Baltimore County

Scores of first responders, state and city leaders and mourners gathered for the funeral of Baltimore City firefighter Rodney Pitts III, who died in the line of duty Oct. 19.

The Baltimore County Police Department is investigating the arrest Wednesday of a 16-year-old in front of the Baltimore County Public Library in Woodlawn, where last month, officers were accused of using excessive force during the arrest of a different teenager inside the library.

Heavy Seas, Maryland’s largest remaining craft brewer, is the first to use a hop native to the state, discovered on a veterinarian’s Frederick County farm.

Council Chair Julian Jones said Wednesday he plans to poll Baltimore County Council members on whether they’ll override the county executive’s veto.

A school bus taking students to Vincent Farm Elementary School was involved in a crash in White Marsh.

Ever since the Israel-Hamas War erupted into an international crisis, its tremors have reverberated through families of the Jewish and Palestinian diasporas all the way to Maryland.

A teenager was injured in a shooting at a playground at Edmondson Heights Elementary School in Woodlawn just after most students were released.

Federal prosecutors wrote in charging documents the men exchanged thousands of dollars worth of the dimes at Coinstar machines in Cockeysville and Towson.

She was encouraged by the strong showing this year from different parts of the state, including delegates from Baltimore and Montgomery counties.

Officials will present the plan at Towson University Monday morning, with a focus on projects in Baltimore County. They’ll move the focus to city initiatives when presenting the CTP at City Hall at 3:30 pm.

It’s time for Baltimore County to make good on its obligation to bring residents more affordable housing, says David Plymyer, an attorney who lives in the county.

Linda Malat Tiburzi, a survivor of the notorious child rapist John Merzbacher while a student at the Catholic Community School of Baltimore in the 1970s, died at age 62. She was an advocate for survivors of abuse and rejoiced at the release of the Office of the Maryland Attorney General’s report on child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Data shows a program at four Baltimore-area hospitals has reduced emergency visits by half among the patients who frequent the emergency room.

Just two weeks before a ban on plastic bags is due to go into effect in Baltimore County, County Council members voted Monday to scale back the measure — under a veto threat from the county executive.

For the first time, Baltimore County residents can tell the superintendent where they want to see school money spent at a series of community meetings.

A logging truck overturned Monday afternoon on the inner loop of I-695, temporarily halting traffic in all lanes.

The Democratic county executive is proposing to put the Office of the Inspector General into the county’s charter and add a requirement the office be funded. And Olszewski is proposing that the inspector general can immediately issue subpoenas to nongovernment employees when warranted.

Riders can continue to use cash at machines during the software and hardware changes, and the MTA recommends the CharmPass app for mobile transactions. The agency plans to wrap the upgrades to fare machines by December 2024.

A Baltimore City Council hearing Wednesday offered new information but left a number of questions less than fully answered.

As president of the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project, Will Schwarz has the task of addressing the atrocities of racial terror murders of the past while helping to ensure that these crimes are not repeated in the future.