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A Baltimore man was sentenced Wednesday to decades in prison in the fatal shooting of his roommate, an Army reservist, following an altercation last year.

Police said they’d arrested Gabriel Gomez-Fiorenza, 27, for the deadly shooting of his 28-year-old girlfriend, Amy Armstrong, inside a luxury apartment complex in the Brewers Hill neighborhood.

Leaders of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts sought to reassure the arts community at a virtual town hall that breaking away from the city would not have negative impacts on artists and programs, though there are unknowns.

With 65.2 million people, making up 19.5% of the total population, Latines could be an influential voting block this election.

The Maryland Department of Health says staph food poisoning from an outside dish sickened dozens of employees at a seafood facility on Oct. 21 in Jessup.

Brian Delen, 48, of Bel Air, is charged with first- and second-degree murder, first-degree assault and use of firearm in the killing of Meghan Lewis.

The Port of Baltimore is among 55 ports across 27 states and territories that will receive nearly $3 billion through the Clean Ports Program administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.

A famous old pet cemetery hides in the shadows of Howard County’s new apartments. And someone’s moving the graves.

Some question Baltimore County’s plans to spend more than $6 million in county funds to renovate Rocky Point Golf Course’s clubhouse. The county’s Revenue Authority, which oversees golf courses and parking garages, typically pays for such projects.

Three rowhomes caught on fire in the 300 block of Loneys Lane in Ellwood Park-Monument on Monday afternoon.

Temperatures in the Baltimore region will be in the mid- and upper-70s this week, and could reach 81 on Halloween, according to the National Weather Service.

Workers at Baltimore’s Hilton Inner Harbor ratified a new union contract after months of negotiations.

A “highly stylized” version of George Washington’s signature has been replaced — at least in part because it was difficult to read for prospective students.

Douglas DeLeaver, a proud husband and father who spent his life blazing trails for Black law enforcement officers in Maryland and across the country, died Oct. 16 of heart failure. He was 77.

Salisbury, a Maryland town that’s grown alongside Perdue’s chicken plant, fears what’s to come after forever chemicals were found in the groundwater.

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The exact roots of the Dwayyo story — and even the creature’s name — are sparse, according to Susan Fair, an author and retired librarian who has written about local cryptids.

A 48-year-old from Anne Arundel County left scrap tires strewn across an industrial property in Western Maryland. He has pleaded guilty to 17 environmental crimes, authorities say.

A new lawsuit accuses the WWE and its founders of fostering a culture of sexual abuse and looking the other way while a longtime ringside announcer preyed on young men he hired as “ring boys.”

The Public Service Enterprise Group unveiled a planned route for new transmission lines that the company says would address resident concerns.