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Baltimore City Police over the weekend arrested five people, including a 9-year-old boy, stemming from a carjacking in which a woman was dragged from her car at a stop sign, authorities said.

There’s a start date now for the four-year, $2-billion project to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Parishioners are preparing for their final Christmas Mass at St. Pius X in Towson, one of the last Baltimore-area churches to close its doors under the Archdiocese’s church merger plan.

And, although there has been an exodus of Black residents from Baltimore in the past decade, its foreign-born Black population has continued to grow.

A group of liquor retailers denounced Gov. Wes Moore’s support of beer and wine sales at Maryland grocery stores.

With more than 120 million packages stolen last year, Baltimoreans try to outsmart thieves with security cameras and package drop boxes.

Robert “Bob” Ingram Jr., an esteemed media executive who worked across disciplines to champion diversity, equity and inclusion, died on Dec. 10 of a subdural hemorrhage. He was 69.

A program to help port workers after the Key Bridge collapse is now on the front lines of aiding Baltimore County’s growing number of undocumented families. But will the funding last?

Chief Donna Wolf Mother Abbott is the first woman chief of a Maryland tribe in known recorded history.

H. Furlong Baldwin, who led Baltimore’s Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co. for more than two decades, died Dec. 7 from complications of multiple myeloma. He was 92.

The Peale, the first purpose-built museum in America, announced a new executive director ready to take the storied museum into the future.

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Over 2.3 million Marylanders are expected to travel during the holiday season with many heading out this weekend, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

After sitting vacant for nearly two decades, the old East Baltimore Community School building is expected to be demolished next year.

David Schweizer, a Maryland native who directed shows at Baltimore Center Stage and in Los Angeles and New York, died on Dec. 5 of a heart attack. He was 74.

American discount retailer Big Lots announced Thursday it's closing all stores across the nation, including 21 locations in Maryland.

An Anne Arundel County man was sentenced to five years behind bars for dumping and abandoning over 250,000 scrap tires in Allegany, the state attorney general announced Wednesday.

Hundreds gathered at Saints Philip and James Church on North Charles Street for the final chance to see the relics of a revered theologian in the U.S.

Over a dozen Essex residents held a demonstration Tuesday afternoon against a gun shop that opened across a Church day care.

The trial in Howard County Circuit Court ended with what is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in county history.