Criminal justice

The state of Maryland has banned the death penalty since 2013, but it has remained in effect on the federal level and applied sparingly.

Both women were sent by ICE to detention facilities in New Jersey and Colorado over the weekend.

The county established the Police Accountability Board three years ago after the General Assembly passed the Police Accountability Act in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis Police in 2021.

The measure exempts Marylanders making at or 250% below the federal poverty guidelines.

Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Pamela K. Alban ruled that there could be scenarios at the trial of Matthew Schlegel in which the door is opened to that testimony.

Police officials said Commissioner Richard Worley was on the scene of a police-involved shooting in the 4600 block of York Road in Baltimore.

Four youths hopped out of the Sonata after the crash and fled the scene, police said. One of them was injured in the collision.

Seven people were indicted Friday for a series of armed robberies that targeted bank customers across multiple Maryland counties, according to Attorney General Anthony Brown. 

In seven lawsuits filed last week, the former Scouts said the alleged abusers used their “power, authority and trust” to coerce them to engage in sexual acts.

Three men were arrested Thursday in connection with the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy on Wednesday in East Baltimore, according to the Baltimore Police Department.

O’Brian Lynch recently filed a lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court against Taco Bell on two counts: negligent hiring and retention, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Two teenagers were shot Wednesday evening in Baltimore, leaving one dead and another injured.

The wave of departures threatens to tilt the 8-year-old court case into dysfunction.

The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case has roiled Maryland’s Salvadoran population, which is one of the largest immigrant groups in the state.

The five children of Rachel Morin, the Bel Air woman slain on a hiking trail in 2023, have again filed a lawsuit against their grandmother and aunt.

Aurielle Montgomery, 23, of Pikesville, faces between 10 years and 22 years in prison at sentencing on July 16 in Baltimore Circuit Court on one count of second-degree depraved heart murder.

A 6-year-old boy was found dead with a gunshot wound inside a Southwest Baltimore home, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said Saturday.

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.

Police said they are investigating the death of 53-year-old Dawn White, found dead inside her home on Benzinger Road in April.

Baltimore County Police say gunfire broke out just after midnight Friday in the parking lot of a shopping center along Woodlawn Drive.