Criminal justice

New details have emerged since a Monkton man was charged with first-degree murder after Baltimore County Police say he killed his wife inside their home on Maplehurst Lane on Monday.

Two Silver Spring men are wanted for first-degree murder linked to the Sept. 21 slaying of Akwalabeng Fontava, who was found dead in a North Bethesda apartment, police said.

Serial offender Alphonso Hill is asking a judge in Baltimore County Circuit Court on Wednesday to let him receive post-conviction relief, overturn his 60-year sentence for raping eight women in Towson from 1978-1989, and grant him a new trial.

Shannon Gough was charged with multiple counts of burglary, theft and destruction of property.

An 89-year-old man and an 87-year-old woman were identified as two people dead after an apparent murder-suicide in Baltimore County.

The Maryland Correctional Institution-Jessup will close and 700 men incarcerated at the facility, along with 300 staff, will be transferred to other facilities by June.

State police are investigating the second prisoner death at the North Branch Correctional Institution this month.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in the national fight over immigration enforcement, was moved from a Virginia detention center to one in rural Pennsylvania.

Baltimore Police are investigating the deaths of two unidentified males found in different neighborhoods Thursday and a stabbing that left a man dead.

Baltimore County Police have identified 75-year-old Alan Bass as the man who killed 59-year-old Samuel Allen in his Lochlearn home more than four decades ago.

Exonerated of the crime, Melvin Thomas, now 45, collected $1.6 million in wrongful conviction compensation from the state in 2021. But he wanted the city to pay, too, and filed a lawsuit against the police department and officers involved with the case.

Derwin Cox, of Upper Fells Point, was found not guilty on Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court of second-degree rape, third- and fourth-degree sex offense, home invasion and related offenses.

Baltimore County police responded early Wednesday afternoon to a man who had barricaded himself inside a room at the Comfort Inn in Towson to avoid being arrested.

Former Randallstown High School teacher Carlos Arroyo was found guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court of sexual abuse of a minor and related crimes.

At least two senior Justice Department officials likely broke court rules governing the conduct of prosecutors by reposting comments President Donald Trump made about Luigi Mangione, the man accused of assassinating the CEO at UnitedHealthcare.

Three people have been shot at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas and the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the agency’s director said.

Maryland U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes is facing Trump pressure as his allies push prosecutions of political foes. Will she be next to face the test?

Baltimore Police officers who shot a 26-year-old man and killed him May 12 will not be charged, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office said Monday.

The teenager accused of shooting a Towson man during an armed robbery in an alley of Rodgers Forge last year will have his case tried in adult court, a judge ruled Friday.

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers urged a judge to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO.