Longtime top prosecutor in Baltimore County seeks to fend off first GOP challenger in a decade

For the first time in a decade, Baltimore County’s top prosecutor will have an opponent in November. Longtime State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger, 63, coming off a tight Democratic primary race, is running for reelection against a former federal administrative judge named Jim Haynes, a 72-year-old Republican, who casts himself as a fresh alternative to the “status quo.”