Anne Arundel County

A substitute teacher at Glen Burnie High School was arrested Monday after a handgun was found in his backpack on school property, according to police.

The plaintiff is Students For Fair Admissions, which won the U.S. Supreme Court case striking down affirmative action in college admissions.

The bill, introduced this week, would require a portion of all new residential developments with a certain number of units to be set aside for people with incomes at or below the Baltimore-area median.

Federal charges against Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr. of Arnold, then a senior member of the Pentagon’s communications staff, and his Glen Burnie barber, detail their roles in an alleged dog fighting ring that operated via encrypted text messages and a private message board. They just don’t explain how this could have gone on so long.

Whether you want to listen to blues, eat crabs, catch a concert or see Tiffany Haddish do stand-up, we’ve got you covered.

It’s the first of two boat show weekends in Annapolis, but there’s more to do than just tour that trawler you’ve dreamed of piloting into the sunset. You could take in a musical comedy, catch some blues music, see a burlesque or support local police. Here are seven of the best things on the calendar through Oct. 12.

Who helps when lives are shattered by everyday gun violence? When death arrives at your doorstep, who helps you make the next day seem possible? On Oct. 10, two small organizations will ask Annapolis that question again, this time after a mass shooting in June.

According to the complaint filed on Sept. 21, Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr., 62, of Arnold, and Mario Damon Flythe, 49, of Glen Burnie, used encrypted messaging to discuss how to train the dogs, exchange videos about dogfighting, and arrange and coordinate fights.

Minutes after the Child Victims Act went into effect on Sunday, ending the statute of limitations for civil cases involving child sexual abuse, two women filed lawsuits against the Key School, a private institution in Annapolis.

By the end of 2023, Annapolis and Gaithersburg will have IKEA stores, but they’re a little different from what customers are used to.

Not much has changed since Annapolis abandoned a trial bike lane on Main Street weeks ahead of schedule five years ago, giving in to merchants who howled at the loss of a few dozen parking spaces. So, I asked the mayor: With two years left in office, where is his bike revolution?

You could listen to great progressive bluegrass this weekend or hear a stirring symphonic requiem for Holocaust victims, You could buy a book to support literacy, get info on home improvement or catch an artists’ roundtable. Here are some of the best things to do in Annapolis through Oct. 5.

As the water from Ophelia recedes, my attention turns to the trees, particularly 12 mature trees surrounding my house at the end of Annapolis Neck jutting out into the Chesapeake Bay.

Adding more flights and travelers more willing to take to the sky have made the region’s best airport busy again.

A tree also fell on tracks at a light rail station in Baltimore. The flooding was minimal and one official even said the storm was "uneventful."

Maryland must implement data governance practices to protect school systems, which are particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks, says James D. Cornelius, a former chief information officer for the Maryland State Department of Education.

Annapolis unveiled its long-awaited design for a maritime welcome center Wednesday, part of an $88 million reimagining of its waterfront public square to protect the historic city from rising seas and climate change. It now faces an ambitious timeline and uncertain public response.

From Irish traditional music to a classical music concert and the 33rd annual Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival, there’s plenty to do in Annapolis this coming week.

There have been nine homicides in Annapolis this year and many more shootings and reports of evening gunfire. It’s easy to overlook that some people are trying to help those hurt by it all.

Generations of historians, archaeologists and preservationists have to contend with one legend over and over again — that a network of tunnels is hidden beneath the centuries-old center of Annapolis.