Criminal Justice

A plea agreement for Nicholas John Roske, who is accused of plotting to kill Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, fell through.

A still-unsolved double homicide earlier this month in Middle River has left a family without three generations of women in just three years.

Assistant Public Defender Jason Rodriguez, Jason Billingsley's attorney, unsuccessfully argued that Baltimore Police did not properly read the Miranda warnings to his client and failed to promptly take him to a district court commissioner.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley on Thursday backed an officer held a gun to the temple of a man who was being restrained by other officers.

A circuit court judge has sentenced Erica Griswold, the former register of wills in Anne Arundel County, to two years of probation after she pleaded guilty to misconduct in office.

The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, which runs Baltimore jails, confirmed on Wednesday that one of its facilities has been without air conditioning since Friday after a blower motor malfunctioned on a housing unit tier.

Melvin Clark, 41, of Severn, is accused of shooting at a silver Mitsubishi multiple times while driving recklessly across the westbound span of the Bay Bridge around 11:45 p.m. on June 8.

Defense attorneys and relatives of Jaemaun Joyner, 24, are calling for accountability after watching police body camera footage showing officers restraining him and one holding a gun to his head.

“Open borders are often portrayed as compassionate and virtuous,” said Michael Morin, 40, of Churchville, Maryland. “But there is nothing compassionate about allowing violent criminals into our country and robbing children of their mother. My sister’s death was preventable.”

The number of high school-aged teens shot in Baltimore has fallen by more than two-thirds compared to last year’s 10-year-high watermark.

Maryland law enforcement officials and the NTSB are investigating a small plane crash that is believed to have left a person dead in Royal Oak on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

The undisclosed funding came from two Chinese companies, both of which have been viewed with skepticism in the U.S.

Gervonta Davis, 29, now of Parkland, Florida, will be allowed to travel from July 19 to Aug. 12 to support and advise Team USA boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Anthony Guglielmi, who was the top spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department a decade ago, is chief of communications for the U.S. Secret Service, which is now navigating a historic crisis after the failed assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.

When Trea Ellinger left a drug rehab facility last summer, he assured his anxious mother that everything was fine. By the following afternoon, he was dead — not from the violence his mom feared he might face, but because he didn’t survive an encounter with first responders in downtown Baltimore.

Organized groups are targeting people after they leave ATMs or banks and robbing them at gunpoint.

Tristan Jackson was stabbed in the eye at the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center, according to his attorney.

The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case of former President Donald Trump dismissed the prosecution, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed.

Auto thefts have dropped almost as dramatically as they had spiked last summer, a Baltimore Banner data analysis found.

According to the Prince George’s County Police Department, the shooting took place around 10 p.m. Friday at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro.