the evidence simply isn’t there. Not only is the evidence not there, exculpatory evidence hidden by the […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Now that prosecutors have rested their case, attorneys for a Baltimore police officer on trial for murder in the death of a black prisoner whose neck was broken in a police transport van are set to push hard for acquittal. The defense is boosted by a legal setback for the prosecution and […]

(CNN)Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland said Wednesday that he “doesn’t plan” to vote for Donald Trump, his party’s presumptive nominee for President. Hogan has been critical of Trump but had not previously said outright that he will not vote for the Republican nominee in November. “No, I don’t plan to,” Hogan said when asked […]

GUN CONTROL: Democrats angered over the lack of action on gun control after this weekend’s shooting in Orlando launched a filibuster on the Senate floor Wednesday, vowing to continue talking until some progress is made on a bill to bar sales of guns to people suspected of being terrorists. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut began […]