Criminal Justice

What started as a road trip to Baltimore to possibly purchase a car ended in tragedy for a Lancaster teen.

Maryland should be allowed to enact “common-sense gun laws,” Attorney General Anthony Brown said.

Federal authorities have identified Harford County resident Brandon Heffner, 38, among a group of rioters on the U.S. Capitol’s lower West Terrace in video footage from Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

An Annapolis police department vehicle has the misspelling “Annappolis” on one side.

Gloria Hughes, 37, is charged with first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death.

The rulings settle parts of a monthslong dispute in the case, though the judge did not hold the state’s attorneys office in contempt of court following delays and excuses for not sharing evidence that the defense requested.

Family has been searching for answers since Malecki disappeared on Nov. 11, 1969. “We’re hoping for some closure.”

Baltimore Police investigated a report of gunfire inside Harbor East Cinemas on Saturday night, according to authorities.

Detectives are investigating a shooting that killed two men in North Baltimore on Sunday morning. Officers responded to the 3600 block of Greenmount Avenue for reports of a shooting around 3 a.m., a news release said.

Charles Johnson, 21, and Eniyah Smith, 20, left behind a 3-year-old daughter.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday. She was 93.

Baltimore County Police took a student into custody Friday after a report of an armed individual sent Kenwood High School into a brief lockdown.

A Kentucky-based charity purporting to raise money for veterans has been ordered to stop doing business in Maryland because it hasn't filed the requisite paperwork or mandatory disclosures.

The man was serving out the remainder of a federal sentence for a 2004 conviction of robbing a bank in a residential re-entry program when he committed the new robberies, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A deadline is looming at the end of the year for Maryland to decide whether to keep or replace the troubled, for-profit company that provides medical care in state prisons and the Baltimore City jail complex.

The installation of a video camera system has begun on the Harford County hiking trail where Rachel Morin’s body was found in August.

The rate of improper arrests dropped from 10.4% to 4% in two random samplings of 200 cases in 2019 and 2021.

David Caldwell, a supervisor at the Safe Streets outpost in Belair-Edison, is charged with illegally possessing ammunition.

The Maryland Office of the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division released the names of three Baltimore County Police officers who responded to a reported domestic disturbance Friday night and exchanged gunfire with a Parkville man who police say fatally shot his wife inside their home.

Snyder’s legal troubles stem from a 2018 effort to squeeze $25 million from the University of Maryland Medical System, after he represented a number of clients who had experienced problems from organ transplants.