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The private owner of a planned ICE facility in Elkridge claims Howard County officials obstructed the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration law and open detention sites.

Navy officials sent out an alert for a person who they said had taken photos of a closed gate and empty security personnel areas at the Naval Academy on Wednesday morning.

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises announced strict screen time limits for kindergarten through second grade students.

From an Irish dinner to an Ultra 50k, here are seven things to do in Howard County from March 5 through March 11.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office released police body-camera footage showing Samuel “Big Sam” Brown Jr. swatting away a Baltimore County Police officer’s arm twice before the officer punches Brown twice in the face.

Whether you’re still digging out from snow or enjoying the first hints of spring, we’ve rounded up a mix of events for the first weekend in March.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown said he would not bring charges against seven Baltimore County Police Department officers involved in two separate fatal shootings last year.

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company is pausing a controversial transmission project in South Baltimore. The move follows The Banner’s reporting that the build-out of electric infrastructure to prepare for the redevelopment of Baltimore Peninsula — which is in flux — would cost more than $500 billion.

While poor residents and families with children are especially feeling the pinch, costs are creating stress for people across the income spectrum, the survey found.

Kitty Washburne, who served for 14 years as headmistress of The Bryn Mawr Lower School, died Feb. 19. She was 97.

A Halethorpe hoarding case exposes flaws in Baltimore County’s animal welfare management.

In a 30-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Maddox wrote that while the allegations are “tragic and alarming,” they were not enough to support the claims by families of the victims in the South Stricker Street fire in Baltimore.

A man died after being struck by a Maryland Transit Administration train Tuesday afternoon at Shot Tower Station in Baltimore, officials said.

The juxtaposition between how Samuel Brown lived his life and how his life ended is devastating to parts of Baltimore’s Black community, hundreds of whom showed up to Brown’s funeral Tuesday.

The man, Peter Ruy, was hit at the intersection of Harford Road and 5th Avenue in Parkville around 8 p.m. on Friday, according to Baltimore County Police.

First responders found a driver who had been ejected from a Toyota Camry. They pronounced him dead at the scene, police said.

Seeking to make evictions more humane, the Anne Arundel County Council passed a bill Monday night to overhaul the process in the county.

A former substitute teacher at the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Early Learning Center is incarcerated and under investigation for child sex abuse material distribution, officials said.

The attorney general’s office has not yet released the body camera video from the incident between Baltimore County Police and Samuel Brown.

Kevin Weaver, 42, of Halethrope, spent five months in the Metropolitan Transition Center after turning himself in to Baltimore Police.