firearms

• Opinion

More gun carnage

Baltimore, Chicago and other cities are a case study on the limits of local gun control, not its perceived failure

• Maryland

Daily arrest report for September 5, 2016

Daily arrest report from the Carroll County Detention Center

• News

Korryn Gaines was passionate about beliefs, anticipated violent confrontation with police

Korryn Gaines lived and died on social media. The many photos and videos that the Randallstown woman posted on Instagram and Facebook show a confident, happy young woman bursting with pride in her young children, her family and her sense of fashion.

• News

Woman killed by Baltimore County police ignored pleas from boyfriend to surrender, mother says

The mother of the woman killed during a standoff with Baltimore County police said her daughter ignored pleas from her boyfriend to surrender.

• Harford

Edgewood woman charged with murder after domestic shooting

Police have charged an Edgewood woman with murder after she fatally shot her boyfriend Monday night.

• Harford

Two Bel Air men arrested after theft from auto dealership

Two Bel Air men have been charged with theft for allegedly stealing rims, tires, a tool chest and other automotive supplies from a Fallston car dealership, Maryland State Police said Thursday.

• Anne Arundel

Glen Burnie bomb suspect pleads guilty in federal court

Todd Wheeler Jr., the Glen Burnie man accused of building bombs in his home, pleaded guilty in federal court to a firearms charge.

• News

DJS employee arrested in shooting incident outside Hickey School

Maryland State Police are investigating an incident in which a gun was fired in the parking lot of the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School youth detention facility on Thursday night, Juvenile Services officials confirmed.

• Anne Arundel

Glen Burnie bomb suspect charged with federal gun crime

Todd Wheeler Jr., the Glen Burnie man accused of making bombs in his home, has been charged with a federal gun crime.

• Politics

Republicans criticize O'Malley, but rarely each other, in GOP primary debate

Republicans criticize O'Malley, but rarely each other, in GOP primary debate. Candidates for governor meet on WBAL radio in tame encounter.

• Howard County

Route 1 restaurant robbed at gunpoint [Howard County crime log]

Residential, commercial and street burglaries and thefts this week in Howard County

• Baltimore City

Man found dead of gunshot wound in Johns Hopkins Hospital bathroom

A man entered Johns Hopkins Hospital with a gun and is believed to have fatally shot himself Tuesday morning inside an emergency room bathroom, an incident that came days after the renowned medical center held a national symposium on safety inside hospitals.

• Baltimore City

Man found dead of gunshot wound in Johns Hopkins Hospital bathroom

A man entered Johns Hopkins Hospital with a gun and is believed to have fatally shot himself Tuesday morning inside an emergency room bathroom, an incident that came days after the renowned medical center held a national symposium on safety inside hospitals.

• Personal Weapon Control

Felons, fugitives bought guns amid backlog

More than 300 people banned from owning guns were able to buy them last year because the state police were overwhelmed with background check requests, police said Wednesday.

• Baltimore County

Chief Johnson to be honored at White House

Baltimore County Police Chief James W. Johnson will be honored at the White House on Thursday along with eight other local leaders who have taken steps to reduce gun violence, the Obama administration said Monday.

• Harford

Aberdeen man charged in weekend hotel armed robberies

An Aberdeen man was charged Tuesday in three armed robberies from last weekend, said officials from the Aberdeen Police Department.

• Baltimore County

Robbers ask for water, force way into Pikesville home, tie up man and his daughter

Two men asking for water forced their way into a Pikesville home, where they tied up a man and his teenage daughter in a Tuesday night robbery, Baltimore County police said.

• Harford

Bel Air man charged in Elkton for alleged unregistered handgun

A Bel Air man was charged in Elkton Sunday for possession of an illegal handgun Sunday, according officials from the Maryland State Police.

• Baltimore County

Towson Royal Farms armed robberies could be related

Baltimore County Police are searching for suspects in seven armed robberies of the Royal Farms store in the 6000 block Falls Road in Towson, the department announced last week.

• Anne Arundel

Two charged in killing Annapolis taxi driver in Crownsville

Two men have been arrested and charged in the shooting and robbery of an Annapolis taxi driver found dead in Crownsville earlier this month, prosecutors said.

• Opinion

Repealing Md.'s gun laws is bad policy and bad politics [Letter]

Repealing Md.'s gun laws is bad policy and bad politics

• Anne Arundel

Officials find shotgun, alcohol in Southern High student's car trunk

• Howard County

Police say Columbia mall shooter wanted to mimic Columbine

The teenager who led a deadly January assault at the Mall in Columbia did not target his victims, but planned a killing spree inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, Howard County police revealed on Wednesday.

• Sun Investigates

Loaded gun, bullets and drug paraphernalia found in Wes Brown's room

Police seized a loaded handgun, ammunition and drug paraphernalia during a search of University of Maryland football player Wes Brown's campus dormitory last summer, newly released documents show.

• News

Terp running back told police he drove car involved in drive-by shooting

When University of Maryland football player Wes Brown was suspended last year, officials released few details to explain the action other than to tie it to an alleged confrontation with a police officer who wanted to question him in a shooting investigation. But according to court documents in a wide-ranging prosecution of Black Guerrilla Family gang members in Baltimore, Brown told police them that he was behind the wheel of a vehicle involved in the drive-by shooting last June at a birthday

• Politics

Lawmakers debate reforms to address gun backlog

• Anne Arundel

Alleged bomb-maker from Glen Burnie makes court appearance

Todd Dwight Wheeler Jr., the Glen Burnie man charged with making bombs in his home, made his first court appearance on Friday morning.

• Politics

Bill to close gun law 'loophole' draws fire

A bill aimed at preventing guns from being sold to people legally barred from owning them drew fire Tuesday night in Annapolis, as gun rights advocates charged the measure would simply let state authorities drag out sales now delayed for months because of a large backlog in Maryland State Police background checks.

• Baltimore County

Catonsville High School concession stand vandalized

Sodas stolen, interior vandalized

• News

Police release 911 call in officer-involved shooting at homeless shelter

Police release 911 call in officer-involved shooting at homeless shelter

• Baltimore City

Man cleared of murder after 19 years in prison

Sabein C. Burgess, 43, had been convicted of killing his girlfriend

• Opinion

Gun control doesn't work [Letter]

Flawed Bloomberg study doesn't make the case for background checks

• News

Lab analysis took more than a year to link Baltimore man to rape

It took the Baltimore Police crime lab well over a year to link a Southeast Baltimore man to a 2012 rape due to a backlog in DNA analysis. Before officers could arrest him, police say he attacked again.

• Opinion

Gun control works [Editorial]

A Hopkins study shows why Maryland was wise to require background checks for handgun buyers

• Opinion

Beretta's economic blackmail [Commentary]

Putting aside that most gun owners support sensible gun laws like universal background checks, not even Ugo Beretta could believe that Maryland's laws are about harassment. If he did, his forefathers would have moved a long time ago — out of Italy.

• Anne Arundel

Police say no threat intended with shotgun brought to South River High

Police discovered a shotgun inside a student's vehicle at South River High School.

• Maryland

Harford man cleared in 2013 Edgewood murder, shooting

A Harford man let out a sigh of relief in the circuit courthouse on Thursday afternoon after being cleared of all charges in a 2013 Edgewood murder case.

• Harford

Rights and responsibilities [Editorial]

No sane person, for example, would advocate giving away unlimited free guns and ammunition on a street corner in any community in the country.

• News

Report of teen with handgun locked down North Baltimore schools Tuesday

Report of teen with handgun locked down North Baltimore schools Tuesday

• Opinion

An armed society is a polite society [Letter]

An armed society is a polite society

• Harford

Bel Air Gun Show draws steady crush of buyers, visitors of all ages

More than 1,000 people, some from as far away as Western Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, had visited the 54th annual Bel Air Gun Show as of Saturday afternoon.

• Baltimore County

Two men arrested in 7-Eleven robberies

Armed with a machete and a handgun, two men robbed three 7-Eleven stores across Baltimore County in about an hour Thursday night before being arrested, police said.

• Sun Investigates

Mall shooter could have bought shotgun legally in most states

It's not unusual for a 19-year-old with a clean record to be able to buy a firearm under state laws.

• Howard County

Mall shooting victims remembered at vigil

The vigil was held at an impromptu memorial set up outside the mall's west entrance, where gunman Darion Marcus Aguilar, who turned the gun on himself after shooting the victims, entered on Saturday morning.

• Harford

Man wounded in fatal Edgewood shooting testifies he couldn't ID assailant

A 19-year-old man, who was wounded in a January 2013 shooting during a marijuana buy in Edgewood that killed a companion, testified in Harford County Circuit Court Wednesday that he could not positively identify the shooter.

• Opinion

Weighing the loss of Beretta jobs [Editorial]

If seeing Beretta expand in Tennessee rather than Maryland is the price we pay for sensible gun control laws that protect the public, so be it.

• Howard County

Columbia mall shooter was 'ready to die,' police say

The Mall in Columbia shooter assembled his shotgun inside a dressing room in the back of a skate shop before fatally shooting two people and himself, Howard County police confirmed Wednesday afternoon.

• Anne Arundel

Motive in apparent murder-suicide in Glen Burnie remains unclear

Anne Arundel County police are still trying to determine why a Glen Burnie man killed a roommate and himself Monday night.

• Laurel Leader

Four charged in drug-related fatal shooting of Laurel man

Four Howard County area residents have been charged in the fatal shooting of a Laurel man last week in what Howard County police believe was a drug robbery gone wrong, police said Monday.

• Opinion

Congress capitulates to the NRA [Commentary]

If this country were experiencing a cholera or typhus epidemic, various communities would band together immediately to staunch the havoc it was wreaking. In comparison, the epidemic of gun deaths has been met with a lot of hand-wringing and public condemnation by political leaders but not much else. That's not leadership, that's capitulation.