Maryland health experts are urging residents to stay indoors Friday as wildfire smoke pushes air quality to dangerous levels.

Police are searching for six people who surrounded and attacked a 74-year-old man outside of a 7-Eleven store in Liberty Square.

Thursday morning’s hazy skies in Maryland are expected to worsen Friday as smoke from large wildfires in central Canada drifts into the state, forecasters said.

The National Transportation Safety Board said in a report that multiple people called to report the smell of gas in the hours leading up to the explosion.

A 46-year-old man was fatally shot by police on Sunday evening after officers responded to reports of an armed person at a bus stop in Gaithersburg, said state investigators.

Central Maryland could see a high of 102 on Wednesday and a high of 101 on Thursday.

John Bates Sr. was struck by a 2025 Hyundai Elantra at the intersection of Liberty Road and Old Court Road around 4:45 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

Residents near the structurally unsound Empire Towers on Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie are being asked to respect a 150-foot perimeter around the building, county officials said.

Severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and heavy rain could dash Saturday night plans for a second time this month, though the risk is much lower this weekend.

Three men were injured in a shooting outside a commercial strip on East Cold Spring Lane in Northeast Baltimore, police said.

Residents of Cecil County and Newark, Delaware, were injured Saturday afternoon when a boat exploded moments after refueling at a Chesapeake City marina.

A lightning strike is believed to have ignited a four-alarm fire at a Curtis Bay warehouse Saturday evening as severe thunderstorms swept across Baltimore, capping a day of triple-digit heat with flooding, power outages and emergency calls.

A powerful line of thunderstorms tore across Maryland on Saturday evening, capping a sweltering Fourth of July with flash flooding, water rescues, widespread power outages, downed trees and power lines, a four-alarm fire in Baltimore and the cancellation of holiday celebrations.

Eleven passengers were evacuated and one person hospitalized after a Metrorail train derailed outside College Park on Saturday, officials said.

A naked man momentarily stood where the Christopher Columbus statue used to be near the Inner Harbor on Saturday morning.

Jalen Godard, 29, of Odenton, reported his truck stolen to police minutes after he allegedly broke the window and stole a Verizon store in Ellicott City last week, police said.

The Fourth of July weekend kicked off with delays, cancelations and infrastructure meltdowns as a triple-digit heat wave engulfed the region and placed Maryland under an extreme heat warning until after sunset.

Four people, including two children, were hospitalized after their boat caught fire near Pasadena in the Patapsco River, fire officials said.

A moped driver died in Baltimore after he crashed into a brick wall and was thrown from his vehicle on Thursday night, police said.

Almost all of Maryland is under a heat advisory or an extreme heat warning Wednesday amid a heat wave expected to cook most of the mid-Atlantic and Midwest.