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A 70-year-old woman, Paula McDonald, has been identified as the victim of a three-alarm fire last week in Baltimore's Barclay neighborhood.

A Timonium man is being held without bail after allegedly threatening and brandishing a semiautomatic gun at the family of Liam O’Donoghue, a 16-year-old Calvert Hall student who lost an arm in a car crash that killed two of his friends last month.

A man was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Tuesday after an explosion in a detached garage at a home near Annapolis, fire officials said.

The Baltimore County Council celebrated hometown astronaut Reid Wiseman Monday night, honoring the Cockeysville native two months after he led Artemis II’s historic trip around the moon.

Baltimore Police arrested a man in connection with the weekend shooting of a 55-year-old man on Bateman Avenue.

The Baltimore County Council unanimously voted to close a pension loophole that could have allowed retired Councilman Wade Kach to collect significantly larger retirement payments tied to future salary increases.

Baltimore Police said a 15-year-old boy has turned himself in to face first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl in February.

Heavy rain toward the end of May helped Maryland’s drought a little bit, but it wasn’t enough, officials said.

Abagail Van Vlerah will take the helm of the private Catholic college in North Baltimore.

Baltimore detectives seized nine illegal dirt bikes and ATVs from a gathering at Herring Run Park on Sunday and are seeking to pursue criminal and traffic-related charges against the operators.

COLUMN | The civil trial against the owner and operator of the Dali, which caused the fatal collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, was settled days before the trial. Does justice help with healing?

A federal judge on Monday agreed to postpone the long-expected civil trial over the Key Bridge collapse. It had been set to begin after two years of legal wrangling and a slew of settlements.

Curators behind a new exhibition ask Baltimore to picture the Jones Falls in 50 years. Does it have a highway on top? How about gondolas?

Susan Van Buren, a landscape architect and longtime Bolton Hill resident who cared for a massive home garden, died April 15 of liver cancer. She was 78.

How would you convince someone to move to Baltimore?

A violent 24-hour stretch in Baltimore left two people dead and three others wounded in a series of incidents, police said.

Nino Mangione, a staunchly MAGA Republican state delegate, will become the newest Baltimore County councilman, thanks to a vote Saturday afternoon.

Maryland State Police said troopers from the Salisbury Barrack were called to the Salisbury Bypass near the Ocean City exit at about 10:50 a.m. Saturday after reports of an emu wandering in the road.

A North Baltimore rowhome fire that killed a woman and displaced neighbors has left the tight-knit Barclay community grieving and grappling with the aftermath.

A former Baltimore postal worker pleaded guilty to stealing checks from the mail after investigators found nearly 200 stolen checks worth more than $700,000 and evidence he planned to sell them.