Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Friday that she will not seek re-election next year, nearly five months after the city erupted in rioting following the death of a man injured in police custody. Rawlings-Blake made the announcement Friday at a news conference called only 90 minutes earlier, a move that comes just […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on a pretrial hearing in the prosecution of six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering a spinal injury in custody (all times local): 10:35 a.m. Prosecutors say the trials for six officers charged in the death […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died after being injured while in the custody of Baltimore police. 12:15 p.m. The attorney for the family of Freddie Gray is applauding the Baltimore mayor for helping spearhead a $6.4 million settlement with the family after Gray was […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police and civic leaders launched a partnership Monday with five federal agencies that will embed their special agents with city homicide detectives, bidding to quell an upswing in homicides and other violent crime in that city. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was joined by State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, Acting Police Commissioner Kevin […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s next police commissioner will have a daunting to-do list: quell a surge in homicides, rebuild trust between officers and the public, win the confidence of a demoralized and alienated department, and keep the peace when the explosive Freddie Gray case comes to trial. “It’s the toughest job in the United States […]