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Two men pleaded guilty this week in the case of a Gwynn Oak man who was abducted from his home, thrown into a van and held for ransom after returning from a night at a casino. Gary Fayall, 32, of Dundalk, and Darron Finley, 41, of Pikesville, agreed to plead

Shots fired Friday night through the bathroom window of a Catonsville apartment grazed a woman’s head as she hid in a closet with a toddler, according to Baltimore County police. Tashawn Donta Kiah, 20, of Kevin Road in Baltimore City, is charged with three counts of attempted first-degree

TOWSON—A Baltimore County judge found a murder suspect not guilty Thursday, saying the evidence failed to prove the defendant was not acting in self-defense. Michael “Shine” Distance, 47, took the stand and testified he was trying to smooth over a tense situation when Johnny Charles escalated the dispute

**ESSEX** —  A man who stabbed and killed his wife’s dog during an argument was convicted Wednesday of animal abuse. A Baltimore County jury convicted Darius Bradley, 34, of misdemeanor animal abuse for stabbing a two-year-old pit bull named Freaky but acquitted him of felony aggravated animal cruelty.

OVERLEA — Marshall Alexander stepped outside of his grandmother’s Edgewood home to smoke a cigarette one fall night last year and never returned. About an hour later, on Oct. 27, 2024, Alexander was found shot in the middle of Belair Road near Madeline Avenue in the Overlea area. He later

Runaway girls were allegedly advertised online for prostitution in separate Baltimore County sex-trafficking cases, one at a Dundalk home and another at a Towson motel.