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Man gets 85 years in Morgan State homecoming shooting that left 5 wounded
Marquis Brown, 20, of Washington, was found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of five counts of attempted second-degree murder and related crimes.
A helicopter searches the campus of Morgan State where at least four people were shot on October 3, 2023.
Ex-Baltimore officer pleads guilty to ‘remarkably stupid’ doctor’s note scheme
Harrison Brandon, 28, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to misconduct in office and received two years of probation. He was also ordered to perform 120 hours of community service.
Former Baltimore Police Officer Harrison Brandon was charged with forgery, identity fraud, theft and misconduct in office.
No additional jail time in fatal hit-and-run in Baltimore County
Mahmood Chaudhry, 66, of Owings Mills, fatally struck Gerald Pettaway Sr. on Old Road Court Road near Bedford Avenue in Pikesville on Nov. 11, 2025.
6/16/22—Exterior of the Baltimore County Courts Building in Towson.
Baltimore Police officer faked traffic stops to avoid calls, prosecutors say
The officer was indicted Friday in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges of making a false entry into public records and misconduct in office.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley, right, and Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, left, spoke at a news conference on Monday concerning the indictment of a police officer accused of faking traffic stops to avoid service calls.
Maryland Republicans file lawsuit to stop redistricting ballot question
Republican lawmakers are suing the state’s elections board to stop a ballot question on congressional redistricting from appearing before Maryland voters in November.
Del. Kathy Szeliga, a Baltimore County Republican and vice chair of the Maryland Freedom Caucus, speaks during a press conference hosted by the caucus in Annapolis on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025.
Life sentence handed down in Baltimore killing of off-duty DC police sergeant
Dion Thompson, 27, of Gwynn Oak, was found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of first-degree murder and related crimes in the deadly shooting of Metropolitan Police Sgt. Tony Mason Jr. on Nov. 4, 2017.
Exterior of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse on Calvert Street in Baltimore, Md. on Saturday, July 19, 2025.
Ex-Pikesville athletic director at center of AI case pleads guilty to child sex crime
A man who used artificial intelligence to impersonate the principal of Pikesville High School and damage his reputation admitted Tuesday to sexually exploiting five children and faces up to 30 years in federal prison.
Dazhon Darien arrives for a hearing in 2025 at the Baltimore County Courts Building in Towson.
You’ve been served — on TikTok. Baltimore teacher uses social media to sue right-wing influencer.
Alexa Sciuto filed a defamation lawsuit in 2025 in Baltimore County Circuit Court against five Republican lawmakers, two leaders of Moms for Liberty, and Chaya Raichik, founder of Libs of TikTok.
Alexa Sciuto is pictured outside Stemmers Run Middle School in Essex, Maryland, where she is a teacher, on November 10, 2023.
Federal judge orders release of father detained by ICE on Baltimore school campus
U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin ruled that ICE lacked probable cause to arrest Jesus Acevedo Sanchez and ordered the federal government to release him.
ICE detained Jesus Acevedo Sanchez outside Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School last month.
Maryland prisons rank among nation’s worst for killings
Since 2023, Maryland has had more prison homicides than all of its neighboring states combined. Its homicide rate last year was nearly four times the national average, based on available data gathered by The Banner.
North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland has had eight homicides since the start of 2025.
Judge orders release of mother taken into ICE custody on Baltimore school campus
U.S. District Judge Matthew Maddox ordered Adriana Gavilan Sanchez’s release from immigration custody.
Federal immigration agents arrest Jesus Acevedo Sanchez as he drops his daughter off at Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School in June as his partner, Adriana Gavilan Sanchez, the girl’s mother, looks on. (Still from bystander video)
Families sue Baltimore housing authority over Brooklyn Homes mass shooting
Thirty people were shot — two of them fatally — during an annual event called Brooklyn Day on July 2, 2023.
Photos of Aaliya Gonzalez, a victim of the Brooklyn Homes shooting, decorate a fence at Sawmill Creek Park in Glen Burnie on July 2, 2024.
Teen receives maximum sentence for shooting Rodgers Forge soccer coach
Kai Wilson, now 17, of East Baltimore, was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Kai Wilson, now 17, of East Baltimore, shot Mark McKenzie, a beloved youth soccer coach in Rodgers Forge, during an attempted robbery in 2024.
Man pleads guilty to murder in Edmondson Village Shopping Center mass shooting
Bryan Johnson pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder and related crimes in the killing of Deanta Dorsey, a sophomore at Edmondson-Westside High School, on Jan. 4, 2023.
One person has died and four others were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village shopping center Wednesday morning.
Man sentenced to 70 years in prison for deadly shooting on MTA bus in Baltimore
James Richburg, 63, of Saint Josephs, was found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of second-degree murder and related crimes in the killing of William Womack on Nov. 30, 2024.
Exterior of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse on Calvert Street in Baltimore, Md. on Saturday, July 19, 2025.
Apartment company co-owned by Jared Kushner must pay over $4M in damages, Baltimore judge rules
Circuit Judge Paul Cucuzzella on Tuesday ruled that Westminster Management illegally charged late fees and billed for court costs that it did not incur at 17 properties in Maryland.
Russian Presidential foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, left, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, center, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, foreground right, and Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Special Presidential Representative for Investment and Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries Kirill Dmitriev, behind Witkoff, arrive to attend talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 2, 2025.
An island in the Bahamas? Brandon Chasen grilled at his final bankruptcy hearing.
The Baltimore real estate developer faced more than four hours of questioning in the final hearing of his personal bankruptcy case.
Brandon Chasen arrives at the Edward A. Garmatz U.S. Courthouse for the latest public meeting of the creditors in his personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy case.
Former Baltimore teacher not criminally responsible for shooting cop during mental health crisis
Andrew Britt, 28, of Windsor Hills, said he does not remember shooting Baltimore County Police Officer Jordan Riddick in the parking lot of the Wilkens precinct.
Police officers speak among themselves outside the southwest Baltimore County police precinct adjacent to the UMBC campus following a shooting at the Wilkens Police Precinct in Catonsville, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
Baltimore County man found guilty of murder in triple shooting that killed his 4-year-old son
Mark Jones Jr., 31, of Rosedale, was found guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court of second-degree murder and related crimes.
Jacobi Marcelle, 4, funeral was held today on January 10, 2024.  Police say that on the morning of Christmas Eve, Marcelle's mother Promyss Marcelle’s on-and-off boyfriend, Mark Jones, shot him, his mother and little sister  Peyton, 1. Jacobi died at a hospital; his mother and sister were wounded. Marcelle, 27, said she had been planning to go to court that day to file for a protective order that would require Jones to stay out of the residence."
Son-in-law criticized ‘dirty courts’ before killing Timonium attorney, prosecutors allege
Baltimore County Circuit Judge James Rhodes declined to release Mark Ryan, 41, of Bel Air, to home detention while he awaits trial on charges including first-degree murder.
Sawmill Court in Phoenix, where a domestic dispute occurred Saturday afternoon.
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