BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Car Rally Task Force has expanded its crackdown on illegal exhibition driving, resulting in several additional last weekend. Maryland State Police say 26-year-old Jose Manuel Zapata of Pennsylvania was charged with loaded handgun on person, handgun on person, handgun in vehicle, and loaded handgun in vehicle after he was stopped by police on August 25 in Baltimore. […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Pennsylvania man has been arrested on charges of attempted murder after he shot at another driver during a road rage incident in Frederick County, Maryland State Police say. The incident happened shortly after 7:30 a.m. Wednesday on southbound U.S. 15 at Tippin Drive. A motorist called 9-1-1 to report that the driver of a maroon Chevrolet SUV with […]
ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Wes Moore has issued a statement condemning the “abhorrent” attack on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Trump was injured at just after 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, July 13, when a bullet grazed his right ear during an assassination attempt in Butler, PA. The rooftop shooter, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel […]
WHITEFORD, MD—Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle motorcycle crash that occurred in Harford County on Sunday night. At just after 10:30 p.m., troopers responded to a report of a single-vehicle crash in the area of the 2600-block of Whiteford Road. According to a preliminary investigation, a Honda motorcycle was traveling north when the vehicle went off the roadway […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Police say they have taken down a large, regional drug trafficking organization following an extensive, months-long investigation. At approximately 4 a.m. on Thursday, April 18, 2024, Baltimore Police Department detectives with the Group Violence Unit executed a total of eight warrants in partnership with SWAT teams, Anne Arundel County members, Baltimore County members, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, […]
WHITE MARSH, MD—Losing your vehicle in a fire is stressful enough without worrying about being stranded on the highway. Some local firefighters have gone above and beyond to welcome guests to their station following these incidents in recent days. Over the past two days, the White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company has responded to a pair of vehicle fires on I-95. […]
EDGEWOOD, MD—An Aberdeen man has been charged with second-degree murder for his role in a fatal shooting at D&M’s Deck Tiki Bar and Grill in Edgewood last week. The shooting took place at just after midnight on Friday, February 17, in the 2200-block of Pulaski Highway. When officers arrived, they found 24-year-old Dajuan Simmons of Aberdeen suffering from multiple gunshot […]
PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA—Who’s ready for an early spring? On Friday morning, February 2, 2024, Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow and predicted that there would be an early spring. The popular Groundhog Day tradition, which is celebrated in the United States and in Canada, derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day […]