Jessica Anderson

Keith Smith benefited financially from his wife, Jacquelyn Smith, during her life — and had sought to be the executor of her estate, which he said was worthless. Now Keith Smith and daughter Valeria Smith stand accused of murdering Jacquelyn and concocting a story about a panhandler in Baltimore.

The Maryland House of Delegates has passed a bill that would shield from the public the names and photographs of youth who are criminally charged as adults until a judge has determined whether the case should be moved to juvenile court.

The husband and stepdaughter charged in the death of an Aberdeen woman who was fatally stabbed in Baltimore — which they initially said happened after she gave money to a panhandler — were arraigned in Texas on Monday, authorities said.

A large crowd gathered at 6 p.m. at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, at Pennsylvania and Fremont avenues, northwest of downtown Baltimore, to remember recent shooting victims and march for peace in surrounding blocks.

The Baltimore police consent decree “does a tremendous amount of harm,” a law enforcement advocacy group said, and it is asking the Trump administration to modify reforms it calls too burdensome.

The Baltimore Police Department continues to work to bolster its training academy staff, and is requesting a three-week extension within the consent decree schedule to double its personnel.

Acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison told area business leaders Monday that he plans to increase the number of civilians within the department and improve technology, which he said would free up officers to respond to violence and other crimes.

Baltimore attorney Ivan Bates once represented Jason Hodge and Andre Haydel. On Friday, he learned the men were both killed in Baltimore’s latest wave of violence.

Acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison called Thursday — his “most violent” day on the job in which four people were fatally shot and eight others were injured — “totally unacceptable.”

Baltimore County Police said Thursday that Officers First Class Sands and Waugh shot and killed 24-year-old Emanuel David Oates on Tuesday afternoon at the Aldi grocery store in the 8600 block of Liberty Road in Randallstown.

The case against four teenagers charged with killing a Baltimore County police officer includes a mountain of evidence, including hundreds of officer body camera videos.

A man Baltimore County Police shot after officers said he refused to drop a machete at a Randallstown shopping center Tuesday night has died, the department said.

A shooting involving Baltimore County police was reported Tuesday afternoon in Randallstown.

A convicted West Baltimore gang leader once dubbed the city’s “No.1 trigger puller” was sentenced to life in prison Friday.

Of the 362 Baltimore Police officers who participated in a recent survey, more than 40 percent said they don’t feel comfortable intervening in an incident and initiating arrests without a call for service.

The 25-year-old man charged in the shooting of a Frederick Douglass High School special education assistant on Friday had come to the school to confront the staffer about disciplining  a family member, who is a student at the school, according to charging documents.

On his first day on the job Monday, Baltimore’s new acting police commissioner, Michael Harrison, is expected to hear a host of concerns, including from a West Baltimore community about persistent drug dealing.

Dorothy Ann Brown, the owner of an assisted-living facility out of her Baltimore home, is being charged with raping a 67-year-old woman in her care, court records show.

The City Board of Estimates, which is controlled by Mayor Catherine Pugh, is expected to vote Wednesday on the proposed salary for Michael Harrison, her pick for Baltimore’s next police commissioner. He could earn a $275,000 annual salary.

Baltimore Police commissioner pick Michael Harrison will begin meeting with city residents next week, the mayor’s office said Monday.

Baltimore police are investigating the death of a 1-year-old boy Friday night.

At 21, Alexia Davis was the youngest trainee to graduate Friday from the police academy, and will be fulfilling her lifelong dream as a patrol officer assigned to the Northeast District.

The federal judge overseeing the Baltimore police consent decree on Thursday called for the state to contribute money towards a new city police training facility, and also disputed recent comments by the governor that reforms and crime reduction can’t occur simultaneously.

This was one of the deadliest Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekends in recent memory in Baltimore City. The start to the year is also one of the most violent since 2012.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's pick to be the city's next police commissioner faces a number of immediate challenges when he arrives later this month.

The independent monitoring team overseeing Baltimore’s consent decree is calling for an internal affairs investigation into the Gun Trace Task Force scandal, including investigating officers implicated in the case who have not been charged with a crime.

A former Baltimore Police major who received an unpaid suspension after she was investigated by internal affairs for alleged theft, is now asking for a Baltimore Circuit Court judge to intervene in the case.

A former Baltimore Police officer has filed a defamation lawsuit after he was appointed to serve as deputy commissioner but lost the job after a fake memo was sent to the media.

Amit Kumar turned himself in to authorities in DeWitt, N.Y., on Sunday and will be extradited back to Baltimore City where he will be formally charged with first-degree murder, Baltimore police said Sunday night.

The owner of Ocean City Seafood distributor in Silver Spring made a one-in-30-million discovery in a delivery last month, a rare “calico” lobster with a mottled orange and black shell.

A scheduled Delta flight from BWI was grounded Saturday because of "potential mechanical problems."

A Howard County bus driver was placed on leave after allegedly using "inappropriate language" and driving in an unsafe manner, a principal said.

The major in charge of the Baltimore Police training academy is retiring, just as the department begins training officers on consent decree reforms.

In the wake of Joel Fitzgerald’s withdrawal as a candidate for Baltimore police commissioner, officials in his current city of Fort Worth criticized the process here.

Now that Joel Fitzgerald has withdrawn, here are some people who either applied or were considered during the first search for possible candidates, according to previous reporting from The Baltimore Sun.

A West Baltimore community advocate will serve on the independent panel that is overseeing implementation of widespread policing reforms in the city.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s office says she is postponing community meetings with her nominee for police commission, Joel Fitzgerald, citing a medical issue in his family. The mayor’s office called the issue an “unexpected medical emergency having to do with his son" which requires surgery.

Police said a man’s body was located just before 3 p.m. in the water near the 1800 block of Annapolis Road, by the Wheelabrator Baltimore incinerator and Horseshoe Casino.

More than half of Baltimore’s 309 homicide victims in 2018 were shot in the head, according to the police department’s annual homicide analysis released Wednesday.

After a year of largely rewriting polices, the Baltimore Police Department will begin retraining officers next year, which some observers hope will result in noticeable reforms.

A bipartisan group of Maryland state senators has expressed support for a cross-shaped World War I monument in Bladensburg whose fate is being determined by the U.S. Supreme Court.

A boat struck the Susquehanna River Bridge, causing rail traffic delays between Baltimore and Wilmington, Del., on Thursday night, an Amtrak spokeswoman said.

The Baltimore Police Department had a widespread practice of wrongly expunging internal affairs files of officers accused of misconduct, the public defender’s office alleges, and it’s calling for an investigation into the department’s practices.

The incident happened just after midnight at the Blarney Stone Pub on the 700 block of S. Broadway, while Thursday’s crowds lingered in the bars and restaurants of the Baltimore neighborhood known in part for its colorful nightlife.

The firearms collected so far include 509 handguns, 273 rifles, 245 shotguns — and a rocket launcher. Tuggle said the department has reached out to military and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to trace the rocket launcher’s origin. The city paid $500 for it.

The monitoring team overseeing the Baltimore Police Department consent decree released a draft Friday of its plan for the second year, which largely calls for the training of officers on new polices.

A 30-year-old man shot in the face and upper body late Wednesday night on Baker Street in the Western District died overnight, becoming the 300th homicide victim this year in Baltimore City.

While Baltimore often makes national headlines for its high homicide rate, some of the worst violence in Maryland in 2018 played out elsewhere. A southern Maryland High School. An Annapolis newspaper office. A Harford County warehouse. A Perry Hall neighborhood.

The Baltimore Police Department faced an unprecedented number of challenges in 2018 that included leadership turnover, cases of officer misconduct, continued high levels of violence and the final convictions in one of the biggest police corruption scandals in city history.

A man had been involved in a physical altercation inside a McDonald's in Baltimore when he collapsed, became unconscious and never recovered, police said.