Criminal Justice

Christopher Austin Jr., 33, of Alexandria, Virginia, was killed in a suspected road rage incident near MGM National Harbor on Thursday night, authorities said.

Support from police and labor unions across the state helped Will Milam to a landslide victory in the Montgomery County sheriff’s race

Police said a 70-year-old motorcyclist died after being thrown from his bike into the path of a pickup truck.

A Baltimore County judge won’t throw out the case against a man charged in a fatal  stabbing after a detective looked through his cellphone without a search warrant and later lied about it.

Officials said a carjacking crew linked to a homicide was also responsible for a brazen string of crimes that stretched across the city for the better part of two months. The eight arrested so far are charged in connection to 39 crimes.

A vigil was held Tuesday night for a 3-year-old girl who was killed in a hit-and-run in Baltimore last weekend.

Prosecutors dropped charges against an Anne Arundel County Police Department lieutenant accused of assaulting a teenager during a domestic incident.

A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians, who has denied killing her parents in Pennsylvania in 2022, has been charged with murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Montgomery County Police are investigating the death of a woman found in a Gaithersburg apartment on Sunday as a homicide. She was found with trauma to her upper body.

Prince George’s County Police arrested Dayon Neal, 28, on Monday in Charles County. He’s facing murder, assault and gun-related charges.

A woman died following a single-vehicle crash at a parking garage. An adult male passenger in the vehicle was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Baltimore County Police have taken a suspect into custody in the shooting death of a 22-year-old Towson University student in the downtown area earlier this month, officials announced Monday night.

Montgomery County Police are searching for a black SUV in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a 61-year-old pedestrian from Silver Spring.

A Silver Spring man who was killed after being struck by a car in White Oak last week was identified by police on Monday as 45-year-old Minh Q. Vu.

Michael Maurice Johnson, who was convicted and later cleared in the high-profile 2010 killing of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes, was sentenced Monday to two consecutive life terms plus 25 years for raping a young woman.

A motorcyclist died early Sunday after colliding with another motorcyclist in Rockville, Montgomery County Police said.

Four people — including a 3-year-old girl and a 19-year-old riding a scooter — died in acts of violence and traffic crashes across Baltimore on Saturday, turning it into one of the city’s deadliest days this month.

At least six people were shot Saturday morning in an industrial area of Anne Arundel County, police said.

M8 Beer in South Baltimore drew a crowd for the U.S. vs. Australia World Cup match on Friday.

Josue David Carranza Castellon was arrested attempting to board a flight to Honduras after fleeing a fatal hit-and-run in Gaithersburg earlier this week, Montgomery County Police said on Friday.