The Maryland attorney general’s authority to investigate local police-involved slayings derives from a 2021 law sparked by the murder of an unarmed Black man in Minnesota, but the law needs a controversial expansion to achieve the goal of inspiring public ...

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The Harford County Sheriff’s Office must cede its investigation into an April 23 police shooting to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, a county judge ruled Thursday. The ruling is the first judicial test for a 2021 law that granted Attorney ...

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The parents of a 21-year-old man killed by police at a Gaithersburg McDonald's last year have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Montgomery County.

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A Baltimore woman whose son was killed by police in 2012 can present documents to a grand jury in an effort to spur an investigation into the deadly shooting, an appeals court has ruled. The ruling is a partial victory ...

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Baltimore County has agreed to pay $6.5 million to the family of a man fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop on an interstate highway two years ago. The agreement settles the family’s federal lawsuit alleging that ...

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Owners of pets killed by the negligence of others can recover at most $10,000 under Maryland law, the state’s top court ruled.

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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court will consider whether state law caps at $10,000 the compensation available to owners of pets killed by the negligence of others. The Court of Appeals this week agreed to hear Anne Arundel County’s appeal of ...

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A federal lawsuit filed by a Baltimore police trainee who was shot in the head during a training exercise in 2013 has been tentatively settled, according to attorneys. Raymond Gray’s lawsuit against the Baltimore Police Department and Officer William Scott Kern ...

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Trial judges have broad discretion as to whether criminal-defense attorneys may replay trial testimony via video during closing arguments, Maryland’s top court ruled Thursday in upholding a Baltimore police officer’s conviction for shooting an unarmed man. In its decision, the ...

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If the allegations are true, a Prince George’s County police officer violated a suspected violent criminal’s constitutional rights in 2012 by shooting the armed, but non-threatening man while making an arrest, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. But the officer, ...

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