Baltimore ethics director J. Christoph Amberger’s past at Agora Companies resurfaces as the city pursues a consumer protection lawsuit against the Baltimore-based publishing company.

The Baltimore state’s attorney’s office has tapped a former federal corruption prosecutor to investigate the leak of witness information in a high-profile murder case.

The 36-year-old Parkville man charged with second-degree murder for shoving a man into the Inner Harbor, where he drowned, had intervened as a “good Samaritan,” a defense attorney said Tuesday.

A 36-year-old Parkville man has been charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter for allegedly shoving a man into the Inner Harbor, where the victim drowned.

Two counts, conspiracy and intercepting electronic communications, remain.

Baltimore prosecutors said they are investigating the leak of documents outlining a witness’s cooperation in a high-profile murder-for-hire case, as defense attorneys denied they had provided materials to anyone outside the case.

Baltimore prosecutors are seeking emergency court action after documents identifying rapper Keith Ambush as a cooperating witness in a high-profile murder-for-hire case leaked online.

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.

State police and corrections officials are conducting a “potential criminal misconduct” investigation into staff at a Western Maryland prison after the latest in a rash of killings of prisoners across the state.

After a contentious election, Sabrina Tapp-Harper will become the first woman to lead the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office in the agency’s 181-year history.

The election was a bit of a grudge match, with Tapp-Harper suing Cogen for alleged discrimination and retaliation.

Michael Maurice Johnson, who was convicted and later cleared in the high-profile 2010 killing of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes, was sentenced Monday to two consecutive life terms plus 25 years for raping a young woman.

The chief engineer of the Dali container ship said little during a hearing three days after federal prosecutors charged him with one felony count of violating the Ports and Waterways Safety Act.

The operator of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge demanded its crew members be allowed to return home after more than two years “marooned” in the United States.

Federal prosecutors have filed additional criminal charges in the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, adding as a defendant the chief engineer of the Dali container ship.

Former Baltimore Police officer Alexi Correa was caught on tape talking to an FBI confidential source about his own involvement in drug dealing.

Police temporarily deactivated a South Baltimore plainclothes crime unit amid supervisory changes and an ongoing internal investigation, a move that has sparked concerns among some community leaders.

Baltimore Sheriff Sam Cogen and challenger Sabrina Tapp-Harper face off in a contentious primary while a workplace discrimination lawsuit looms in the background.

Police in Maryland can no longer stop and search someone solely based on their suspicion that the person is carrying a gun, the state’s full appeals court ruled in a sweeping opinion that law enforcement agencies worry could curtail police practices statewide.

San Francisco Police sought to arrest two Baltimore Police officers for allegedly raping a woman while she said she was unconscious, new records show.