Criminal justice

The second floor of the Baltimore City Circuit Court building went into lockdown Monday afternoon after an employee received a letter containing white powder.

The 15-year-old male suspect in the shooting near Paul Laurence Dunbar High School's football field was already being held at the Baltimore City juvenile center on unrelated handgun charges.

In a letter to the school, Bowie State president Aminta Breaux told students and staff to expect “an increased presence of police and security officers with support from local police agencies and security services.”

One charged, one sought in relation to shooting at Morgan State during homecoming activities.

U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III on Thursday sentenced Ian Hawes, 32, of Catonsville, for failure to file a 2016 individual income tax return.

As president of the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project, Will Schwarz has the task of addressing the atrocities of racial terror murders of the past while helping to ensure that these crimes are not repeated in the future.

Javarick Gantt’s death last year, coupled with a report by the ACLU on conditions at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, raised questions about the facility’s ability to safely house people, especially those with disabilities.

The announcement of a security barrier at Morgan State, which would enclose 90% of the campus, came one week after an alarming shooting that wounded five at the historically Black institution.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office confirms it had recently received complaints about Property Invest USA that “highlighted serious concerns which we are reviewing.”

David Boykin, 28, known best around Baltimore by his stage name President Davo, was fatally shot Friday in East Baltimore just south of Clifton Park, police confirmed Monday.

When police arrived, they found a female victim suffering from gunshot wounds.

A substitute teacher at Glen Burnie High School was arrested Monday after a handgun was found in his backpack on school property, according to police.

A shooting that injured five young people during homecoming week at Morgan State University should serve as a call to action for an entire community, columnist E.R. Shipp says.

Maryland State Police said Sunday morning that they responded to an incident just after 11:30 p.m. and found two injured male victims, both 19.

Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer grants motion for judgment of acquittal and throws out charges of second-degree assault and misconduct in office against Officer Kevin Hilton.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley declined to identify what types of guns were used but said two weapons were identified through ballistics evidence. The victims have been “as helpful as they could,” Worley said, but have so far been unable to identify the gunmen.

In the recording, Jasmine Billingsley makes clear that she believes her brother committed all the crimes he has been convicted of and the crimes he is currently accused of.

Dr. Joseph Sakran decided to work in medicine after becoming a victim of gun violence as a teenager.

Federal charges against Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr. of Arnold, then a senior member of the Pentagon’s communications staff, and his Glen Burnie barber, detail their roles in an alleged dog fighting ring that operated via encrypted text messages and a private message board. They just don’t explain how this could have gone on so long.

Syed, now 42, of Baltimore, served more than 20 years in prison in the killing of Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend and classmate at Woodlawn High School. Her body was found in Leakin Park in Baltimore on Feb. 9, 1999. She was 18.