The Banner reported this week that Maryland has one of the highest rates of killings in state-run correctional facilities in the nation. Since 2023, 32 incarcerated people have been killed in state institutions, more than all neighboring states combined.
U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin ruled that ICE lacked probable cause to arrest Jesus Acevedo Sanchez and ordered the federal government to release him.
Jesica Argueta, of Silver Spring, pleaded guilty this week to a 2025 crash that killed an elderly woman, according to the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office.
Maryland’s Public Service Commission dealt controversial ride-hailing app Empower a cease and desist order Wednesday afternoon amid a standoff with state regulators.
Federal officials, including ICE, on Wednesday morning conducted an operation that led to a pursuit of three people — and the arrest of two of them — near the Clara Barton Parkway.
Baltimore landlord James Carroll Erny Jr. was sentenced to 13 months in prison and eight months of home confinement for bribing a city finance official to erase water and tax bills totaling about $25,000.
Freedom Caucus success can take different forms depending on which party is in charge, said Matthew Green, a politics professor at The Catholic University of America, who has studied the caucuses’ spread across the country.
The massive flood that swept away two lives in Old Ellicott City 10 years ago next week altered the old mill town forever. Most of those businesses are gone. The county is spending $350 million to build a flood diversion tunnel and stormwater ponds. There are flood warning horns and signs pointing to higher ground. And the recovery is ongoing.
Baltimore’s growing approach to battling crime leverages group intervention and services to cut down on shootings and homicides, as new research shows significant declines.
COLUMN | The cyclosporiasis outbreak, probably caused by iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms, has reminded me and others that science is good and shopping from local farms is great.