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The arts have become the latest battleground over efforts to address gender, racial discrimination and inequity.

Katie Pumphrey, an artist and athlete who last year completed a historic swim from the Chesapeake Bay to the Inner Harbor, is planning to do it again.

Many Columbia residents and leaders are pushing back against proposals to turn over management of the village community association buildings and neighborhood centers to the Columbia Association.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has new local leadership after the previous director was promoted, an ICE spokesperson said Friday.

Baltimore firefighters scaled towering ladders to rescue two residents trapped on a burning patio as flames engulfed the eighth floor of a high-rise apartment building in downtown Thursday evening, officials said.

A partial solar eclipse will be visible March 29 from the East Coast.

Kim Domanski, a staple of the Baltimore arts community who worked for the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts and later at The Peale museum, died March 7 of a heart attack. She was 52.

People huddled in jackets and sweaters before an altar of six crosses for the six men killed in the Key Bridge collapse: Alejandro Hernández Fuentes, Carlos Daniel Hernández, Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, José Mynor López and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera.

The fight against Baltimore Gas and Electric Company’s planned rate increases escalated Thursday as a contingent of city leaders took to the streets to rally residents against the energy giant’s proposal.

Ryan Coleman has resigned as president of the Randallstown NAACP amid differences with the state conference over his role.

Cpl. Anthony Nickoles, 42, was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexual abuse of a minor, two counts of third- and fourth-degree sexual offenses, and two counts of second-degree assault.

Police identified the “Falls Road Jane Doe” as Leoria Smith, 20 — a woman who had been missing for about 12 years when her body was found.

Mangione donned the socks but later took them off “because he felt that ‘they did not look good,‘” according to prosecutor Joel Seidemann.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown urged residents to consider deleting their 23andMe accounts.

The Columbia Association is weighing proposals to take over the community buildings and centers that are now run by the planned community’s 10 villages. The recommendations are triggering a debate about Columbia’s future.

Darryll J. Pines, president of the University of Maryland, College Park, and Bruce E. Jarrell, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, says collaborations have created over 1,000 jobs.

Stephanie C. Chupein says Marylanders should reject school vouchers and support public schools that serve all children, not just the wealthiest.

Here are some things to do in Howard County, including Trans Day of Visibility and the MACC Bash at Merriweather Post Pavilion.

As the Trump administration slashes the government, economists predict dire consequences for a state long dependent on federal spending.

The night of the collapse, Mt. Olive Baptist Church opened its doors for a “community vigil, offering space for collective mourning, prayer and solidarity.”