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Holder: Rethink mandatory minimums for drug crimes
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder announced a major shift Monday in federal sentencing policies, targeting long mandatory terms that he said have flooded the nation’s prisons with low-level drug […]
Health officials seek to address Md. drug overdoses
ELKTON — Maryland officials on Friday met to talk about plans to reduce deaths from drug overdoses by 20 percent statewide by the end of 2015. Gov. Martin O’Malley joined […]
Study: Wiser medication use could cut health costs
TRENTON, N.J. — If doctors and patients used prescription drugs more wisely, they could save the U.S. health care system at least $213 billion a year, by reducing medication overuse, […]
Supreme Court: ‘Pay to delay’ generic drugs can be illegal
WASHINGTON — Deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market, can sometimes be illegal and therefore can […]
Hagerstown police to pursue drug dealers’ landlords
HAGERSTOWN — Police in Hagerstown plan to step up efforts to pursue landlords who rent to drug users and dealers. Washington County Assistant State’s Attorney Brett Wilson tells the Herald-Mail […]
Baltimore police officer charged with protecting drug dealer
A Baltimore police officer has been accused of protecting a drug dealer during a heroin transaction and engaging in an identity theft scheme to collect tax refunds.
Republicans blast O’Malley for jail scandal; governor plans reform
A smuggling scandal involving gang members and correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center followed Gov. Martin O'Malley to a feel-good event at the Port of Baltimore Wednesday, where the governor was asked about the scandal by a national television crew.
18 indicted in Howard Co. racketeering case
A federal grand jury has indicted 18 alleged members of the Bloods gang in Howard County on racketeering charges. Two of those gang members and three others are facing drug […]
Bashful? Buy the little blue pill online
TRENTON, N.J. — Men who are bashful about needing help in the bedroom no longer have to go to the drugstore to buy that little blue pill. In a first […]
Joint hearing planned on state correctional facilities
General Assembly leaders will hold a joint briefing in June to discuss problems at Maryland's correctional facilities, the latest fallout from a sordid jail scandal revolving around drugs, sex and money in Baltimore.
Settlement more evidence of jail corruption, Franchot says
A legal settlement stemming from the allegedly guard-aided 2007 beating of a prison inmate being transferred from Baltimore to Hagerstown shows evidence of longstanding corruption in Maryland’s correctional institutions, Comptroller Peter Franchot said Wednesday.
Prison scandal to greet returning O’Malley
Gov. Martin O'Malley can't be looking forward to his return from a week-long trade mission to Israel.
