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The monthslong tug-of-war between state and county officials has caught the attention of Andy Harris, Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress.

A woman's home in East Baltimore is helping heal her block in the McElderry Park community. Arrealia Gavins, a Georgetown University educator, has run a summer tutoring program and parent to child counseling.

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A new Wawa opened Thursday at 8100 Belair Rd. in Nottingham, Baltimore County.

Bruce Leibowitz of Rockdale Towing Company received a call to help remove a horse from an 8-to-10-foot-deep pit in Reisterstown, one of the strangest things he’s had to move in his 30-year career.

A 93-year-old woman is dead after an on-duty Howard County Police officer struck her with an unmarked vehicle in a Columbia shopping center parking lot early Friday morning.

Marine Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte assumed command of the U.S. Naval Academy at a ceremony Friday afternoon.

Lightning struck a Pikesville apartment building, sparking a three-alarm blaze that caused a partial roof collapse, displaced over a dozen people and killed at least one dog, fire officials said.

Baltimore’s world-famous aquatic trash interceptor, Mr. Trash Wheel, is inviting friends and fans to appear as extras in a music video for The Mr. Trash Wheel Song.

More than a dozen tenants of Sharp Leadenhall Apartments in South Baltimore filed a lawsuit against their landlord, alleging a multitude of severe and pervasive issues.

Anne Arundel County school teacher Matthew Schlegel, who was acquitted of criminal charges, remains fully employed, according to a district spokesperson.

Baltimore decided to accept court winnings of $152 million from a pair of drug distributors in its opioid lawsuit, a little more than half of what a jury awarded the city late last year.

Dan Taylor, president of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, says we need to make Baltimore’s Inner Harbor more accessible to everyone — including swimmers.

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen is pressing federal officials to address Locust Point and Fells Point residents’ complaints over noise, fumes and lights from two docked military ships.

If you could interview the watermelon queen, what would you ask? I did, and they sent me in search of meaning in the ubiquitous fruit of summer. First off, it's not a fruit, and second, growing watermelons is no dream.

Baltimore City is on track to see another year of historic declines in homicides. Here’s one organization contributing to that work.

Central Maryland was spared major flooding Thursday, with storms bringing moderate rainfall and minor high-water reports before moving south by evening.

Several pets were killed and 16 people displaced when a three-alarm fire tore through a Baltimore County apartment building Thursday afternoon.

The bones of a Black woman who ranges between 35-50 years old were found in a vacant property in the 1600 block of McKean Avenue last year.

Baltimore County firefighters rescued a 32-year-old horse from a pit Thursday morning, officials said.