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A video competition on the dangers of fentanyl includes $15,000 in prize money for middle and high school students.

Years of delays and cost overruns have ballooned the cost of the Purple Line to an estimated $9.5 billion. Now, the massive transit project is winding toward completion.

In the 15 years since its founding, Volo Sports has grown to be the largest provider of social sports in the nation. And the company’s nonprofit arm, launched in 2015, has grown too.

This is the 100 Heads Society, where friends and strangers dedicate their Monday evenings to honing their portraiture skills.

Corey Adams and Gregory Doda, former employees of the beloved Princeton Sports in Baltimore County, have opened their own bike and ski shop — right behind the old store.

Ocean City is the most popular destination for the U.S. State Department program that offers foreign university students a chance working and traveling in the U.S. on a J-1 visa.

In the predawn hours Wednesday, Baltimore County Police responded to call about a shooting that killed Marcos Molina-Saravia.

Within a span of six hours, three people died in Baltimore from shootings and a vacant building fire, police said.

Hundreds gathered on the field at C. Milton Wright High School on Friday night, including classmates, teachers, coaches, close friends, and the family of 16-year-old Blake Elliot. 

After 15 years away from the classroom, a Baltimore man on Friday achieved his goal, joining more than 50 graduates from the Excel Center, a free adult high school for Maryland students.

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A 19-year-old was shot and injured outside of Forest Park High School in Northwest Baltimore Friday evening, police said. The teenager is in stable condition.

Vigilante mom Dieneba Sekou Traore was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after a Howard County jury found her guilty of shooting two teens in downtown Columbia.

An 18-year-old was sentenced Friday to 18 months in jail for stabbing a fellow student at Meade High School in January.

Defense attorneys for a man accused of shooting six people in Annapolis in 2023 want his charges dismissed, accusing Anne Arundel County State's Attorney Anne Colt Leitess of misconduct during his February trial.

Several festivals and events mean parking restrictions and road closures will be in effect around downtown this weekend and on Monday.

Locust Point residents thought their wishes had been granted Wednesday when two massive and noisy military cargo ships left the spot where they’d been berthed since June. But then one returned.

A 16-year-old girl died and a 17-year-old boy was seriously injured after their vehicle was pushed into the path of a school bus.

Howard County police on Thursday detained a person following the fatal stabbing of a woman in Ellicott City

Howard County’s planning board voted Thursday night to reject gas pumps and a Sheetz convenience store on historic Rosa Bonheur pet cemetery in Elkridge.