Criminal justice

    New criminal case targets old allegations against priest, dividing Catholic community
    William Mannion was previously investigated by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, but officials left him off the list of allegedly abusive priests.
    George Herman Ruth charged with using old baseball players’ names for settlement fraud. No, not the Babe.
    The 69-year-old is charged with mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers, money laundering, making false statements to his probation officer and possessing firearms after having previously been convicted of felonies.
    American baseball player George Herman Ruth (1895-1948) known as “Babe” Ruth. A different George Herman Ruth now faces fraud charges.
    Tax sale lawsuit against Baltimore can proceed, federal judge rules
    The case now centers on the question of “just compensation.”
    The Edmondson Community Organization, a neighborhood group in West Baltimore, brought the lawsuit against Baltimore and an investor in July 2024
    Man who shot and killed 2 strangers in Baltimore receives consecutive life sentences
    On Sept. 12, 2020, Dandre Woods-Bethel, of Belair-Edison, fatally shot Julie Rice and Michelle Green on the porch of a home on Clifton Park Terrace and then called Baltimore Police to surrender.
    Exterior of the Elijah E. Cummings Courthouse on Calvert Street in Baltimore, Md. on Saturday, July 19, 2025.
    Seventh woman sues Maryland hospital system over pharmacist’s alleged voyeurism
    At least seven women have accused former University of Maryland Medical System pharmacist Matthew Bathula of a decade-long campaign of cybervoyeurism.
    Views of the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore on November 8, 2024.
    Moore to Trump: Come visit Baltimore
    “Donald Trump, if you are not willing to walk our community, keep our name out of your mouth,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Thursday, before extending an official invitation for the president to visit Baltimore.
    Gov. Wes Moore clapped back at President Donald Trump in a video posted to social media.
    Howard County Police charge mother in last year’s death of 3-year-old
    Howard County Police charged a mother in the November death of her 3-year-old child. At the time, the mother and child were living in Columbia.
    A 3-year-old’s mother has been charged in the child’s November death by Howard County Police.
    An ICE officer told an angry crowd he had a warrant before a Baltimore County arrest. He lied.
    ICE officers arrested a Honduran man, Adolfo Nimrod Hernandez-Ramos, because they suspected he was undocumented and he lived near their intended target.
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gather for a briefing before an enforcement operation, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md.
    What is Maryland’s former gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox up to in Howard County?
    Dan Cox, a Republican who lost to Wes Moore, is representing plaintiffs in two federal discrimination cases against Howard County government, the police department and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.
    Dan Cox, gubernatorial candidate for Maryland, speaks at his election night event held at Double Tree by Hilton in Annapolis, MD on November 8, 2022.
    Fatal shooting in Columbia was targeted, Howard County Police say
    Howard County Police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened on Tuesday night in Columbia.
    The Howard County Police logo seen outside their headquarters in 2024.
    Why wasn’t Baltimore County Councilman Todd Crandell arrested after endangering police?
    While the Dundalk Republican has publicly acknowledged his struggles with alcoholism, the altercation with police only came to light after Crandell’s wife filed a protection order.
    Baltimore County Councilman Todd Crandell during a council meeting in January.
    FTC to Pikesville men who resold Taylor Swift tickets for profit: You need to calm down
    The Federal Trade Commission is suing two Pikesville men who they say have been illegally buying hundreds of thousands of tickets to concerts, plays and sporting events to resell at a profit.
    FILE - Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour June 21, 2024, in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
    Killings in Baltimore are hitting historic lows. So why is Commissioner Worley scowling?
    Life in Baltimore always means a reversal of fortune could be right around the corner
    Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley stands in his office at the Baltimore City Police headquarters in Baltimore, MD on Monday, May 19, 2025.
    Nepenthe brewery targeted during string of Hampden burglaries
    Baltimore police have responded to recent burglary calls at Nepenthe and Keller's Liquor, as well as a destruction of property call at Grano's Pasta Bar, all in Hampden.
    Nepenthe Brewery in Hampden
    Howard County officer fatally struck a 93-year-old pedestrian in Columbia
    A 93-year-old woman is dead after an on-duty Howard County Police officer struck her with an unmarked vehicle in a Columbia shopping center parking lot early Friday morning.
    Police said an on-duty, plainclothes officer was pulling out of a parking space in an unmarked 2019 GMC Acadia when the vehicle fatally struck a 93-year-old woman.
    ‘Indefinite lockdowns’ are keeping prisoners in nearly 24-hour confinement, group says
    The Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland put the state on notice over constitutional violations it's attributing to "indefinite lockdowns" at state prisons.
    The Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland wrote the state attorney general and corrections secretary last week to raise concerns in the prison system, particularly at facilities on the Eastern Shore and in the Hagerstown area.
    An unusual day in court for Maryland’s federal judges — as defendants
    The case centers on a standing order issued in May by Chief Judge George L. Russell III, in which he ordered a 48-hour pause in every case in which an immigrant had tried to block deportation by challenging the legality of their detention.
    The Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in downtown Baltimore.
    Grandmother of man killed in Park Heights mass shooting says ‘everybody loved him’
    A Baltimore grandmother said she’s devastated after a 38-year-old man was killed in a mass shooting in the Park Heights neighborhood on Saturday.
    MONDAY AUG 11 2025 - Residents in Baltimore's Park Heights community are still waiting for answers after a mass shooting Saturday night left one person dead and five others injured.
    Beloved pit beef vendor mourned at Baltimore Farmers’ Market
    Baltimore Farmers’ Market patrons paid tribute Sunday to a longtime pit beef vendor who was found shot dead in his burning Pennsylvania home a week ago.
    An old photo of Michael Shores Jr. and his daughter, Ray, is displayed at a memorial for the longtime vendor at the Baltimore Farmers’ Market on Sunday.
    Florida prosecutors decline to file formal charges against Gervonta Davis in battery case
    The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office on Tuesday made the announcement at what was scheduled to be his arraignment.
    World Boxing Association lightweight champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis in Baltimore in March.
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