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The federal government is the nation’s largest employer of veterans. Maryland vets are among those losing jobs — and bracing for potential service cuts.

A project of the Baltimore County Arts Guild will take stories and silhouettes from residents and transform them into 14-foot-tall signs to help people navigate some of Catonsville’s historic sites.

A Lansdowne High School student died on Tuesday after being “targeted” in a shooting that happened outside a shopping center near the school, police said.

Three Baltimore Police Department officers will not face charges for fatally shooting a man in October 2024, the Maryland attorney general announced Monday.

The Social Security Administration plans to cut its workforce by more than 7,000 by offering employees early retirement and buyouts and through expected resignations.

Brian Delen, 48, was convicted last November of second-degree assault and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence.

A Baltimore County councilman wants to make it harder for developers to build in parts of the county outside of the Urban-Rural Demarcation Line.

Never before had more people accused of crimes in Maryland, but deemed too mentally ill to participate in their own cases, been left languishing in jail than in February.

A power outage disrupted flights at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Monday morning.

As Fort McHenry celebrated its 100th anniversary of being a national park, visitors and workers felt the effects of a reduced staff due to DOGE’s cuts.

Christine Pendzich, a 350MoCo steering committee member, says lawmakers should stop promoting outdated natural gas technology and instead focus on lower-cost and healthier renewable solutions.

A 15-year-old who was shot near the Mall in Columbia has been pronounced dead, per Howard County Police.

Baltimore County Police identified the two construction workers killed on Friday after a partial home collapse in Catonsville.

The Baltimore-based historically Black college is one of 13 schools in the country to offer acrobatics and tumbling at the Division I level.

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A recent Baltimore Banner story about raw milk was highly irresponsible in its failure to provide sufficient factual information alongside the opinions of raw milk proponents, writes Baltimore resident Caitlin O’Donnell.

While immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia have expressed anxiety, fear and uncertainty — regardless of citizenship, white immigrants say their experience has been very different during the current Donald Trump administration.

Two construction workers who are trapped in a trench at a Catonsville home died from their injuries on Friday, the Baltimore County Fire Department said.

John Murphy and his kids survived a plane crash in the Vermont mountains Wednesday.

Three of Maryland's congressional representatives join the chorus of voices calling for an end to Baltimore Gas and Electric rate hikes.