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All full-time and graded part-time Frederick employees -- both civilian and law enforcement -- would get a one-time, 3 percent bonus in the city's proposed $135 9 million budget for fiscal 2014

BALTIMORE -- An autopsy report made public Tuesday by the Maryland medical examiner's office provides new details about the death of Robert Ethan Saylor

A conflict resolution office within the Department of Justice is working with Down syndrome advocacy groups and the family of a New Market man who died in January while in the custody of off-duty sheriff's deputies

PHOENIX (AP) -- Documents released Wednesday detailing the shooting of former Rep Gabrielle Giffords show how the gunman had grown increasingly erratic and delusional in the months leading up to the rampage as he alienated family and friends and became paranoid that police were out to get him

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a major gay rights case, the Supreme Court indicated Wednesday it could strike down the law that prevents legally married same-sex couples from receiving a range of federal benefits that go to other married people

BERLIN (AP) -- For nearly 30 years, the Berlin Wall was the hated symbol of the division of Europe, a gray, concrete mass that snaked through neighborhoods, separating families and friends On Wednesday, it took hundreds of police to guarantee the safe removal of 15 feet (less than 5 meters) of what's left of the wall

Death in house fire ruled a suicide

Nonprofit challenges Landsdale development

BRUNSWICK -- The Brunswick City Council unanimously approved Tuesday an agreement that will bring the replacement of Rosemont's deteriorating public water system one step closer to completion

THURMONT -- Town officials moved one step forward Tuesday night toward a new town hall