Criminal Justice

Prosecutors have agreed to tell a judge whether the government used a controversial foreign surveillance method in their case against Brandon Russell, 28, of Orlando, Florida, who is accused of plotting to attack power substations around Baltimore.

Tiffany Knupp faces nine charges for embezzling $12,625 from the Gavin Knupp Foundation and a local restaurant that raised money for the foundation.

President Joe Biden pardoned former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, which will clear the way for them to regain lost benefits. The pardon goes even further to protect LGBTQIA+ service members than the controversial policy “don’t ask, don’t tell” that was repealed in 2010.

The Maryland Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that Baltimore County Police Cpl. Royce Ruby could not be held liable for firing a shot that wounded 5-year-old Kodi Gaines after a long standoff with police in the boy’s home in 2016. Police fatally shot his mother, who had brandished a gun.

Tayzha Alona Warren, 12, has been found after being missing for a week, Baltimore County Police said Thursday.

The disciplinary actions were announced in a terse press release by department officials that did not name any of the officers or shed light on the circumstances of the violations.

The Tanguay brothers, survivors of Greater Grace Church, recount their stories of abuse and how the church handled it.

Patrick Toomey, the deputy director of the ACLU’s National Security Project and whose work on Section 702 was cited in the defense’s earlier filing, entered his appearance on the case Tuesday along with two other attorneys from the civil liberties group.

The Maryland Supreme Court on June 18 refused to hear an appeal in the case.

An arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for 22-year-old Amin Timovich Stigal, who is charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and damage.

Kanisha Spence, 45, of Poppleton, who was employed as a security guard with Maximum Protective Services, was previously found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of second-degree murder and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence and sentenced to serve 60 years in prison in the deadly shooting of Marquise Powell on Oct. 30, 2022.

William Rich, 43, of Windsor Mill, stood trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property.

The scanner chatter contradicts statements made by the state’s public safety chief, Carolyn Scruggs, that there were no clear warning signs that Sewell posed a risk to Martinez.

A lawsuit filed last week is the latest addition to a pile of civil claims tied to ABC Capital and Castle Title that keeps growing as the Maryland Insurance Administration investigates discrepancies raised by a civil lawyer and reported by The Baltimore Banner.

A woman reported that an acquaintance sexually assaulted her in 2023. Then a series of delays and scheduling conflicts began to upend the trial in Baltimore Circuit Court.

In a season of change, the new owners of Baltimore Sun Media stopped publishing the Maryland Gazette, which carried news of the Declaration of Independence on July 11, 1776. The Big Glen Burnie Carnival ended a summer run that started in 1908. And down in Ocean City, the city is phasing out a century-old seasonal police officer program.

Baltimore County detectives arrest Randallstown High School teacher and charge him with sexually abusing a minor.

“We are being attacked,” said Greater Grace church's head pastor, Thomas Schaller.

Newly passed legislation will force current members of the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention to reapply to the commission. Attorney General Anthony Brown said he is eagerly looking forward to the application process that will populate the new commission.

Republicans, Democrats and my colleagues in journalism alike would be wise to heed the ghost of Willie Horton, whose story still haunts us 26 years after his name entered the American lexicon.