BALTIMORE (AP) - Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other Department of Justice leaders are visiting Baltimore.
The new attorney general's visit Tuesday comes after protests over the death of Freddie Gray, who was fatally injured in police custody, and riots that prompted the governor to bring in the National Guard.
Lynch will be joined by head of the Civil Rights Division Vanita Gupta, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Director Ronald Davis and Community Relations Service Director Grande Lum. They'll meet with city officials, members of Congress, law enforcement officials and faith and community leaders.
The FBI and the Justice Department are investigating Gray's death for potential civil rights violations. The Justice Department is expected to release results of a separate review of the police department's use of force practices in coming weeks.
Arrests Overturned
BALTIMORE (AP) - A Baltimore city judge says the state violated court procedures - but not the Constitution - after last week's riots by holding some suspects more than 24 hours without taking them before a judicial officer to have bail set.
Circuit Judge Charles Peters ruled Monday in a case brought by Maryland Public Defender Paul DeWolfe. The judge refused to release two defendants who are still being held. That's because they saw a district court commissioner within an expanded, 47-hour deadline set under Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's executive order.
Peters didn't say Hogan's order was illegal.
The ruling was confined to the defendants in the case.
Prosecutors say judicial and police resources were strained by the April 27 riots. They say police made 182 arrests, about four times the normal number.
Rebuilding Senior Center
BALTIMORE (AP) - An eastern Baltimore church and developers say they'll start rebuilding a senior housing center destroyed during rioting.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin joined members of Southern Baptist Church on Monday to announce the rebuilding of the Mary Harvin Center. The center was about 45 percent complete when it was destroyed by fire during riots last week. Officials say the building will open next year with 61 units of affordable senior housing with counseling and job training space.
Rawlings-Blake says this is just one of the city's first rebuilding stories. She says the city will be "better than where we were."
Mikulski says officials will work for summer jobs and after-school programs and then for bigger efforts like more housing and criminal justice reform.
Historical Society: Photo collection
BALTIMORE (AP) - The Maryland Historical Society is asking professional and amateur photographers to submit their pictures of the events in Baltimore sparked by the death of Freddie Gray after he was injured in police custody.
The society said in a statement Monday that the images of protests, unrest and cleanup will become part of a digital collection at a website maintained by the society. The society says it will also be collecting objects and oral histories from protesters and civil rights leaders in Baltimore.
The society says it believes the events are "an important topic for public history."
