Anne Arundel County

Before dropping a tree on the curb or at a recycling facility, you’ll need to make sure it’s free of ornaments, lights or any other nonorganic decorations.

Maryland is right to join a challenge to the proposed JetBlue-Spirit merger, which would hurt Maryland travelers with higher airfares and lower-quality service, Del. Jessica Feldmark says.

A federal judge took the unusual step of reversing a jury’s guilty verdict against a Maryland doctor for health care fraud.

With a fevered home crowd that resembled one you might see at a big rivalry football game, the wrestling teams from Annapolis and Old Mill high schools faced off in the elements.

You could catch a Bluegrass Nutcracker, attend a Christmas Eve service or check out the Budweiser Clydesdales through Dec. 27.

A federal judge on Wednesday turned away an initial attack on the use of race as a factor in admissions at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, saying it is unclear if the policy is illegal under a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Maryland is on the path to gain control of almost 300 acres on the Chesapeake Bay just outside Annapolis, a potentially huge victory for increasing public access to the Chesapeake Bay.

Across Anne Arundel County schools, there appears to be a rise in violent and dangerous incidents. School officials say part of it is the continuing aftereffect of shutting down in-person schools during COVID. But in Annapolis, they say it is something more.

The deciding vote ultimately went to County Councilwoman Allison Pickard, a Democrat who considers housing a pet issue.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating the circumstances of the 21-year-old man’s encounter with police.

The barricade situation ended around 1 p.m. At that point, one of the two people at the home had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

The city of Annapolis quietly announced this week that it was parting ways with X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that some say has become a forum for extremist groups since billionaire investor Elon Musk took the helm last year.

“I think of what she could have done with her life,” said Joyce Malecki’s brother, Darryl, as he discussed the FBI exhuming her body Thursday. He hopes there will soon be a break in the 1969 killing, which was investigated in the Netflix series, “The Keepers.”

Thursday, three members of Congress declared victory with passage of a defense policy bill that protects public access to the Navy-owned, 240-acre environmental preserve at Greenbury Point.

The FBI announced Thursday that it had completed the exhumation of Joyce Malecki from Loudon Park Cemetery. The Netflix documentary “The Keepers” explored whether Malecki’s murder was connected to the killing of Sister Cathy Cesnik in the early 1970s.

It’s the last full week of things to do before Christmas. There’s still time for Scrooge, holiday markets and Handel’s “Messiah” through Dec. 21.

Meet Royale Bonds.

Anne Arundel is in the final stages of picking a new name for its new high school, expected to open next year off Interstate 97 in Severn. Although names connected with the long history of family farming got more nominations than any other choice, a committee sorting through the choices didn’t advance them for consideration.

The officers are under investigation by the Office of the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division after a high-speed chase and deadly crash in Pasadena early Thursday morning.

The suspension of light rail service has raised questions about why the state did not overhaul its older railcars sooner.