Criminal justice

Montgomery County Police are investigating an incident in which a 2-year-old boy reportedly fell from the 15th floor of an apartment building in Silver Spring and survived.

The massive audit called for classifying at least 36 in-custody police deaths as homicides, re-opening old wounds and raising new questions in Maryland.

Dr. David Fowler was a well-regarded former chief medical examiner before he consulted on a high-profile case that brought fresh scrutiny to his work in Maryland.

Independent pathologists commissioned by the state concluded that Tyrone West’s case should be reclassified as a homicide.

The audit’s implications reach far beyond a finding of 36 wrongfully classified deaths.

The yearslong audit cited racial and pro-police bias in the work of the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The state of Maryland has banned the death penalty since 2013, but it has remained in effect on the federal level and applied sparingly.

Both women were sent by ICE to detention facilities in New Jersey and Colorado over the weekend.

The county established the Police Accountability Board three years ago after the General Assembly passed the Police Accountability Act in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis Police in 2021.

The measure exempts Marylanders making at or 250% below the federal poverty guidelines.

Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Pamela K. Alban ruled that there could be scenarios at the trial of Matthew Schlegel in which the door is opened to that testimony.

Police officials said Commissioner Richard Worley was on the scene of a police-involved shooting in the 4600 block of York Road in Baltimore.

Four youths hopped out of the Sonata after the crash and fled the scene, police said. One of them was injured in the collision.

Seven people were indicted Friday for a series of armed robberies that targeted bank customers across multiple Maryland counties, according to Attorney General Anthony Brown. 

In seven lawsuits filed last week, the former Scouts said the alleged abusers used their “power, authority and trust” to coerce them to engage in sexual acts.

Three men were arrested Thursday in connection with the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy on Wednesday in East Baltimore, according to the Baltimore Police Department.

O’Brian Lynch recently filed a lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court against Taco Bell on two counts: negligent hiring and retention, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Two teenagers were shot Wednesday evening in Baltimore, leaving one dead and another injured.

The wave of departures threatens to tilt the 8-year-old court case into dysfunction.

The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case has roiled Maryland’s Salvadoran population, which is one of the largest immigrant groups in the state.