Criminal Justice

Judge’s opinion allows other allegations, including that police used excessive force, to move ahead to a jury trial.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore will not oppose the release of a nearly four-year investigation into child sexual abuse, church leaders said in a detailed statement released Tuesday evening.

A week after the Baltimore county executive announced ridding the chief of police, his office named Col. Dennis J. Delp to be the interim chief of police for Baltimore County Police Department.

The university plans to hire 100 officers, citing a 'sustained surge' in violence.

Survivors of priest abuse are bracing for a legal fight over the release of the Maryland Attorney General’s 456-page report into 80 years of sexual abuse.

The decisions will allow Burch, who joined the Baltimore Police Department in April 2014, to return from desk duty.

Former parks employees say that Nita Settina failed to take action when alerted to deeply-entrenched problems at Gunpowder Falls State Park, where the former manager has been indicted on charges related to the alleged rapes of two employees.

The defense wrote that moving the trial ”to a courthouse a mere 30 miles away” ”offers a pragmatic solution to the problem of public animus in and around Baltimore stirred up by the near-constant flow of publicity surrounding these proceedings and State’s Attorney Mosby more generally.”

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State officials are seeking to release a 456-page investigation of sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore over 80 years that identifies 158 priests who are said to have abused more than 600 victims.

The teen suspect will face charges of first-degree murder and related charges from the July shooting near the Inner Habor.

The complaint also found that Black decedents were found to be homicide victims 8% of the time, compared to white decedents being found to be homicide victims 21% of the time.

Attorney General Brian Frosh is seeking court approval to release the 456-page report, which documents 80 years of child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Michael Dunty, chief of the homicide division, has replaced Assistant State’s Attorney Rita Wisthoff-Ito.

Several other department heads are leaving county government.

Judge to decide Thursday whether to accept a plea agreement between the teen’s defense attorneys and prosecutors that would send the case to juvenile court.

Three people have been shot — two fatally — at the hands of private, armed security guards in Baltimore in the last month.

Federal prosecutors say Douglas Wyatt, 49, and stepson Jacob Michael Therres, 25, are charged in the District of Columbia with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers.

Kelsey Washington died a week after she was shot in the head while standing in front of an East Baltimore liquor store, Baltimore police announced Tuesday.

A University of Virginia student who went on a field trip to see a play with classmates is the one suspected of opening fire inside the bus.