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Marilyn Mosby, Maryland State Attorney for Baltimore City, speaks during a news conference pertaining to a case against Adnan Syed, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, in Baltimore. Mosby apologized to Syed and the family of Hae Min Lee after announcing that her office would not retry Syed for Lee's 1999 killing. A Baltimore judge last month overturned Syed's murder conviction and ordered him released from prison, where the 41-year-old had spent more than two decades. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Charges dropped in ‘Serial’ case

by Brian Witte Associated PressOctober 11, 2022

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min after additional DNA testing excluded him as a suspect in a case chronicled by the hit podcast “Serial.”Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for…

Summerleigh Winters Geimer, left, and her sister Montana Winters Geimer, daughters of Wendi Winters, a community beat reporter who died in the Capital Gazette newsroom shooting, react during a press conference following the sentencing of Jarrod W. Ramos, Tuesday, in Annapolis, Md.

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Md. newspaper gunman gets more than 5 life prison terms

by Brian Witte Associated PressSeptember 28, 2021

Pictures of five employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper adorn candles during a vigil across the street from where they were slain in the newsroom in Annapolis, Md., June 29, 2018.

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Gunman criminally responsible for killing 5 at Maryland paper

by Brian Witte Associated PressJuly 15, 2021

A medical health care worker drops a specimen collection into a container Friday after testing a motorist for COVID-19 at a community testing site in the parking lot of La Flor de Jalisco No. 2 in Gainesville, Georgia.

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Most states still fall short of recommended virus testing levels

by Matthew Perrone Associated Press, and Brian Witte Associated PressMay 15, 2020

Former Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh leaves U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Thursday.

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Ex-mayor pleads guilty in fraud case

by Brian Witte Associated Press, and Regina Garcia Cano Associated PressNovember 21, 2019

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh addresses a gathering during the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Boston, June 8, 2018.

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Ex-mayor faces fraud, tax charges

by Brian Witte Associated Press, and Regina Garcia Cano Associated PressNovember 20, 2019

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Md. congressman Cummings dies at 68

by Brian Witte Associated Press, and Regina Garcia Cano Associated PressOctober 17, 2019

In this June 21, 2019, photo, Paul Gillespie, a photojournalist at the Capital Gazette newspaper, where five people were killed in a mass shooting in June 2018, holds a book of portraits he photographed of survivors and family members of those killed in the attack, at his home studio in Brooklyn Park, Md. It’s called: “Journalists Matter: Faces of the Capital Gazette.” (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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A year after attack, city embraces journalists

by Brian Witte Associated PressJune 26, 2019

People hug as they gather for a vigil in response to a shooting in the Capital Gazette newsroom, Friday, June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Md. Prosecutors say Jarrod W. Ramos opened fire Thursday in the newsroom.

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Grief in small town: March honors victims of newsroom attack

by Michael Kunzelman Associated Press, and Brian Witte Associated PressJune 30, 2018

Neighbor Elly M. Tierney places flowers at a makeshift memorial at the scene outside the office building housing The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., on Friday, June 29, 2018. A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists in the building Thursday, killing several people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested him, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Police: Suspect in newsroom rampage no threat in 2013

by Brian Witte Associated PressJune 30, 2018