Criminal Justice

The defense team for Adnan Syed submitted legal arguments to Maryland’s highest court Wednesday, asking the justices to reverse an appellate decision that reinstated his murder conviction in the killing of Hae Min Lee.

A patient escaped from one of Maryland’s state-run psychiatric hospitals Tuesday evening by exiting through a shot-out window and fleeing in a waiting getaway car, according to local police.

The state, which took over the Baltimore’s jails decades ago, has struggled to meet court deadlines to fix health care in its facilities.

The Baltimore Banner obtained more than 100 pages from the internal investigative file, including the officer’s claim that he used a Taser on the boy by accident.

Donald Trump has been charged by the Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It’s the third criminal case brought against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House.

Chris Bendann, 39, of Towson, worked at the Gilman School, a private, independent, all boys school in Roland Park in Baltimore from 2007-2023. He’s charged with sexual abuse of a minor and related offenses.

Circuit Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. found that Deborah Katz Levi did not have a conflict of interest in continuing to represent David Linthicum.

William "Chris" McCollum, 52, of Lutherville-Timonium, acted as the treasurer of two campaign committees and most recently served as deputy director of economic development for Baltimore County.

Their stories were in the massive report on sex abuse in Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese, but a key detail was missing: the name of one of the men who they say raped them.

Baltimore Police said they allowed the cleaning of "debris" before they finished processing the scene of the city's largest mass shooting in recent memory. Experts say valuable DNA evidence could have been lost in the process.

Officers restrained the man, put him in handcuffs and placed him on his side on a stretcher. First-responders started providing medical aid after he was loaded into an ambulance. The man became unresponsive after several minutes.

A 16-year-old boy was found dead 1900 block of Copeland Street off Forest Drive.

McGrath, the former top aide to Gov. Larry Hogan, skipped his federal fraud trial in Baltimore and evaded authorities for weeks before FBI agents tracked his car to a Costco Wholesale store outside Knoxville, Tennessee.

Experts say the case exposes deep flaws in a system that places undue burden on those subjected to abuse to stay safe.

As summertime activities come into focus, outrage in Baltimore about the Brooklyn Homes mass shooting is fading. But city police, housing officials and political leaders need to still be held accountable for what happened, columnist E.R. Shipp says.

The deadly shooting of Timothy Reynolds at the intersection of Light and Conway streets on July 7, 2022, reverberated throughout the city and led to policy changes related to squeegee workers.

Eggleston went missing in May 2017 right before her baby shower. She was eight months pregnant at the time.

The sentence for Carlos Macci, 71, who was linked to a crew of drug dealers blamed in the death of actor Michael K. Williams, benefited from support from Williams’ nephew and “The Wire” co-creator David Simon, who urged leniency.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer said a juror called multiple times to report she was experiencing "flu-like symptoms." The judge directed the jury to return at 9 a.m. Thursday.

The jury was released at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday and is set to continue deliberations Wednesday.