Criminal justice

Billinger, 47, of Baltimore, has always maintained that he did not kill Earline “Smiley” Thomas and Howard “Mike” Martin, both 53, whose bodies were discovered in their apartment on St. Paul Street in Old Goucher on March 14, 2017.

Circuit Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer set a hearing for Feb. 26 on the motion for reduction of sentence under the Juvenile Restoration Act.

The 10-year-old girl was pronounced dead Tuesday after suffering an accidental gunshot wound on Saturday, police said.

Brandon Russell, 29, of Orlando, Florida, who’s the founder of the Atomwaffen Division, is standing trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on a charge of conspiracy to damage an energy facility.

After a former employee at Pikesville High School was accused of using AI to impersonate the school’s principal, lawmakers are considering a bill to target the practice.

The 15-year-old is being charged as an adult with first-degree murder, Baltimore Police said.

Dazhon Darien, 32, is now charged in U.S. District Court in Baltimore with sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography.

Baltimore City Police Commissioner Richard Worley called the situation preventable and infuriating.

The officer, a five-year veteran, has been suspended without pay.

Dazhon Darien is charged with disturbing school operations, retaliating against a witness, stalking and related offenses.

LifeBridge Health says gun trafficking is a public health problem and it needs the public to get involved to find solutions.

A community is outraged, and a family is devastated by the murder of Anntoinette Tunstall-Jennings, a Baltimore schoolteacher’s aide, who was fatally shot after watching her grandchild play basketball.  

President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of those people are from Maryland.

The Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office recently dropped the cases against Regina Jones, the former principal of Aberdeen Middle School, and Tanya Johnson, a paraeducator, after determining that “the facts do not support conviction.”

Keyona Dillon, 34, was arrested around noon on Thursday when officers responded to a home in the 2100 block of Firethorn Road, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

It was not immediately clear whether the suspects are fellow students.

The 52-year-old woman who was killed in a triple shooting Wednesday night in North Baltimore was identified by police as Antionette Jennings.

Carlos Ayala had his case dismissed earlier this week after President Trump issued a blanket pardon to the Jan. 6 participants. Ayala’s trial was scheduled for June.

Three men face trial in Wicomico District Court for misdemeanors.

The aide never applied for a state Senate scholarship but emailed the Maryland Higher Education Commission in July 2022 to say she had been awarded one, according to the documents.