Crime

Gov. Larry Hogan has directed the Maryland State Police to suspend the state’s “good and substantial reason” standard for obtaining a permit to carry a concealed gun in light of last month’s Supreme Court decision.

The victim was shot in April and succumbed to his injuries in June, police said.

The mother of a newborn girl who was found abandoned in the woods last summer was sentenced this week to serve 18 months in jail, but will have the opportunity to serve out the rest of her sentence in a residential facility if she is successful in a jail-based program.

Maryland State Police apprehended the owner of an Annapolis remodeling business at his workplace on Thursday after police say he discussed sexually abusing young children in an online message exchange with an undercover officer.

Two people were fatally shot and a bag of human remains was ruled a homicide this week, Baltimore Police said.

The state unit investigating two recent Baltimore County Police shootings that left civilians dead released video footage Thursday from both incidents, as the probes continue.

Pat McDonough, a former Maryland state delegate, has been charged with misdemeanor theft after allegations he stole the campaign sign of a rival in the Republican primary race for Baltimore County executive.

In its first year, the 911 Diversion Behavioral Health Pilot program has not only served its purpose by rerouting residents’ calls for help to workers best equipped to handle them, but it’s also allowed the Baltimore Police Department and Baltimore City Fire Department to save on staffing hours, city officials said Thursday.

The Maryland General Assembly passed 834 bills over 90 days in 2022, ranging from the odd, like a prohibition on declawing cats, to the routine, like transportation policy .Some took effect immediately as emergency legislation, 264 laws covering abortion, education, policing, pollution, transportation and many others take effect Friday.

Three law enforcement agencies in Maryland and Baltimore City Police have entered into an agreement to provide concurrent jurisdiction over Interstate 83 and Route 295 in Baltimore City.

Finding that Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and her staff showed “personal animosity” toward Keith Davis Jr., a judge has ruled there was a “presumption of vindictiveness” behind prosecutors’ decision to charge Davis with attempted murder shortly after he won a fifth trial in a 2015 murder case.

Luther Moody Trent, a Baltimore man who set fire to his ex-girlfriend’s home while she and two others were inside, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a charge of malicious property destruction.

An Eastport resident pleaded guilty this week to a federal drug charge stemming from an FBI investigation into what the agency said was a drug trafficking organization operating in Annapolis.

Federal prosecutors on Thursday responded to Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s renewed push to have some of her perjury and mortgage fraud charges dismissed, calling her legal arguments “Orwellian.”

A person was taken into custody by police around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday after an hourslong barricade on the 1600 block of Druid Hill Avenue in Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood.

Baltimore Police officers were found to have uploaded and categorized bodycam videos incorrectly from 2016 to 2021, prompting the department to complete daily reviews of camera footage, according to a report released this month by the Office of Legislative Audits.

A Baltimore Police sergeant is critically ill on life support after he was dragged by a car for about two blocks during a traffic stop Tuesday evening in Northwest Baltimore, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said.

A jury awarded a woman a $2.4 million verdict following a Baltimore County Circuit Court trial in which attorneys argued that a delay in removing a breast tumor led to more medical treatments and an increased risk for future disease.

A Baltimore jury is deliberating the fate of a 17-year-old accused of raping and murdering his 83-year-old neighbor when he was 14 years old, making him among city’s youngest-ever homicide suspects.

Baltimore City Council passed a bill, expected to be signed this week by Mayor Brandon Scott, that would create a state-mandated Police Accountability Board with more powers than other such boards being created around the state.

Federal prosecutors have dropped the case against a Maryland retired U.S. Army colonel and another businessperson after new evidence surfaced days before they were set to stand trial for a second time on allegations that they conspired to pay millions of dollars in bribes to Haitian officials.