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Baltimore Police announced a second arrest in a fatal shooting of a 34-year-old in May.
- The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for an investigation into a hit-and-run crash in Harford County that they say targeted a Palestinian-American Muslim family. The Maryland State Police, who investigated the crash, say there is no evidence the collision was anything more than “an unfortunate sequence of events.”
- A Maryland man pleaded guilty Wednesday for his participation in the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection.Robert Maurice Reeder, of Harford County, faces up to six months in prison for a federal charge of entering the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
- Now back home after a stint in federal prison, Donald Stepp is speaking out against Wayne Jenkins and other GTTF officers, including Daniel Hersl, who continue to insist the charges against them were trumped up.
- Baltimore police say the use of “ghost guns” is on the rise in the city, with a top-ranking department official saying that officers are on track to seize up to 300 untraceable firearms that can be built from kits by the end of 2021 and that more than a dozen were linked to homicides and shootings in the city last year.
- A 56-year-old youth pastor was arrested Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting a child about 30 years ago, police said.
- A Baltimore County Police officer has been suspended and charged for stealing a dead woman’s identity during a case he was dispatched to investigate.
- Brandon Beshore, 24, of Parkville was arrested and charged with murder and assault in the killing of an unknown man, Baltimore Police said Tuesday.
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Baltimore police say the use of “ghost guns” is on the rise in the city, with a top-ranking department official saying that officers are on track to seize up to 300 untraceable firearms that can be built from kits by the end of 2021 and that more than a dozen were linked to homicides and shootings in the city last year. - A 56-year-old youth pastor was arrested Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting a child about 30 years ago, police said.
- A look back at the details of everything we know from the day police say a gunman blasted through the newsroom’s Annapolis office and shot and killed Rebecca Smith, Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman and John McNamara.
- When attorneys and the judge in the Capital Gazette shooting case begin jury selection Wednesday, they’ll try to tease out biases about mental health, the insanity defense and even the media, experts say.
- A Baltimore County Police officer has been suspended and charged for stealing a dead woman’s identity during a case he was dispatched to investigate.
- Brandon Beshore, 24, of Parkville was arrested and charged with murder and assault in the killing of an unknown man, Baltimore Police said Tuesday.
- Prominent attorney Stephen L. Snyder is alleging misconduct by federal prosecutors who charged him with extortion, saying they falsely portrayed his 2018 discussions with the University of Maryland Medical System and prevented a meeting that would have exonerated him of wrongdoing.
- Anne Arundel County police are investigating a shooting that injured a man Monday evening in Harwood.
- A Frederick man who threatened President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and their supporters before last year’s election pleaded guilty in federal court this week.
- Baltimore police are investigating three homicides in the past two days as the department says two men were fatally shot since Sunday and another died after being stabbed during an assault, continuing a trend of fatal violence that’s seen 18 people killed in less than two weeks.
- An 18-year-old woman whose body was found decomposing behind an East Baltimore rowhome this month was killed over a drug-related dispute, according to charging documents.
- Two 46-year-old Severn residents were killed Sunday in a vehicle crash that also left two others seriously injured, Anne Arundel County Police said.
- Anat Kimchi is remembered as someone with limitless potential and a strong passion for learning the inner workings of the criminal justice system.
- A 39-year-old Annapolis woman was found dead inside an apartment Saturday, police said.
- A federal appellate panel indicated in a unanimous ruling Tuesday that Maryland’s prohibition on broadcasting courtroom footage is constitutionally suspect.
- Maryland’s highest court is considering whether to allow anyone sentenced to prison before turning 25 to seek new sentences after serving at least 15 years behind bars — no matter what the crime or how long ago they had been convicted.
- A man was shot in the head Monday evening just steps outside a store at Mondawmin Mall in West Baltimore, police confirmed.
- Ocean City Police are facing mounting criticism this week after videos surfaced on social media showing violent encounters with officers at the boardwalk.
- Democratic Councilman Kristerfer Burnett's bill would bar the use of the technology by residents, businesses and most of Baltimore city government until December 2022.
- Baltimore police have charged a 19-year-old in connection with a May shooting that left one dead and another man injured after a dispute, police said Monday.
- A 38-year-old man experiencing a medical crisis tried to drive himself to a hospital in a Baltimore City Fire Department ambulance from Cherry Hill early Monday, police said.
