Criminal Justice

Greater reliance on private security carries risks, and public safety still depends on having law enforcement agencies properly staffed and funded, leaders of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund say.

Dylan King was energetic, kind and loved sports and video games, his family said.

Baltimore Police on Thursday identified the teen who was fatally shot Wednesday as Deanta Dorsey.

The family of a teenager who died after he was shot alongside four other Baltimore students at a shopping center on the outskirts of town says they are heartbroken.

Lawsuits claimed that the newspaper’s parent companies were negligent and failed to take reasonable steps to protect employees.

A 16-year-old boy has died and four other teenage boys were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center.

The boy shot dead in a West Baltimore rowhouse on Friday was 8-year-old Dylan King and his death is being treated as an “open active homicide investigation,” police said Wednesday morning.

Bates, 54, of Locust Point, succeeds Marilyn Mosby, who served since 2015.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Robert K. Taylor Jr. will oversee proceedings regarding the release of an investigation detailing the “sexual abuse” and “physical torture” of more than 600 children and teens at the hands of 158 Catholic priests.

The General Assembly approved Anton's law to ensure transparency and accountability regarding police use of lethal force in Maryland. A new Baltimore County Police policy means the department doesn't intend to abide by the objectives set forth in the law, members of the Baltimore County Coalition for Police Accountability say.

Bates, 54, of Locust Point, is set to take the oath of office at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the Baltimore War Memorial.

Brown, 61, of Prince George’s County, is succeeding Brian Frosh, who served from 2015-2023.

Baltimore City has had more than 330 homicides in each of the last two years.

Police officers discovered the boy’s body upstairs with a gunshot wound to the head.

A Maryland Transit Authority subway partially derailed above ground Monday evening, according to Baltimore fire officials.

State Sen. Jill P. Carter and Del. Jheanelle K. Wilkins plan to introduce legislation that would prevent law enforcement officers convicted of felonies from collecting pensions, a move spurred by the news that a former longtime state parks official facing rape charges will begin collecting a $94,500 pension while in jail.

The disclosures came in bankruptcy proceedings in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, more than a month after the company filed for Chapter 7 protection but cited no assets or liabilities.

Citing state and federal rules that protect grand jury materials, a Baltimore judge ordered proceedings to remain secret in the legal effort to release an investigation into the history sexual abuse within the Catholic Church of Baltimore.

In his new job, Syed will help Georgetown students investigate wrongful convictions, exonerate men and women and create documentary films about the cases.

Talbot County judge orders that the 73-year-old, convicted of killing an off-duty Hagerstown police officer in 1976, be released to a Baltimore reentry program.