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In a rare move, federal prosecutors have dropped a gun case involving a man suspected of attempted murder, after the defendant's attorney moved to suppress evidence claiming police misled a judge.

Baltimore County Police charged a man in the stabbing death of his stepmother in Parkville on Wednesday.

A Cockeysville man was killed in a shooting in Cherry Hill Tuesday night, Baltimore police said.

Last August, a 25-minute police chase touched off across three jurisdictions when patrol officers saw a distressed woman inside a car whose driver fled when they attempted to pull it over. The pursuit was carried live by broadcast networks, and ended dramatically when the vehicle crashed into a Southwest Baltimore home and a detective, clad in an all-white suit, placed the driver under arrest. But the court case for the two men in the vehicle, Robert Bethea and Mark Jackson, concluded a whimper.

I see Arkham's adopted a one-in, one-out policy.

With the one-year anniversary of Freddie Gray's death just a couple weeks away, 22-year-old Towson University student, activist, and writer Bilphena Yahwon has

The city's homicide rate continues to outpace last year's as the anniversary of Freddie Gray's death approaches. That event marked the beginning of a surge in

A man was killed and another was injured in separate shootings in Baltimore overnight Tuesday, police said.

One man was killed and another man injured in a shooting in Edmondson Village, Baltimore police said.

Maryland lawmakers are poised to vote on sweeping reforms to the state's criminal justice system in the final hours of their legislative session on Monday.

Baltimore police are investigating two shootings in Northwest Baltimore and a stabbing in East Baltimore on Friday afternoon.

On Wednesday evening, the neighbors gathered to affirm the grassy lot on East Lanvale Street as a safe place for their children.

Baltimore police on Wednesday identified three recent homicide victims.

Ever try to bring a gun into the U.S. House of Representatives or any U.S. Senate office? How about any state legislative chamber or governor's office? I would not recommend that you try to do this or you are likely to get arrested or, as we observed last week in our nation's capital, you may be shot by police or other security personnel guarding our local, state and national representatives.

The House of Delegates approved a broad overhaul of Maryland's criminal justice system.

Baltimore police announced an arrest Thursday in the fatal stabbing of 20-year-old Morgan State University student Gerald Williams during an off-campus fight last month, saying tips from the school community helped lead to the arrest.

A member of the Anne Arundel County Police Department was patrolling in Meade Village at about 8 p.m. when he heard the sounds of shots being fired, police said.

Maryland's House of Delegates on Friday advanced a sweeping bill that revamps the criminal justice system, favoring drug treatment over incarceration

Baltimore police announced an arrest Thursday in the fatal stabbing of 20-year-old Morgan State University student Gerald Williams during an off-campus fight last month, saying tips from the school community helped lead to the arrest.

A man was found fatally shot behind the wheel of a Chevy in Northeast Baltimore, and another man was killed and a third injured in separate incidents overnight, Baltimore police said Thursday morning.

Preliminary hearings have been rescheduled for May in cases against two college students from Howard County accused of luring a 13-year-old Virginia girl from her home and killing her.

Howard County police arrested a Laurel man Tuesday after he paid an undercover detective to murder his wife, according to police department officials.

A murder case that bedeviled police investigators for more than 30 years finally came to a close Monday when a man was sentenced to 33 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a woman who vanished in 1982. The State's Attorney Office for Prince George's County said in a news release that 71-year-old John Ernest Walsh had been sentenced after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and false imprisonment this month in the slaying of 27-year-old Stefanie Watson of Laurel.

Investigators with the Harford County Sheriff's Office are waiting for a final medical examiner's report before deciding whether to bring homicide charges in connection with the death of a 73-year-old man who was stabbed inside his home in late January.

A 30-year-old West Baltimore man is charged with attempted murder after police say he shot at another man after a drug deal went bad.

A Dundalk woman accused of shooting her 7-year-old son and husband Saturday is charged with attempted first-degree murder and other counts, police said Monday.

Federal immigration agents arrested 16 Marylanders, most of them allegedly gang members, officials said, in a month-long enforcement surge named Project Shadowfire.

One person was killed and another was hospitalized after a shooting Sunday in Jessup, Howard County police said.

A man was shot and killed early Sunday morning near Hollins Market, Baltimore police said.

A man was arrested on a warrant in Cecil County early Thursday morning in connection with a shooting in Edgewood that occurred in December, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said.

Murder ink march 23 homicides

A 27-year-old man is charged with attempted murder in a March 7 shooting about three miles from his home in Northeast Baltimore, police said.

Preliminary hearings have been postponed in the murder cases against two college students from Howard County accused of luring a 13-year-old Virginia girl from her home and killing her.

When Aisha Waters got the call, she felt Baltimore's violent gun culture barrelling its way back into her life — thumping in her chest, resurrecting past traumas, frightening her so deeply that she couldn't bring herself to go to the hospital. Not again.

Several prominent arrests in Baltimore in recent weeks, including of a Baltimore man dubbed "Public Enemy No. 1" after the February shooting of two elderly residents and another who allegedly killed a co worker at a public works facility in the city — were partially the result of nationwide initiative by the U.S. Marshals Service to bring criminals to justice, the agency said Wednesday.

Baltimore police on Wednesday identified two men killed Tuesday in shootings on the city's east side.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday released 911 audio recordings, incident reports and other documents from their investigation into the fatal shootings of deputies Patrick Dailey and Mark Logsdon on Feb. 10.

Is carjacking akin to second-degree murder? In Maryland, the maximum penalties are both 30 years, and prosecutors are pushing this legislative session for those convicted in a killing to see more possible prison time.

A man being investigated for illegally restoring power to BGE customers shot and killed a barber this week after the victim reported the suspect to the company, Baltimore police allege in court documents.

A 31-year-old Baltimore man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting Tuesday of another man at an East Baltimore barbershop, according to Baltimore police.

Teens who stole car caused their own deaths

A teenager shot by Baltimore police during an altercation in December has now been charged with attempted murder in an unrelated shooting the month prior, according to Baltimore police.

The Prince George's County police officers killed Sunday outside a police station in Landover will laid to rest next week.

A man killed his girlfriend before barricading and killing himself inside a home Thursday in southwest Baltimore County, authorities said.

In the seventh episode of "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson," viewers are shown the glove testimony ¿ the iconic turning point in the O.J. Simpson murder case.

Op-ed: I recently received a letter from Sean Harrington, who at the time was sitting in a jail cell in North Carolina, charged with murdering my daughter, Elisif.

A short recap of The Contemporary's "Talking Shop: Art + Activism" featuring Eddie Conway and Tania Bruguera, who inspire new ways of making activism and art work together, plus a Q&A with Eddie Conway on community, Emory Douglas, and more.