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PAD develops when arteries in the legs narrow, restricting blood flow. The consequences are often catastrophic: wounds that won’t heal, heart attacks, strokes, amputations and premature deaths.

False claims of active shooters or violence are on the rise. Here’s what you need to know as Maryland schools are targeted.

Prosecutors have filed charges against two county firefighters who allegedly used a fire truck to flood a baseball field after a fly ball hit their property near the station.

The most expensive breakfast in Baltimore County costs $190,000. How taxpayers got stuck footing the bill.

ICE officers drove into the parking lot at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring Monday, causing panic among Hispanic parents who worried that the undocumented among them might be detained.

Nearly three months after a Rosedale home exploded in the middle of the night, Baltimore County fire investigators charged the homeowner with arson.

Serial offender Alphonso Hill is asking a judge in Baltimore County Circuit Court on Wednesday to let him receive post-conviction relief, overturn his 60-year sentence for raping eight women in Towson from 1978-1989, and grant him a new trial.

At least two local universities evacuated parts of their campus because of bomb threats Tuesday.

The Montgomery County Department of Transportation wants to add sidewalks in Kensington. Neighbors are turning on those who welcome the change.

UnitedHealthcare and Johns Hopkins Medicine failed to reach an agreement to keep the latter in the former’s network. Michael Scally, an employee of UHC and a patient at Hopkins, says both organizations should be ashamed.

The video appears to show the two men in an argument before one of them wraps his arm around the other man’s neck and lifts him toward the street.

The body of George Frederick Corum Jr., 81, who has dementia and disappeared from his Silver Spring home on Tuesday, was found in a wooded area Sunday night. Police said no foul play is suspected in his death.

An unidentified driver who police say left the scene of a hit-and-run last week in Wheaton has been located. Charges are pending against him, according to Montgomery County Police.

More than 400 laws will go into effect in Maryland come Oct. 1, from hefty fines for speeding to reduced penalties involving drug paraphernalia.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in the national fight over immigration enforcement, was moved from a Virginia detention center to one in rural Pennsylvania.

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Rev. Lee Hudson, a founding board member of Maryland Health Care for All who worked with various advocacy groups to improve housing options for seniors, died Aug. 29 after a cardiac episode. He was 78.

A bus driver realized that a missing woman with dementia was her passenger — and helped her get home safe.

An Immigration and Enforcement Customs (ICE) Officer was captured fumbling and then pointing a gun toward bystanders during an arrest on Wednesday morning in a busy Hyattsville intersection.

About 18,000 Marylanders who have intellectual and developmental disabilities and participate in the waiver programs are at risk of being removed, say the lawyers filing suit.