Criminal justice

Little more than a week into 2026, the deaths of Nikitha Godishala, Venkata Asha Appana and Krishna Kishore Kotikalapudi have stunned Howard County’s growing Indian community.

Federal officials changed their account of the Christmas Eve shooting by ICE agents in Glen Burnie.

Baltimore Police Officer Curlon Edwards, who had been suspended without pay, was terminated after his sentencing on Friday.

Jesica Evelin Argueta of Silver Spring turned herself in Tuesday on an arrest warrant that charged her with manslaughter by vehicle due to gross negligence and related traffic offenses.

Baltimore Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal hit-and-run in Penn North earlier this week.

Luigi Mangione is due in federal court Friday for a pivotal hearing in his fight to bar the government from seeking the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Catherine Torney filed a lawsuit in 2023 against Towson University in Baltimore County Circuit Court that alleged negligence.

Rescue workers performed life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead. His identity has not yet been released.

As Maryland’s budget outlook worsens, state officials are hedging on the controversial Baltimore jail project.

Baltimore protests join a chorus of rallies across the country following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minnesota.

Brody Richardson, 19, had consumed alcohol and used marijuana before a July 21 crash that killed Germantown resident Mary Elizabeth Moody, 71, authorities said.

A 29-year-old man was shot after dragging a police officer during a traffic stop on Wednesday night near downtown Baltimore, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said.

Prosecutors slammed Luigi Mangione’s lawyers for making what the government said were “meritless” claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty.

Court papers connected to a legal argument in the case of two teens accused of kidnapping, burning and killing an Edgewater business owner revealed new details about the case.

A report dated Dec. 4, 2025, details dire conditions at the since-evacuated Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center in downtown Baltimore.

Members of the Baltimore Board of Estimates voted to resolve a civil rights lawsuit that Gary Washington filed in 2019.

A man was arrested for allegedly setting seven separate fires in Baltimore’s Little Italy neighborhood, according to police.

A Pennsylvania fire chief was arrested on New Year’s Day for allegedly defrauding volunteer fire departments in Baltimore County out of tens of thousands of dollars, police said.

A Baltimore man who police say was driving the wrong way on Interstate 95 when he struck another vehicle head-on, killing two people, has been arrested and charged in the Sunday-morning crash, according to Maryland State Police.

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