Criminal Justice

Anne Arundel County Police and FBI officials solved a 52-year-old cold case by linking the now-deceased suspect through DNA tests.

A state bill cleared a key Senate committee Friday to give more survivors of child sexual abuse the legal right to sue the church and other institutions complicit in the crimes.

Prosecution of children in adult court, which expanded as some Black and brown youths were being singled out as “super predators,” must end in Maryland and elsewhere, Adnan Syed and defense attorney Melissa Miller say.

Anne Arundel County Police will join federal officials on Friday to announce a development in a cold case murder that happened over 50 years ago.

Carter was an “intelligent kid who came into the program to keep out of the noise," his JROTC instructor said.

The attorney general’s office has investigated fatal encounters with police since late 2021, but it had been up to local prosecutors to decide whether to bring criminal charges. A bill moving forward would strip the authority to prosecute these cases from state’s attorneys, handing the responsibility to the attorney general instead.

David Crawford was convicted of eight counts of attempted first-degree murder and two counts of arson. The verdict followed a six-day trial.

What happened that night where Gray’s Corner Road meets Riddle Lane just outside Ocean City has transfixed the year-round residents of this tight-knit beach community ― triggering outrage, sparking activism and leading to restaurant boycotts and the apparent end of a business partnership.

After the fourth fatal shooting of a teenager on or near school grounds this school year, teacher Kerry Graham writes: “Our city must change. Children are dying. Unnecessarily. Violently. Often.”

Community advocates are outraged over yet another teen who has been murdered in Baltimore.

The police agency, which is overwhelmingly white, is planning recruitment efforts to reach a broader swath of candidates.

A Baltimore Police sergeant accused of assaulting a woman and pointing a gun at a bartender following a dispute over his restaurant bill was arrested, Baltimore Police said Monday.

A Maryland State Police trooper was shot multiple times Monday night in Wicomico County, and the suspected shooter was later found with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound and pronounced dead, the agency said.

In 2010, Demetrius Smith was found guilty of first-degree murder in Baltimore Circuit Court and sentenced to life — plus 18 years. Despite being cleared, he’s been denied compensation and benefits in Maryland.

Baltimore Police are investigating the shooting, which took place in Joseph E. Lee Park, a short distance from the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Linthicum, 24, of Cockeysville, had been scheduled to appear at 9 a.m. on Friday for a preliminary hearing in the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore County in Towson.

The plot Russell is accused of perpetrating alongside Catonsville woman Sarah Clendaniel is straight out of the pages of the notebooks seized by the FBI in Florida almost six years ago.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates says residents of the most vulnerable city neighborhoods favor tougher sentences for illegal gun possession, despite opposition from some in academia.

The man's name will be released “at a later time,” according to the attorney general.