Anne Arundel County

    Descendants of people enslaved by Jesuits tell their stories in PBS doc
    Black Marylanders will be featured in the documentary “Finding Us,” which will be shown on PBS. They are part of the newly formed Descendants of Jesuit Enslavement Historical and Genealogical Society.
    The poster for Finding Us about families torn apart by Georgetown's sale of enslaved people reunite size generations later.
    After witnessing a courthouse shooting, one attorney is using poetry to heal
    Baltimore County poet Jennifer Sutherland's “Bullet Points” lyrically recounts a tragic fatal shooting and its aftermath.
    A woman looks off into the distance.
    Anne Arundel County has passed a sweeping anti-discrimination law. What will it mean?
    A new Anne Arundel County law will expand the Human Relations Commission’s powers from addressing discrimination complaints in housing to include noncounty employment and public accommodations.
    The Arundel Center in downtown Annapolis houses county government offices.
    Maryland Proud Boys leader sentenced to multiple years for attacking police during Capitol riot
    A far-right extremist group leader was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago.
    In a court filing, federal prosecutors say Scott Miller, 36, of Millersville, swung a pole at a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.
    Key Bridge collapse turns neighborhood roads into highway thoroughfares
    Trucks have long cut through neighborhoods around the Port of Baltimore, but residents say the problem is getting worse in the wake of the Key Bridge’s collapse.
    Trucks coming back from the way of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was toppled by a massive container ship on March 26, 2024. The loss of the bridge, a key segment in the Baltimore Beltway, has left drivers looking for other routes around the city or to and from the Port of Baltimore.
    A funny thing happened on the way to the 3rd District forum in Annapolis
    Former Capitol Hill police officer Harry Dunn and state Sen. Sarah Elfreth were among the candidates who participated in a forum in Annapolis. The candidates, who are vying to success outgoing U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes, face off in the May 14 primary election.
    Abigail Diehl, a longshot candidate for Congress in the 3rd District, counts off her four campaign priorities during a forum in Annapolis.
    7 things to do: Warmer days mean boating season has begun in Annapolis
    April is finally warming, and that means there are opportunities to get out on the water in Annapolis. There’s also free music, a festival for female voices, a maritime collective market day and student art to enjoy through April 24.
    Volunteer crew Brian Fleming, left, and Philip Smith stow the mainsail aboard the Wilma Lee, an 83-year-old skipjack operated by the Annapolis Maritime Museum & Park.
    Democracy in action: Students in Anne Arundel, Howard to elect student members
    Public school students in the Anne Arundel and Howard County school districts go to the polls soon to elect a student school board member, who will serve one year.
    Paper ballot voting booths at Owings Mills High School in Baltimore County.
    I’m new to commuting on the Baltimore Beltway. Is it always this bad?
    I’ve been commuting from Annapolis to Baltimore a couple of days each week for a few months now. We’ve got traffic in Annapolis, and sometimes it’s maddening. There was that one time a sailboat mast got caught in a powerline on Forest Drive. But I have to ask you Baltimore Beltway commuters a question: Is it always this bad?
    A vehicle sits overturned in a construction zone on the Baltimore Beltway on March 22, 2023. Six construction workers were killed in the crash.
    Former cop Harry Dunn leads fundraising in Central Maryland congressional race
    The district includes all of Howard County, the central and northern parts of Anne Arundel County and a small portion of Carroll County.
    A composite photo of candidates for the 3rd Congressional District in Maryland (from left): Mark S. Chang, Harry Dunn, Sarah Elfreth and Clarence Lam.
    St. John’s College is reckoning with its racist past. That includes Francis Scott Key.
    St. John’s College in Annapolis will look at its most complicated graduate as part of a wider reckoning with its history of racism.
    Percy Moran's 1905 painting of Francis Scott Key and John S. Skinner as they watched the bombardment of Fort McHenry took a good deal of creative license.
    Prosecutors seeking multiple years in prison for Maryland Proud Boy over role in Jan. 6 riot
    Scott Miller of Anne Arundel is facing sentencing Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington for his role in the insurrection. He pleaded guilty in January to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon.
    In a court filing, federal prosecutors say Scott Miller, 36, of Millersville, swung a pole at a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Miller, circled in a photo captured that day, was a member of the fascist group the Proud Boys at the time of the attack.
    Maryland’s new approach to gun violence is all about the data
    State lawmakers recently approved legislation creating the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention, sending it to the desk of Gov. Wes Moore. The idea is to collect and use data to design strategies — the same technique used to fight disease — to reduce the number of people killed and injured by guns every year in Maryland.
    Detectives investigate the scene of a shooting in Pasadena, where police said a 61-year-old woman raised a handgun officers before they shot her.
    Ethics panel asks Anne Arundel delegate to apologize for conflict of interest
    Del. Shaneka Henson has been urged by an ethics panel to apologize for discussing state funding for a nonprofit organization that paid her to be its legal adviser.
    Del. Shaneka Henson, an Anne Arundel County Democrat, sits in the Maryland State House during sine die, the final day of the 2024 General Assembly Session in Annapolis, on April 8, 2024.
    WATCH: Take a drive over the Key Bridge in this poignant short student film from 1987
    “One Dollar,” a student film shot in a single continuous take in 1987, documents a journey across the Francis Scott Key Bridge that is now lost in time
    Screen shot from “One Dollar,” a 1987 16 mm student film about the Francis Scott Key Bridge
    7 things to do: Rose, the ultimate stage mother, comes to Annapolis
    You could catch a new production of “Gypsy” at Classic Theatre of Maryland, new music at the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra or some very, very old-style singing from a German choir. There’s lots more to do during the week through April 17.
    Christine Asero plays Rose in the Maryland Classic Theatre production of "Gypsy."
    Soldier found dead in barracks at Fort Meade
    Fort Meade officials say there were no indications of self-harm or foul play in the death of a soldier in the barracks, but the Criminal Investigative Division has taken over the investigation.
    The main gate of Fort Meade in northwestern Anne Arundel County.
    Gov. Moore signs bill adding Harriet Tubman’s name to Annapolis Black history museum
    The House and state Senate both unanimously passed legislation approving the name change for the 40-year-old Banneker-Douglass museum.
    Courtesy of Corey Nickols
    A renowned Black pianist will perform in Annapolis. Is it a milestone?
    Annapolis is a city with a racist past. There’s just no nice way to say that. The arts, well, they are no different. The question is, what has changed?
    Awadagin Pratt will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra on Friday and Saturday.
    Downstream from Baltimore, life, tragedy and trash just keep washing up
    The debris floating up now on the shoreline of Sunset Beach, Orchard Beach and Riviera Beach in Anne Arundel County is the consequence of a horrible tragedy, so no one wants to criticize. But this is life living downstream from Baltimore.
    Ernie Dimler, who's lived on Stoney Creek in Pasadena for 30-plus years, points out some of the debris that's washed up since the Key Bridge Collapse on March 26.
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