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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.

A 99-year-old World War II veteran who helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp shared his memories with Loyola Blakefield students on April 25, 2024. He was critical of student protesters who have invoked the Holocaust to taunt Jewish students.

People begged the archdiocese to keep beloved churches open at a public meeting Thursday night on a proposal from the archdiocese to close a significant portion of Baltimore’s Catholic churches.

A 42-year-old Montgomery County man has been charged in a fatal hit-and-run that happened earlier this month.

New design plans were announced for the East Columbia Library Park on Thursday.

The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago, halting most maritime traffic through the city’s port.

A group of physicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center have formed a union that would represent more than 900 residents and fellows, according to union organizers.

The student protests that have been sweeping college campuses nationwide landed at Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday.

For more than 100 years, Tubman was credited with freeing 300 people — but that figure is way off, according to a biographer.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore will hold a listening session Thursday evening about a plan to close dozens of churches and reduce the number of Catholic parishes by two-thirds. Two more such sessions are also scheduled, and a final plan is set to be announced in June.

“It’s our port, our city, our channel, our community, and when I say our, I mean everybody,” said Col. Estee Pinchasin, who commands the Baltimore District of the Army Corps of Engineers that is overseeing the collective effort to open the port.

Amid a jurisdictional tug of war over the future home of the Washington Commanders, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Wednesday struck an assured posture on his state’s ability to keep the team in Prince George’s County.