Jessica Anderson

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Now that Joel Fitzgerald has withdrawn, here are some people who either applied or were considered during the first search for possible candidates, according to previous reporting from The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

Officers were called at 10:30 p.m. to the 600 block of S. Clinton St., where a man said he was delivering food in the block when he was robbed by two unknown suspects.

Baltimore Police continued to investigate the shooting of a 64-year-old convenience store owner outside his shop Saturday night.

The Baltimore Police Department has recalled all of its officers detailed to a special ATF task force, the department confirmed Monday. It would not immediately provide a reason. 

A crime scene technician laid out evidence markers Friday morning where a 42-year-old man had been shot and killed in Northeast Baltimore the night before.

Jacquelyn Smith was supposed to travel to California this week with family to attend her son’s graduation from an information technology program with the U.S. Coast Guard. Instead, the family will gather in Rhode Island Saturday for her funeral.

Carl Adkins and his 13-year-old daughter Makayla were shot Sunday in their car. Makayla has undergone multiple surgeries.

Baltimore City Solicitor Andre Davis has filed an ethics complaint against a private attorney who was hired by the Civilian Review Board, which recently withdrew its lawsuit against over a dispute over confidentiality agreements.

Baltimore is again offering money in exchange for guns, between $25 and $500 during three events this month.

Baltimore Police said they continue to investigate a shooting that left a 13-year-old girl and an adult relative injured in a shooting Sunday evening.

Baltimore City Council members are expected to travel to Fort Worth, Texas, this week to learn more about its police chief, Joel Fitzgerald, who is Mayor Catherine Pugh’s pick to be the city’s next police commissioner.

After spiking over the past few years, homicide rates in cities across the U.S. appear to be on track to fall this year, according to a recent New York Times report.

Baltimore police continue to ask for information that will lead to an arrest in the death of Jacquelyn Smith, who was stabbed by a man in her car after giving money to a panhandler.

The Civilian Review Board, a panel of volunteers that reviews Baltimore police misconduct complaints, is withdrawing its lawsuit filed last month after the city refused to release police internal affairs records amid a dispute over confidentiality agreements.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. announced Wednesday that he'll conduct a national search for a new police chief.

DaVonte Friedman, 18, and Anthony Grant, 17, had plans for a brighter future, but they couldn't escape the risks young men face in the city.

A Baltimore County Circuit judge on Monday denied separate motions brought by state and defense attorneys in the case of four teens charged in the death of Officer Amy Caprio.

A Baltimore County man who once was known on the dark web as the “Xanaxman,” selling thousands of knockoff Xanax pills, received s 57-month sentence Friday in federal court in Baltimore.

Two police officers and two civilians suffered minor injuries in a crash Thursday in Northwest Baltimore, city police said.

“I’m very devastated that my 3-year-old had to experience this,”said the mother of a 3-year-old who was shot in Baltimore. “He’s like ‘Oh no, ma, I don’t want to go back there. They are going to hurt my other arm.’”

A 3-year-old boy was grazed on the arm by a bullet and a man was injured in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in East Baltimore, according to police.

Baltimore residents on the panel that reviews police brutality and abuse allegations will not be required to sign confidentiality agreements, possibly ending a months-long standoff between the city’s law department and the Civilian Review Board.

Officers were called at 10:20 a.m. to the 800 block of Luzerne Ave., near Madison Street, for a report of an unresponsive man in the alley.

A Baltimore Police officer whose body camera showed him placing a soup can with drugs inside in a trash-strewn lot said the footage was intended to serve as a re-creation of how he first found the drugs for “documentation” purposes.

Three veterans from the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office were elected Tuesday as top prosecutors in Anne Arundel, Harford and Howard counties.

A Baltimore Police officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries after he was struck by a car while responding to an assault in North Baltimore Tuesday, police said.