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Many residents are concerned that a recent comprehensive rezoning may have cleared the way for a development anchored by a hotel at the site of the Liberty Marina in Anne Arundel County.

Overcrowded schools can mean students are sometimes eating lunch closer to breakfast time, having their gym class in homeroom, or walking long distances to outside trailers. Sometimes, the school needs to hold an assembly two or three times so everyone can attend.

St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church once anchored an East Baltimore neighborhood that was home to many German Catholics, but it has languished since the parish was dissolved in the 1980s. A lightning strike sparked a fire in the towering steeple in 2020, and now it's up for sale with a $1 million asking price.

Members of the Jarrettsville and Historic Elkridge Young Marines and Timonium Girl Scouts placed 3,500 flags at Dulaney Valley Memorial Grounds in Timonium.

Shani Mott, a scholar of Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins University, died in March. A celebration to commemorate her life will be held Sunday.

Airman Makai Cummings will be honored Monday at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens’ 57th annual Memorial Day Ceremony, honoring the lives of fallen service members with Maryland ties.

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This weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. It also means pools across Baltimore will be reopening soon for those looking to cool off and splash around.

Salvage work and restoration of the main shipping channel near the site where the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed should be complete by the second week of June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday.

A preservationist developer wanted to modernize an old 25-bedroom hotel in Mount Vernon. Now, the property sits with a listing price at $1.6 million.

The Baltimore County Council extended their confirmation authority to members of the county’s powerful planning board and voted to place term limits on commission members, allowing them to serve no more than three terms and making that retroactive.

Howard County Police have recovered about 15,000 tools worth up to $5 million total, county officials announced Thursday.

The blueprint released Wednesday closely tracks the draft plan that the archdiocese put out in April, reducing the number of parishes — or Catholic communities — from 61 to 23. The number of actual churches would shrink from 59 to 30. But Archbishop William Lori did spare eight churches initially, while delivering some late bad news to others.

Musical legend Stevie Wonder performed at the Johns Hopkins University commencement ceremony after protesters interrupted Sen. Mitt Romney’s commencement address.

The Howard County Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a $2.4 billion operating budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. It doesn’t increase property taxes and provides more funding for schools and public safety.

A final plan announced by Archbishop William E. Lori would reduce the number of parishes in Baltimore City and parts of Baltimore County from 61 to 23, while shrinking the number of worship sites from 59 to 30, four more than originally recommended.

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori on Wednesday announced a final church consolidation plan that would reduce the number of worship sites from 59 to 30. Many churches would get folded into merged parishes.

The Blue Angels arrived in Annapolis on Wednesday for Naval Academy commissioning week.

AAA estimates peak travel times will be Thursday and Friday afternoons as people get off work.