Anne Arundel County

There are three main July Fourth parades across Anne Arundel County — 10 a.m. in Severna Park, 1 p.m. in Galesville and 6 p.m. in Annapolis. Here’s a guide by the numbers, with a nod to a giant memorial flag, the weather forecast and Elvis for President.

Anne Arundel County Police chief Amal Awad and U.S. Park Police Chief Jessica Taylor said during a press conference that the chase started at about 12:15 p.m. in southern Anne Arundel County when officers spotted a white BMW suspected of being involved in more than 40 armed robberies in the region this year.

June saw at least three drownings in the region. Here’s how to stay safe.

What the heck did Thomas Jefferson mean by writing that we had a right to the pursuit of happiness? I asked Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, food historian Joyce White, Baltimore Orioles owner David Rubenstein, nonprofit leader and teacher Tatiana Klein and artist Jeff Huntington what it means to them. Here’s what they said.

Friends from as far away as Pennsylvania traveled to Maryland to remember 18-year-old Anthony Hinton III, a Glen Burnie High School graduate who was a defensive lineman at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.

Tavon Smith, an MTA light-rail operator, was sentenced to 18 months after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment. Smith in 2022 was operating a light-rail train that struck a vehicle driven by St. Frances Academy football player Lamar Patterson, who was killed.

Melachi Brown, 21, of Windsor Mill, who pleaded guilty to felony manslaughter in a two-vehicle crash that killed six people working in a Baltimore Beltway work zone, was allowed by a judge to serve the remainder of his 18-month jail sentence on home detention.

Lines carved by the wind on the sand are no different than what followed the violence that ended five lives on June 28, 2018 — energy moving from one form to another.

Tuesday marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Tours and exhibits are available to help explore the role Annapolis played in reaching this landmark moment in American history.

Temperatures in the Baltimore-Washington region could climb to the mid to upper 90s, though the humidity could make it feel closer to 100 to 105 degrees.

Katie Pumphrey completed a more than 24-mile swim from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to the Harborplace Amphitheater in the Inner Harbor.

MLB.com went so far as to ask whether it was the greatest fan catch ever made.

In a season of change, the new owners of Baltimore Sun Media stopped publishing the Maryland Gazette, which carried news of the Declaration of Independence on July 11, 1776. The Big Glen Burnie Carnival ended a summer run that started in 1908. And down in Ocean City, the city is phasing out a century-old seasonal police officer program.

Anne Arundel County installs first-ever speed cameras to increase roadway safety and reduce traffic fatalities and injuries.

Republicans, Democrats and my colleagues in journalism alike would be wise to heed the ghost of Willie Horton, whose story still haunts us 26 years after his name entered the American lexicon.

If the sun is shining in Annapolis, there’s a good chance Darim Traore is selling flowers at his stand outside Reynolds Tavern with a huge smile on his face.

Cooling centers are being opened across the region this weekend, offering air-conditioned spaces and water. You can check this map to find one in your area.

We are in a season of replacements, of dominos lined up for the chain reaction fall. As many as six political vacancies in Annapolis either have been filled or will be by early next year. It’s a rare moment of political instability, and voters will have almost no say in the outcome.

Summer is a state of mind. Nothing sums that up better than a trip to the beach. But where can you go if you can’t make the six-hour round-trip drive to the Atlantic Ocean?

Nicholas Francis Xavier Giroux, 36, has been charged with first-and-second-degree murder in the death of Isaiah Oludayo Olugbemi.