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Criminal justice

    Driver in crash that killed 6 construction workers on I-695 pleads guilty to manslaughter
    Melachi Duane Darnell Brown of Windsor Mill is one of two drivers who were charged in the crash, which happened on the inner loop of Interstate 695 in 2023.
    A vehicle sits overturned in a construction zone on the Baltimore Beltway on March 22, 2023. Six construction workers were killed in the crash.
    Driver sentenced to 1 ½ years in crash that killed 6 construction workers on I-695
    Melachi Duane Darnell Brown, 21, of Windsor Mill, had pleaded guilty to six counts of negligent vehicular manslaughter in the crash, which happened on March 22, 2023.
    A vehicle sits overturned in a construction zone on the Baltimore Beltway on March 22, 2023. Six construction workers were killed in the crash.
    Driver told NTSB she had seizure prior to fatal I-695 construction site crash
    The National Transportation Safety Board has provided new details on the fatal crash on Interstate 695 that killed six construction workers in 2023.
    A vehicle sits overturned in a construction zone on the Baltimore Beltway on March 22, 2023. Six construction workers were killed in the crash.
    Baltimore County seeking justice for unsolved rape cases
    Their collective samples became known as the GBMC slides. And after many years of these frozen slides growing ever colder, Baltimore County law enforcement announced its laboratory would process the remaining 1,400 slides by the end of 2024.
    Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger, County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr., TurnAround Executive Director Amanda Rodriguez, and GMBC CEO John B. Chessare, M.D., gather at the podium following a press conference addressing rape kits that need to be tested. Some of the victims have been waiting nearly 50 years for the results.
    Commentary: What I learned from 5 days of jury duty in Baltimore
    A lifelong Baltimore resident says five days of jury duty changed him and gave him a new understanding of how criminal justice is administered in the city.
    6/28/22—the exterior of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse.
    Violent crime is down. For many Baltimore residents, that’s not enough.
    Nearly every respondent — 98% — said crime was a major or minor issue in the city, eclipsing litter, taxes and affordable housing.
    A Baltimore City Police car sits parked on North Calvert St.
    Baltimore prosecutors to announce arrest in 2017 killing of off-duty D.C. cop
    Baltimore prosecutors will announce Wednesday that an arrest has been made in the 2017 killing of an off-duty Washington, D.C., police officer who was gunned down in Northwest Baltimore, sources said.
    A Baltimore Police car and crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
    The Baltimore mayor and state’s attorney are beefing. Will it affect the election?
    The two have only appeared together publicly once this calendar year with the election bearing down.
    Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, flanked by State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, are pictured last summer in a rare joint appearance.
    7-year-old Mondawmin Mall shooting victim now in stable condition
    Baltimore Police said a 7-year-old girl shot at one of Baltimore’s best-known malls on Saturday is now in “stable” condition.
    The exterior of Mondawmin Mall on Dec. 13, 2022.
    FBI opens criminal probe into Key Bridge collapse, raids Dali
    Federal authorities opened a criminal investigation into the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, with FBI agents raiding the container ship Dali early Monday.
    The Dali cargo ship and the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge are seen from a Department of Natural Resources boat on the Patapsco River in Baltimore on April 10, 2024.
    Burglary reported at ‘Real Housewives of Potomac’ star’s Carroll County home
    A “majority” of the star’s designer bags, including Birkin bags, and a “large amount” of her jewelry were taken during the reported theft, according to TMZ.
    Carroll County officials confirmed a reported theft at the home of Wendy Osefo, of “The Real Housewives of Potomac.”
    U.S. Supreme Court declines to review attorney Ravenell’s conviction
    Baltimore attorney Kenneth Ravenell has been out of prison while he appeals his nearly five-year sentence for aiding a drug dealer client.
    Attorney Kenneth Ravenell in an undated picture.
    No charges for police who restrained man with ‘signs of intoxication and distress’ before death
    Trea Ellinger, 29, of Glen Burnie, died after first responders found him lying in the middle of South Howard Street in Baltimore “exhibiting signs of intoxication and distress” and “speaking incomprehensibly,” and later took him to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center on July 25, 2023.
    The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office will not bring charges against police officers who helped restrain a man showing “signs of intoxication and distress” near the Baltimore Convention Center and put him on a stretcher before his death in 2023.
    Letters: City leaders disregard conditions leading to juvenile crime
    Youth development programs are among the resources needed to address the social and economic causes of juvenile crime, says Lillian Bocquin, a fellow with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
    Lillian Bocquin is a Bloomberg Fellow with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
    7-year-old shot Saturday at Mondawmin Mall; Baltimore Police say she wasn’t the target
    A 7-year-old was shot at Mondawmin Mall on Saturday, and Baltimore Police searched for the shooter.
    Mayor Brandon Scott and Police Commissioner Richard Worley address reporters Saturday, April 13, 2024, outside the Mondawmin Mall, where a 7-year-old girl was shot.
    Prosecutors seeking multiple years in prison for Maryland Proud Boy over role in Jan. 6 riot
    Scott Miller of Anne Arundel is facing sentencing Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington for his role in the insurrection. He pleaded guilty in January to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon.
    In a court filing, federal prosecutors say Scott Miller, 36, of Millersville, swung a pole at a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Miller, circled in a photo captured that day, was a member of the fascist group the Proud Boys at the time of the attack.
    Reflections on covering O.J. Simpson’s murder trial as a photographer for the Los Angeles Times
    Kirk McKoy covered the O.J. Simpson murder trial as a young news photographer and remembers how it affected his view of the world — and whether his football idol was innocent or not. He also shares photos he took at the time.
    O.J. Simpson walks out of courthouse after the verdicts concerning his civil trial were read.
    Prison system inks deal with Maryland’s public universities to expand higher education
    The agreement will allow incarcerated people the opportunity to pursue bachelor’s degrees from any of the 12 universities within the University System of Maryland.
    Kyle Longerbeam, Jermain Williams and Timothy Hawkins, all Bowie State University students, flip through a book in the Maryland Correctional Institution library on August 1, 2023.
    Man, 19, charged in fatal shooting of 17-year-old near Inner Harbor
    Baltimore Police said Dejuan Cole, 19, of Pikesville has been charged with murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Devron Tyner on April 1.
    7/8/22—A Baltimore Police officer’s car is parked on the corner of E Lombard St. & President St.
    Baltimore judge slams request from congressman’s office to excuse staffer from jury duty
    Eric Bryant, U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume's chief of staff, apologized and stated that his outreach was not intended to be nefarious or disrespectful to the court.
    U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, a Democrat from Baltimore, speaks before a visit from President Joe Biden on Jan. 30, 2023.
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