Criminal justice

Police have charged one man with assault and other offenses and were searching for two other people, a woman and a man, whom they plan to charge with assault.

Four Safe Streets workers from Baltimore’s leading violence intervention program monitored the block party Saturday at Brooklyn Homes, but clocked out and left about an hour before gunfire erupted.

Baltimore leaders held the crime walk Wednesday days after the shooting rocked the Brooklyn Homes community.

Investigators have long searched for a link between the killings of Malecki and Sister Cathy Cesnik, a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School.

Aaliyah Gonzalez was just 18 years old when she was shot and killed at a festive gathering in Baltimore’s Brooklyn Homes community. Gonzalez’s family describes her as their whole world. They are devastated by her murder. Now, they are asking the public to come forward with tips that might help detectives capture the people who discharged their guns, bringing an end to her life.

Taylor Taranto, 37, who prosecutors say participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, kept two firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside a van he had driven across the country and had been living in, according to a Justice Department motion that seeks to keep him behind bars.

John Huffington was wrongly convicted of double murder in Harford County in 1981, in a case so flawed that the lead prosecutor was ultimately disbarred for his conduct in the case. Huffington was pardoned earlier this year.

The Baltimore Police Department is asking for community feedback on a policy that would guide its use of small unmanned aircrafts, or drones, for aerial surveillance.

An investigation found that the state improperly rounded up and rounded down the hours worked by employees at state-run prisons and jails, cheating them out of pay they had earned.

The teenager was transported to a hospital, where he died. The remaining victims’ injuries are considered non-life-threatening, police said.

Radio communications from the Southern District indicated that police were well aware of a massive crowd nearing 1,000 people gathered at Brooklyn Homes.

The Maryland Office of the Attorney General has also identified the five officers involved in the shooting.

The city is “gearing up every resource” to keep people safe on the July Fourth holiday, Mayor Brandon Scott said Monday.

City Council committee will hold a hearing on July 13 about the shooting at the Brooklyn Day block party that left 2 dead and 28 wounded.

Two people were killed and a staggering 28 were injured in Sunday’s mass shooting in Brooklyn. Here’s what you need to know.

The shooting at the annual Brooklyn Day block party is the most people shot in one incident in Baltimore since at least 2015.

WMAR-2 News made the right choice in pulling down a documentary trailer about the 2018 Capital Gazette killings in Annapolis, Baltimore Banner Public Editor DeWayne Wickham says.

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Mosby’s attorneys cite a poll that showed negative attitudes toward the former city state's attorney in the Baltimore region.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. said Neil Adleberg, 75, of Reisterstown, was not on trial for being “overbearing, manipulative, creepy, obsessive or a micromanager — because those aren’t crimes.”