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The Flower Mart at Mount Vernon Place kicks off on Friday, and there will be traffic modifications in place starting Thursday.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.

Pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday set up an encampment at the Johns Hopkins University, the latest college to face demonstrations related to the Israel-Hamas war.

Christian Siriano, an Annapolis native, will serve as grand marshal and keynote speaker June 1 for the annual Annapolis Pride Parade & Festival, which is a major coup as the event enters its fourth year.

Ellicott City’s Main Street looks a little different, after the monthslong razing of four historic buildings for the Safe and Sound Plan meant to curb dangerous floods.

Baltimore County’s foreign-born population grew by 15,439 people from 2012 to 2022, an increase of 16.3%, census figures show. County officials want to make the immigrant experience less challenging for both parents and children.

Baltimore County Animal Services is waiving adoption fees for all pets and also throwing in some discounted and free pet perks. The perks last through Sunday, May 5, which is fitting since May is National Pet Month.

The sweltering heat in the Baltimore region on Monday broke the previous record of 91 degrees, set in 1974.

In the days and weeks after the Key Bridge collapse, therapists and grief workers who service Baltimore’s Spanish-speaking immigrant community say they have seen a significant increase in referrals and clients — many of whom were already struggling with trauma.

A motorcyclist fell into the Patapsco River after a crash on I-395 southbound Monday afternoon, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department.

A documentary about Jim Henson, who began his career as a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, is coming to Disney+ next month.

Old Bay Goldfish have already been seen on some grocery store shelves and customers can buy a two-pack of the snack online starting today.

Maryland is tackling a stubborn problem of processing applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and last month the state said it got close to federal compliance for the first time in almost a decade.

Two Maryland teams — from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — and a team from the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Airbus Netherlands B.V., each worked on one of the three instruments on the satellite.

Attorney General investigating fatal crash in Montgomery County

Helena Hicks was widely known as a lead organizer of Morgan State University students who participated in lunch counter sit-ins that desegregated Read’s Drug Stores in 1955. She died this month at age 88.

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Anyone with a stake, big or small, in the harbor and the port had to at least reconsider their plans and fortunes. Some felt the impact of the disaster like a tsunami, others a breaking wave. The fortunate ones felt just a ripple.

Recreational mariners will once again be allowed passage through the Key Bridge safety zone Sunday by using the temporary channel off Sollers Point, located on the northeast side of the channel off Dundalk.

Residents of the apartment building saw the snake, tried to contain it, and in at least one case, played with it.