Criminal justice

Melvin Clark, 41, of Severn, is accused of shooting at a silver Mitsubishi multiple times while driving recklessly across the westbound span of the Bay Bridge around 11:45 p.m. on June 8.

Defense attorneys and relatives of Jaemaun Joyner, 24, are calling for accountability after watching police body camera footage showing officers restraining him and one holding a gun to his head.

“Open borders are often portrayed as compassionate and virtuous,” said Michael Morin, 40, of Churchville, Maryland. “But there is nothing compassionate about allowing violent criminals into our country and robbing children of their mother. My sister’s death was preventable.”

The number of high school-aged teens shot in Baltimore has fallen by more than two-thirds compared to last year’s 10-year-high watermark.

Maryland law enforcement officials and the NTSB are investigating a small plane crash that is believed to have left a person dead in Royal Oak on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

The undisclosed funding came from two Chinese companies, both of which have been viewed with skepticism in the U.S.

Gervonta Davis, 29, now of Parkland, Florida, will be allowed to travel from July 19 to Aug. 12 to support and advise Team USA boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Anthony Guglielmi, who was the top spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department a decade ago, is chief of communications for the U.S. Secret Service, which is now navigating a historic crisis after the failed assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.

While shootings victimizing teens between ages 13 and 18 remain above pre-pandemic levels, they have fallen sharply this year compared to the same time period in 2023, a Banner analysis has found. This dashboard is updated with the latest data from BPD.

When Trea Ellinger left a drug rehab facility last summer, he assured his anxious mother that everything was fine. By the following afternoon, he was dead — not from the violence his mom feared he might face, but because he didn’t survive an encounter with first responders in downtown Baltimore.

Organized groups are targeting people after they leave ATMs or banks and robbing them at gunpoint.

Tristan Jackson was stabbed in the eye at the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center, according to his attorney.

The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case of former President Donald Trump dismissed the prosecution, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed.

Auto thefts have dropped almost as dramatically as they had spiked last summer, a Baltimore Banner data analysis found.

According to the Prince George’s County Police Department, the shooting took place around 10 p.m. Friday at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro.

Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Videtta A. Brown said in a ruling the gas emissions that damaged Baltimore fall under the federal Clean Air Act.

Former President Donald J. Trump has invited some members of Rachel Morin’s family to join him at the Republican National Convention next week.

Baltimore Police arrested Brandon Lee Adams Jr. of Baltimore and said he stabbed 14-year-old Cortez Lemon after an argument on the bus Wednesday afternoon in the 4200 block of Frankford Avenue.

William Raynard Herold, 22, escaped near Route 50 and Bestgate Road in the Annapolis Exchange area.

In an exclusive Wednesday interview with NBC News’ Tom Llamas, Julio Cervantes said he saw family members disappear to his left and right into the water beneath them.