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"Your honor," Chris Bendann told U.S. Senior District Judge James K. Bredar on Tuesday as court adjourned for the day, "I've been advised to let you know I'll sleep on it."

Joshua Matthew Duerk, a business owner and former volunteer coach for Centennial High School, is facing charges in Howard County after police say he sexually assaulted a teen this month in his Ellicott City home.

The Department of Public Works possible suspension of service comes as Baltimore’s health department declared a Code Red Extreme Heat warning Tuesday.

An adult from the Baltimore area tested positive for West Nile virus, the first confirmed human case in Maryland this year, according to the state health department.

A Maryland woman was found shot and killed inside her dorm room on Monday at Rice University in Houston, according to police.

John Heizer has played the Sunday service at the historic Zion Church of the City of Baltimore since 1974.

Jason Dean Billingsley, 33, pleaded guilty Monday to attacking and sexually assaulting a Baltimore couple.

Walmart has recalled nearly 10,000 cases of apple juice sold in stores across the U.S. that were found to contain potentially harmful levels of inorganic arsenic.

Fire officials said a fast-moving apartment fire in Towson is still under investigation. The fire left one man dead and several others injured.

An 8-year-old girl was airlifted to a Baltimore hospital in serious condition following a zipline fall Saturday at the YMCA Camp Letts Retreat Center property.

Alex Houff, who manages digital equity programs for the Baltimore County Public Library, said the library began a Wi-Fi hotspot lending program right before the COVID-19 lockdown began in 2020 with around 50 devices.

Maryland State Police said Quwan Gordon of Owings Mills was charged with shooting at the driver of another car on Interstate 95.

Christopher Gamble left an unsecured, illegal handgun in the presence of his daughter, who died from a gunshot wound in December 2023.

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Quadball has transformed significantly since it leapt off the pages of the Harry Potter books.

White women are the nation’s largest voting demographic. Will they elect the first woman president in Kamala Harris? History says no, and that the majority of them will back the white Republican male nominee, Donald J Trump.

A man, 23, testified for more than two hours in U.S. District Court in Baltimore about how his former teacher at the Gilman School, Chris Bendann, sexually abused and extorted him.

Rodney Little, Maryland State Historic Preservation Officer and Director of the Maryland Historical Trust, died in late June.

Howard County officials said approximately 160,000 gallons of sewage overflowed onto the ground surface at the Little Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant on Thursday night. A small amount entered a storm drain before valves were shut off.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball’s new traffic calming policy overhauls the jurisdiction’s approach to reducing driver speeds on county-owned and maintained roads.