Criminal justice

Advocates say Howard County's police accountability board has not pushed hard enough to address apparent racial disparities in policing and failed to fulfill some of their basic duties in 2024.

A federal judge sentenced former top malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder to three years of probation with six months of home confinement for attempting to extort the University of Maryland Medical System.

Seven months after she descended into the Kafkaesque situation, Joyce Evans was dead.

A jury was selected on Wednesday in the trial of a man who’s accused of killing Rachel Morin in 2023 on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air.

Worley had been living in Anne Arundel County as deputy commissioner when he was appointed police commissioner in 2023.

Suggs, 42, played for the Ravens from 2003 to 2018, won Super Bowl XLVII and racked up 132.5 sacks, the most in team history.

Baltimore County Police Department officers who were investigating overnight property damage were met with gunfire Tuesday morning, police said.

Harford County State’s Attorney Alison Healey said a sequestered jury is an “almost impossible task in 2025.”

Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, is set to stand trial starting on Tuesday in Harford County Circuit Court on charges of first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense and kidnapping.

Baltimore County Police detectives have charged a 23-year-old man with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Taejhiana Walker, 22.

Shane Lanham, 28, was pronounced dead on Saturday at Eastern Correctional Institute.

Two members of Jews United for Justice urge Senate President Bill Ferguson to agree to put SB422, which would stop youths from automatically being charged as adults for crimes, to a vote in the state Senate.

Ronald Neverdon, 78, of Woodstock, reported that he held various positions at the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School on Old Harford Road including youth supervisor and group life supervisor starting in 1973.

When Charles Robert Smith returns to an Annapolis courtroom in September, prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess should be absent, not Judge Michael Wachs. There should be consequences when a prosecutor stumbles.

Police identified the “Falls Road Jane Doe” as Leoria Smith, 20 — a woman who had been missing for about 12 years when her body was found.

Mangione donned the socks but later took them off “because he felt that ‘they did not look good,‘” according to prosecutor Joel Seidemann.

Ghost guns were found at crime scenes in soaring numbers across the U.S. before the regulation went into place.

Annapolis Police are still searching for the man they say opened fire at a school bus stop on Clay Street in the morning of March 19.

Baltimore County District Judge Krystin Richardson on Tuesday made the ruling at a bail review hearing for William “Bill” Mannion Jr., 62, of Sparrows Point.

A former legislative aide Esther Dikongue pleaded guilty to theft that was part of a college scholarship scheme.