Criminal Justice

Law enforcement will no longer be able to stop a vehicle or person in Maryland solely based on the smell of cannabis, under a bill that will become law without Gov. Wes Moore’s signature.

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Experts, prosecutors and local jurisdictions have said the lack of an anti-theft immobilizer in the affected models has allowed for the cars to be stolen with as little as a screwdriver and a USB cord.

Since the beginning of January, 15 teenagers and a 12-year-old have died as a result of gun violence.

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As of May 13, 58 young people ages 13-18 have been shot since the start of the year.

Teens are being shot in record numbers, even as nonfatal shootings and homicides are down. Here’s what they have to say about it.

The incident happened almost two weeks after an LGBTQ flag was torn down at a Federal Hill church.

The Baltimore resident was found at a hotel in the South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, and is awaiting extradition to Baltimore.

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Gov. Wes Moore signed bills into law that restrict who can apply for concealed carry handgun permits and where handguns can be carried. A short time later, the NRA filed a lawsuit saying the new regulations are unconstitutional.

Video shows the teen at one point pulled out a gun and held it in his hand.

Decriminalizing drug paraphernalia is one step Maryland can take toward ending policies that have failed to curb an epidemic of drug-related deaths, says Jessie Dunleavy, an advocate for drug policy reform.

Cedric Elleby has been with the Baltimore Police Department since June 2019.

Teens ages 18, 16, and 14 were shot in separate incidents.

John Merzbacher, a former teacher at Catholic Community School of Baltimore who was convicted of sexual abuse and the repeated rape of a student in the ’70s, has died.

Gov. Wes Moore and Paul Monteiro, the newly appointed secretary of service and civic innovation, cite examples of how service to one another can improve the lives of Marylanders.

Before the shooting, the officer sat beside 17-year-old Mekhi Franklin on a stoop in Shipley Hill, talking with him and others for several minutes, multiple witnesses said.

“We had to keep calling them out to show them all the evidence of something other than my son just leaving leaving the house on his own accord. ... They weren’t doing anything with it and we had to be our own CSI,” Brooks Sr. said.

Annapolis is a small town, and most days a safe one. But over the years that I’ve called it home, the bodies keep piling higher and higher. It’s a geography of violence where we step over the men, women and children killed by guns.