Andy Brownfield

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Gun-maker Beretta has decided to stay in Maryland for now despite tough new restrictions on firearms signed into law by Gov. Martin O'Malley, but the manufacturer says it will continue to look into moving to other states. Officials in Texas, West Virginia and Illinois have written to Beretta...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Tracie Lynn Mosley was 18 years old when she was last seen in Maryland nearly two decades ago. After visiting two nightclubs in Pikesville, Md., a friend dropped Mosley off in the early morning hours of April 17, 1995, at Highfalcon Road and Pittston Circle in Reisterstown, the Baltimore...

Scott McCabe

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

A would-be robber in Laurel was foiled when he lost his gun to his victim. It happened around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday in the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road just off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. A man approached a group of people in the rear parking lot near a Walmart, pointed a handgun...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Montgomery County police are investigating whether a man being treated for a gunshot wound was shot Monday afternoon near an elementary school in the Montgomery Village area. Police received an anonymous report from someone who said they witnessed a shooting near Stedwick Elementary School at...

Andy Brownfield

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

Marylanders soon will be ticketed for texting or talking on a mobile phone while driving under a new law, but studies show such crackdowns on phone use do little to prevent traffic accidents.

Scott McCabe

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

A Laurel man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for secretly videotaping a 13-year-old girl in a bathroom. Frank Alan Klukosky, 43, pleaded guilty in March to producing child pornography. After he finishes his prison sentence, he will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

A new law in Maryland aims to increase the likelihood that people's lives will be saved by smoke alarms during a fire, officials said. Legislation approved by Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday requires that battery-operated smoke alarms in homes have sealed-in batteries designed to last 10...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

The disappearance of a Johns Hopkins University graduate student once gripped the region and became known as the "Route 29 Stalker" investigation, but 17 years later her case remains unsolved. On March 2, 1996, the 25-year-old Alicia Showalter Reynolds was driving along Route 29 to...

Matt Connolly

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Prince George's County officials unveiled a new foreclosure action plan aimed at speeding up the demolition process after knocking down nearly 50 houses and apartment complexes so far this fiscal year. No county in Maryland was hit harder by the foreclosure crisis than Prince George's. The...

Kate Jacobson

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Montgomery County residents are raising concerns about the county's proposed bus rapid transit system after planners revealed a scaled-back system that would center around Route 355 from Clarksburg to Bethesda. About 50 people testified to the county's Planning Board for more than three hours...