Maryland

Across the country, emergency department visits for tick bites are up more than 25% from last year, according to federal data. Maryland and other northeastern states are looking like ground zero.

A California-based shopping center company announced Wednesday it has acquired Annapolis Mall for $260 million and the adjacent 13.1-acre vacant Sears parcel for $12 million.

Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will not make the trip to Laurel Park, trainer Cherie DeVaux announced Wednesday, and will instead point to the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in June.

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Utz Quality Foods issued the recall this week after learning a chip seasoning containing dry milk powder it uses for various Zapp’s and Dirty brand flavors might have been infected.

Ted Turner, a brash television pioneer who raced yachts, transformed the news business by launching CNN and introducing the 24-hour cable news cycle.

Testing sites across the harbor ranged from “poor” to “fair,” according to 2025 water-quality data published Wednesday by the nonprofit Blue Water Baltimore.

What caused the plane that was landing at Newark Liberty International Airport to strike the truck remains unclear.

“The reality is that winning this fight would require resources that this campaign simply doesn’t have,” Williams wrote on Instagram.

Questions revolve around the idea that Baltimore County is at a tipping point and is headed in the wrong direction.

The charges stemmed from a Dec. 2 incident at his house in Massachusetts, where Jamila Adams, a former live-in personal chef known as Mila, testified that Diggs slapped and choked her during an argument. He had pleaded not guilty to a felony strangulation charge and a misdemeanor assault and battery charge.

The case began in April 2024, when Kelly Madigan, who was then Baltimore County‘s inspector general, sued Patrick Murray, who had been then-County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s chief of staff.

There are no Muppets but lots of politicians speaking at commencement ceremonies in Maryland this year.

A Towson therapist is setting up a self-guided tour of Ladew Topiary Gardens part of a movement that uses nature to improve mental health.

As other restaurant groups shrink, Nick Liberatore and his relatives — the family behind Lib’s Grill and Liberatore’s Ristorante — plan on opening three new restaurants around Maryland in 2026.

The Baltimore City Fire Department said it had contained a hydrochloric acid leak from a railcar in South Baltimore and that it poses “no threat to the surrounding community.”

The Baltimore County legislation to protect animals from abuse comes in the wake of a hoarding case still unfolding in court; a Halethorpe woman faces nearly 500 counts of animal cruelty stemming from the condition of dozens of dogs, birds and reptiles she was keeping.

A 22-year-old Virginia man died over the weekend while kayaking near Great Falls.

A truck driver for Baltimore-based H&S Bakery was en route to a depot in Newark on Sunday when a United Airlines plane carrying 221 people struck his truck on the New Jersey Turnpike.

The Pulitzer Prize Board has recognized The Banner for a second consecutive year.