Anne Arundel County

Carlton R. Smith, a fixture in the city who advocated for Black and brown members of the LGBTQ community and was currently fighting to decriminalize HIV in the state, died in his sleep May 29 in his Mount Vernon condominium. He was 61.

Erica Griswold, the Anne Arundel County register of wills, pleaded guilty to misconduct in office stemming from her cashing of a $6,645 cashier’s check intended for her office. Sentencing was set for July 18.

It’s a long seven months to Inauguration Day 2025, and it will take some magic to get us through the coming wave of rage. Enter crab dip.

A parade with dozens of groups — including a boisterous drumline, dancers, politicians searching for votes and many, many people waving rainbow flags — crawled up Main Street and West Street.

Residents in Pasadena in Anne Arundel County said they are concerned after learning Maryland Port Administration is considering putting dredge material in part of the river where they swim, fish and boat.

Goucher Prison Education System, or GPEP, allows inmates to study and earn credits towards a degree while in prison. Students take about eight to 10 years to graduate because the majority are working full-time while serving their sentences.

Four employees of a Spirit Airlines vendor have been suspended after they fought with a fifth person at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Thirteen Anne Arundel County environmental organizations have united to protect and preserve the county’s natural resources.

Maggie Kudirka has been living with metastatic breast cancer for years. That hasn’t stopped the Howard County ballerina from teaching dancing and putting together an annual benefit concert.

John Sarbanes is exactly the right person to ask about fixing Congress. It’s his cause. His answer is long and flows from The Federalist Papers to the fall elections. It isn’t Congress that’s broken, he says, it’s us.

L. Rodgers may have been eliminated on the NBC talent show “The Voice,” but she’s still got a hometown following.

About 150 Southwest Airlines flights in and out of BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport were delayed Wednesday because of what the airline described as a power outage at one of its data centers.

The FBI affidavit unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Maryland lays out a series of allegations of stalking, using spoofed phone numbers and text messages aimed at the targeted woman.

TSA intercepted its 21st gun of the year at BWI airport on Sunday — this time, an airport employee brought it.

You may be wishing Maryland had never abandoned the network of ferries that once glided along the Chesapeake Bay. But if ferry service is restored someday, it will be about tourism, not easing traffic jams.

Many residents are concerned that a recent comprehensive rezoning may have cleared the way for a development anchored by a hotel at the site of the Liberty Marina in Anne Arundel County.

More than 1,000 midshipmen graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis under blue skies Friday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin praised the graduates for their resiliency at the ceremony, the first for Vice Admiral Yvette Davids, the military college's first female superintendent.

When midshipmen graduating from the Naval Academy today reach retirement age in 2066, the Chesapeake Bay will be more than a foot higher.

Pleasant weather means the pace of life in Annapolis shifts outdoors, and one of the most pleasant things about the season may be the opportunity to enjoy theater under the stars.