Baltimore Police released a year-end report Thursday celebrating everything from improvements in hiring and retaining officers to higher clearance rates.

Thirteen incarcerated people have been killed by other prisoners this year, state officials said, marking the highest annual total in at least a decade.

Baltimore is on track to end 2025 with its lowest homicide total in 48 years, with fewer than 150 killings expected, marking a significant decline since 2022.

Baltimore Police have long used department vehicles to inflict serious injuries on suspects, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.

The family of Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, an arabber killed by Baltimore Police this summer, are condemning the findings of state investigators who cleared the officers of any wrongdoing.

But contrary to the messaging from the president and his team, most of those arrested this year had no criminal history, according to a Banner analysis of newly released federal data.

A former lieutenant at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover has been found guilty for his participation in a cover-up after one of his junior officers physically abused a prisoner.

Baltimore City firefighters have contained a blaze at Falkenhan’s Hardware, a staple in Hampden that sits on the edge of the Miracle on 34th Street holiday lights display.

For years, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has declined to explain publicly the circumstances leading up to Javarick Gantt’s murder.

The state corrections department is planning to imminently transfer all detainees out of the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center.

The detention center in downtown Baltimore houses children who have been charged as adults and are awaiting criminal trials.

Criminal justice reform advocates say the long stretches of forced solitude in Maryland are known to cause mental health issues and equate the conditions to torture.

Gregory Turnipseed, a 14-year veteran of the city transportation department, died last week about a month after trying to intervene in an argument over a parking spot in downtown Baltimore.

State prosecutors and corrections officials on Monday announced 10 criminal indictments stemming from three separate alleged smuggling operations at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Anne Arundel County.

A stringy piece of Baltimore history is headed to America’s hall of fame for bizarre items.

A Baltimore Police officer shown in a viral video chasing and then striking a man with his vehicle, has been indicted for attempted murder, authorities said Wednesday.

Like other jurisdictions in Maryland, Baltimore City has a Police Accountability Board and a five-person administrative charging committee, both of which are run by citizens.

Baltimore County Councilman Izzy Patoka said he has spoken with Inspector General Kelly Madigan, and has not filed any formal motions as of yet, “though there could possibly be.”

Black drivers make up most of the traffic stops in Baltimore County, despite being 30% of the population — disparities police have known about for years but have failed to fix.

Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up.