Jessica Anderson

Returning to its typical position as the second jewel of the Triple Crown, the 2021 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday went off without a hitch. That is, until the presentation of the Woodlawn Vase.

The Baltimore Police Department concluded an investigation into a video posted to social media that appeared to show a police officer being taunted by a man with a gun inside a shop, saying now that the gun was fake.

City police investigate a shooting by an officer Thursday night in East Baltimore.

A Baltimore man has been indicted on charges he shot another man to death inside a Northwest Baltimore apartment complex last month.

The union that represents Baltimore firefighters and paramedics says the department lacks enough personnel to after a particularly violent weekend in the city. The city fire chief said that is absolutely not true.

U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar said Friday he believes Baltimore’s police reforms do align with the calls by some members of the public to defund police, or at least reallocate finite public resources to address issues such as mental health and substance abuse.

Baltimore police say that 22-year-old Christopher Tyson strangled two women to death days apart and have charged him with murder.

Baltimore Police make arrest in shooting of DPW employees.

Baltimore Police have identified the public works employee who was killed Friday night in a shooting that left a second injured.

An Eastern Shore man who spent nearly 21 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit walked free this week, a year after Maryland’s highest court tossed out his conviction based on newly discovered DNA evidence.

A Bladensburg Police Department officer was arrested Thursday and accused of sex crimes in Baltimore County.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby appeared on two national television networks Tuesday and said the actions of Derek Chauvin, convicted of murdering George Floyd, are representative of policing in America.

Baltimore police are engaged in training to help them intervene when fellow officers cross the line into dangerous behavior when dealing with the public. It is in response to a federal consent decree and comes amid growing anger over deaths of George Floyd and other unarmed people, mostly minorities, at the hands of police.

Baltimore County Police issued a warning Thursday about a white van whose driver reportedly attempted to lure children into the van in at least two incidents in the past week.

Across Maryland, police departments, attorneys and advocacy groups are unpacking the raft of police reform measures state lawmakers passed last weekend by overriding vetoes by Gov. Larry Hogan. The Maryland Police Accountability Act of 2021 ushers in sweeping changes to law enforcement from big, urban departments to small, rural forces.

Janice Moses spent a lifetime trying to protect her son, Devon Little, from Baltimore's violence. Little survived two previous shootings, but not a third, which took his life last week.

A Baltimore man wanted in the killing of a Maryland Transit Administration driver in January has been arrested in South Carolina, police records show.

At Monday night's vigil, Mayor Brandon Scott offered his condolences to the families and encouraged the Latino community to speak up at an April 20 forum to talk about what the city can incorporate into its violence prevention plan to help make people feel safe.

A man was critically injured in an alleged carjacking by a teenager, Baltimore police say.

An 8-year-old was injured and two adults were killed in a triple shooting at a family gathering in Rosedale late Wednesday night, Baltimore County Police said.

More than a year after the coronavirus outbreak shuttered office buildings and closed or limited public gatherings, Maryland experts, advocates and law enforcement officials are grappling with extended spikes in domestic violence incidents.

Col. Sheree Briscoe will take oversight of thousands of officers as head of the Baltimore Police Department’s Operations Bureau.

Baltimore Police on Monday announced an arrest in a homicide during a house party in West Baltimore earlier this month.

A Northeast Baltimore man charged with robbing several banks in Baltimore and one in York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced this week to 12 years in federal prison.

Suspect shot by Baltimore County police remains in critical condition, city police say.

A man shot and critically injured by Baltimore County officers Wednesday evening is believed to have threatened a man earlier in the day with a gun, the department said Thursday.

Family members and transgender rights advocates are seeking information about the death of a trans woman last month at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center.

A 35-year-old man was shot and killed by Baltimore Police officers last month after he drew a gun but did not fire during a confrontation with the officers, body-worn camera footage released Thursday shows.

Vaccination rates among vulnerable inmates corrections officers have provided silver linings of data for Maryland's corrections system, which for the last year has been racked with far greater incidence of COVID-19 than the general public has.

Baltimore Police have charged a man in the shooting of a 10-year-old girl struck by a stray bullet in West Baltimore last week — the latest arrest in a case involving a child victim.

Five young people being shot in less than a week has angered city leaders and prompted calls for action. Mayor Brandon Scott called on police to identify “special initiatives,” and pledged to hold city agencies accountable for providing better resources for city youth.

Baltimore Police on Wednesday released body-worn camera footage of an incident last month in which an officer exchanged gunfire with an unknown gunman.

Gunmen jumped out of a car on an I-83 exit ramp Tuesday around noon and opened fire on a 17-year-old boy who was washing windows in the intersection, shooting him multiple times before speeding off, police and witnesses said.

After the shooting death of his daughter, James Dunton Jr. of Baltimore and his wife, Kim, took in Jasmine Kennedy's four children, ages 14, 11, 6 and a newborn. The baby girl, delivered a few hours after her mother was shot, has thrived, and the grandparents have become parents again.

Law students who were preparing to take the bar exam this year now have the option of taking the exam virtually in October, or delaying the test until next year

A second Baltimore Police detective been charged with abusing his position to help extort and kidnap a contractor who had done work on the home of one of the officers, according to Baltimore County Court records.

Maryland legislators listened for hours Thursday as law enforcement leaders and union attorneys expressed concerns about altering a decades-old state statute giving vast protections to officers when they are accused of wrongdoing.

Officers were called at about 10 a.m. Friday to the area of West Ridgely Road and Francke Avenue, where a passenger who had been asleep on a Maryland Transit Administration bus woke up, and threatened to kill the driver, Baltimore County Police said.

Lonnie Herriott, 61, who died Monday in a gas explosion in Baltimore is remembered as resilient and hardworking. “She loved people and she would help anybody who needed help,” her mother said.

An attorney for the Baltimore Police union is pushing back at calls to change a state statute that provides officers with legal protections, saying department leaders — not the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights — bears blame for dysfunction in the BPD.

Joseph Graham, a rising Morgan State University sophomore, had gone to a party with his friend Sunday evening and spent the night at the friend’s house, his uncle said.

Baltimore Police said three women — ages 55, 71 and 75 — were among five people shot Saturday, including a 21-year-old woman killed in an earlier separate shooting.

Maryland officials announced 775 new cases of the coronavirus and 11 new deaths Saturday, and reported an increased positivity rate of just over 4%.

A woman was injured in a shooting in Woodlawn Saturday, Baltimore County Police said.

The FBI announced Friday a reward of up to $25,000 for information about the murder of Bryan McKemy, a 27-year-old contractor who was fatally shot

Baltimore Police leaders, citing the death of George Floyd that sparked protests want substantial changes in how police officers in Maryland are investigated and held accountable for misconduct.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison this week announced that investigators have cleared two cases with the help of the surveillance plane program launched in May. But when pressed for details about those cases, police said the program has led them to one homicide arrest and to a person of interest in a shooting.

Police in Baltimore City and Baltimore County are searching for other possible victims after charging a 29-year-old man with raping two women last year.

The Baltimore police officer seen pulling his weapon during an arrest in a newly surfaced video has twice been named in high-profile excessive force cases, including the 2013 in-custody death of Tyrone West, a lawyer involved in the West case told The Baltimore Sun.

Former Baltimore Del. Cheryl Glenn’s “deliberate scheme” to take bribes for votes added to Maryland’s perceived “pay to play” political culture, a federal judge said in sentencing her to two years in prison.