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Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson's murderous followers, was granted parole by a state board Wednesday, though California's governor can still block her release as he has done before.
Longtime Maryland legislator Talmadge Branch is mourning the death of his grandson, the latest victim of Baltimore's homicide crisis.
It was a somber day in College Park, Maryland, where hundreds held a moment of silence for Richard Collins III just feet from where he was murdered.
Baltimore remains on pace for more murders than ever before. Wednesday, the mayor outlined new federal and state help to stem the shootings, while the police commissioner urged patience.
The fatal stabbing of a hairstylist in Chicago was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chatroom between a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee, whose plan included killing someone and then themselves, prosecutors told a Cook County judge Sunday at a bond hearing for the men.
Police have arrested a 25-year-old in the homicides of three girls under the age of 10, who were found in a Prince George's County home Friday morning.
Police found and identified the body of a 15-year-old girl in Harford County after she was reported missing.
A man is believed to have killed his wife, their 7-year-old son and the family dog in their New Jersey home before killing himself, authorities said Thursday.
Two former Florida prison guards who were members of the Ku Klux Klan have been convicted of plotting to kill a black inmate after his release.
Police in Anne Arundel County are investigating a murder-suicide overnight in 300 block of Dawnwood Drive in Edgewater.
Maryland's highest court says police were justified in using a cell site simulator to track down a Baltimore homeless woman's cell phone in an attempt to find her killer.
Linda Thompson is still struggling to understand who killed her 97-year-old friend and neighbor Waddell Tate.
Baltimore City has hit the dark benchmark of 200 homicides more than halfway into the year.
A Utah man killed his wife aboard an Alaska cruise and told an acquaintance who later walked into the couple's blood-splattered room that he did it because she laughed at him, the FBI said in documents released Thursday.
A Maryland man has been found guilty of fatally shooting a transgender woman near a shopping mall nearly two years ago.
City police are attempting to identify two men who may be connected in the murder of the brother of a Baltimore Police Spokesman.
Three men arrested in connection to the death of two teens found slain inside a car the night before they were set to graduate high school have been indicted on murder charges by a grand jury in Maryland.
Police say they have arrested a man accused of killing his stepfather and posting photos of the body on social media.
A new indictment alleges a group of men ran a murderous criminal enterprise in a West Baltimore neighborhood that was responsible for 10 deaths going back to 2010.
The Baltimore Police Department has announced the arrest of a man who they say killed the department spokesman's brother.
Police are investigating the murder of a man inside his car on the Capital Beltway outside Washington, D.C.
City police are searching for two homicide suspects who were seen on surveillance camera shooting and killing a man at a Baltimore gas station early Saturday morning.
A 25-year-old man is dead after being shot in Maryland and police are looking for a motive in the case.
City police have arrested a 32-year-old Baltimore man who allegedly murdered his wife and assaulted a man Wednesday.
Baltimore City Police have charged the mother of a murdered-5-month-old with child abuse Wednesday after the father was charged with murder earlier in the week.
