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One week after Colorado's movie theater shooting, Maryland cops arrested a heavily armed man who told his employer he was a "joker" who was going to "blow everybody up." Police said today they believe they "thwarted a massacre."

A pilot watched his injured, 78-year-old mother die in the rough waters of the Chesapeake Bay as they both tried to swim to safety after his single-engine airplane crashed and sank more than a mile off the shore of Smith Island, Maryland State Police said Monday....

An 18-year-old Bowie State University student was fatally stabbed Thursday night by her roommate during a fight in a campus dormitory, Maryland State Police said early Friday.

Police say a mother holding a 20-month-old baby jumped out of a car while it was being driven by a carjacker on the Capital Beltway in Maryland.

Police say they would likely file second-degree assault charges if they catch the person who put industrial-strength glue on a public toilet seat at a Maryland WalMart, forcing emergency workers to rescue a man who was sitting in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Newark Post reports.

Panicked as the FBI closed in Friday morning, Prince Georges County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife Leslie raced to find a $100,000 check for an alleged kickback and flush it down the toilet.

Police in Maryland say a homeless man tried to leave town in a stolen plane but crashed the single-engine aircraft on a municipal airport runway before he ever left the ground.