Crime

A Maryland man is facing charges after his father’s decomposing body was found in the home they shared, authorities announced Wednesday.

Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Office dropped charges against a Glen Burnie man who was accused of striking a crossing guard and fleeing, after they reviewed footage that appeared to show inadvertent contact with guard and determined it did not rise to the level of a criminal offense.

Someone broke into two Main Street restaurants early Thursday morning, smashing a window and stealing an unknown amount of money from one Annapolis eatery, Annapolis police said Thursday.

In an unusual trial that concluded Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Maryland, the jury heard directly from two defendants who said they had taken their charges to trial even though they were guilty.

Opinions swirled around the controversial street sign in Pigtown, from a grieving woman who wants her brother’s name remembered to the families frustrated that their street could be dedicated to a man with such a rap sheet.

A man described by U.S. authorities as the world’s most prolific purveyor of child pornography at the time of his arrest in Ireland was sentenced on Wednesday to 27 years in federal prison.

An attorney for a Glen Burnie man charged with assaulting a crossing guard is requesting the state drop his charges after a Ring video of the incident surfaced.

A driver hit and killed a man who was standing outside his parked car in Dundalk on Tuesday night, according to police.

Sherry Birmingham, 48, had turned her life around and was living with her daughter. After a dispute, her family and police say her daughter killed her.

A total of nine people were shot, including four teens in a single incident, and one person was killed in incidents across Baltimore on Tuesday, police said.

A 63-year-old man was charged with murder after allegedly stabbing and lighting someone on fire in Pikesville on Friday, police said.

A Baltimore police officer was convicted this week for lying about an incident in which he appeared to be attacked while making an arrest captured in a viral video last year, sparking outrage from local leaders.

Judge Jonathan G. Newell, a circuit court judge for five years and before that Caroline County’s top prosecutor for more than a decade, took his life Friday morning as the FBI moved in to arrest him on federal charges of sexual exploitation of a child.

A teen shooting animals in the woods in Cape St. Claire is not responsible for shooting the back windshield of a police car, Anne Arundel County police said Tuesday.

Baltimore Police are investigating the Sunday afternoon shooting death of an unidentified man and the Sunday night cutting death of a woman in East Baltimore as well as three shootings that left five injured around the city.

Baltimore police are investigating after a man was allegedly cut to death with a sharp object Saturday afternoon.

An Eastern Shore judge, who had been on a leave of absence for more than a month amid an investigation into illicit images of children, took his own life Friday morning as federal agents moved in to arrest him.

A man has died after he was shot in southeast Baltimore mid-afternoon Friday, authorities say.

A federal judge also ordered Sidhartha Kumar Mathur, 35, of West Friendship, to perform 100 hours of community service.

Two years after she was convicted of arson and told a judge of a history of treatment at a psychiatric hospital, Jamerria Hall was out of prison and raising her son and daughter alone. What actions did social workers take to ensure the children’s safety?

An unidentified male shot Thursday night near Druid Hill Park died at the hospital, Baltimore police said.