Criminal justice

A woman in Western Maryland has obtained criminal charges against two more police officers, an Anne Arundel County police sergeant and a Maryland State Police trooper.

Ervin Alfaro-Lopez, 34, of Germantown, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday for sexually abusing his underage students. He is required to register as a sex offender for life.

The father-in-law of Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes was found dead in Virginia on Saturday, days after he was reported missing, authorities said.

James Beckham, the 31-year-old Essex man who died following a car crash Saturday, has been identified as a BPD officer.

COLUMN: There’s a reason we light our nighttime hours, sing and dance around the winter solstice. Yes, it’s Christmas. Yes, it’s Hanukkah. It’s Kwanzaa, Dongzhi and Yalda, too. But we do it to ward off the dark, the bad things that lurk outside our homes and our lives and to remind of us the good.

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted.

Former Greater Grace church members are reeling from a massive investigative report into the megachurch's response to sexual abuse allegations.

A man who was shot by Baltimore Police officers after reportedly leading them on a chase and charging toward them with a car has been released from the hospital and arrested, officials announced Friday.

Howard County Police arrested Christian Kinuthia, of Windsor Mill, Friday at the scene of a nonfatal shooting in a McDonald’s parking lot in Jessup.

Wendy and Eddie Osefo of “The Real Housewives of Potomac” actually “have very little money,” a Maryland state prosecutor told a Carroll County judge Friday.

At the urging of the victim’s family, Baltimore Circuit Judge Nicole K. Barmore accepted a plea agreement that spared Camree Hickerson, 33, of Arbutus, any additional time in jail.

The pedestrian’s death marks the third traffic fatality in Montgomery County in the past week.

Greater Grace World Outreach should fire four top pastors and distance itself from controversial founder Carl Stevens, according to a report by an independent faith-based organization.

Many children in Baltimore have waited in youth detention, pretrial monitoring or in the community this year as the Maryland Office of the Public Defender struggled to find them private attorneys.

Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing wrapped up Thursday with a judge saying he plans to rule in May on what evidence prosecutors will be able to use in his New York trial for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Someone delivering for a nearby business found a man, identified as William Bobo, dead in the Parkville area that’s bustling with restaurants and retail stores.

Maryland State Police are investigating the 11th prisoner death this year and second in the last week, officials announced Wednesday.

An Anne Arundel County Police officer has been charged with assault almost eight months after a woman alleges the officer and a relative physically attacked her at a softball tailgate in Hagerstown.

An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder on Wednesday, as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims.

But contrary to the messaging from the president and his team, most of those arrested this year had no criminal history, according to a Banner analysis of newly released federal data.