Criminal justice

In Maryland’s coastal tourist hub, the top prosecutor is accused of trying to chill citizen complaints about police.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semiautomatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons.

U.S. District Judge Lydia K. Griggsby is scheduled on Thursday to sentence Mosby, 44, a Democrat who serve two terms as the city's top prosecutor from 2015-2023, on two counts of perjury and one count of making a false statement on a loan application. She maintains her innocence.

A Baltimore Department of Public Works employee was injured in a shooting Friday morning in West Baltimore.

Read former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s application for a presidential pardon.

The public defender’s office described “horrific” and unsanitary conditions at the jail.

Aaron Brown, 19, pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder for his role in the shooting that killed two people and wounded 28 others at the Brooklyn Homes housing project on July 2, 2023.

A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of a Baltimore T-Mobile store employee during a string of armed robberies last year.

An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search.

Matthew Scott Banks Schlegel, 44, was arrested Thursday.

Maryland state officials are moving forward on massive new contracts for prison and jail mental and medical health care, ousting a problematic contractor.

Leon Hill, 55, of Windsor Mill, said he wanted to take responsibility for his actions and understood that he needed to be held accountable for fatally shooting Elaine Jackson at a Maryland Transit Administration lot in Southwest Baltimore on Oct. 18, 2022. She was 40.

Prosecutors will not charge the Anne Arundel County Police officer who used a Taser on a man who later died.

Markis Russell, 22, pleaded guilty in Baltimore City Circuit Court to second-degree murder and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, according to the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office.

Sarah Beth Clendaniel told a confidential FBI source that the attack would be “legendary” and “probably permanently completely lay this city to waste.”

The state has been in talks with county executives about expanding “diversion” programs to reduce the number of people with mental illness from being funneled into the court system in the first place.

Three people accepted responsibility on Monday for their roles in a mass shooting that killed two and wounded 28 others in the Brooklyn Homes community in Baltimore, where hundreds had gathered for an annual celebration the weekend before the Fourth of July.

Callum Robinson was a standout lacrosse player at Stevenson University, a hulking figure who was hard to miss. But friends remember the former Locust Point resident, who was found fatally shot in Mexico last month in a robbery attempt, for his big hugs, big heart and zest for life.

A 47-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with arson and related offenses in connection to a May 6, 2024 fire at Papi Cuisine in South Baltimore.

A crush of court orders and the lack of psychiatric hospital bed space have led to a record-high waitlist for jail transfers.