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State agrees to settlement in Central Booking beating death
The Maryland Attorney General's Office has agreed to a settlement with the relatives of a man who was beaten to death at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center after a struggle involving correctional officers.
Task force urged for police-involved shootings
The state’s NAACP is calling on Attorney General Doug Gansler to create a task force on police-involved shootings in Maryland.
$500,000 settlement accepted in Central Booking beating death
The state Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay out $500,000 of state funds to relatives of a man beaten to death by guards at Baltimore City’s Central Booking facility, sources said.  Probes wanted on sludge research in poor neighborhoods
Three more lawmakers are seeking investigations of federally funded research in poor, black neighborhoods that resulted in sewage sludge being spread on several families' lawns in attempt to determine whether it could combat lead poisoning in children.
NAACP seeks probe into sludge spreading in black communities
Maryland’s NAACP is calling for a state and federal criminal investigation into Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for spreading sewage sludge in poor, black communities in Baltimore. |