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A Randallstown man accused in the 1994 murder of his estranged wife may be released from jail on home detention soon, a Baltimore County judge decided Friday.  Donald Lester, 69, is accused of murdering Linda Lester, a Baltimore County 911 dispatcher who went missing after leaving work  Oct. 11, 1994.

Update: at 3:56 p.m., jurors sent a note to the judge saying they were a hung jury. Judge Judith Ensor sent the jury back and asked them to continue deliberations. Gwynn Oak —Tracey Hankins Jr. was gunned down on a muggy summer night in 2024 in front of

The Monkton man accused of stabbing and killing his preschool-teacher wife is competent to stand trial, a Baltimore County judge ruled Wednesday. Anthony Lechner's attorney, Brian Thompson, said in court that Lechner still intends to plea "not criminally responsible due to mental disorder"* despite the finding

A Baltimore County Judge on Wednesday sentenced Albert Antonio Jones Jr. to life in prison man for breaking into a home and raping the 13-year-old girl who lived there. "I can think of nothing more heinous – save for murder – than the rape of a child," Judge Jan Alexander

A Baltimore County judge sentenced a man to 30 years in prison Tuesday in the beating death of an Ocean City man at a local hotel. Randall Russell, 45, admitted punching Richard Eaton, 54, on Halloween night 2023 but said Eaton appeared fine when he left him in a room

OVERLEA — A murder suspect who entered a guilty plea last year in the death of an Edgewood man withdrew that plea Thursday, saying he misunderstood the sentence he had agreed to serve. Machai “Mack” Horton, 26, of Baltimore, pleaded in guilty in December to first-degree murder and a firearms offense