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It was an accident. That's the ruling by the medical examiner's office after the drowning death of 92Q DJ K-Swift. Dennis Edwards has more on her final minutes.The autopsy shows K-Swift died from a broken neck ...

Maryland's disabled student athletes are celebrating a new law that gives them the chance to compete alongside their peers.

Baltimore police say a bomb fell out of a man's backpack as he fought with a University of Maryland, Baltimore officer.

Maryland State Police say a two-month old baby has died from injuries suffered in a crash that also killed a man and closed the northbound lanes of Interstate 83 north of Baltimore.

A popular Baltimore DJ has drowned. The body of 28-year-old Khia Edgerton, also known as "K-Swift" was found Monday morning.

A Baltimore teenager has been sentenced to life plus 25 years in prison for the rape and murder of a 4-year-old girl he was baby-sitting. Seventeen-year-old Ronald Hinton was sentenced Monday morning.

BALTIMORE - Authorities are investigating a bank robbery and an attempted bank robbery in downtown Baltimore.

Groups opposed to a November referendum to legalize slots gambling in Maryland are attracting wealthy supporters.

Maryland House minority leader Tony O'Donnell says Gov. Martin O'Malley and Democrats in the state legislature are trying to scare voters into supporting a November referendum authorizing slot machine gambling.

A Baltimore city grand jury indicted a city police officer Tuesday on charges of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man he was questioning in Northeast Baltimore in January, according to the state's attorney's office. It is only the second time since 1996 that a Baltimore officer has been indicted in an on-duty police-involved shooting. The January shooting was one of 16 by city officers this year that have resulted in a dozen fatalities, one short of the number killed in all of last year. Officer Tommy Sanders III, 37, is expected to surrender to authorities, city prosecutors said in a statement released after the indictment was returned. He is a six-year veteran of the force. Paul Blair, the head of the city's Fraternal Order of Police, described Sanders as 'very upset' and added: 'He's got a family. ... He lives in the city, the type of police we want working in this department. Hopefully, he will have a fair day in court and all of the facts will come out.' Sanders is charged with shooting Edward Lamont Hunt, a 27-year-old man he had deemed suspicious and had stopped about noon in the Hamilton Park Shopping Center on Northern Parkway.

A Capitol Heights-based scrap metal processor has purchased a Baltimore County scrapyard and is pushing to build an export terminal in Curtis Bay to meet a surge in demand from the global steel industry. Joseph Smith & Sons Inc. began operations this week at the former Recovermat Mid-Atlantic LLC demolition waste facility in Halethorpe, retaining its 20 workers. Smith Vice President Bob Bonnes said the company is converting the facility into a shredding plant for autos and steel scrap. Smith's larger project is to open the Curtis Bay export terminal by mid-2009. It would become the first terminal in years to ship scrap iron and steel from the port of Baltimore. 'Our major interest in this property is obviously to get our scrap metal loaded and out of this country,' said Bonnes, who brought an international focus when he joined Smith in February 2007. 'It gives us access to the world, not just the U.S.' Rapid development in China and India has resulted in an increase in the price of the recycled metals used to make steel. Scrap from the West Coast and Australia feeds the Asian industry, and the East Coast is responding to growing demand from Mediterranean markets. Turkey, an export market targeted by Smith, is the world's biggest buyer of scrap for its production of steel for the Middle East, Bonnes said. Smith envisions local steel mills, such as the one in Sparrows Point and others in Pennsylvania and Delaware, buying shredded scrap directly from its new Halethorpe processor. The 27-acre Curtis Bay terminal, at the end of Asiatic Avenue just east of the CSX coal and ore piers, could also serve local steelmakers and process shipments of salt, bulk liquid and other commodities, Bonnes said. Smith operates a small scrap export site in Wilmington, Del., but the Prince George's County company focuses on the domestic market. To build the Baltimore terminal, Smith and joint-venture partner Port Contractors Inc. of Wilmington need final approval and permits from the city, the Army Corps of Engineers and the MarylandDepartment of the Environment. 'We are developing it looking to minimize the amount of dredging to limit the impact on the bay and the costs,' Bonnes said. 'We have a clean bill of health to go forward.' The site, formerly the Amoco Baltimore Asphalt Terminal, has been subject to environmental audits and cleanup efforts through the MDE.

Gov. Martin O'Malley Friday said Maryland authorities will no longer spy on political issue groups if there is no evidence of wrongdoing.

Baltimore's health commissioner says a heat alert has been issued for Saturday and Sunday.

A young woman fights for her life Wednesday night after she's shot in a Baltimore County park and somehow walks a mile to get help.

An alleged gang member has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of an 18-year-old at Robert E. Lee Park yesterday.

Undercover Maryland state police officers infiltrated meetings of peace and anti-death penalty groups for more than a year, according to documents released Thursday by the state chapter of the American Civil ...

A 42-year-old man has been charged with going on a bank robbery spree in downtown Baltimore yesterday morning -- holding up two downtown banks and trying to rob a third within a span of three hours, a city police spokesman said today.

Lamont E. Brown of the 300 block of E. Lanvale St. was charged with three counts of bank robbery and is being held in the Baltimore City Detention Center.

Sterling Clifford, a police spokesman, said an officer monitoring live surveillance camera feed saw the suspect walking along downtown Commerce Street late yesterday afternoon, matched his picture with one taken at a bank and radioed officers to make the arrest.

A Baltimore fire official says a fire in a first-floor classroom at the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in East Baltimore is under investigation.

An Anne Arundel County Police officer has been shot in South Baltimore. It happened around 7 a.m. on Audrey Ave.

Firefighters and BGE crews hope to extinguish an electrical fire under the streets of downtown Baltimore by Tuesday morning.