Criminal Justice

Thomas Pinkerton Jr., 52, a former youth pastor at Central Christian Church in Rossville, faces up to four years in prison under a plea deal accepted Monday. He can argue for less time at his upcoming sentencing.

Baltimore Sheriff Sam Cogen and challenger Sabrina Tapp-Harper face off in a contentious primary while a workplace discrimination lawsuit looms in the background.

Nasir Majied, the 22-year-old man who was shot and killed while driving just before a traffic circle on York Road, was a student at Towson University.

One man was killed and three others wounded in two separate shootings overnight in Baltimore as the weekend began, police said.

Baltimore County Police say the shooting happened along York Road in Towson Friday afternoon.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Jeffrey Geller convicted Raymond Lunn, 32, of Woodbourne Heights, of attempted rape, assault and a sex offenses at Johns Hopkins University.

Police in Maryland can no longer stop and search someone solely based on their suspicion that the person is carrying a gun, the state’s full appeals court ruled in a sweeping opinion that law enforcement agencies worry could curtail police practices statewide.

U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson dismissed portions of a lawsuit over an Elkridge ICE facility, but has yet to rule whether construction on the building may proceed.

Former Baltimore teacher of the year Dennis Jutras told Chris Hansen he was trying to warn a teen in a Harford County sting operation targeting adults seeking sex with minors.

A Maryland man is facing charges in connection with an attack on two federal Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

The Baltimore Police Department is betting on a unique concept to better serve residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities: a voluntary database for that population.

Two women are sought in connection with the murder of a 67-year-old Silver Spring woman, Montgomery County Police said on Thursday.

Raymond Lunn, 32, of Woodbourne Heights, is standing trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges of attempted rape, assault and sex offenses of an international student at Johns Hopkins University.

The Maryland Second Look Act allows people who’ve served at least 20 years in prison for crimes committed when they were adults younger than 25 to ask a court to reduce their sentence.

A hearing in Luigi Mangione ’s state murder case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was held in secret Wednesday after the judge shut out the press and public without explanation.

A disagreement over how to notify survivors of sexual assault about decades-old DNA could cost Baltimore County $5.3 million in state funding.

A federal judge sentenced two Baltimore men on Tuesday to lengthy prison terms for their involvement in an attempted carjacking that turned deadly in 2022, officials said.

A bus driver who was involved in a deadly crash in Virginia pleaded guilty Tuesday to a previous speeding citation in Maryland, Anne Arundel County court officials said.

A Timonium man is being held without bail after allegedly threatening and brandishing a semiautomatic gun at the family of Liam O’Donoghue, a 16-year-old Calvert Hall student who lost an arm in a car crash that killed two of his friends last month.