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An officer who was shot during an encounter with an armed flasher has been released from the hospital.

Two projects for public water access in Anne Arundel were quickly amended out of next year’s budget. Advocates described feeling blindsided, and some officials decried the move as potentially motivated by politics.

Here are the big things officials want you to keep in mind (besides remembering to pack your sunscreen) when you head to the shore this summer.

A Baltimore bookstore owner says her Pride-themed window display was vandalized last weekend while the city’s Pride festival was happening.

A Columbia Association executive proposed turning one of the community’s 23 neighborhood pools into a splash park, sparking one of the most heated debates of 2026.

A student was taken into custody after a stabbing that injured two school staff members at Roye-Williams Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

A US Coast Guard service member vaulted onto a speeding unmanned vessel and brought it to a halt on the Severn River near Annapolis last week after its operator was thrown overboard.

A Carroll County woman’s family is working to bring her back to Maryland from Panama after a medical emergency landed her in the hospital.

Terri Lee Freeman, president of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, will retire later this year, the downtown museum announced Wednesday.

Joni Holifield, the founder and executive director of the youth-focused nonprofit HeartSmiles, died this week after a battle with ovarian cancer.

The money will support at least eight Baltimore high schoolers each year.

A man was killed while crossing the street in Gaithersburg on Wednesday morning, according to Montgomery County Police.

President Donald Trump’s remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with its “American flag blue” bottom has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom that park service workers struggled to address Tuesday just days after its more than $14 million renovation.

Crews on Tuesday recovered the body of a Towson University student who went missing while swimming in the Potomac River near Great Falls on Sunday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has dropped its effort to deport a Prince George’s County native who has spent months trying to prove her U.S. citizenship.

The couple was hiding out from police at the Ohio home of a good Samaritan who had no idea about the killing. 

An 85-year-old woman was killed in a Monday afternoon car crash in Odenton, the Anne Arundel County Police Department said.

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Joshua Bell is obsessed with Bigfoot. Wouldn’t you be if the Sasquatch was spotted in your neighborhood?

After searching for about 20 hours, the U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Friday for a boater who went missing off the coast of Ocean City.