Criminal justice

The two-year feud between two Anne Arundel County Orphans Court judges heads toward a denouement this month, when a disciplinary commission considers complaints against one of them. Unfortunately, they dragged me into this.

Catherine Hoggle has been rearrested and charged with killing two of her children, who disappeared in 2014 as toddlers and have never been found.

The discovery of a body at the end of Pier 4 is not a cause for mirth, despite wry comments about water quality and swimming. It is a reminder that the Chesapeake Bay is a place where life sometimes ends.

Thomas, 64, now of Miami, pleaded guilty in 2024 in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, North Carolina, to one count of failure to pay over trust fund taxes.

The Maryland Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a former Baltimore Police officer who failed to prevent a suspect in an assault from attacking a man lying on the ground.

Baltimore City officials and community groups have invested in prevention programs meant to divert kids away from gun violence.

Four body camera videos were recently filed as exhibits in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, where Jackie Conway, 61, of Baltimore, has a pending civil rights lawsuit.

In response to the audit, the wills office, which has been led by former Baltimore City Councilwoman Belinda Conaway since 2014, called the allegations “unsubstantiated” without elaborating.

Two teens are facing charges after police said they kicked in the door of a Maryland home in what may be associated with a TikTok challenge.

Daniel Fuentes Espinal, who had been living in the U.S. since arriving in 2001 from his native Honduras, was apprehended by ICE agents in Maryland. He is now in a Louisiana detention center.

In a 51-page order on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Anna M. Manasco referred Matthew Reeves and William Lunsford, both partners at Butler Snow LLP, to the Alabama State Bar and other licensing authorities.

Baltimore partners with leaders in the community to identify and intervene with people at the highest risk of experiencing or committing violence.

The Baltimore City Sheriff's Office arrested three men on charges including second-degree assault in a melee that broke out in the Elijah E. Cummings Courthouse during the trial of Joseph Walker.

Officials said there's no indication the material was related to students at the school.

U.S. Senior District Judge James K. Bredar threw out the jury's verdict in the trial of Dr. Ron Elfenbein.

Research by a psychology professor from Towson University shed new light on how the work of medical examiners suffers from bias.

Maryland State Police launched an investigation into the death of a 30-year-old man incarcerated at North Branch Correctional Institution in Allegany County.

Baltimore County Police have extradited a 31-year-old man from Pennsylvania facing charges in connection with the March deaths of two people from Owings Mills.

Tyrone Jones was initially denied compensation under the Walter Lomax Act because at the time in Maryland, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder had been considered a misdemeanor instead of a felony.