Criminal justice

First responders found a driver who had been ejected from a Toyota Camry. They pronounced him dead at the scene, police said.

A judge sentenced Jorge Rueda Landeros to 25 years in prison Tuesday for the beating death of an American University professor at her Bethesda home in 2010. The maximum sentence in the case was 30 years.

A pedestrian was killed in Rockville when a van struck him on Sunday night.

An Oxon Hill-based computer gaming champion is facing deportation, and his family says his life would be in peril in his native Cameroon.

A former substitute teacher at the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Early Learning Center is incarcerated and under investigation for child sex abuse material distribution, officials said.

A local baseball coach was charged with sexually soliciting a minor and soliciting child sexual abuse material from her.

Kevin Weaver, 42, of Halethrope, spent five months in the Metropolitan Transition Center after turning himself in to Baltimore Police.

Maryland State Police say two more teenagers have been arrested and charged in a vehicle shooting in January in Somerset County that left one man dead and another hospitalized.

Three people were killed, including the alleged gunman, and 14 others were wounded in a shooting at a popular bar in the Texas capital of Austin, authorities said Sunday.

Howard County Police fatally shot a man Sunday morning outside a Columbia apartment building, according to a department release.

Between 2017 and 2023, Thomas failed to pay more than $2.5 million in employment taxes at several businesses, including Bar One Baltimore on Lancaster Street in Harbor East.

Federal prosecutors won’t appeal a ruling that bars them from seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Brian Burrows is charged with first-degree murder and related offenses in the killing of Khaled Saleh Mohamed Alshariki on Feb. 13 at the Broadway Mart in East Baltimore.

A Montgomery County prosecutor said the suspect in a Valentine’s Day homicide planned the “cold-blooded killing of a defenseless 87-year-old man” for a month.

Daaon Spears, 19, of Edmondson Village, was acquitted in Baltimore Circuit Court of first-degree murder and related offenses.

The bill -- a compromise that shortens the list of crimes that automatically result in adult charges -- passed out of the Maryland Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee on Friday.

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The parents of Zona Byrd, who weighed just 17.5 pounds when she died nearly two years ago, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of child abuse resulting in death.

Kilmar Ábrego García’s mistaken deportation has galvanized both sides of the immigration debate.

A Baltimore County paramedic charged with 23 crimes related to ejaculating and urinating on his coworkers’ food and personal items is scheduled for trial in October.