Criminal justice

Dion Guthrie, 86, of Joppa, a Democrat, claimed in a lawsuit filed in Harford County Circuit Court that he did not actually plead no contest to one count of theft between $1,500 and $25,000 because a judge needed to consent to that action.

Baltimore County homicide detectives are investigating a double homicide in Woodlawn from over the weekend.

Neither special on Luigi Mangione includes huge revelations. But if you’re unfamiliar with the details of the killing, they provide decent context.

Police used the helicopter’s imaging system to locate the origin of the laser: the rear of a home on the 800 block of Rosedale Avenue, according to police records.

Syed’s attorneys, Assistant Public Defenders Erica Suter and Brian Zavin, had filed a motion for reduction of sentence under the Juvenile Restoration Act.

The Appellate Court of Maryland, the state’s mid-level appeals court, ruled in 2022 that people whose probation is unsatisfactorily closed after a violation cannot receive an expungement

Trayvon Ocain, 33, died in a facility that is under scrutiny for its health care system. His family wants answers.

A man was shot and killed in Northeast Baltimore on Thursday afternoon, marking the city’s first homicide investigation of the new year.

Baltimore County Police have charged three adults in the armed carjacking of a restaurant worker at Towson Town Center in November, authorities said Wednesday.

Baltimore County police shot Kodi Gaines in 2016 while serving a warrant on his mother. Now the Cato Institute is siding with the boy's lawyers and arguing that the shooting violated Kodi's constitutional rights.

Eric Eiswert’s lawsuit also names Dazhon Darien, the man accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate him.

Maryland leaders are continuing to take an aggressive approach to solving and curtailing crimes in Baltimore after the city significantly reduced homicides and most violent crime in 2024.

Social media influencer Daniel Hentschel said he once thought about being a school shooter at John Carroll School.

Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General on Tuesday released body camera footage from the fatal police shooting of 29-year-old Tyree Winslow of College Park.

The man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO outside a New York City hotel is unlikely to appear in Manhattan federal court again before mid-February.

Federal prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 35 years in prison for a former teacher at the Gilman School who was convicted of sexually abusing a student and recording videos of it.

The Banner previously examined how a woman took the rare step of reporting that she was sexually assaulted, only to face a series of delays outside her control.

President-elect Donald Trump vowed he would act quickly — on his first day in office — to look at individual cases and pardon people who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Charles Robert Smith stands accused of shooting six, killing three. He says it was self-defense.

Baltimore Police say 201 people were killed in 2024, with more than 400 people shot and wounded.