Criminal justice

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

They and other gang members took part in a grisly string of violence over three months in 2020 that left two young women dead.

Howard County police on Thursday detained a person following the fatal stabbing of a woman in Ellicott City

More than two years ago, Daniel Myers, who was behind bars on an assault conviction, stabbed to death 27-year-old Nicholas Delfosse after warning a prison official that he would kill anyone they put in his cell at Jessup Correctional Institution.

The family of Rachel Morin, the Bel Air mother of five whose murder drew national attention, saw a lawsuit over fundraiser money dismissed Thursday.

A Harvard Business School graduate was arrested on fraud charges alleging he swindled fellow alumni out of over $4 million in a Ponzi scheme, even assuring one investor they would soon “brag” about their “crazy gains” at the school’s reunion.

The man who fatally shot three Pennsylvania officers and injured two before he was killed by police has been identified as 24-year-old Matthew James Ruth.

A Baltimore man was found guilty of murdering 19-year-old bystander Cameran Holt in 2024 in Federal Hill.

Guy, 32, of Reisterstown, is scheduled on Dec. 17 to be sentenced in Baltimore County Circuit Court to serve seven years in prison.

A judge on Tuesday dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state’s case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state’s second-degree murder charges against him.

The threat against the Naval Academy last week set off panic and confusion and resulted in a midshipman being shot and wounded in a case of mistaken identity.

Will Milam, who is running to unseat Montgomery County Sheriff Maxwell Uy, said the sheriff's office is broken, citing staff shortages and a toxic environment.

A lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park, has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of indecent exposure.

At a federal racketeering trial in Baltimore, former MS-13 members recounted how two teenage girls were killed in 2020. Prosecutors say the gang’s presence is expanding, with devastating consequences for the city.

Assassinations, by their nature, are destabilizing. In the spinning top of American political life at this moment, Charlie Kirk's death may prove to be the thing that irretrievably knocks us over.

Amid the wave of threats to college campuses and public officials, an alarming rumor began to spread among midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy of an active shooter roaming the campus.

Since 2015, at least eight people have been charged with the offense, according to data from the Maryland Judiciary.

Kevin Ahn is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Sun Lim, and her ex-husband, In Kim, in Owings Mills.

Barak Olds, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to one count of racketeering conspiracy.

Michael J. Pusateri, 59, was arrested Monday and is being held without bond, police said.