Criminal Justice

In a motion for change of venue filed on Monday, Victor Martinez-Hernandez’s attorneys wrote that the case has been the subject of “numerous inflammatory and prejudicial reports in both legacy and social media.”

Maya Dennis, 32, has been arrested on charges of first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse.

A vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans’ famed Canal and Bourbon Street in the first hours of New Year’s Day.

Baltimore County Police arrested a suspect on Tuesday following a stabbing in a Pikesville home that left an unidentified person dead.

Baltimore County Police have arrested Mark Jones, 30, and charged him with the killing of his son and shooting two others in Rosedale on Christmas Eve.

The skilled sniffers scan Baltimore Ravens and Orioles home games for threats.

The Baltimore Banner will continue reporting on these and several other notable cases in Baltimore and the surrounding counties.

News details are emerging about the domestic dispute at a Rosedale apartment on Christmas Eve that left a child dead.

In a 19-page opinion issued on Dec. 9, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Maddox wrote that while the allegations in the complaint were “tragic and alarming,” he was constrained to dismiss the case.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, a Democrat, made resuming the prosecution on low-level, nonviolent offenses one of his signature campaign promises.

Baltimore City Police over the weekend arrested five people, including a 9-year-old boy, stemming from a carjacking in which a woman was dragged from her car at a stop sign, authorities said.

Baltimore County Police on Monday said they arrested a man in possession of what they described as an AK-47 rifle near the site of a recent shooting in Towson that has heightened vigilance by law enforcement officials.

Syed, now 43, is awaiting a new hearing on a motion to throw out his conviction in the killing of Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend and classmate at Woodlawn High School.

Maryland has spent nearly half a million dollars on a private law firm to try and exit a decades-old lawsuit. So far, it has little to show for it.

The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare has pleaded not guilty to murder and terror charges in a state case that will run parallel to his federal prosecution.

Luigi Mangione is now in a federal jail in New York, facing charges that could bring the death penalty.

An Ellicott City woman pleaded guilty Thursday to embezzling more than $1 million from a real estate agency and using the funds to pay for vacations, Taylor Swift tickets and more, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The plaintiffs challenging Baltimore jail health care, led by the ACLU’s National Prison Project, have nominated three of their own selections to become medical monitor.

Deanta Dorsey was an Edmondson-Westside High School sophomore when he was killed in the shooting.

The state’s probation agents have not conducted home visits, including with registered sex offenders, since May, after the corrections department secretary suspended the check-ins for safety reasons.