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Lt. Dillon Rinaldo had remained hospitalized at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center since the fire, but his condition worsened.

Ever since the Israel-Hamas War erupted into an international crisis, its tremors have reverberated through families of the Jewish and Palestinian diasporas all the way to Maryland.

Councilman Ryan Dorsey said he asked city officials to have a plan of action “within a month” and that he hopes they will implement it “before the end of the year.”

With a historic investment, SB7 is tasked with something both novel and daunting: using money from developers to fill in the gaps left behind by generations of neglect.

Rondell Henry, 32, of Germantown, Maryland, pleaded guilty in August to attempting to perform an act of violence at Washington Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis agreed to sentence Henry to the jail time that he already has served since his March 2019 arrest.

The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen at 5200 N. Charles St., according to a social media post by the city’s firefighters union.

Members of the Anne Arundel County chapter of the NAACP recently forwarded a petition to the national branch calling for the removal of President Rickey Nelson Jones, accusing him of homophobia and sexism. Jones denies the accusations.

Omer Balva, of Rockville, was killed near the Israel-Lebanon border by an antitank missile fired by the militant group Hezbollah, according to The Washington Post.

Baltimore community leaders on Saturday rallied against gun violence in the city.

She was encouraged by the strong showing this year from different parts of the state, including delegates from Baltimore and Montgomery counties.

Officials will present the plan at Towson University Monday morning, with a focus on projects in Baltimore County. They’ll move the focus to city initiatives when presenting the CTP at City Hall at 3:30 pm.

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A two-alarm fire at a two-story brick rowhome in the 5200 block of Linden Heights Avenue on Thursday resulted in the death of a firefighter and several injuries.

Using data and imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, which is operated out of the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University campus, astronomers have discovered that Jupiter has a jet stream near its equator.

Questions are swirling among parishioners at Saint Benedict Church in Baltimore after the removal of their longtime pastor over a secret $200,000 settlement he paid five years ago.

Will Smith surprised the audience at Jada Pinkett Smith's Baltimore book talk, saying his “dreams were largely built on the foundation of Jada’s sacrifices.”

Linda Malat Tiburzi, a survivor of the notorious child rapist John Merzbacher while a student at the Catholic Community School of Baltimore in the 1970s, died at age 62. She was an advocate for survivors of abuse and rejoiced at the release of the Office of the Maryland Attorney General’s report on child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

We spoke with Shane to learn more about his process and what it feels like to transition from journalist to historian.

The video shows protesters shouting their objections to a Texas petrochemical project during an appearance by U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at iMPACT Maryland.

After 35 years as an education reporter, Tooten is leaving journalism, but he’ll continue as a pastor and adjunct professor.