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Since 1971, Baltimore City has illuminated the monument during the first Thursday in December.

Officials say a wild male turkey enticed a group of five female turkeys to leave the park and they don't know if they'll ever recapture them.

The Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum closed last week because the Recreation & Parks Department terminated the lease seven years early due to buildings that were not up to code and a lack of event permits. The county plans to bring the property buildings up to code and eventually add archery, campsites and an agriculture center. The farm museum has until the end of May 2024 to move the museum items off the property.

After three years of operating a holiday food pantry in the hallway of her Annapolis apartment building, public housing resident Donna Johnson was told she needed to shut it down. Local officials cited code violations and neighbors' complaints.

20 women have filed a lawsuit against Maryland and its Department of Juvenile Services alleging rampant sexual abuse as children while incarcerated at the state’s Thomas J.S. Waxter Children’s Center in Laurel.

An Anne Arundel County police officer identified as Corporal A. Stallings on Oct. 29 critically injured an unnamed man, who fell and hit his head after he was stunned with a Taser.

A crowd gathered aboard Coast Guard Cutter 37, a witness to the attack, to remember those who perished Dec. 7, 1941

City officials hope the effort will guide implementation of Baltimore’s climate action plan, which calls for the city to be carbon-neutral by 2045.

A Baltimore County man between the ages of 70 and 80 is the first cold-related illness death in Maryland for the 2023-2024 winter weather season, the Maryland Department of Health said Wednesday.

Funds were awarded to the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative and the Gwynns Falls Business and Homeowners Association for their environmentally friendly, community-based projects.

Audiences hated Norman Lear’s show about a Baltimore hotel. To the television legend, the racy 1975 series “Hot l Baltimore” was “terrific.”

Attorney General Anthony Brown has ended the suspension of Zainab Chaudry from her position on the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention following outrage over her anti-Israeli social media posts.

At least 10 events celebrating Krampus, the Christmas demon, are planned for the Baltimore region this year.

Federal authorities have identified Harford County resident Brandon Heffner, 38, among a group of rioters on the U.S. Capitol’s lower West Terrace in video footage from Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

US Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced on Tuesday that he was ending his blockade of hundreds of military promotions, clearing the way for the first woman to lead the Naval Academy in Annapolis. The Senate in one stroke then approved 425 military promotions.

An Annapolis police department vehicle has the misspelling “Annappolis” on one side.

Once-fertile soil has given way to wetlands plants and salt patches, imperiling a search for the exact location of the cabin where Harriet Tubman’s father lived and taught her in Eastern Maryland.

Family has been searching for answers since Malecki disappeared on Nov. 11, 1969. “We’re hoping for some closure.”

Druid Hill Park changes are in effect until Jan. 1, and temporary closures will happen this week near City Hall and the Washington Monument.

Richard Luna, the interim director of the Department of Public Works, said 80% of crews have been hired and new dumpster trucks are on the way.