Criminal justice

Criminal justice reform advocates say the long stretches of forced solitude in Maryland are known to cause mental health issues and equate the conditions to torture.

Montgomery County Sheriff Maxwell Uy has lost key endorsements in his reelection bid, including that of county State’s Attorney John McCarthy.

An 18-year-old man who works as a volunteer firefighter/EMT was charged with 10 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material, Montgomery County police said Tuesday.

A Baltimore County Fire Department employee is under investigation for misconduct, officials say.

Gregory Turnipseed, a 14-year veteran of the city transportation department, died last week about a month after trying to intervene in an argument over a parking spot in downtown Baltimore.

The man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House pleaded not guilty Tuesday, appearing before a judge by video from a hospital bed.

Luigi Mangione is back in court on Tuesday for the second day of a hearing in his bid to bar New York prosecutors from using some key evidence.

The saga of the Argentines is just the latest example of foreign real estate investors running into substantial problems after grabbing their slice of distressed Baltimore real estate.

In social media posts in Spanish, the Montgomery County Police Department reminded the public how its officers can be identified as county police and that they also wear name tags.

As the first anniversary of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing looms this week, the man charged in his death will be in court fighting to prevent prosecutors from using evidence they say links him to the crime.

State prosecutors and corrections officials on Monday announced 10 criminal indictments stemming from three separate alleged smuggling operations at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Anne Arundel County.

Maryland’s secretary of human services, Rafael López, pleaded guilty on Monday to driving under the influence as part of a deal that could result in no jail time and an eventual dismissal of the case.

The daughter of Gregory Turnipseed, a 71-year-old Baltimore City employee, is speaking about the attack on the job that cost him his life.

Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, California, sheriff’s officials said Saturday.

A 49-year-old Northeast Baltimore woman has been arrested and charged with fatally beating a city traffic worker last month over a downtown parking dispute allegedly started by a 15-year-old passenger in her car.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal faces upgraded charges after President Donald Trump announced Thursday that one of the victims, Sarah Beckstrom, had died.

The 2003 autopsy for federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna has been unsealed after a Pennsylvania newspaper fought for its release.

An unidentified man and a 28-year-old woman died Wednesday morning after they were found with gunshot wound in a crashed vehicle in Baltimore, police said.

April Hurley and Jonte Gilmore filed a lawsuit against Eden’s Homes LLC, Property Pals LLC and Jason Billingsley, who attacked them in 2023 at a rooming house in West Baltimore.

In 1981, Gov. Harry Hughes appointed Mabel H. Hubbard to the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City. She then served as a judge of Baltimore Circuit Court from 1985 to 1999.