Community issues

Prosecutors may not disclose the names of more than a dozen clergy and laypeople accused of hiding or failing to report child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled on Monday.

Police said a suspect accused of armed robbery at Montgomery Mall on Saturday resisted arrest, bashing his head into a police cruiser.

Baltimore County fire officials said Monday that they had brought under control a blaze that consumed the first and second floors of a historic Black church in Catonsville.

Unionized workers at Towson Town Center’s Apple Store have filed a grievance and unfair labor practice charge against the tech giant as the store prepares to close in June.

Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, a Portuguese immigrant whom immigration agents shot and critically wounded on Christmas Eve in Glen Burnie, pleaded guilty in federal court to damaging government property.

Quontay Spinks, 20, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing Antonio Peoples, 36, and other crimes in Baltimore.

U.S. Park Police said one person was injured after a tour bus traveling on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway overturned.

One person died and six people were injured in a Monday morning shooting connected to an illegal car rally in Columbia, according to Howard County Police.

Shraga Lerner grew up in Pikesville. Records show he played a key role in an alleged mortgage fraud scheme tied to a small group of New York investors.

Maryland State Police are investigating a crash in Prince George’s County that killed a highway worker Saturday morning on the Capital Beltway.

Officials say they are investigating a possible arson at two vacant buildings at a state-owned psychiatric hospital in Southern Carroll County on Saturday morning.

On Friday, the Columbia Association published an 82-page report detailing the last seven months of board infighting that led to three members being removed.

A fight involving middle school students at a Towson bus stop on Monday spiraled into chaos and further confrontation, including amongst parents, that led to nine arrests, Baltimore County Police officials said.

The Nike missile program’s legacy lives on in western Baltimore County, where volunteers spent years restoring a former installation in Granite called BA-79.

Michael Maurice Johnson — cleared in the high-profile 2010 killing of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes — was convicted Friday of raping and assaulting a woman in Baltimore County.

A husband and wife were found dead in a Nottingham home Friday morning after Baltimore County Police responded to reports of a shooting, according to the department.

Shantay Lashay O’Donnell, 46, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is accused of shooting 65-year-old Rab Nawaz while he was working, according to Howard County Police.

Maryland health officials confirmed two more cases of measles in the state, bringing the total infections this year to three.

Kaloyan Stoev was found guilty of a 2025 double murder in Rockville. He shot one of the victims more than two dozen times, according to the Montgomery County state’s attorney’s office.

The Maryland Supreme Court tossed Baltimore’s $266 million victory in its opioid lawsuit against a pair of drug companies in a brief order issued Friday.