The East Baltimore-based church expects to select a firm in the next few weeks and anticipates the work could take up to six months. Pastor Robert Colban's empathetic tone Sunday marked a departure from the more defensive sermons delivered by another pastor in response to a Baltimore Banner series of articles.
Many former members of Greater Grace World Outreach flocked to the East Baltimore church Friday evening to protest leaders’ handling of allegations of child sex abuse — the subject of a Baltimore Banner investigation.
Patrick Toomey, the deputy director of the ACLU’s National Security Project and whose work on Section 702 was cited in the defense’s earlier filing, entered his appearance on the case Tuesday along with two other attorneys from the civil liberties group.
A lawsuit filed last week is the latest addition to a pile of civil claims tied to ABC Capital and Castle Title that keeps growing as the Maryland Insurance Administration investigates discrepancies raised by a civil lawyer and reported by The Baltimore Banner.
Accusations of child sex abuse extend to Greater Grace World Outreach's churches in Ghana. One family confronts church leaders, but discovers the primacy of the church's "brand."
A group raised to revere their pastors reaches out to former classmates and friends. They discover dozens of abuse allegations, including several linked to one family.
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.
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.”
Once-mighty malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder appeared in court Friday in a federal extortion case, at times weeping and describing himself as a broken, but also flashing his trademark feistiness and charm.
Cogen’s endorsement means the city’s two elected law enforcement officials are backing Dixon, following Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates’ endorsement earlier this month.
The plan, which officials said was the result of two years of consideration, would cut 40 of its 61 parishes, resulting in the closure of several historic landmarks and once-thriving worship sites.
A fourth Baltimore County Police officer has been indicted in connection with an incident in which an officer pepper-sprayed a detainee in the city last year.
The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office is creating a new cold case division that will pursue funding for genetic testing and work with detectives to better strategize around unsolved cases.