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Freedman’s State Historical Park honors one of Montgomery County’s greatest success stories.

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A man and a woman are dead after a shooting in Southwest Baltimore early Friday morning, police said.

One resident likened the situation to a “civil war,” while others called it “taxation without representation.”

While investigating the woman's death, officers learned a man who was in a relationship with her had shot himself in Columbia. The man is being treated at an area hospital, police said.

Here’s what you need to know about traffic and transportation ahead of Preakness.

At least one in four police shootings in the country involves a person with symptoms of mental illness, research has shown. Could this woman prevent her friend from a similar fate in Baltimore?

A Howard County judge rejected a motion by the three ousted members of the Columbia Association’s board of directors seeking to be reinstated ahead of Thursday night’s meeting.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced Thursday that his office won’t charge two officers in connection with a West Baltimore incident in which one of them fatally shot a 70-year-old woman last June.

Baltimore officials announced the pool schedule as part of the city’s plan to tackle extreme heat events come summer.

Baltimore Police officers shot and killed a man who opened fire on them after they responded to a call for an attempted suicide in South Baltimore on Thursday morning, officials said.

Three Baltimore Police officers were injured in a pursuit related to an alleged carjacking that ended in Sandtown-Winchester on Wednesday evening.

State Del. Chao Wu said he has no regrets about participating in democracy after two Republican colleagues, Del. Mark Fisher and Del. Brian Chisholm, refused to apologize for a racist video they posted about him.

Federal prosecutors face significant hurdles in the Key Bridge criminal case against a Singaporean company and an employee believed to be in India, experts say.

A two-alarm fire at a Towson apartment complex has displaced roughly two dozen people, officials said.

The plan — dubbed “In the Mix in ’26″— was “designed to promote community safety while minimizing unnecessary interaction with young people and law enforcement,” the mayor’s office said in a news release.

Baltimore County Police detectives said Wednesday that two more men have been charged in connection with an ongoing Peeping Tom investigation in Towson.

Baltimore City transportation officials announced four new traffic cameras will be posted near schools as early as Wednesday, May 20.

Norman Waker, 67, of Pleasant View Gardens, previously stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court but a jury could not reach a unanimous verdict.

Howard County has named Major Terrence Benn, a former U.S. Marine with nearly 20 years of law enforcement experience, as acting police chief.