“courthouse security”

Emergency personnel are responding to a fire at the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse on Calvert Street in downtown Baltimore.

Defense attorneys for the first Baltimore police officer due in court in the Freddie Gray case have asked that jurors be fully sequestered during trial — including by being put up in a taxpayer-funded hotel with no access to their cellphones, limited access to television and sheriff's deputies monitoring any interactions they have with their family and friends.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings on Friday urged Baltimore residents to respect the outcome of next week's verdict in the trial of Officer Edward Nero.

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.

A line of thunderstorms passed through Harford County Saturday afternoon, knocking down trees – including one at the Harford County Courthouse – and causing sporadic power outages

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.

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.

Police Commissioner Kevin Davis recently rearranged his department's command structure in part to address anticipated protests around the downtown trials of six Baltimore police officers charged in Freddie Gray's arrest and death.

The Howard County Courthouse offices were supposed to temporarily relocate around Labor Day to an office building while the building was renovated. Nobody budged yet. Only telephone service issues remain to be resolved, and that is expected to happen soon.

Salaries in the Harford County Sheriff's Office aren't keeping pace with other law enforcement agencies in the region, according to Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler, who discussed his concerns with the County Council Tuesday, armed with a consultant produced plan to raise salaries across the board.

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.

A prison inmate was briefly struck in his handcuffs while making an appearance at the Harford County Circuit Courthouse in Bel Air Wednesday morning.

An overview of the bills being supported in Annapolis by legislators who represent western Harford County and eastern Baltimore County.

Authorities say that they believe a firecracker may have caused the loud bang outside of Baltimore's Clarence Mitchell Courthouse on Thursday afternoon, prompting a bomb scare that closed downtown streets during rush hour.

Local governments in the Baltimore region have varying policies for whether employees and visitors can bring guns into their buildings.

After months of sharply worded motions by prosecutors and defense attorneys, legal questions surrounding the officers charged in Freddie Gray's death will be aired publicly for the first time Wednesday, in a solemn, wood-paneled courtroom in downtown Baltimore.

The former leader of the Black Guerrilla Family at the Baltimore Detention Center took the stand against a group of alleged co-conspirators Monday, naming names of other gang leaders, laying out some of the gang's policies, and detailing his rise to power.

Three Baltimore police officers cleared of criminal charges in Freddie Gray's arrest and death are being investigated by Montgomery County police, who are leading the internal affairs reviews that could determine whether the officers can return to policing city streets.

NAACP employees were going through the mail Thursday at their national headquarters in Baltimore when they found a strange-looking letter. It bore no return address and a Memphis postmark like the ones on two letters to government officials this week that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin.