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

Daily arrest report from the Carroll County Detention Center

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Sodas stolen, interior vandalized

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Report of teen with handgun locked down North Baltimore schools Tuesday

An armed society is a polite society

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.