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Despite a troubled start, Zūm gets 5 more years to bus Howard County students
The Howard County Public School System extended its contract with Zum, the controversial school bus company, for five more years.
Zum, a California based tech company, will handle 230 of Howard County Public School's roughly 500 school bus routes for the next three years.
Kyle Goon: With hard plays and new Orioles teammates, Blaze Alexander throws himself into the fire
COLUMN | The Orioles utilityman has played four positions this season in just 13 games. And you'll never meet someone happier to be thrown all over the field.
Blaze Alexander has started at third base, second, shortstop and center field this year.
How will the condition of their roster affect the Ravens’ approach to the draft?
Here are three takeaways from the team’s predraft news conference with coach Jesse Minter and DeCosta.
General manager Eric DeCosta has stuck to the strategy of picking the best available player at every opportunity in the draft.
What to do this weekend, including ‘Holes,’ Snail Mail and food festivals
Whether you want to see Snail Mail’s homecoming concert, indulge in wings and oysters at local festivals or see a new play at Baltimore Center Stage, we’ve got you covered.
Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail performs onstage at the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 15, 2023 in Indio, California.
The Maryland legislator who first codified abortion rights in state law
Paula Hollinger, a nurse who served in the Maryland General Assembly for nearly three decades, died March 25 of leukemia. She was 85.
Paula Hollinger.
What do you wear when you’re delivering bad news? Ask this Baltimore designer.
Downtown Partnership leader Shelonda Stokes got an assist from a Baltimore designer for this year’s annual report for Charm City.
Shelonda Stokes, president of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, gets fitted for a suit by designer Natalie Karyl at her shop The Dollhouse Boutique in Baltimore.
Streeter: Why this Baltimore church crowdfunded its high BGE bill
COLUMN | When Northwood-Appold United Methodist’s BGE bills totaled nearly $7,000 in January and February, the congregation banded together to take care of it.
Members of Northwood-Appold United Methodist Church banded together to help pay the church’s January and February Baltimore Gas and Electric bill. From left to right: Al Napper, Nancy Green, Mike Wells, Johanne White, Richard Perry
Hopkins nonprofit scores massive windfall after Trump cuts. But there’s a catch.
The Johns Hopkins University’s global aid nonprofit Jhpiego was among several groups to receive massive federal funding increases in the last fiscal year.
The Jhpiego headquarters in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore, Md. on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.
7 things to do in Montgomery County this week: Bookstore opening events, a beer festival and more
Here are your weekend plans in Montgomery County, including the grand opening of an independent bookstore and a beer festival.
The Paper Heart Bookstore celebrates its grand opening this weekend in Gaithersburg’s Kentlands community.

Paper Heart owners Ashley Le and Mike Luu hope the store’s cozy second-story interior can serve as a third place for book lovers in the community.
Andrew Friedson wants to lead Montgomery County. Will his pro-growth vision win over skeptics?
Andrew Friedson, the two-term Montgomery County Council member, is running for county executive, focusing on economic development and housing affordability. Is that a winning message?
Andrew Friedson, right, chats with Pastor Victor Ehiemere, center, and Jerome Leonard after Friedson attended an early Sunday service at The Well Church in Rockville.
2 small mistakes prove to be the difference in Nationals’ 2-0 loss to Pirates
Brady House #12 of the Washington Nationals makes a throw to first in the sixth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park on April 15, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  All players are wearing the number 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson Day.
Youth mentors build trust as Maryland expands mental health program: ‘I’m their safe space’
Launched last fall, Maryland Youth Mental Health Corps is the newest addition to the Maryland Corps/Service Year Option for 18 to 29-year-olds.
First lady Dawn Moore, center, at a roundtable with Youth Mental Health Corps members and first ladies from around the country at the Baltimore Ravens Boys & Girls Club on Wednesday.
Former Ravens CB Jaire Alexander opens up on struggles in Baltimore: ‘I felt it slipping away’
“As much as I loved Baltimore, I didn’t love the position I was in,” former Ravens cornerback Jaire Alexander wrote in a social media post.
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Jaire Alexander (23) jogs to the next drill during the team’s training camp at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
Remember Baltimore’s poop processing problem? Well it’ll cost $38.5M to fix.
The increased costs will go to Synagro Technologies, a company that dries sludge from Baltimore City's two wastewater treatment plants and turns it into fertilizer.
The Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant occupies a 466-acre site on the Back River in Dundalk.
Washington County ICE facility construction limited by federal judge
The injunction prohibits building and operating detention space inside the facility while awaiting further arguments in the federal court case.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, purchased an unoccupied, 825,620-square-foot warehouse designed for commercial goods on the outskirts of Williamsport in January.
Need stamps? Don’t go to the post office in Fells Point for now.
Several signs on the doors and inside the post office in Fells Point warn customers before entering: There are no stamps.
Signs on the door of the United States Postal Office in Fells Point at 714 S Wolfe Street in Baltimore note a lack of Forever stamps at the location.
State panel curbed the cost of a diabetes drug. Could Ozempic be next?
The Maryland Prescription Drug Affordability Board took the first step to limit the cost of a common diabetes drug, with Ozempic potentially next.
The injectable drug Ozempic is shown Saturday, July 1, 2023, in Houston.
Former Dunbar football coach gets year in federal prison for stealing $215K through overtime
Lawrence E. Smith, the decorated former Dunbar High football coach, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for stealing $215,000 in overtime pay as a city schools police officer.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2026 - Former Dunbar football coach and city schools police officer Lawrence Smith leaves US District court after being sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing police overtime pay.
Orioles fall to Diamondbacks in 10th, sealing series loss
This was Baltimore’s first extra-innings game of the season. It didn’t go smoothly, and it continued an uneasy return to the bullpen for Tyler Wells
Baltimore Orioles left fielder Weston Wilson is unable to catch a two-run triple hit by Arizona Diamondbacks' Adrian del Castillo during the third inning.
Baltimore breaks 85-year-old heat record as temperature hits 91 degrees
Baltimore broke an 85-year-old heat record Wednesday when the temperature reached 91 degrees, the highest ever recorded on April 15 in the city, according to the National Weather Service.
A silhouetted man walks along the harbor with nobody else in sight. Street lights divide the photo in half between the water and the walkway.
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