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Teen arrested in New York is charged in fatal July shooting inside The Mall in Columbia 05/29/2025 04:07pm • An 18-year-old man was arrested Thursday in Brooklyn, New York, and charged with murder in connection to a fatal shooting inside The Mall in Columbia in Howard County, Maryland, in July. William "Junior" Marshall III is charged with first-degree murder and firearms offenses in the killing of 17-y Md. teen linked to 120 vehicle break-ins gets released hours after arrest 05/28/2025 04:21pm • A 16-year-old was arrested in connection to more than 100 vehicle break-ins earlier this month in Maryland. But it’s what happened afterward that left Laurel's police chief so agitated. During the first weekend in May, 121 vehicles were broken into. Most occurred in the city of Laurel, but doze DC man who attempted to carjack a deputy US marshal sentenced to 10 years in prison 05/23/2025 06:32am • A 19-year-old D.C. man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for attempting to carjack a deputy U.S. marshal at gunpoint outside Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's home in July 2024. In a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C., officials said Kentrell Flowers will also se Virginia allows criminal records to be sealed for first time in Commonwealth’s history 05/19/2025 04:12am • For the first time in Virginia's history, people with past convictions will be able to have their record sealed from public view. Virginia’s General Assembly passed the record-sealing law in 2021, and now, an amended version is set to take effect July 1, 2026. Under the new law, a person wi Interim US Attorney for DC criticizes local leaders on his last day in office 05/13/2025 07:19pm • The outgoing U.S. Attorney for D.C. had some parting critiques about how D.C.'s leaders and courts have handled crime in the city. Ed Martin faced reporters on Tuesday in what was likely his final interview before leaving office. He commended local law enforcement's partnership with immigration o Man pleads guilty to 2001 murder of Montgomery Co. mother 05/07/2025 03:27pm • More than 20 years after a woman was found dead inside her Chevy Chase home, a man pleaded guilty to her killing in Montgomery County, Maryland, circuit court Wednesday morning. Eugene Gligor, 45, pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree murder in the killing of Leslie Preer, which happened in Justice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources 05/06/2025 06:52am • (WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Department of Justice has been quietly investigating a Tennessee traffic stop in 2022 involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man at the center of a high-profile court battle over his mistaken deportation from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration, ABC N 'I’m locked up, not washed up': Young people incarcerated at DC jail get poetry, music lessons 05/02/2025 04:34am • Usually reserved and keeping to himself, Tomar became intrigued when volunteers brought a keyboard into the D.C. jail on the first Tuesday afternoon of April. He excitedly toyed around with each key, learning the corresponding sounds as a nearby volunteer started singing to the beat he was creati As Trump hits 100 days, Md. AG Brown among attorneys general battling him at every turn 04/29/2025 09:31am • Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) didn’t wait until President Donald Trump (R) was inaugurated on Jan. 20 to start preparing a defense against likely actions by the incoming administration. When it became clear last year that Trump would secure a second term, Brown said he and his tea 9 months after disappearance, supporters of Mamta Kafle Bhatt push for justice, awareness 04/25/2025 02:37pm • Almost nine months since Mamta Kafle Bhatt was last seen in the parking lot of her job at Prince William Hospital, and four months before her husband goes on trial for her murder, her supporters are willing to bide their time. "We know that the wheels of justice can move slowly," said Holly Wirth Protecting federal workers, criminal record expungement signed into law in Maryland 04/23/2025 02:48pm • Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed a suite of justice reform bills into law Tuesday that will make it easier for long-serving inmates to apply for parole, make age and illness a factor in parole considerations and streamline the process for people seeking to expunge their records after serving their time. 10 years after Freddie Gray, officials, advocates debate what’s changed 04/19/2025 12:16pm • Melvin T. Russell, the retired chief of the Baltimore Police Community Division, said he remembers the lack of empathy among police commanders in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death after an arrest 10 years ago. That’s when he knew “our city was really in trouble.” “I didn’t see any r Symposium honoring murdered Bowie State student aims to inspire 'meaningful dialogue' 04/18/2025 06:41pm • Almost eight years since a student was stabbed to death on the campus of the University of Maryland, an annual seminar honoring Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III called for those in attendance to become changemakers. The annual Rise Up seminar at Bowie State University honors Collins, who was a st 'Prayers have been answered': Abrego Garcia's wife responds to meeting with Md. senator 04/18/2025 11:25am • Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife said her "prayers have been answered" after Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen met with the Beltsville man on Thursday who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador last month. Jennifer Vasquez Sura gave a statement about her husband through CASA, an advocacy group for immigr GangNet database in use throughout DC region 'decommissioned' months ago 04/17/2025 08:05pm • GangNet, a database designed to help police track and identify criminal gang members, was once used by dozens of police agencies in D.C., Virginia and Maryland. But according to Jeff Beeson, executive director of the Baltimore Washington High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, the database