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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 by

**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. Jurors also

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.

A Baltimore County man who assaulted his wife and later choked a police K-9 during his arrest pleaded guilty in Circuit Court and received a suspended sentence with probation.