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Three counts of second-degree murder have been dropped against a Baltimore man accused of setting a fire in a vacant rowhome in 2022 that killed three firefighters, the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office said.

Howard County’s highest court denied a Columbia woman’s appeal to resume feeding raw meat to hundreds of vultures.

“I don’t understand how anybody could have seen that and thought it was a good idea to send to all of the clubs,” said Benjamin Jancewicz, a graphic illustrator based in Ottawa, Canada.

Cassandra McRae, 38, of Northeast Baltimore, professed her innocence before being sentenced for second-degree murder and related crimes.

The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order on Monday to alleviate stress on the power grid during a stretch of warmer-than-usual days in the mid-Atlantic.

More than 6,700 employees represented by SEIU Local 500 and the Montgomery County Education Association, the two MCPS unions, live outside the county.

An American Airlines passenger who caused a flight to divert to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in September after police say he spewed racial slurs and profanity has been indicted on federal charges.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced Tuesday that he was ordering his Department of Juvenile Services to coordinate a multiagency intervention into youth auto theft focused on Baltimore City and Montgomery County.

Pope Leo XIV, 71, was in the operating room for about three hours, according to the Vatican. The surgery itself lasted approximately 90 minutes. The statement made no mention of cancer treatment going forward.

An aging ex-gang leader was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting of rap icon Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip.

The human remains found in an Annapolis park two weeks ago have been identified as a missing 33-year-old man, the Annapolis Police Department said Tuesday.

Former City Council President Nick Mosby was named interim leader of Baltimore’s West North Avenue Development Authority after the previous director’s ouster.

The city is installing several new speed cameras in school zones in an attempt to bolster safety.

The unlikely duo this month published “Covert Underworlds,” which features cross-cutting narratives describing their parallel lives growing up in northern Anne Arundel County.

Parent leaders are losing allocated time at the microphone to weigh in on the capital budget.

A “jellyfish cloud” from a SpaceX rocket’s launch on Tuesday morning could shine across Maryland skies.

Annapolis Mayor Jared Littmann reversed himself and will issue a memorial citation to a Black city activist who died in July, a city spokesperson said Tuesday.

“The imagery evoked a painful history of racial terror and exclusion that has no place in an environment dedicated to learning, personal development and mutual respect,” Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick wrote in a message to the historically Black college’s community on Monday night.

That finding comes from an annual report card, released Tuesday by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

Gov. Wes Moore pledged to eliminate Baltimore's vacant homes within 12 years, echoing Mayor Brandon Scott's promise as both spoke to about 2,000 people at an election event organized by the interfaith group BUILD.