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As in-person early voting got underway Thursday in Maryland, a nation divided in the presidential race was on display at a voting center in Baltimore County.

Autumn foliage is finally peaking around the Baltimore region.

The Howard County Board of Education met publicly for the first time since a 17-year-old student at Howard High School was charged with the murder of a 26-year-old man.

Howard County Police teamed with Loyola University Maryland interns and NamUs to create an AI-generated image of an unidentified woman who died in 1971 — the county’s longest cold case — in hopes of identifying the Jane Doe.

Richard Berkeley, of Baltimore, was a man of faith who prioritized his family above all else. He was a passionate investor, proud alumnus of the University of Virginia and an outdoorsman who loved fishing. He died on Oct. 14 at the age of 72.

The owner and the manager of the container ship that caused the Key Bridge collapse, killing six bridge workers, have agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department. DOJ blamed the Singapore-based companies for a “cascading series of failures.”

Jo-Ann Weber, co-owner and operators of Weber’s Cider Mill Farm in Baltimore County, died Oct. 17. She was 77.

Johnny Olszewski ascended to the upper echelons of local politics with a trustworthy image. His facade is starting to crack.

Two people are dead and four others were injured after a fiery, multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County near the Pennsylvania border, the Maryland State Police said.

“We don’t have a sense of when it may happen again, we don’t have a sense of what to do differently,” Councilman Mark Conway said.

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its final report on the deadly crash on Interstate 695 last year that killed six highway workers.

The Baltimore Sun Guild filed a federal complaint on Friday alleging that a former employee was fired from the newspaper because she was participating in activity protected by the National Labor Relations Act.

State Sen. Charles E. Sydnor III, who has represented western Baltimore County in the General Assembly since 2020, says he may run for county executive in 2026.

Maryland has some of the strongest abortion protections in the country. Now, voters will decide whether the state constitution should include a right to reproductive freedom.

Dozens of workers at NAFCO, a seafood distributor in Jessup, were sickened after eating a Filipino noodle dish that was prepared elsewhere and brought onto the property, said representatives for the company.

The Baltimore Police Department released body-camera footage from the officers who fatally shot a 54-year-old man after he fled the scene of a car crash in West Baltimore.

Here are some fire prevention tips to keep your household and property safe heading into the coldest months of the year.

A private construction crew was working on the road at West Lexington and Pearl streets when part of it collapsed and a gas line was hit.

West Friendship Park was long home to a popular, privately run antique farm museum. With the museum gone, a county task force recommends reimagining the 380-acre park by adding an agricultural center, horse trails, an archery area, campsites and more.

The bacteria infecting children right now, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, typically triggers a spike in pneumonia cases in children every 3-7 years. However, like so many other things, the COVID pandemic disrupted the cycle.