Criminal Justice

Adnan Syed and the Maryland Office of the Attorney General have until Jan. 9 to file their reply briefs.

The law firm of Miler Stern Lawyers LLC filed a notice of a claim with the city and state on Tuesday, saying the Jan. 24 tragedy ”could have and should have been prevented.”

Department leadership, which was just upended following a scathing report on a fatal fire on South Stricker Street in January, contend they are doing everything they can to address the issues.

The survivors and advocates include two women who say they were violently raped by a priest while students at Archbishop Keough High School. The women decried the fact that church leaders have been able to read the report while they — victims whose testimony helped investigators — have been barred from seeing it.

Kevin Torres was shot outside the ChrisT bar in Highlandtown, where he had been celebrating a championship win with his team

It’s been a little over five years since “The Keepers” miniseries debuted on Netflix, shocking viewers with allegations of extreme sexual abuse in the late ’60s and early ’70s at Archbishop Keough, a Catholic all-girls school in Baltimore County. The women who shared their stories in “The Keepers” talk about their hopes for the upcoming Maryland Attorney General’s report into sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

The publication of the agreement paves the way for Hopkins to being recruiting and training private police officers in the next six to 12 months.

Baltimore Police said in a string of recent incidents, ride-hailing service drivers have been carjacked, and the robbers went on to use the app to pick up customers and rob them as well.

Antonio Janifer, 31, of Walbrook, went on a crime spree that included shooting Baltimore Police Officer Joshua Jackson three times at point-blank range on May 26, 2020.

Former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke recalls the ”scorn, derision and dismissiveness” he encountered when he argued in favor of the decriminalization of marijuana and other drugs in the 1980s. He now applauds the public and political shift to his point of view, but advises caution as drug laws are reformed.

Gov. Martin O’Malley appointed District Judge Flynn M. Owens to the bench in 2014.

The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office agreed to cap the potential sentence at 1 1/2 years’ probation.

A year after state lawmakers gave the Maryland attorney general greater investigatory authority in police-involved deaths, local prosecutors have so far declined to charge any officers.

Sam Cogen campaigned on a platform of expanding the use of technology in the sheriff’s office, which he says will make the office more efficient and better equipped to serve bench warrants and domestic violence peace orders. He has vowed to “humanize” the evictions process to help renters find other housing options.

Lawyers for the women featured in the 2017 documentary series file motion to support the disclosure of the 456-page state investigation.

Judge Steven I. Platt said Baltimore Police Sgt. Robert Dohony was “indisputably working every minute of the overtime he claimed.”

The rideshare company said it has a 24/7 team on standby to help with police investigations.

Case reflects ATF’s growing involvement in investigating violence in Baltimore, using a database of cartridge casing evidence to quickly match ballistics to other cases and identify groups causing disproportionate violence.

Shanteari Weems, 50, of Randallstown, the owner of Lil Kidz Kastle Daycare Center, is set to be sentenced in D.C. Superior Court on Feb. 3, 2023.

"In Baltimore City, things are so deeply rooted, that it’s not about a crime problem, it’s not about a violence problem — it’s always been a pain problem.'