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Outrage is growing across Maryland as a Fox45 News investigation continues to expose how an MS-13 gang member and murder suspect was able to enroll in two public high schools. Project Baltimore has learned that even after Walter Martinez was arrested, parents in Harford and Baltimore counties were not told he was in school with their children. When Fox45 News broke the story, it sparked outrage. “The man or woman in charge of this position, the individual, somebody needs to be fired,” Republican state delegate Nino Mangione said on his WCBM radio show Tuesday. “This is unacceptable, and it can...

wo people charged with conspiracy to damage energy facilities – a neo-Nazi leader and a woman with whom he had a personal relationship – allegedly planned to attack electrical substations encircling Baltimore and “completely destroy” the entire city, according to federal court documents. The Justice Department has charged Brandon Clint Russell and Sarah Beth Clendaniel with conspiracy to damage energy facilities, alleging that the Maryland-focused plot was driven by ethnically or racially motivated extremist beliefs. They “conspired to inflict maximum harm on the power grid,” Tom Sobocinski, who heads the FBI’s field office in Baltimore, said during a news conference...

On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), stated that “The Biden-Harris administration has an excellent record of trying to engage the international community to calm things down. They’re doing that right now in the Middle East.” But acknowledged Hezbollah is an Iran-enabled organization that is attacking Israel and the U.N. and other countries in the region haven’t done enough to combat Iran. Cardin said, “International events are occurring, I don’t think they’re directed towards American politics. The timing of elections [is] always inconvenient in regards to international events. The Biden-Harris administration has an excellent...

Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks (D) will pay back taxes after improperly claiming homestead and senior property tax credits for homes in D.C. and Prince George’s County. Her campaign said Alsobrooks, who is running for an open Senate seat in Maryland and is currently the chief executive of Prince George’s County, was not aware of the errors. The improperly applied tax credits were first reported by CNN and confirmed by the Alsobrooks campaign. It is not clear how much money Alsobrooks owes the District or Prince George’s, but in letters to both jurisdictions, her lawyer said Alsobrooks intends to pay any...

This has become so common that people are becoming desensitized to it. Plagiarism used to be a very serious charge in higher education. The Daily Wire reports: University of Maryland President Copied Rocket Science Paper From Aussie Student University of Maryland President Darryll Pines appears to have committed significant plagiarism, lifting large portions of two academic journal articles from a tutorial website made years prior by an Australian student, a Daily Wire investigation found. A 1,500-word stretch of a 5,000-word paper by Pines and a co-author published in 2002 — accounting for nearly a third of the paper — is...

Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that a quarter of black men under 50 said they would support the Republican candidate in this year’s election because of “frustration of the pace of progress in America.” Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about the Harris campaign, because you are out campaigning for them, and there’s a big push in the coming days to focus in on black voters in particular. The NAACP released a poll on Friday that showed while black Americans overwhelmingly identify as Democrats, over one quarter of black...

26% of Black men under 50 years old said they supported Trump, versus 49% who backed Harris. Black men above 50, 77% said they supported Harris.

Former Democrat turned independent Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) endorsed former Republican Maryland governor Larry Hogan on Thursday in the state’s Senate race. Manchin’s endorsement is a blow to little-known Democrat nominee Angela Alsobrooks, who is under pressure to stave off Hogan’s surge to flip Maryland’s typically Democrat Senate seat to Republican. If Democrats lose the seat, Republicans will likely retake the Senate with a strong majority. “Forget about being a Democrat or Republican,” Manchin told DC News Now. “Larry Hogan is just the right person with the right attitude for the job. He’s not afraid to speak against your party,...

The three men face the potential of life in prison without parole and four additional, consecutive life sentences, plus 105 years.Three people have been found guilty of murdering a man and wounding two others in Montgomery County two years ago. Police say the co-defendants are MS-13 gang members and face multiple life sentences. According to police, on Nov. 9, 2022 just before 4 a.m., Montgomery County Police officers responded to the 100 block of Colony Road in Piney Branch for a shooting. When officers arrived, they found three men who had been shot. Two of the men were taken to...

An unsuspecting Maryland high school allowed a MS-13 gang member at the center of a murder investigation to enroll after authorities failed to alert the administration of the gang member’s suspect status. Walter Martinez, an MS-13 gang member who at 16-years-old was the primary suspect in the July 2022 murder of Kayla Hamilton, enrolled in and attended Edgewood High School in Harford County, Maryland, without the district being informed of his status as a suspect in the case, according to a report from Baltimore's Fox 45. "When I start from the very beginning and get to the very end, they’re...

Democrat Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has apologized for falsely labeling himself a Bronze Star recipient on a White House application in 2006. Though Wes Moore served in the Army Reserve between 1996 and 2014, deploying to Afghanistan between August 2005 and March 2006, winning the National Defense Service Medal, he stated on his 2006 application for a White House fellowship that won a Bronze Star. He never received such an award. According to documents obtained by the New York Times, Moore said on his application, “For my work, the 82nd Airborne Division have awarded me the Bronze Star Medal and...

The owner of a luxury $1.8 million Hamptons vacation rental where two Maryland sisters died in a fire sparked by a shoddy electrical job has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide. Peter Miller, 56, admitted to building an illegal outdoor kitchen that overloaded the electricity system of his $ 8,000-per-week pad in Sag Harbor — killing Jillian Wiener, 21, and her 19-year-old sister Lindsay as they vacationed with their terminally ill father in August 2022, Suffolk County prosecutors said Monday. His wife, Pamela, who managed the popular summer rental, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment.

Seeks power of popular vote A movement to bypass the Electoral College and elect the president based on the popular vote is gaining steam, racking up almost one-fifth of the support needed to trigger the plan. National Popular Vote, a California-based group formed in 2006, has won commitments from four states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. Those four states — Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois and Hawaii — have 50 electoral votes among them. The goal is for states with a total of 270 electoral votes to enter into a compact in which they...

The driver whose vehicle was rear-ended by U.S. Sen. John Fetterman is now sharing her account of what happened. Jennifer Campbell, 62, of Virginia, spoke about the collision in Maryland in a statement from her lawyer. Campbell said she was driving westbound on Interstate 70 in Washington County on June 9. She saw an SUV rapidly approaching behind her and braced for the impact. Her car ended up on the shoulder. The vehicle was severely damaged, with the trunk compressed into the back seat area. Campbell said Fetterman approached her after the crash to check if she was OK. She...

Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks are locked in a dead heat in the U.S. Senate race in Maryland, where Democrats have held both Senate seats for nearly 40 years. The AARP poll, which Fabrizio Ward (R) and Impact Research (D) jointly conducted, finds Hogan and Alsobrooks tied at 46 percent apiece in the Old Line State. Another seven percent of the 600 likely voters are undecided, while one percent will back another candidate. 📊 MARYLAND poll by Fabrizio Ward (R) & Impact Research (D) for @AARP President Harris: 64% Trump: 32% — Senate...

What Maryland is trying to do, with the help of the Fourth Circuit, is to make gun ownership so burdensome as to discourage it, and self-defense, entirely. The Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen decision held, with crystal clarity, the Second Amendment is an individual right, which extends to keeping and bearing arms not only in one’s home or on one’s property, but in public, with some limited exceptions. Not only did Bruen reaffirm the Second Amendment as a fundamental unalienable right--no second-class right—it established strict scrutiny, the highest level of judicial analysis, for Second Amendment cases. Equally important was this holding:...

Afederal appeals court on Friday upheld Maryland’s handgun licensing requirements, rejecting an argument from gun-rights activists the law violated the Second Amendment by making it too difficult for people to obtain guns. A majority of judges from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, affirmed a district court judge’s ruling in favor of the state of Maryland. The majority rejected the plaintiffs’ argument the state’s handgun qualification statute tramples on applicants’ Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. The law requires most Maryland residents to obtain a handgun qualification license before purchasing a handgun. Senior Judge...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican vice presidential nominee, that GOP voters “tried to kill your predecessor,” during remarks at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago. “Remember what the mob chanted as they stormed the Capitol and injured our officers? ‘Hang Mike Pence’,” Raskin said during his Monday night speech, referring to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “Someone should have told Donald Trump that the President’s job under Article Two of the Constitution is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not that the Vice President is executed,” he...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Fox45 obtained exclusive video capturing the assault of 74-year-old David Philpot near the corner of Eastern Ave and Ann in Fells Point. Philpot died early Sunday morning after being taken to the hospital, according to his family. Baltimore Police say on August 17 around 2:45 p.m., a 74-year-old man was assaulted by an unidentified white male in the 1700 block of Eastern Avenue. The assault followed an argument between the two, according to officials. The video shows the suspect of the assault approaching Philpot, while Philpot was walking his dog named Chip. The suspect actually pets Chip...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held their first joint event since Biden exited the 2024 race and endorsed her to take his place atop the Democratic ticket. The two walked out together to cheers to deliver remarks on stage at Prince George's County Community College in Maryland about the economy and what their administration's done to alleviate costs for Americans. That includes the administration's announcement earlier Thursday that the Department of Health and Human Services reached an agreement on price negotiations for 10 commonly used drugs that they say will save Medicare enrollees $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket...