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A Baltimore Police vehicle is seen in Fells Point on April 14, 2024.
2 Baltimore Police officers plead guilty in unrelated reckless driving and overtime theft cases
Officer Alexia Davis pleaded guilty on Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court to reckless driving and failure to control speed to avoid a collision for a $2,000 fine. Meanwhile, former Detective June Hall pleaded guilty to theft and misconduct in office for probation before judgment.
Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, along with civil rights attorney Ben Crump, addresses reporters outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, May 23, 2024. Mosby was sentenced earlier in the day to three years of probation with a year of house arrest for perjury and fraud.
Marilyn Mosby spared prison time in fraud and perjury case, must forfeit vacation home
U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby spared Marilyn Mosby, 44, a Democrat who served term terms as the city’s top prosecutor from 2015-2023, from going to prison on two counts of perjury and one count of making a false statement on a loan application.
6/16/22—A Baltimore County police car sits outside of the Public Safety Building and Police Department in Towson.
Trial for man accused of shooting 2 Baltimore County officers reset for late summer
Baltimore County Circuit Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. reset the trial of David Linthicum, 25, of Cockeysville, to begin on Sept. 16. It’s scheduled out for 10 days.
Frank Schindler, a member of the Maryland chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, speaks to reporters on Monday outside the Edward A. Garmatz U.S. Courthouse in Baltimore following a hearing in the Archdiocese of Baltimore bankruptcy case.
8 survivors speak during special hearing in Archdiocese of Baltimore bankruptcy case
“Today, the court will provide time and space for listening,” U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michelle M. Harner said on Monday at the beginning of a hearing in the case.
Marilyn Mosby served two terms as Baltimore state’s attorney from 2015-2023. She’s scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt on two counts of perjury and one count of making a false statement on a loan application.
Marilyn Mosby wants a presidential pardon. She’s not asking quietly.
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.
Two people were killed and 28 others were wounded in a mass shooting during an annual celebration at the Brooklyn Homes housing project on July 2, 2023.
Fourth person pleads guilty for role in Brooklyn Day mass shooting
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.
Photo collage of silhouette of a bearded man cut out of generic diploma and resume with name “Dazhon Darien” on top. Scattered around the image are images of a mortarboard, football, first place ribbon and whistle on a yellow lanyard.
Man charged in racist AI scandal lied on résumé to get Baltimore County school job
Pikesville High School's ex-athletic director is accused of framing the principal using artificial intelligence. He's faked a lot more than that.
Maryland Transit Administration bus driver Elaine Jackson, a mother of four, was fatally shot after she finished her shift at a lot near Washington Boulevard and Bush Street in Southwest Baltimore on Oct. 18, 2022. She was 40.
Man sentenced for ‘daylight gunning down’ of Maryland Transit Administration bus driver
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.
Sarah Beth Clendaniel was arrested by federal authorities on charges that she plotted to destroy energy facilities in the Baltimore area.
Baltimore County woman pleads guilty to conspiring with neo-Nazi leader to attack energy grid
Sarah Beth Clendaniel told a confidential FBI source that the attack would be “legendary” and “probably permanently completely lay this city to waste.”
Two people were killed and 28 others were injured during a mass shooting in the Brooklyn Homes community on July 2, 2023.
3 plead guilty for their roles in Brooklyn Day mass shooting
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.
A screenshot from body camera footage by the Maryland Natural Resources Police of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse site on the Patapsco River in the early morning hours. The screenshot indicates the video was taken at just past 5 a.m. on March 26, 2024.
Body camera video reveals shock, disbelief after Key Bridge collapse
The Baltimore Banner obtained the body camera video Friday from the Maryland Natural Resources Police through a Maryland Public Information Act request.
Baltimore County Detention Center located in Towson, MD.
People with severe mental illness are languishing in jail. Now the state has to pay
A crush of court orders and the lack of psychiatric hospital bed space have led to a record-high waitlist for jail transfers.
Jeremiah Brogden was shot and killed as classes at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School let out for Labor Day weekend in 2022.
Man sentenced for deadly shooting of Mervo student
Jeremiah Brogden, a junior at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School and a running back on the Mustangs varsity football team, was shot and killed as classes let out for Labor Day weekend in 2022. He was 17.
Prosecutors recommended that former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby be sentenced to 20 months in prison. Mosby’s attorneys are asking a judge to sentence her to probation.
Prison or probation? Attorneys make conflicting recommendations for Marilyn Mosby’s sentence
Mosby’s attorneys, Federal Public Defender James Wyda and Assistant Federal Public Defenders Maggie Grace and Sedira Banan, said, “Jail is not justice for Marilyn Mosby.”
The NAACP and more than a dozen organizations on Tuesday sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to pardon former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who's scheduled to be sentenced on two counts of perjury and one count of making a false statement on a loan application.
NAACP calls on President Biden to pardon former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby
“The only thing Marilyn Mosby is guilty of is the desire to provide her family with a better life," NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
Governor Wes Moore signs the Child Victims Act into law on April 11, 2023.
Maryland Supreme Court agrees to take up constitutionality of Child Victims Act of 2023
The Child Victims Act of 2023 took effect on Oct. 1, 2023, and eliminated the statute of limitations for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits and allowed more people to sue institutions that enabled their victimization.
Matthew Biegel, a former agriculture educator at Reginald F. Lewis High School, is charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder and related offenses.
Baltimore teacher in ‘inappropriate relationship’ helped teen shoot ex-boyfriend, police allege
Matthew Biegel, 38, of Northeast Baltimore, previously worked as an agriculture educator at the Reginald F. Lewis High School of Business, Law, and Agriculture.
6/16/22—Exterior of the Baltimore County Courts Building in Towson.
Baltimore County judge postpones trial of man accused of shooting 2 police officers
David Linthicum, 25, of Cockeysville, had been scheduled to stand trial on May 20 in Baltimore County Circuit Court on five counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses.
Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby appeared on Wednesday on "The ReidOut" with Joy Reid on MSNBC and declared her innocence on perjury and mortgage fraud charges.
Ex-Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby on MSNBC: ‘I’ve done absolutely nothing wrong’
Mosby, 44, is set to be sentenced on May 23 in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt on two counts of perjury as well as one count of making a false statement on a loan application. She maintains her innocence.
A row of two story brick buildings stands in the background. In the foreground is police tape. A U-Haul truck and police vehicles are visible.
Baltimore state’s attorney extends plea offers to 5 charged in Brooklyn Day mass shooting
“We are actively negotiating some of those pleas,” said Michael Dunty, chief of the homicide division in the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office, to Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa K. Copeland. “We are asking the court to allow us about one more month to hammer out the details.”
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