Anne Arundel County

    Naval Academy midshipman shot after mistaking officer for threat
    A midshipman was shot at the U.S. Naval Academy Thursday evening, triggering a campus lockdown and heavy police response for hours, a U.S. Navy official said.
    Navy security officers guard the main entrance of the Naval Academy on Thursday evening after the campus was put on lockdown.
    His ideas for shrinking government shaped Annapolis elections. This is his last one.
    For 17 years, Bill Kardash has been the intellectual power behind the idea of shrinking city government. This will be his last hurrah in Annapolis.
    The Annapolis primary election is Sept. 16, 2025, but the city offers on-demand mail-in voting. One drop-off box is set up in each of the eight wards, with plenty of signs pointing the way.
    Move over, New York: The Baltimore Met Gala is back
    Taking cues from New York’s famous event, the Baltimore Met Gala celebrates Maryland fashion, art and more at Live! Casino and Hotel.
    A stunning showcase of cutting-edge design, where fifteen visionary designers presented bold interpretations of the theme, competing for six coveted slots in the 2025 BMG Fashion Experience. Participating designers introduced by the Faces of BMG.
    7 things to do in Annapolis: Here’s what they’re singing about at the songwriters festival
    What are the local and emerging songwriters singing about during the four-day Annapolis Songwriters Festival? I asked more than 60 of them, and here’s some of what they shared.
    Tavair Dominique is an Annapolis-Baltimore songwriter who will perform at 5 p.m. Friday during the four-day Annapolis Songwriters Festival.
    Bird flu detected in Anne Arundel County for third time this year
    Bird flu was recently detected in a backyard Anne Arundel County flock, the Maryland Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday, bringing the total outbreaks across the state to 10.
    Bird flu was recently detected in a backyard Anne Arundel County flock, the Maryland Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday.
    Annapolis, citing U.S. Postal Service delays, warns voters to drop off mail-in ballots
    Annapolis attributed the problem to “issues with the U.S. Postal Service.”
    Tennley Cook waits on the floor of the Eastport Community Center gym while her mother Heather Cook votes Tuesday night in Annapolis.
    The Dish: This Annapolis restaurant is a tip-free zone
    At a time when tips seem to be expected everywhere, Rumhouse may be the first restaurant in Maryland to do away with the practice all together.
    Sophie McGee is a server at Rumhouse in Annapolis. The restaurant has a no-tipping policy.
    Howard, Anne Arundel, Baltimore City educators finalists for Maryland’s top teacher
    The Maryland Teacher of the Year will be announced at a dinner on Sept. 26.
    Three Baltimore-area teachers are among the seven statewide named finalists for the title of the state Teacher of the Year.
    Annapolis’ next mayor will finish the big dig at City Dock. But what then?
    When Annapolis voters elect a new mayor this fall, he or she will need to focus on finishing the reinvention of City Dock, a project that awaits federal funding.
    City Dock, Annapolis, MD, May 9, 2025.
    New Barnes & Noble opening in Anne Arundel County next week
    Barnes & Noble is opening its second Anne Arundel location in Pasadena on Wednesday, September 10.
    A Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Pittsburgh on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023.
    Anne Arundel might have to pay back state $500K for closing south county boat ramp
    Anne Arundel County may have to pay Maryland more than $500,000 for abruptly closing a boat ramp in Shady Side in July.
    About a month after the county shuttered Discovery Village, it reached an agreement with another south county marina to provide the public with a free boat launch through October.
    Haunting hospital memorial reveals lives once hidden in Crownsville graves
    Anne Arundel County dedicated a memorial listing the names of 1,727 patients who died at the Crownsville state hospital between 1912 and 1965 and were buried in mostly unmarked graves.
    Visitors read name on the Say My Name Memorial following its unveiling at the Crownsville Hospital Patient Cemetery.
    7 things to do in Annapolis, from a sculpture dedication to the county fair
    Wednesday's kickoff of the Anne Arundel County Fair is among the things to do in Annapolis for the week ending Wednesday, Sept. 9.
    "Dragonfly," a sheet-metal sculpture by James O'Neil, is the 19th statue on the Quiet Waters Park Sculpture trail.
    Just how loud are those Locust Point ships? We visited some other noisy spots to find out.
    The plight of Locust Point residents who must live with constant noise from two military cargo ships got us wondering: How does the racket there compare to other noisy spots?
    A pair of huge Navy ships, the USNS Charlton, left, and the USNS Pomeroy, docked near residential homes at North Locust Point on June 5. Since then, residents say that the ships have never turned off the engines -- meaning that they are always making tons of noise, shining bright lights into people's windows, and making the air all smelly with diesel.
    Annapolis aldermen propose ranked-choice voting for ‘kinder and fairer’ elections
    Legislation before the Annapolis City Council aims to implement ranked-choice voting by 2029.
    A voter at Annapolis Middle School in 2022. Legislation before the Annapolis City Council aims to implement ranked-choice voting by 2029.
    This judge will resolve ‘who’s your daddy?’ Her pay raise might be unconstitutional.
    Orphans' Court judges convinced the Baltimore County executive and council to give them $30,000 raises. It may have violated the Maryland Constitution.
    The Baltimore County Orphans Court conducts its hearings in a series of small courtrooms on the fifth floor of the county courthouse in Towson.
    When a journalist dies in Gaza, does it change how we think about this horrific war?
    When a colleague urged me to write about the death of Anas Al-Sharif, a correspondent covering the war in Gaza for Al Jazeera Arabic, he hoped I would be outraged. I didn’t. Because, frankly, I don’t know how I feel. So I asked someone who was there.
    Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, who had been working with the Associated Press and other outlets during the Gaza war, poses for a portrait in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2024. Dagga was one of several journalists killed along with other people in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025.
    In Anne Arundel, Meade and Crofton high schools’ growth stands out on state reading test
    “This data is evidence that the work we have done over the last three years is paying dividends,” Anne Arundel County Schools Superintendent Mark Bedell said in a statement.
    Remember that ugly Annapolis billboard with the cockroach? Now, it’s Bannerific!
    That billboard is still in downtown Annapolis. But wait. Is that an ad for The Baltimore Banner I see, floating majestically over City Dock? Why yes! Beauty, as I have just been reminded, is in the eye. Sometimes like a poke.
    A workman installs The Banner's billboard advertisement on Aug. 26, 2025 at City Dock in Annapolis. Beauty, it turns out, is in the eye of the beholder.
    Police believe woman at Annapolis mental health facility killed clinician, fellow patient
    A woman who transitioned out of care at a maximum-security psychiatric hospital in 2017 has been charged in the fatal shooting last year of a clinician who worked at a residential rehabilitation program. Charges are pending in the death of a fellow patient of the program.
    A police line do not cross tape blocks a pathway near Penn Station.
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