Emerging News Reporter

Luke Parker

Luke Parker is an emerging news reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He previously covered crime and courts for the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, as well as several community and political beats for The Record Observer on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Raised in Ellicott City, Luke graduated from Towson University in 2021 and joined Baltimore Sun Media in 2022. Outside the newsroom, Luke watches too many movies and spends most nights running around a ball field. Email him at lparker@baltsun.com.

Multiple bomb threats called in to St. John’s College are unfounded, police, college officials say

November 2, 2023 at 5:07 p.m.

Multiple bomb threats were called in to St. John's College on Thursday morning, according to Annapolis Police spokesperson Bernie Bennett, and were determined to be unfounded. The campus is all...

Former service member found dead at Fort Meade suspected of killing son in their Odenton apartment

November 2, 2023 at 6:54 p.m.

A retired service member found dead at Fort Meade on Wednesday morning is suspected of killing his 34-year-old son in their Odenton apartment, according to the Anne Arundel County Police...

Glen Burnie man sentenced to life after killing wife in her sleep in Owings Mills home

November 5, 2023 at 4:52 a.m.

A daughter heard her mother's phone ring from another bedroom, over and over. She had spent the night before, May 2, 2021, at their Owings Mills apartment trying to get...

Chester driver dies on roadside in Arnold after he was shot and crashed SUV, Anne Arundel police say

October 31, 2023 at 6:42 p.m.

A Chester man died on the side of the road with a gunshot wound in the chest after he apparently drove his SUV into another vehicle and a tree Monday night in...

‘We just felt forgotten’; Lanham man struck on sidewalk in hit-and-run Thursday; PG police first contacted family on Monday

October 5, 2023 at 8:38 p.m.

The 7-Eleven closest to Logan Wingert's house in Lanham was closed last Thursday night, Sept. 28. There was another store nearby, less than a mile from his home, on Annapolis...

Cape St. Claire boater pleads guilty in fatal hit-and-run on Magothy River after testifying there was ‘no harm, no foul’

October 3, 2023 at 12:02 a.m.

On July 3, 2022, after crashing his boat into another and landing on top of Laura Slattery, a 63-year-old wife and mother who was a passenger in the other boat...

Assault cases dropped against Anne Arundel Police officer and wife

September 28, 2023 at 9:53 p.m.

The cases against an Anne Arundel County Police officer and his wife have been dropped after the latter invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to self-incriminate, according to the Baltimore...

Trial begins for Cape St. Claire man charged after steering away from fatal crash on Magothy River

September 28, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.

A jury heard testimony from several witnesses Monday and Tuesday in the negligent manslaughter case against Brownell Edds Jr., a Cape St. Claire resident accused of recklessly steering his boat...

Washington, DC, man sentenced to 9 months after putting lotion on women’s backs in Gambrills stores

September 27, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.

A Washington, D.C., man arrested in December after several women reported finding lotion on their backs or necks was sentenced to nine months in prison Aug. 25, six days before...

Odenton man sentenced to 5 years after molesting young family member

September 26, 2023 at 6:11 p.m.

An Odenton man was sentenced to serve five years in prison earlier this month after molesting a young family member, court records show. In a Sept. 19 hearing in Circuit...

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