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The 1856 Project has released a report that shows the slave economy was deeply entrenched in the origins of Maryland Agricultural College, which eventually became the University of Maryland College Park.

For Morgan State University professor Darryl Green, the healing journey was rocky and winding.

Federal and state authorities are seeking to block a merger between national grocery chains that would sell 10 Harris Teeter stores in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., to the company behind the Piggly Wiggly franchise.

Baltimore Book Festival will return in 2024, according to Mayor Brandon Scott and Baltimore’s Office of Promotion & the Arts.

Baltimore artist Dug Retzler would like to transform Leap Day into National Poor Choices Day, so he’s starting his campaign at the scene of many questionable decisions — dive bars.

Family gathered in the dining room of Meadow Park on Saturday afternoon along with a few neighbors and, because Walter Reynolds has become something of a big deal, several politicians showed up to present him with special citations for his military service.

Pharmacies may not be able to fill some prescriptions due to an attack on UnitedHealth Group, which forced the company to shut down operations.

Two Navy SEALs drowned last month while trying to board a vessel that was intercepted by U.S. naval forces in the Arabian Sea. On Thursday, federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint against four foreign nationals they say were transporting suspected Iranian-made missile components on the vessel.

A Baltimore City Police officer was injured in a multi-vehicle crash Friday evening in West Baltimore.

What are ghost guns and why all the fuss about them? Here’s an explanation of the ongoing issue.

Baltimore’s own Mr. Trash Wheel is featured in a new book in Dr. Seuss' Lorax series.

Ksenia Karelina, a 33-year-old aesthetician and dancer, faces up to 20 years in a Russian prison.

The Baltimore County Council unanimously approved a diversity, equity and inclusion study.

A high school student and a priest recalled a speeding car and seeing a child amid the wreckage of a fatal crash that killed an adult and child in Northeast Baltimore.

Maryland’s Department of Emergency Management said it was “aware of the widespread internet and cellular outages” across the state and was “monitoring the situation.”

Rep. Glenn Ivey and Rep. Andy Harris are co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill that would award Frederick Douglass the Congressional Gold Medal.

The Humane Society of Harford County needs your help. The shelter is over capacity and needs dogs to be fostered or adopted.

A child was pronounced dead at the scene and a second person who was trapped inside of a vehicle was later pronounced dead.

House Bill 763, which is sponsored by three Democrats, would remove the representative of a Muslim advocacy organization from the Attorney General’s Hate Crimes Commission

The Maryland Office of the Comptroller has initiated about 209,000 refunds.