“courthouse security”

Even in times of pandemic those two hallmark features of life — love and justice — are essential to normalcy. Love and justice are inextricably a part of the American identity, and their daily exercise are legally vested in public servants like Heather DeWees.

Court employees are demanding judges temporarily close the Wabash Avenue district courthouse in Northwest Baltimore after they say several people contracted the coronavirus there.

During a budget work session with the Harford County Council that focused on public safety agencies on Monday, State's Attorney Al Peisinger stressed the need for an updated space to reduce crowding and address security concerns.

An administrative order issued Monday by Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals Mary Ellen Barbera placed courts on higher alert and limited them to emergency court actions.

A trial for Naeshawn Jaheim-Troy Perry, accused of killing a 15-year-old in 2017, was postponed Friday after too few jurors could be found to hear the case. Messages directed toward the accused were also found scrawled in the Harford County courthouse elevator several times this week.

Property owners in downtown Baltimore, concerned about crime and delayed maintenance, plan to add their voices, and possibly their resources, to improving the downtown area that has been getting an influx of residents and office workers.

Recently, another important milestone in making our schools safer and secure was announced with the selection of the 14 Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputies who will be assigned to county middle and high schools on a permanent basis. More is still needed, however.

Howard County prosecutors are not proceeding with criminal charges against Register of Wills Byron Macfarlane.

Both Democrats, sheriff-elect Marcus Harris, 50, and Rich Gibson, 42, the state’s attorney-elect, unseated their Republican opponents in the November election.

Byron Macfarlane was charged with a misdemeanor for giving out his courthouse access ID card the same day he was re-elected.

Results from races for Howard County sheriff and state's attorney

A Maryland state senator is calling upon the Howard County Circuit Court to address a breach of security.

Chief Deputy Ruby Hernandez was promoted Aug. 28, becoming the first women to take up the job in the department's more than 350-year history.

What is necessary is to provide full police coverage of our Harford County schools as soon as humanly possible. Let’s not wait for another tragedy to happen.

A group of Baltimore County sheriff’s deputies is suing Sheriff R. Jay Fisher and the county government, alleging they are owed tens of thousands of dollars in overtime.

Baltimore’s former police commissioner Darryl De Sousa was ordered by a federal judge Monday to surrender his passport and any firearms pending his trial on federal tax charges.

Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told the County Council Monday afternoon there have been 200 opioid-related overdose deaths in Harford since the count started in 2105.

Calling for the former members of the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force to testify in cases in which they were involved presents challenges for courthouse security.

We're not going to stop beating the drum for more secure schools – and schools that are designed with security in mind which historically not been the case in Harford County – until the killing stops.

Former Harford County Sheriff Robert “Bob” Comes died on Feb. 19. He was …

Representatives of Harford County government, law enforcement and fire and EMS community gather in front of the county administration building in Bel Air Friday for a moment of silence in honor of the upcoming two-year anniversary of the murder of two Sheriff's Office deputies.

Maryland's court system has failed for years to properly monitor how it spent tens of millions of dollars in contracts and lacked adequate oversight to prove it was getting the most cost effective deals for taxpayers, a state audit

For those who live by the credo to do everything in moderation, our world and our culture have missed the boat. Technology, the role it plays, its impact on our lives and our addiction to it roared way past moderation years ago.

While he was in the Harford County Circuit Courthouse on a case, Harford County lawyer received a phone call Wednesday morning that his wife had been kidnapped and the caller was demanding money for her return. It turned out to be a scam, Bel Air Police said. The wife was found safe at her work.