A statewide audit in Maryland has reclassified 36 police-custody deaths as homicides, including several on the Eastern Shore.
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The Maryland Senate voted Thursday for a measure to give the state’s attorney general independent authority to bring criminal charges against police officers after investigating deaths when officers are involved.
Anthony Brown was sworn in as Maryland's first Black attorney general Tuesday, pledging to work to increase equity and “dismantle barriers of opportunities.”
The city of Richmond - the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War - removed its last city-owned Confederate statue Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression.
Maryland will review about 100 autopsies of people who died in police custody involving physical restraint because of concerns about the state's former medical examiner's testimony in the death of George Floyd, the state’s attorney general said Wednesday.
Greater transparency is needed before Maryland settles on any eligibility requirements regarding who can serve on local police accountability boards, advocates for police reform in Maryland said Wednesday.
An assistant coach for the NFL's Washington Commanders issued an apology for his word choice after doubling down on a comparison he made on social media between the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
President Biden met with members of George Floyd's family today in Washington, D.C.
The judge in the trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of killing George Floyd last year, delayed questioning jurors pending a ruling on reinstating a third-degree murder charge.