Repair shop owner Alex Moreno said he was approached in 2008 by a Baltimore police officer with an idea to help boost sales at his fledgling Rosedale business: In exchange for a cut, officers would funnel cars to the shop.
Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young's East Baltimore home was the target of an attempted break-in late Monday, a spokesman said. |
Police investigate fatal shooting at Greenmount Ave dollar storeA man standing inside a Greenmount Avenue dollar store was fatally shot Monday night by a gunman outside the store, police said. |
The Baltimore Police Department has for the past four years recorded the highest percentage of rape cases that officers conclude are false or baseless of any city in the country, according to The Baltimore Sun's review of FBI data.
Four dead. Three held hostage. An interstate manhunt and one of the longest police standoffs in U.S. history. Joseph Palczynski's story, 10 years later.
A family of four from Long Island was found dead in a room at the Sheraton Baltimore North in Towson on April 20. Police were investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide.
Cindy McKay, a 52-year-old career thief and mother of six, was convicted in April 2008 of secretly stealing thousands of dollars from her boyfriend and stabbing him to death before his body was found burning along an Anne Arundel County road.
Coverage of the deaths of three young children who were drowned in a bathtub at Baltimore's Marriott Hotel on March 29, 2008. The children's father, Mark Castillo, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three life terms without parole.
Sun coverage of the fatal shootings of four members of a Cockeysville family; a fifth member of the family, a 15-year-old honor student, has been charged with the killings.
In underworld of drugs and violence, pit bulls can be as menacing as their owners
A convicted killer was found guilty Thursday of murdering a correctional officer at the now-closed Maryland House of Correction, opening the possibility that he will become the first person sentenced to death under the state's new capital punishment law.
George Huguely V was getting drunk four nights a week in his final month of college, and his lacrosse teammates at the University of Virginia were considering some kind of intervention at the close of the 2010 season, a friend testified Thursday in Charlottesville Circuit Court.
A man from the District of Columbia pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to commit bank fraud as part of a plan to gain about $1.4 million from the Baltimore Housing Authority, prosecutors said.
Two months before Yeardley Love's bruised body was found in a pool of blood in her apartment near the University of Virginia, George Huguely V had violently wrestled her to the ground in a "choke hold," prosecutors said Wednesday, describing it as a precursor to the attack that would kill her.
Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, admitted in federal court Tuesday that he stole thousands of documents regarded as cultural treasures from historical societies and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast.
A federal court judge has approved a settlement between Ocean City and a spray paint artist, changing the town code so that it no longer violates the free-speech rights of street performers.
Opening statements in the high-profile trial of George W. Huguely V, charged with murder in the death of his former University of Virginia girlfriend, are expected Wednesday in Charlottesville Circuit Court.
GREELEY, Colo. — A Colorado man charged with the slaying of a Dundalk woman in 2000 is fighting extradition to Maryland.
City police continue to investigate three separate shootings Monday that left one man dead and another critically wounded. Police said Gregory Kearney, 29, died of gunshot wounds about 5 p.m. near the intersection of Preston and Ensor streets in East Baltimore.
A 43-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a 25-year-old man found dead last week in a Northeast Baltimore home, police said.
Baltimore County police said Monday that they were seeking information on a sexual assault that occurred three weeks ago in the Catonsville area.
One man was killed and another seriously wounded Monday afternoon in separate shootings, according to city police. A third man was shot Monday night.
One by one, potential jurors in the murder case against George W. Huguely V, who's accused of beating his former girlfriend to death when they were both University of Virginia students, took the witness stand Monday and revealed just how difficult it could be to seat an impartial jury.
The state's second-highest court has overturned a murder conviction for a man who police say participated in a drug deal that ended in gunfire, which killed a Baltimore County grandmother hit by a stray bullet.
Baltimore police are investigating an early morning stabbing Monday in the middle of downtown.
Former NBA player Oliver J. Miller was sentenced Friday to a year in the Anne Arundel County jail for pistol-whipping his girlfriend's brother in Arnold.
A former climbing coach at Earth Treks in Columbia who pleaded guilty to having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl could spend another three years behind bars.
A Hungarian man who blackmailed a U.S. hotel chain into giving him a job was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
A state trooper narrowly escaped serious injury during an early-morning chase Friday along Route 152 in southern Harford County, and a suspect has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.
A federal court judge on Thursday sentenced 21-year-old Romesh Vance, who was featured in a 2005 documentary about Baltimore boys sent to boarding school in Kenya, to 70 months in prison for participating in a drug conspiracy at the Gilmor Homes public housing complex.
Police reported four nonfatal shootings Wednesday evening in Baltimore.
A 56-year-old man, who police say offered a taxi ride to a teenage boy and then sexually assaulted him, was arrested and charged with the crime Tuesday.
He threatened to have a gun but didn't show it, though his words were menacing enough. "If you don't want to get shot, I want your pocketbook," he told the two women as he robbed them outside the French bistro Petit Louis in Roland Park, according to police.
No one was going to believe his account, he thought. Ricky Thomas — who'd done prison time for dealing drugs and resisting arrest — said he was sucker-punched in the face by a Baltimore police officer and stomped. Now he was locked up and facing charges of assaulting police.
A man was shot in the legs Tuesday evening in the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood in Southwest Baltimore.
Four thieves are being sought by Maryland State Police for stealing a John Deere lawn tractor from a newly constructed Cecil County Lowe's and fleeing police before crashing a stolen pickup, an accident that resulted in the death of a fifth thief.
A 49-year-old Phoenix, Ariz., man was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges he stalked a Maryland woman.
A Maryland corrections division that provides inmate labor has backed out of a data entry contract with the health department after state auditors found that prisoners had access to some patients' personal information, which was supposed to have been redacted from documents, but occasionally wasn't.
