Alex Mann

6 days ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Alex Mann

A 70-year-old man has been charged with fatally shooting his neighbors dog in southern Anne Arundel County last month. Robert Anthony Harley, of Harwood, faces two counts of animal cruelty, court records show, in connection with the shooting death of an 11-month-old Belgian Malinois named Maisie. Harley does not have an attorney listed in court records and it’s unclear whether he has been served with charging papers.

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Alex Mann |Dylan Segelbaum

Lawyers for more than 1,000 people who filed claims in the Archdiocese of Baltimore bankruptcy case alleging that church employees sexually abused them as children are scrambling to sue ahead of a May 31 deadline that limits their potential damages. Heeding a request from a committee that represents survivors, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michelle M. Harner recently issued an order that temporarily allows survivors to file lawsuits in state or federal court.

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Alex Mann

Anne Arundel County’s top prosecutor likes to try big cases herself, so she took the lead when her office charged a former Navy doctor with stabbing his wife to death in their waterfront apartment in Edgewater last summer amid the unraveling of their polyamorous relationship. James Strachan Houston, 58, sustained severe cuts and stab wounds during the Aug.

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Alex Mann

State prosecutors dismissed charges Tuesday against Anne Arundel County Orphans’ Court Judge Marc Knapp, whom they had accused of illegally recording his probate court colleagues. The development followed Circuit Judge Christine M. Celeste’s decision last month to rule out as evidence the single recording at the center of the prosecution, with the judge finding that authorities obtained it with an illegal warrant.

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Alex Mann

Anne Arundel County has moved closer to allowing Maryland to try to create a vibrant apartment community at the Cromwell light rail station in Glen Burnie. With a unanimous vote Thursday, the County Council passed an amendment to rezone approximately 16 acres at the state-owned transit hub to allow up to 44 residences per acre. This was the second time the measure was brought to a vote.