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The U.S. Naval Academy will have its change of command ceremony for the new superintendent on Friday.

Howard County is launching a guaranteed basic income pilot program to study how transformative $1,000 monthly cash payments would be for 20 needy families.

A Columbia man, Charles Epperson Jr., pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal January shooting of Lance Carrington in Howard County, prosecutors said.

Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, said he and a bipartisan team of senators worked with Trump administration officials to secure the release of citizens wrongfully detained.

The Maryland State Fair is returning to Baltimore County for the 144th time this summer.

Mark Fetting, who passionately supported his three children, adored Stephen Sondheim’s music, died Saturday morning after a heart attack. He was 70-years-old.

In the early 1980s, Donna De Garcia drove through the mountainside of Taxco, Mexico, searching for her vision of gold — silver.

Updates to Howard County building codes mean residents will have lower bills, better energy efficiency and more comfort during hot weather, says Monica O’Connor, a member of HoCo Climate Action.

Uber driver Tanner Donahoo didn’t know he was driving famous rapper Jeezy until halfway through their 10-hour ride to save his Baltimore concert at the Lyric.

Standing up to injustice requires courage, and every step toward despotism by President Donald Trump is another call to show it.

Williamsport High School in Washington County will start the 2025-26 academic year virtually after asbestos was found in parts of its building.

A mass power outage in Central Maryland was avoided on Monday, following a transmission failure at a local Baltimore Gas and Electric Company substation.

President Donald Trump included Baltimore on a short list of Democratic-led cities he cast as crime-ridden, on the same day he deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.

The Howard Community College union reached a tentative agreement on its first contract with administration, resulting in the highest salary increase in seven years.

Residents in Baltimore’s Park Heights community are waiting for answers after a mass shooting Saturday night left one person dead and five others injured. 

Workers at the library systems celebrated the new contracts.

A fire ripped through a house in Charles County, Maryland, on Sunday, killing four children and two adults, authorities said.

While opera dates back more than 400 years ago, Opera Baltimore president Julia Cooke is squarely focused on the future — including how artificial intelligence can improve the nonprofit group’s operations.

Within a generation, the Maryland crab business shifted from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the interstate.

A diehard Ravens fan almost sold her season ticketss over Coach John Harbaugh’s Trump White House visit. A call with a team executive changed her mind.