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Survivors of Greater Grace and their loved ones held a protest outside the Baltimore campus Friday.
Greater Grace church vows to probe its handling of sex abuse allegations, publicize the findings
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.
Survivors of Greater Grace and their loved ones held a protest outside of the Baltimore campus on June 28, 2024. The protest lasted about five hours.
Dozens protest at Greater Grace church in wake of sex abuse investigation
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.
Jediah Tanguay, a survivor of Greater Grace Church, painted his body with the words "shame", "broken", and "failure", taped his mouth shut, took off his shoes and stood in front of the church on Moravia Road during their large convention on June 24, 2024 in protest.
Painted in protest, a sex abuse survivor begs church to change
The Tanguay brothers, survivors of Greater Grace Church, recount their stories of abuse and how the church handled it.
Brandon Russell. A Maryland woman conspired with the Florida neo-Nazi leader to carry out an attack on several electrical substations in the Baltimore area, officials said Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.
Neo-Nazi charged with plotting to attack power grid has a new defender — the ACLU
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.
ABC Capital’s Jay Walsh appeared in Baltimore District Court on June 20 for a scheduled trial on charges of felony theft and doing business without a license.
New lawsuit: Title company collected $1 million for ABC Capital transactions that never happened
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.
Greater Grace World Outreach Pastor Thomas Schaller said during a sermon Sunday that the church is being “misrepresented” and “attacked.” He denied allegations of impropriety.
Baltimore pastor defends church’s record on child sex abuse: ‘If we know it, we act on it’
“We are being attacked,” said Greater Grace church's head pastor, Thomas Schaller.
Illustration of two women and one man sitting at a table with disposable coffee cups in front of them. We see the back of one woman's head and the other woman leans forward to hold her hand. A hazy image of a Jeep floats in the background.
One family’s agonizing journey to uncover secrets and abuse at a Baltimore church
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."
Illustration shows six individuals on Zoom screens in various stages of research or on the phone. There is a large millstone behind them and padlocks sprinkled around the image.
Web of megachurch sex abuse leads to a trusted pastor and his sons
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.
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This megachurch warned of hell. Then it concealed its own sins.
A campfire confession exposes decades of child sex abuse claims at Baltimore megachurch — and inspires a group to seek justice for alleged victims.
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.
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.”
At times weeping, defiant, attorney Snyder appears in court for extortion case
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.
Baltimore Sheriff Sam Cogen endorsed former mayor Sheila Dixon, saying the administration of Brandon Scott has been dysfunctional and tying his hands
Citing dysfunction, Baltimore Sheriff Sam Cogen endorses Sheila Dixon for mayor
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.
Dazhon Leslie Darien
Suspect in Pikesville AI case set off red flags before racist recording spread
Before he arrived at Pikesville High School last year, Dazhon Darien appear to have held jobs in at least five states.
Pikesville High School photographed on March 4, 2024.
Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun
Baltimore County Police charged Dazhon Darien, Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, in connection with the incident.
St. Vincent de Paul in downtown Baltimore is among the dozens of churches slated for closure.
Archdiocese of Baltimore proposes closing dozens of churches in the city
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.
6/16/22—A Baltimore County police car sits outside of the Public Safety Building and Police Department in Towson.
Fourth county officer indicted in pepper-spray incident; city officer charged with overtime fraud
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 owner of ABC Capital claims he’s out of business after being blacklisted by a major insurance underwriter, Castle Title.
ABC Capital’s Walsh hit with criminal charges for not providing promised rehab of vacant home
New charges represent a fraction of the allegations made against Jay Walsh, but are the first time he’s faced possible criminal penalties.
A Baltimore Police detective’s handcuffs are secured on his belt as he observes the crowd in between innings during a baseball game in 2023.
Fact-checking Brandon Scott’s claims about Sheila Dixon’s record on crime
A new ad from Mayor Brandon Scott criticizes former Mayor Sheila Dixon’s record, but those assertions need more context.
Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates announced charges in the first case that the new cold case unit will prosecute.
Baltimore prosecutors to increase focus on cold case homicides, DNA testing
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.
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