Criminal justice

City Council members cited concerns that the amendment process was too rushed and lacked consensus among the body and city agencies.

James Weems Jr., 59, of Towson, is accused of sexually abusing four children at Lil Kidz Kastle Daycare Center. He's set to stand trial this week in Baltimore County Circuit Court.

Police said they’d arrested Gabriel Gomez-Fiorenza, 27, for the deadly shooting of his 28-year-old girlfriend, Amy Armstrong, inside a luxury apartment complex in the Brewers Hill neighborhood.

Anne Arundel County Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old woman in a Glen Burnie apartment complex on Tuesday night.

Brian Delen, 48, of Bel Air, is charged with first- and second-degree murder, first-degree assault and use of firearm in the killing of Meghan Lewis.

A Glen Burnie man has been sentenced in the fatal attack on a Brooklyn Park father who refused to produce his son for an angry group of adults and boys outside their home last year.

The jury, though, neither heard about the shooting nor learned that she’s currently serving a four-year sentence.

A Windsor Mill woman was sentenced last week to more than five years in prison for attempting to fraudulently receive more than $3 million in COVID-19 CARES Act loans to pay for a Jamaican vacation and more.

Attorneys said Susman Godfrey is known for its innovative approach and that adversaries know it isn't bluffing about taking cases to trial.

State's Attorney Ivan Bates said Friday evening that 24-year-old John Callis has been indicted allegedly for attacking three men after a Ravens-Commanders game in Baltimore on Oct. 13. Video of the attack went viral.

A 48-year-old from Anne Arundel County left scrap tires strewn across an industrial property in Western Maryland. He has pleaded guilty to 17 environmental crimes, authorities say.

A new lawsuit accuses the WWE and its founders of fostering a culture of sexual abuse and looking the other way while a longtime ringside announcer preyed on young men he hired as “ring boys.”

The order follows murder charges against a Howard High School student with a prior criminal record.

Howard County Police teamed with Loyola University Maryland interns and NamUs to create an AI-generated image of an unidentified woman who died in 1971 — the county’s longest cold case — in hopes of identifying the Jane Doe.

A 16-year-old boy was critically wounded and a woman was grazed when someone fired a gun into a crowd in Severn on Thursday night, Anne Arundel County Police said.

A jury could not reach a unanimous verdict in the case of Daaon Spears, 18, of Edmondson Village, who stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges including first-degree murder.

District Judge LaTina Burse Greene on Wednesday ordered Jack Callis to continue to be held without bail.

Councilman Dion Guthrie, 86, a Democrat, is charged with one count of theft between $1,500 and $25,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1501.

The Baltimore Police Department released body-camera footage from the officers who fatally shot a 54-year-old man after he fled the scene of a car crash in West Baltimore.

Jack Callis, 24, faces one count of first-degree assault and three counts of second-degree assault.