Criminal justice

Howard County Police have identified their Jane Doe in a 1971 cold case as Sarah Sharkey.

A man who is incarcerated at a state prison in Somerset County has been indicted and charged with murder in connection with the death of another prisoner earlier this year.

The corrections department had opened an investigation into the actions of a pretrial services employee.

A former Mount St. Mary's University student has sued the university claiming she was raped by a rugby player who had previously been accused of sexual assault.

A body that was found along a Maryland highway on Sunday has a “potential connection” to a missing persons report, according to the state police.

The MS-13 trial in Baltimore, expected to take weeks, will include testimony from confessed members of the gang, prosecutors say.

Dr. Kunchok Dorjee‚ an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said that numerous reports of infections and symptoms coming from one setting is a clear “red flag.”

Baltimore County Police are investigating a murder-suicide that happened in Parkville Tuesday morning, officials announced, just days after tackling a similar incident in Catonsville.

Orphans' Court judges convinced the Baltimore County executive and council to give them $30,000 raises. It may have violated the Maryland Constitution.

An inmate at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover was found dead early Sunday, prompting a homicide investigation, according to Maryland State Police.

Baltimore is now in its third consecutive year of steep declines in homicides and nonfatal shootings.

Baltimore County Police said they are continuing to investigate the Catonsville double murder-suicide as they wait for a complete an examination into the manner and cause of death.

Eric Anderson had been living in Virginia. Massachusetts State Police detectives used license plate reader technology to find Anderson near Florida’s Gulf Coast. He was arrested on Monday.

On Aug. 29, 2022, Bobby Trujillo shot his older brother, veterinarian John Trujillo, at Pickles Light Street Animal Hospital in Riverside and then barricaded himself inside the building.

Maryland’s chief medical examiner has ruled the death of a man who had been in Baltimore Police custody as a homicide, in what appears to be the first case with such a ruling since a scathing audit.

The brother of 70-year-old Pytorcarcha Brooks, who was shot and killed by Baltimore Police officers last month, demanded “action” in response to his sister’s death — a tragedy, he said, that should have never taken place.

Two people face charges of felony theft, conspiracy to commit theft and more than 50 counts of malicious destruction of property related to a pet cremation scandal involving a Baltimore County business.

Juan Yahir Quiroz Manzueta, 21, was taken into custody in New York shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday, Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said in a news conference.

William Mannion was previously investigated by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, but officials left him off the list of allegedly abusive priests.

The 69-year-old is charged with mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers, money laundering, making false statements to his probation officer and possessing firearms after having previously been convicted of felonies.